Jan 24 @ 7 PM - Mystery Book Club - Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

Join us on January 24 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case. As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it’s too late?

Zoom Meeting – Register online by clicking on this link, or call us at 794-2570 and ask for Programming. You will be emailed the Zoom link the morning of the program.

The eBook version of The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Discussion guide for The Thursday Murder Club.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 1236.

Check Out What's New in Reader Services!

Hello Booklovers!

If you haven’t yet seen our library, we would love to tell you about some of our new Reader Services features. On the main floor near the entrance are new fiction and non-fiction books. This is also where our magazines are kept. We have ordered many new magazines such as Economist, Family Tree Magazine, Great Day Outdoors, and Women's Health. We also purchased new crafting titles such as Do It Yourself, Scrapbooks & Cards Today, and Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts. We hope that you come soon in and browse.

Downstairs, where the travel is now shelved, we have created a popular library. If you are looking for suggestions on what to read next, this is a good place to begin. You will find some of our more popular books here as well as “books to movies” suggestions, read-a-likes, and “read ‘n share” offerings from our patrons. There is also a Reader Services bulletin board which will keep you up to date on which new books are coming out as well as current bestseller lists.

If you would like to meet with us for a library tour, just ask for a Reader Services librarian at the Circulation Desk - we would love to show you around your new library.

Keep Reading!

Oct 18 @ 7 PM - Book and Movie Discussion – Dracula

SEE THE MOVIE – October 15 at 1:00 pm

Horror of Dracula (1958)

Presenter – Keith Crocker 

Zoom Meeting – Register online by clicking on this link, or call us at 794-2570 ask for Programming. You will be emailed the Zoom link the morning of the program. 

READ THE BOOK – October 18 at 7:00 pm

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Book Discussion Presented by the Reader Services Department

This will be a hybrid program. We will meet in-person at the library and Zoom will also be available. Please register by clicking on this link. When registering, please indicate if you will be attending in-person or through Zoom.

The eBook version of Dracula by Bram Stoker can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Join us on October 18 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss the horror masterpiece Dracula by Bram Stoker. We will also compare the book with Hammer Studio's 1958 film adaptation Horror of Dracula starring Christopher Lee. Additionally, we will discover which movie version is the most faithful adaptation of Stoker's novel.

Come to Castle Dracula, hidden in the forbidding peaks of the Carpathian Mountains, where an undying creature of evil casts his sights on unsuspecting England. Voyage on the doomed ship Demeter as it carries a monster out of ancient superstition in search of new life and new blood. Tremble as first one woman, the another succumbs to the unholy thirst of the nosferatu, and as a small band of men and women, horrified by the supernatural forces arrayed against them, risk their lives and their very souls to oppose the evil known only as…Dracula.

Discussion guide for Dracula.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 1236.

CELEBRATE HALLOWEEN WITH DRACULA, IF YOU DARE!

Oct 4 @ 7 PM - Mystery Book Club - The Last Flight by Julie Clark

Join us on October 4 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss The Last Flight by Julie Clark. Two women meet in an airport, both alone, both scared, and both urgently needing an escape from their lives. Claire Cook has a husband whose temper burns as bright as his promising political career, and she has worked for months on a plan to get out. A chance meeting in an airport bar brings her together with a stranger equally as desperate. Together they hatch a plan to switch tickets – Claire taking Eva’s flight to Oakland, and Eva traveling to Puerto Rico as Claire. But then one plane crashes, and it’s clear that one of them wasn’t telling the truth.

Zoom Meeting – Register online by clicking on this link, or call us at 794-2570 ask for Programming. You will be emailed the Zoom link the morning of the program.

The eBook version of The Last Flight by Julie Clark can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

This program is for adults.

Discussion guide for The Last Flight.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

August 16 @ 7 PM - Read 'N Share

Read ‘N Share – Read a good book recently? Talk about it with other book lovers! 

Welcome to the Read ‘n Share book club where avid adult readers can informally share the books they have read and enjoyed.

Zoom Meeting – Register online by clicking on this link, or call us at 794-2570 ask for Programming. You will be emailed the Zoom link the morning of the program.

This program is for adults.

July 27 @ 7 PM - Kahoot Animal Trivia

Join us on July 27 at 7:00 p.m. in celebrating the Summer Reading Club by testing your knowledge about animals with our Kahoot animal trivia contest!

