We reserve multiple copies of each book. Please visit the Reference Desk to pick up your copy!
Saturday Morning Book Club
Join us to discuss this month’s book! This group usually meets on the third Saturday of the month.
Join us for a discussion of Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land. Contact the library for a copy of the book.
Join us for a discussion of The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner.
Join us to discuss book of your choice—a book you should have read in high school, but never did!
Senior Center Book Club
Join us to discuss this month’s book! This group meets one Wednesday a month at the Berlin Senior Center.
Join us at the Senior Center for a discussion of West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge. Contact the library for a copy of the book.
Join us at the Berlin Senior Center for a discussion of the book Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II by Robert Matzen.
Join us at the Berlin Senior Center for a discussion of the book The Dutch House by Ann Patchett.
Join us at the Berlin Senior Center for a discussion of Love and Saffron by Kim Fay.
Join us at the Senior Center for a discussion of From Scratch by Tembi Locke.
Join us at the Senior Center for a discussion of The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles.
Join us at the Senior Center for a discussion of The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles.
Join us at the Berlin Senior Center to discuss The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.
Join us for a discussion of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly.
Join us at the Berlin Senior Center for a discussion of Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg.
Join us at the Berlin Senior Center for a discussion of A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg.
Join us at the Berlin Senior Center for a discussion of Educated by Tara Westover.
Join us at the Berlin Senior Center for a discussion of The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett.
Join us at the Berlin Senior Center to discuss Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. Contact the library for a copy of the book.
Join us for a virtual discussion of the book Plainsong by Kent Haruf. Contact the library to reserve a copy of this book.
Cookbook Club
Each month, Cookbook Club chooses a cookbook, chef, or special ingredient. Find your recipe, make the dish on your own—and then gather for a feast!
You do not need to be an experienced cook, just an enthusiastic one.
This month’s cookbook is The Complete Salad Cookbook from America's Test Kitchen.
This month’s cookbook is The Complete Summer Cookbook from America's Test Kitchen.
This month’s cookbook is The Kitchen Garden Cookbook.
This month's cookbook is Italian American: Red Sauce Classics and New Essentials by Angie Rito.
March's cookbook is Cook This Book by Molly Baz.
You do not need to be an experienced cook, just an enthusiastic one!
You do not need to be an experienced cook, just an enthusiastic one!
Pick a recipe and join us to discuss it online! June's cookbook will be
Healthyish by Lindsay Maitland Hunt.
Since we missed the March Cook Book Club, we thought it would be fun to help you stay connected with fellow cooking enthusiast by doing an online video chat for Cookbook Club.
To participate in Facebook discussions, please join the book club’s
Facebook group. If not, please email
library@berlinpeck.org so we can send you the video chat invite!
Bring 3-4 dozen cookies of one type, a container to bring cookies home and a copy of your recipe. We encourage you to use a recipe from one the library's many great cookie cookbooks!
Book Discussion with the Berlin Police Department
Join us for a quarterly book discussion with an officer from the Berlin Police Department.
This month's book is At the Edge of the Haight by Katherine Seligman.
Book Clubs for Children
Nutmeg Book Club
For grades 3-6. Each month, we read a new book from this year’s Nutmeg Book Award nominees. Join us for games, crafts, and all things Nutmeg!
Copies are available in the Children’s Department.
A book about an alien in the body of a cat. What's not to love?
A book about an alien in the body of a cat. What's not to love?
How much does going to school mean to you?
Can poetry make someone feel like home?
Who wouldn't want a magic train ride for their birthday?
Can Robinson keep her and her Grandfather together?
Why would one person own 217 cats?
Can Nestor use his powers and stop the real tule vieja before the solar eclipse?
The perfect Halloween read!
Can she prove her dad's innocence while baking the perfect cupcake?
Sometimes you can find friends in the most unexpected places!
Would you want to have a pet donkey?
(Gr. 4-8) Join us for snacks and board games as we kick-off a new year of Nutmeg Book Clubs! Help us choose our first book & give the book club a name!
Join us this month as we read and discuss
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper. For more information about how to get your copy of the text and to register, please contact Miss Annie at
amacpherson@berlinpeck.org.
Grades 4-6. The Nutmeg Book Club will be online via ZOOM this month! We'll be reading
Front Desk by Kelly Yang. To register and for details about Zoom, please email
amacpherson@berlinpeck.org.