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ESL class
English as a Second Language

The Library offers Conversational English as a Second Language (E.S.L.) sessions either one on one or in a group for Harrington Park Residents. Classes are held once a week for one hour.  Please stop by the Library to be matched with a tutor.

VOLUNTEERS ARE ALWAYS NEEDED    (And much appreciated!)

ESL class
Social Stitchery Group

Bring your own projects, share your ideas, and have some fun!
Tuesday's 10:00 a.m. – Noon

ESL class
Book Discussion Group

Join us October 29th at 1:00 for a book review and discussion.

In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

Books available at the desk.

 

2018 Titles

Eventide by Kent Haruf

Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Ordinary Grace by Wlliam Kent Krueger

The Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

Eternal Life by Dara Horn

A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline

Benediction by Kent Haruf

An Italian Wife by Ann Hood

The Hundred Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais

Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf

2019 Titles

The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell

The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict

The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens

Miller's Valley by Anna Quindlen

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

We Are Called To Rise by Laura McBride

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Color of Water by James McBride

One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus

An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff

Educated by Tara Westover

2020 Titles

One Thousand White Women byJim Fergus

An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff

The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi

On The  Road by Jack Kerouac

The Hound of Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Educated by Tara Westover

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

Radium Girls by Kate Moore

2021 Titles

The Radium Girls by Kate Moore

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

The Air You Breathe by Frances De Pontes Peebles

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls

A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

 

2022 Titles

 

The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Deacon King Kong by James McBride

Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

Red At the Bone by Jacquelin Woodson

News of the World by Paulette Jiles

Long Bright River by Liz Moore

The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende

The Summer Before the War  by Helen Simonson

​2023

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum

The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

Exiles by Christina Baker-Kline

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

 

2024

After This by Alice McDermott

Transatlantic by Colum McCann

Snow in August by Pete Hamill

Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano

Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

The Extraordinary Life of Same Hell by Robert Dugoni

The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger

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​Past Titles

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