Zoom Meeting – Register online by clicking on this link, or call us at 794-2570 ask for Programming. You will be emailed the Zoom link the morning of the program.

This program will be limited to 20 people.

Click here for instructions for joining and playing our Kahoot trivia game.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

July 12 @ 7 PM - Evening Discussion: Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

Join us on July 12 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson. During Kentucky’s Great Depression, Pack Horse Library Project member Cussy Mary Carter, a young outcast, delivers books to the hillfolk of Troublesome Creek, hoping to spread learning in these desperate times, but not everyone is keen on her or the Library Project.

Zoom Meeting – Register online by clicking on this link, or call us at 794-2570 ask for Programming. You will receive the link the day of the program.

The eBook version of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Discussion guide for The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek.

Companion booklet for bookclubs.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

June 22 @ 7 PM - Mystery Book Club - Dog On It by Spencer Quinn

Join us on June 22 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss Dog On It by Spencer Quinn. Meet Chet, the wise and lovable canine narrator of this story, who works alongside Bernie, a down-on-his-luck private investigator. In this, their first adventure, Chet and Bernie investigate the disappearance of Madison, a teenage girl who may or may not have been kidnapped, but who has definitely gotten mixed up with some very unsavory characters. Their search for clues takes them into the desert to biker bars and other exotic locals, with Chet’s highly trained nose leading the way. Both Chet and Bernie bring their own special skills to the hunt, one that puts each of them in peril.

Zoom Meeting – Register online by clicking on this link, or call us at 794-2570 ask for Programming. You will be emailed the Zoom link the morning of the program.

The eBook version of Dog On It can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

Tails & Tales - Adult Summer Reading Club

 

THE EAST MEADOW PUBLIC LIBRARY ADULT SUMMER READING CLUB RETURNS

BE A PART OF THIS FABULOUS PROGRAM

REGISTRATION BEGINS JUNE 8, 2021

CHECK OUT OUR SUMMER READING CLUB BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR RECOMMENDED TITLES WE’RE SURE YOU’LL LOVE!

Welcome to the 2021 Adult Summer Reading Club, Tails and Tales. Our theme this year honors the wonderful comfort of animals, both wild and domesticated, that helped us get through the Covid pandemic. If you had a cat to cuddle, a dog to walk, or even a fish to feed, it brightened your day and gave purpose to your life. And, as you know, most animals have a tail and a tale. Do you have a pet pic you would like to share, especially if it also contains books? Does your fur baby have a tale? Please send your pictures and/or a story about your pet to us at readers@eastmeadow.info so we can celebrate them this summer. 

We start our summer with a whale of a project, with the first part on Thursday, June 17th at 7:00 p.m., and finishing up on Thursday, June 24th (same time). Librarian Janine Walsh will lead us in a crocheting craft, “a whale of a coaster.” Kits will be made and available for pick-up, so that we can learn to crochet a whale coaster for that cool summer beverage of your choice. 

Our June Mystery Club title is Dog On It by Spencer Quinn featuring the P.I. team of Chet and Bernie. Even if you are not one of our regular mystery readers, we urge you to join us Tuesday, June 22nd at 7:00 pm to get a taste of the Chet and Bernie mystery series. Spencer Quinn aka Peter Abrahams will be the featured author at our End of Summer Party in August, and has a new mystery in the series debuting in July. 

Other summer programs include a visit with the plant man who will tell us what to plant to draw wildlife into our gardens, baking with a back story-learning to make desserts that come with a tale, an animal-centric trivia contest, and of course, book discussions. 

Our programs once again, will be online and primarily zoomed. Sign-up and registration begin June 8^th, and can be done at our summer reading club website. Our tentative calendar is located on that webpage as well. We will have little gift bags once a week, randomly drawn from the submitted reviews-each patron can win one during the summer. Our fantastic bibliography will also be on the webpage where you will find our recommended books-some available now, and some coming out during the course of the summer…both in e-book and print book.   

We hope that you will enjoy our summer tale!

April 13 @ 7 PM - Evening Discussion/LI Reads - The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Join us on April 13 at 7:00 pm as we discuss The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett. Separated by their embrace of different racial identities, two mixed-race identical twins reevaluate their choices as one raises a black daughter in their southern hometown while the other passes for white with a husband who is unaware of her heritage.

