Salem Public Library hosts two book discussion groups: Books for Lunch and Books for Dessert. The groups are organized and led by staff members. Meetings are free and open to the public. The Salem Public Library Foundation and the Friends of the Salem Public Library have teamed up to sponsor the purchase of book kits for the book discussion groups. Books for the upcoming month's discussion are available for checkout at each meeting and then, up to the date of the meeting, at the Information/Reference Desk. More information is available from the Information/Reference Desk in person or by phone at 503-588-6052.
Book kits are also available for check-out and use by area book groups.
A complete listing of available book kits and instructions for reserving the kits is available online.
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Special BookClub Event
Best Books of 2011
TWO PRESENTATIONS!
12 noon- 1 p.m. Wednesday, February 15
Anderson A & B
7-8 p.m. Tuesday, March 6
Loucks Auditorium
Salem Public Library Readers’ Advisor Robin Beerbower will introduce the best fiction and non-fiction books published in 2011, as chosen by herself, library staff and volunteers, and the book critics.
These programs are free on a first-come, first-seated basis. More information is available at 503-588-6052.
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Books for Dessert is a book discussion group designed to meet the needs of working people. Selections are limited to contemporary fiction and non-fiction published in the last 10 years. The group meets on the first Tuesday of each month.
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
7 p.m., Tuesday, February 7
Plaza Room
Discussion Leader: Ann Scheppke
In 1996, Hanna Heath, a young Australian book conservator is called to analyze the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a priceless six-hundred-year-old Jewish prayer book that has been salvaged from a destroyed Bosnian library. When Hanna discovers a series of artifacts in the centuries' old binding, she unwittingly exposes an international cover up. |