Our November title is Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang. The SPL book club meets the fourth Monday of every month at 6:30pm. Readers can choose to participate either in person at SPL or online via Zoom. Contact SPL at the phone or email below to RSVP and/or to join the book club … Continue reading "Food & Fiction: Land of Milk and Honey"

Edible Island: food • culture • community Cookie Swap & Secret Tree – a special holiday event Celebrate the season and share your family's traditions! Bring two dozen cookies to swap. Stay for a secret tree lighting—you'll have to come to find out where—and holiday songs. To participate in the tree lighting, arrive at the … Continue reading "Edible Island: Cookie Swap & Secret Tree"

Our December title is Heartburn by Nora Ephron. The SPL book club meets the fourth Monday of every month, except December to accommodate holiday plans, at 6:30pm. Readers can choose to participate either in person at SPL or online via Zoom. Contact SPL at the phone or email below to RSVP and/or to join the … Continue reading "Food & Fiction: Heartburn"

Reader's Choice: Ellen Shockro How to Read a Book by Monica Wood MILS catalog record “Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from rural Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drunk-driving crash that killed a local kindergarten teacher. Harriet Larson, a retired English teacher who runs the prison book club, is facing … Continue reading "Reader’s Choice: How to Read a Book"

Reader's Choice: Kendra Chubbuck The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See MILS catalog record “Set on the Korean island of Jeju, The Island of Sea Women follows Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls from very different backgrounds, as they begin working in the sea with their villages’s all-female diving collective. Over many decades—through the Japanese colonialism of the 1930s … Continue reading "Reader’s Choice: The Island of Sea Women"