Zoom Meeting – Register online by clicking on this link, or call us at 794-2570 ask for Programming. You will be emailed the Zoom link the morning of the program.

The eBook version of The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Discussion guide for The Vanishing Half.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

March 23 @ 7 PM - Mystery Book Club - Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

Join us on March 23 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz. After working with bestselling crime writer Alan Conway for years, editor Susan Ryeland is intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries in sleepy English villages. His traditional formula has proved hugely successful, so successful that Susan must continue to put up with his troubling behavior if she wants to keep her job. Conway’s latest tale involves a murder at Pye Hall, with dead bodies and a host of intriguing suspects. But the more Susan reads, the more she’s convinced that there is another story hidden in the pages of the manuscript: one of real-life jealousy, greed, ruthless ambition, and murder.

Zoom Meeting – Register online by clicking on this link, or call us at 794-2570 ask for Programming. You will be emailed the Zoom link the morning of the program.

The eBook version of Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

Feb 23 @ 7 PM - Evening Book Discussion: American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

Join us on February 23 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco where she runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is fairly comfortable. And then one day a man enters the shop and comes up to the register with four books he would like to buy-two of them her favorites. Javier is erudite, charming, and unbeknownst to Lydia, he is the leader of the newest drug cartel that has taken over the city. When Lydia’s husband’s tell-all profile of Javier is published, none of their lives will ever be the same. Forced to flee, Lydia and eight-year-old Luca soon find themselves miles and worlds away from their comfortable middle-class existence. Instantly transformed into migrants, Lydia and Luca make their way north toward the United States and discover that everyone is running from something.

 

Zoom Meeting - Register online by clicking on this link, or call us at 794-2570 ask for Programming. You will receive the link the day of the program.

The eBook version of American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Discussion guide for American Dirt.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236

Feb 2 @ 7 PM - Read 'N Share

Read ‘N Share – Read a good book recently? Talk about it with other book lovers! 

Welcome to the Read ‘n Share book club where avid adult readers can informally share the books they have read and enjoyed.

Zoom Meeting – Register online by clicking on this link, or call us at 794-2570 ask for Programming. You will receive the link the day of the program.

Jan 14 @ 7 PM - Mystery Book Club - Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

Join us on January 14 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware. When she stumbles across the ad, she's looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss--a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten--by the luxurious "smart" home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family. What she doesn't know is that she's stepping into a nightmare--one that will end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial for murder. She knows she's made mistakes. She admits that she lied to obtain the post, and that her behavior toward the children wasn't always ideal. She's not innocent, by any means. But, she maintains, she's not guilty--at least not of murder. Which means someone else is.

Zoom Meeting - Register online by clicking on this link, or call us at 794-2570 ask for Programming. You will receive the link the day of the program.

The eBook version of The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

The Turn of the Key was inspired by the 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. One of the best film adaptations of this work is The Innocents (1961) starring Deborah Kerr. We will include this movie in our discussion and compare it to The Turn of the Key. The Innocents can be watched for free on Youtube by clicking on this link.

If you are interested in reading The Turn of the Screw, the eBook can accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Discussion guide for The Turn of the Key.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

December 16 @ 7 PM - Evening Book Discussion: Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts

Join us on December 16 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts. This book reimagines the story behind the creation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the perspective of L. Frank Baum’s intrepid wife, whose hardscrabble life on the Dakota prairie inspires her husband’s masterpiece and her advocacy of an exploited Judy Garland.

Zoom Meeting – Register online by clicking on this link, or call us at 794-2570 ask for Programming. You will receive the link the day of the program.

The eBook version of Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Discussion guide for Finding Dorothy.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

Nov 16 @ 7 PM - Mystery Book Club - The Long Call by Ann Cleeves

Join us on November 16 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss the deeply engaging mystery, The Long Call by Ann Cleeves. In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his estranged father's funeral takes place. On the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too. Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death. The case calls Matthew back to the people and places of his past, as deadly secrets hidden at their hearts are revealed, and his new life is forced into a collision course with the world he thought he had left behind.

