SML Book Club “My Sister the Serial Killer” by Oyinkan Braithwaite led by Claudia Cayne
Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now [...]
SML Book Club “Friday Black” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah led by Claudia Cayne
By placing ordinary characters in extraordinary situations, Adjei-Brenyah reveals the violence, injustice, and painful absurdities that black men and women contend with [...]
The White Hart Speaker Series: Author Tom Shachtman, The Founding Fortunes How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America’s Revolution”
White Hart Speaker Series is presented in collaboration with Oblong Books & Music & Scoville Memorial Library Historian Tom Shachtman's The Founding Fortunes, reveals [...]
SML Book Club “Asymmetry” by Lisa Halliday led by Claudia Cayne
Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities [...]
SML Book Club “The Friend” by Sigrid Nunez, led by Claudia Cayne
When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own [...]
SML Book Club “Warlight” by Michael Ondaatje led by Claudia Cayne
In 1945, Nathaniel, 14, and his older sister, Rachel stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care [...]
SML Book Club “There, There” by Tommy Orange
SML Book Club “There, There” by Tommy Orange Led by Claudia Cayne Story of twelve unforgettable characters, Urban Indians living in Oakland, California, [...]
The White Hart Speaker Series: Dr. Matt McCarthy “Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic”
The White Hart Speaker Series is presented in collaboration with The White Hart Inn, Scoville Memorial Library and Oblong Books & Music “New York Times” [...]
SML Book Club:“Incendiaries” by R. O. Kwon led by Claudia Cayne
Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet in their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn't tell [...]
SML Book Club: “Stay With Me” by Ayobami Adebayo. Led by Claudia Cayne
Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and [...]