SML Book Club: “A Kind of Freedom” by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Sunday January 13 2:00 Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. [...]
SML Book Club: Less by Andrew Sean Geer
You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years [...]
White Hart Speaker Series: Susan Orlean author of the “Library Book”
The White Hart Speaker Series is presented in collaboration with The White Hart, &Scoville Memorial Library and Oblong Books & Music A Fundraiser for [...]
SML Book Group: The Refugees by Viet Than Nguyen, led by Claudia Cayne
Short stories written over a period of 20 years, Nguyen gives voice to the hopes and expectations of people making life-changing decisions to leave [...]
SML Book Group: “The Ninth Hour” by Alice McDermott, led by Claudia Cayne
The novel begins deep inside Catholic Brooklyn, in the early part of the twentieth century. The characters we meet, from Sally, the unborn baby [...]
SML Book Group: Home Fires by Kamila Shamsie
Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother’s death, she’s accepted an invitation from [...]
Saturday Book Club: “They May Not Mean to But They Do” by Cathleen Schine led by Claudia Cayne
The Bergman clan has always stuck together, growing as it incorporated in-laws, ex-in-laws, and same-sex spouses. But families don’t just grow, they grow old, and [...]
Saturday Book Club: “Nutshell” by Ian McEwan
Led by Claudia Cayne Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home—a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse—but John's not there. Instead, she's [...]
Saturday Book Club: “Exit West” by Mohsin Hamid
In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet—sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a [...]
Second Saturday Book Club, “Infinite Home” by Kathleen Alcott
Edith is a widowed landlady who rents apartments in her Brooklyn brownstone to an unlikely collection of humans, all deeply in need of shelter. [...]