Event Category: Adults

Events for adults age 18 and older.

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Cookies and Mystery features cookies, coffee and discussion of a different mystery genre each third Thursday of the month at 11:00 am. Each month the group will read mysteries with a theme. This group will be meeting at St. James United Church of Christ (135 Myrtle Ave, Havertown.) For January we will be reading Senior Sleuths. To access the book Read More

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January’s meeting will be at McGillicuddy’s (33 Brookline Blvd., Havertown) they have a side room to use. Our book selection is The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez. Stop by the Reference Desk to pick up a copy of the book and then join us at McGillicuddy’s! About The Cemetery of Untold Stories: Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at Read More

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Our next Great Courses Lecture Series is London in the the Time of Dickens.    Join us each week on Wednesdays for a lecture and discussion at 2 pm. By the start of the Victorian era, London was home to nearly 2 million people, a number that expanded to more than 6 million by 1901, the year of Queen Victoria’s Read More

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Interested in nonfiction? Join our book club featuring only nonfiction titles. January’s selection is The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Timothy C. Winegard. About The Mosquito: Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to thank for its global domination? What has protected the Read More

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History Lovers! This book club is for you! Each season we select a book for our first meeting to read together that covers a theme or time period of history. For our second meeting, we read from a list of books around the topic of the first book. For January, we will be reading Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir Read More

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Join us on the 4th Tuesday of each month for this adult book discussion that is open to all. A different contemporary adult fiction or non-fiction book will be discussed at each meeting. For January we will be discussing The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir is True by Griffin Dunne. You can sign up and get a copy of Read More

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Our next Great Courses Lecture Series is London in the the Time of Dickens.    Join us each week on Wednesdays for a lecture and discussion at 2 pm. By the start of the Victorian era, London was home to nearly 2 million people, a number that expanded to more than 6 million by 1901, the year of Queen Victoria’s Read More