Zoom Meeting – Register online by clicking on this link, or call us at 794-2570 ask for Programming. You will be emailed the Zoom link the morning of the program

The eBook version of The Long Call by Ann Cleeves can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Discussion guide for The Long Call.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

Oct 28 @ 7 PM - Evening Discussion/Author Event - Gateway to the Moon by Mary Morris

SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE BY THE AUTHOR!

Join us on October 28 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss Gateway to the Moon by Mary Morris. The author will be joining us to speak about her book. In 1492, the Jewish and Muslim populations of Spain were expelled, and Columbus set sail for America. Luis de Torres, a Spanish Jew, accompanies Columbus as his interpreter. His journey is only the beginning of a long migration, across many generations. Over the centuries, de Torres’ descendants travel from Spain and Portugal to Mexico, finally settling in the hills of New Mexico. Five hundred years later, it is in these same hills that Miguel Torres, a young amateur astronomer, finds himself trying to understand the mystery that surrounds him and the town he grew up in.

  

Zoom Meeting – Register online by clicking on this link, or call us at 794-2570 ask for Programming. You will receive the link the day of the program.

The eBook version of Gateway to the Moon by Mary Morris can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Discussion guide for Gateway to the Moon.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

Sept 22 @ 7 PM - Mystery Book Club – The Holdout by Graham Moore

Join us on September 22 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss the enthralling courtroom thriller, The Holdout by Graham Moore. It’s the most sensational case of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Jessica Silver, heiress to a billion-dollar real estate fortune, vanishes on her way home from school, and her teacher, Bobby Nock, a twenty-five-year-old African American man, is the prime suspect. It’s an open-and-shut case for the prosecution, and a quick conviction seems all but guaranteed; until Maya Seale, a young woman on the jury, convinced of Nock’s innocence, persuades the rest of the jurors to return the verdict of not guilty, a controversial decision that will change all their lives forever. Flash forward ten years. A true-crime docuseries reassembles the jurors, with particular focus on Maya, now a defense attorney herself. When one of the jurors is found dead in Maya’s hotel room, all evidence points to her as the killer. Now, she must prove her own innocence–by getting to the bottom of a case that is far from closed.

Zoom Meeting – Register online by clicking on this link, or call us at 794-2570 ask for Programming. You will receive the link the day of the program.

The eBook version of The Holdout can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Discussion guide for The Holdout.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

Adult Summer Reading Club

THE EAST MEADOW PUBLIC LIBRARY ADULT SUMMER READING CLUB RETURNS – BE A PART OF THIS FABULOUS PROGRAM!

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR ADULT SUMMER READING CLUB, PLEASE CLICK ON THIS LINK.

Each of us has a story. We were born somewhere, raised by someone, and live some place. But through the magic of literature we can be whoever we want to be, be wherever we want to be, and do whatever we want to do. Especially in this time of limitations, we can celebrate a world with no limitations at all. This year, as you IMAGINE YOUR STORY, stretch your boundaries! Be Jo of Little Women or The Scarlet Pimpernal, or a unicorn with a rainbow horn. Live in pre-colonial India or eighteenth century France, or a dystopian America. Explore life on other worlds or ride horseback with the Pony Express. Let books expand your horizons as we imagine our stories together.

Our Summer Reading Club will once again only be online as we wait for our new library to be reconstructed. I hope that you will join with the Reader Services staff as we zoom our programs and lead you to Your Next Read!

CHECK OUT OUR SUMMER READING CLUB BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR RECOMMENDED TITLES WE’RE SURE YOU’LL LOVE!

Summer Reading Club eBook/audiobook Bibliography – Sign in to Nassau Digital Doorway by selecting East Meadow from list of libraries and log in using your East Meadow Library card barcode. Or sign in with your OverDrive account or Facebook.

Your Next Read - Online Readers' Advisory Service

Let the staff of the East Meadow Public Library Reader Services Department help you find enjoyable books to read. Please take a few moments to complete our form and share your reading preferences with us so we may create a personalized reading list for you. The Readers Services Department along with library staff assistance will respond within 7 business days with 3 books selected especially for you.

Click here to fill out the online form with your preferences and we will build you a customized list of recommended titles.

If you read any of the recommended books or choose not to read them, please send us feedback by clicking here and completing the online form.

Get Your eBooks and Audiobooks Here!

 

While the library is closed, here is a great way to get books!

