Category: Events

The Pember Book Club will meet November 19 at 1:00 PM to discuss The Round House by Louise Erdrich. from goodreads.com The Round House by Louise Erdrich National Book Award Winner One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, …

Barb Young will again be teaching the popular “computers for seniors” at the Pember Library. Classes will run from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM Wednesdays and Fridays from November 6 through November 22. Classes will cover internet and email, word processing, and using the library card catalog with databases. You must pre-register for the series of classes. Class size is limited to eight people. Please call the library to register or for more information 518-642-2525.

From http://geraldinebrooks.com/ Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha’s Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of Caleb’s Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless …