Book Discussion Groups
Join New Cumberland Library's Book Discussion Groups! Book discussions are sponsored by the Friends of the New Cumberland Public Library and each group meets on a standing schedule.
Great Books Discussion Groups:
1st & 3rd Monday mornings
September 19, 2022 - May 15, 2023
10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
The selection of titles to be read and discussed is available at the Main Desk.
Questions can be directed to Joan Short, 717-938-3494 or Ethel Bitterman, 717-938-1590
Meeting is held in the Library's Dining Room
Selections for the 2022-2023 Season:
September 19 The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf
October 3 The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
October 17 The Lion In Winter: A Play by James Goldman
November 7 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
December 5 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
January 3 The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
January 16 Kindred by Octavia Butler
February 6 Stoner by John Williams
March 6 North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
March 20 The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
April 3 Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
April 17 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
May 1 Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
May 15 Poetry (to be selected)
2nd & 4th Wednesday mornings
10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
The selection of titles to be read and discussed is available at the Main Desk.
Questions can be directed to Dan Tepsic, 717-774-0719
Meeting is held in the Library's 2nd Floor Meeting Room
Selections for the January-May 2023:
January 11 How Odd Timofer Died Without a Song by Rainer Maria Rilke
Desert Places by Robert Frost
January 25 The Path to the Cemetary by Thomas Mann
The Subverted Flower by Robert Frost
February 8 The Prussian Officer by D. H. Lawrence
Willful Homing by Robert Frost
February 22 Araby by James Joyce
Mrs. Frola and Mr. Ponza, Her Son-in-Law by Luigi Pirandello
From the Misery of Don Joost by Wallace Stevens
March 8 The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf
Anecdote of the Jar by Wallace Stevens
Frogs Eat Butterfies, Snakes Eat Frogs, Hogs Eat Snakes, Men Eat Hogs
by Wallace Stevens
March 22 A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka
How to Live, What to Do by Wallace Stevens
April 12 The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket by Yasunari Kawabata
A Clean, Well Lighted Place by Ernest Hemmingway
April 26 The Sacrificial Egg by Chinua Achebe
Of Mere Being by Wallace Stevens
May 10 A & P by John Updike
Borges & I by Jorge Luis Borges
The Young Housewife by William Carlos Williams
May 24 The Lady with the Toy Dog by Anton Chekhov
The Widows Lament in Springtime by William Carlos Williams
Ruth's Mystery Discussion Group
1st Thursday of every month except July
10:30 a.m.
All lovers of good mysteries are invited to join our monthly discussion group.
Please call the Library at 717-774-7820 for more information
The meeting is currently held in Foundation House.
Ruth's Mystery Discussion Group members each report on a one book they've read on the selected reading topic. The reading topics for 2023 are:
January 5 - Reader's Choice
February 2 - Asian setting or author
March 2 - Private Investigator
April 6 - 1920s Setting
May 4 - Mystery Set Before 1500
June 1 - Spy Craft
July - No Meeting
August - Senior Sleuths
September 7 - One Author
October 5 - Biblio Mysteries
November 2 - Indigenous Peoples
December 7 - Christmas Mysteries