Looking for eBook/audiobook suggestions? We’ve created some new and exciting lists to help you find your next read. From bestsellers to self-help, there’s a wide variety of topics to explore. Sign in to Nassau Digital Doorway by selecting East Meadow from the list of libraries and then log in using your East Meadow Library card barcode. Or you can sign in using your OverDrive account or with Facebook. Happy browsing!

Library CLOSED Until Further Notice

Due to the Coronavirus, the Library will be closed until further notice.

CANCELLED - March 18 @ 7 pm - Meet the Author: Claire Lombardo

The author visit scheduled for Wednesday night March 18th has been cancelled. We will reschedule our visit with Claire Lombardo at a later time. Thank you for your understanding.

Meet Claire Lombardo, The New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had, as she discusses her multi-generational novel in which the four adult daughters of a Chicago couple – still madly in love after forty years – recklessly ignite old rivalries until a long-buried secret threatens to shatter the lives they’ve built. Set against the quintessential American backdrop of Chicago and its prospering suburbs, the book explores the triumphs and burdens of love and the fraught tethers of parenthood and sisterhood.

The Most Fun We Ever Had is currently being adapted for an HBO series to be produced by Laura Dern and Amy Adams, and written by Lombardo.

Copies will be available at the library. There will also be books available for purchase and signing at the end of the program.

This event will be held at SAMANEA (The Former Source Mall) Art Gallery on the 2nd Floor, 1504 Old Country Road, Westbury, NY 11590

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

Discussion guide for The Most Fun We Ever Had.

February 4 @ 7:30 pm - Book Discussion Roundtable

Book Discussion Roundtable: You Can Do This! – February 4 at 7:30 p.m.

Do the words “it’s your turn to lead the book discussion” fill you with dread instead of delight? Join us as we talk about some ways to boost your confidence and make leading a book discussion easier for you to do. While all leaders have their own style, we will offer some tips and tricks to get your book group talking. We would love it if you would bring a book that you have successfully (or unsuccessfully) discussed to the roundtable, and share your experience.

Location: East Meadow Jewish Center, 1400 Prospect Ave., East Meadow, NY 11554

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

January 21 @ 1 pm - Lunch 'N Books: Inheritance by Dani Shapiro

Join us on January 21 at 1:00 p.m. as we discuss Inheritance, a book about secrets—secrets within families, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. It is the story of a woman’s urgent quest to unlock the story of her own identity, a story that has been scrupulously hidden from her for more than fifty years, years she had spent writing brilliantly, and compulsively, on themes of identity and family history. It is a book about the extraordinary moment in which we live—a moment in which science and technology have outpaced not only medical ethics but also the capacities of the human heart to contend with the consequences of what we discover.

Location: SAMANEA (The Former Source Mall), 1504 Old Country Road, Westbury, NY 11590

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

Discussion guide for Inheritance.

November 19 @ 7:30 pm - Evening Book Discussion: Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield

Join us on November 19 at 7:30 p.m. as we discuss Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield. This novel is a glorious tapestry of a book that combines folklore and science, magic and myth. Suspenseful, romantic, and richly atmospheric, the beginning of this novel will sweep you away on a powerful current of storytelling. The current continues to transport you through worlds both real and imagined, until the triumphant conclusion . . . whose depths will continue to give up their treasures long after the last page is turned.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

This event will be held at the East Meadow Jewish Center, 1400 Prospect Ave., East Meadow, NY 11554.

Discussion guide for Once Upon a River.

October 29 @ 7:30 pm - Evening Book Discussion: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Join us on October 29 at 7:30 p.m. as we discuss Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So, in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life–until the unthinkable happens.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

This event will be held at the East Meadow Jewish Center, 1400 Prospect Ave., East Meadow, NY 11554.

Discussion guide for Where the Crawdads Sing.

October 24 @ 1 pm - Lunch 'N Books: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

Join us on October 24 at 1:00 p.m. as we discuss Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann. In the 1920s, after oil was discovered beneath their land, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. Many of those investigating the murders were assassinated. The FBI took up the investigation, and badly bungled the case. In desperation, the young J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White. White put together an undercover team, including one of the only American Indian agents in the bureau. Together, with the Osage, they began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

Location: SAMANEA (The Former Source Mall), 1504 Old Country Road, Westbury, NY 11590

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

Discussion guide for Killers of the Flower Moon.

September 17 @ 7:30 pm - Evening Book Discussion: The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck

Join us on September 17 at 7:30 p.m. as we discuss The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck. The novel tells the story of three women, and their children, who take refuge in the ruins of a Bavarian castle at the end of World War II. The women are war widows - war resistance widows, really - whose husbands paid with their lives for the July 1944 plot against Adolf Hitler. Marianne has promised those who conspired with her husband that she would find and protect their families. But, the support the women give one another is tinged with regrets and guilt about their different pasts, and set against a deprivation for which the world has little sympathy

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

This event will be held at the East Meadow Jewish Center, 1400 Prospect Ave., East Meadow, NY 11554.

Discussion guide for The Women in the Castle.

August 27 @ 7:30 pm - Evening Book Discussion: The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood

Join us on August 27 at 7:30 p.m. as we discuss The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood. Ava’s twenty-five-year marriage has fallen apart. Ava joins a book group, not only for her love of reading, but also out of sheer desperation for companionship. The group’s goal throughout the year is for each member to present the book that matters most to them. Ava rediscovers a mysterious book from her childhood—one that helped her through the traumas of the untimely deaths of her sister and mother. Ava’s mission to find that book and its enigmatic author, takes her on a quest that unravels the secrets of her past, and offers her the chance to remake her life.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

This event will be held at the East Meadow Jewish Center, 1400 Prospect Ave., East Meadow, NY 11554.

Discussion guide for The Book That Matters Most.

July 23 @ 7:30 pm - Evening Book Discussion: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Join us on July 23 at 7:30 p.m. as we discuss An American Marriage by Tayari Jones. Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But, as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding. As Roy’s time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

This event will be held at the East Meadow Jewish Center, 1400 Prospect Ave., East Meadow, NY 11554.

June 18 @ 7:30 pm - Evening Book Discussion: A River of Stars by Vanessa Hua

Join us on June 18 at 7:30 p.m. as we discuss A River of Stars by Vanessa Hua. Holed up with other mothers-to-be in a secret maternity home in Los Angeles, Scarlett Chen is far from her native China, where she worked in a factory and fell in love with the married owner, Boss Yeung. Now she’s carrying his baby. To ensure that his first son has every advantage, Boss Yeung has shipped Scarlett off to give birth on American soil. Then a new sonogram of Scarlett’s baby reveals the unexpected. Panicked, she goes on the run by hijacking a van—only to discover that she has taken on a stowaway who intends to track down the father of her own child. The two flee to San Francisco’s bustling Chinatown, where Scarlett will join countless immigrants desperately trying to seize their piece of the American dream. What Scarlett doesn’t know is that her baby’s father is not far behind.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

This event will be held at the East Meadow Jewish Center, 1400 Prospect Ave., East Meadow, NY 11554.

June 10 @ 1 pm - Lunch 'N Books: The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore

Join us on June 10 at 1:00 p.m. as we discuss The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore. New York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history—and a vast fortune. A young untested lawyer takes a case that seems impossible to win. His client, George Westinghouse, has been sued by Thomas Edison over a billion-dollar question: Who invented the light bulb and holds the right to power the country? In obsessive pursuit of victory, Paul crosses paths with Nikola Tesla, an eccentric, brilliant inventor who may hold the key to defeating Edison.

Location: East Meadow Public Library, 1886 Front St., East Meadow, NY

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

Discussion guide for The Last Days of Night.

May 21 @ 7:30 pm - Evening Book Discussion: Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak

Join us on May 21 at 7:30 p.m. as we discuss Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak. It’s Christmas, and for the first time in years, the Birch family will be under one roof. For the next week, the Birches are locked down, cut off from the rest of humanity and forced into each other’s orbits. Frivolous daughter Phoebe is fixated on her upcoming wedding, while Olivia deals with the culture shock of being immersed in first-world problems. As Andrew sequesters himself in his study, writing scathing restaurant reviews and remembering his glory days as a war correspondent, Emma hides a secret that will turn the whole family upside down. But nothing is more shocking than the unexpected guest who’s about to arrive .

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

Discussion guide for Seven Days of Us.

May 14 @ 1 pm - Lunch 'N Books: Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

Join us on May 14 at 1:00 p.m. as we discuss Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou. In 2014, Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos founder and CEO, was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn’t work.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

April 23 at 7:00 p.m. - Book Discussion/Author Skype: The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis

Join us on April 23 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis. The author will join us by Skype!

In her latest captivating novel, national best-selling author Fiona Davis takes readers into the glamorous lost art school within Grand Central Terminal, where two very different women, fifty years apart, strive to make their mark on a world set against them.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

Discussion guide for The Masterpiece.

April 4th at 1:00 p.m. - Lunch 'N Books/Long Island Reads: The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

Join us on April 4 at 1:00 p.m. as we discuss The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer. Charming and wise, knowing and witty, Meg Wolitzer delivers a novel about power and influence, ego and loyalty, womanhood and ambition. At its heart, The Female Persuasion is about the flame we all believe is flickering inside of us, waiting to be seen and fanned by the right person at the right time. It’s a story about the people who guide and the people who follow (and how those roles evolve over time), and the desire within all of us to be pulled into the light.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

Discussion guide for The Female Persuasion.

March 18th at 1:00 p.m. - Lunch 'N Books: The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Join us on March 18 at 1:00 p.m. as we discuss The Library Book by Susan Orlean. On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was disastrous; it reached 2,000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains. Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who? Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading, into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a mesmerizing and uniquely compelling book that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236

Discussion guide for The Library Book.

February 28th at 1:00 p.m. - Lunch 'N Books: A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

Join us on February 28 at 1:00 p.m. as we discuss A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza. As an Indian wedding gathers a family back together, parents Rafiq and Layla must reckon with the choices their children have made. There is Hadia, their headstrong, eldest daughter, whose marriage is a match of love and not tradition. Huda, the middle child, is determined to follow in her sister’s footsteps. Lastly, their estranged son, Amar, returns to the family fold for the first time in three years, to take his place as brother of the bride. What secrets and betrayals have caused this close-knit family to fracture? Can Amar find his way back to the people who know and love him best?

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

Discussion guide for A Place For Us.

February 19th at 7:30 p.m. - Evening Book Discussion/Author Skype: Carnegie’s Maid by Marie Benedict

Join us on February 19 at 7:30 p.m. as we discuss Carnegie’s Maid by Marie Benedict. The author will join us by Skype!

Clara Kelley is not the experienced Irish maid hired to work in one of Pittsburgh’s grandest households. She’s a poor farmer’s daughter with nothing in her pockets. But the other woman with the same name has vanished, so Clara is pretending to be her . . . if she can keep up the ruse. Carnegie’s Maid tells the story of a brilliant woman who may have spurred Andrew Carnegie toward philanthropy.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236

Discussion guide for Carnegie’s Maid.

January 15th at 7:30 p.m. - Evening Book Discussion: The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

Join us on January 15 at 7:30 p.m. as we discuss The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah. Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier.

But as winter approaches and darkness descends on Alaska, Ernt’s fragile mental state deteriorates and the family begins to fracture. Soon the perils outside pale in comparison to threats from within. In their small cabin, covered in snow, blanketed in eighteen hours of night, Ernt’s wife and daughter learn the terrible truth: they are on their own. In the wild, there is no one to save them but themselves.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

Discussion guide for The Great Alone.

December 10th at 1:00 p.m. - Lunch 'N Books: Educated by Tara Westover

Join us on December 10 at 1:00 p.m. as we discuss Educated by Tara Westover. “Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her “head-for-the-hills bag.” The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. As a way out, Tara began to educate herself, learning enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University. Her quest for knowledge would transform her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home.”

Discussion guide for Educated.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

November 5th at 12:30 p.m. - Lunch 'N Books/Author Skype: Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

Join us on November 5 at 12:30 p.m. as we discuss Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen. After the discussion, the author will join us by Skype!

Neurosurgeon Eitan Green has the perfect life–married to a beautiful police officer and father of two young boys. Then, speeding along a deserted moonlit road in Israel, after an exhausting hospital shift, he hits someone. Seeing that the man, an African migrant, is beyond help, he flees the scene. When the victim’s widow knocks at Eitan’s door the next day, holding his wallet and divulging that she knows what happened, Eitan discovers that her price for silence is not money. It is something else entirely, something that will shatter Eitan’s safe existence and take him into a world of secrets and lies he could never have anticipated.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236