BOOK CLUB
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In this unique online book club going on five years, international authors join us to talk about the domestic abuse in their books. Free and open to everyone.
IRISH AUTHOR SERIES: Put on some green and join us!
The acclaimed authors of two memoirs and a novel will be joining us from Ireland through March. READ HERE how the actor and author Gabriel Byrne made that happen! Solas Nua, the Washington DC-based organization devoted to bringing to US audiences the best in Irish arts, is partnering with us.
Tuesday January 20, 2026
1 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.
ONLINE
Deadly Silence: A Sister's Battle to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of Clodagh and her sons by Alan Hawe
By Jacqueline Connolly
Winner of the 2025 Nonfiction Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards!
Jacqueline will be joining us from Ireland over Zoom to discuss her heart-breaking and infuriating account of the domestic violence murder-suicide that rocked her personal world and also Ireland.
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
4 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.
ONLINE
Nesting: A Novel
by Roisín O'Donnell
Winner of the 2025 Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards!
Roisin will be joining us from Ireland over Zoom to discuss her “beautiful, urgent, and ultimately uplifting novel by a rising Irish literary star comes a heart-pounding, life-affirming story about one woman trying to leave her marriage and start over.”
Partnering public libraries livestreaming this Author Talk!
Belfast Free Library
Camden Public Library
Patten Free Library, Bath
Scarborough Public Library
Skidompha Library, Damariscotta
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
1 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.
Ring of Salt: A Memoir of Finding Home and Hope on the Wild Coast of Ireland
by Betsy Cornwell
Betsy will be joining us over Zoom to discuss her memoir described as Maid meets Under the Tuscan Sun, about a writer and mother who flees an abusive marriage and must learn to reclaim the story of her life through a search for home on Ireland’s wild, western coast.
Partnering public libraries livestreaming this Author Talk!
Belfast Free Library
Patten Free Library, Bath
Skidompha Library, Damariscotta
Tuesday, May 12
6 p.m., Online
Beth Macy, author of the bestselling investigation of the opioid crisis Dopesick, will join us to talk about the domestic violence weaving through her 2025 memoir of "home and family in a fractured America".
"In her new book Beth Macy returns to her home town of Urbana, Ohio, using it as ground zero for understanding right-wing radicalization." — The New Yorker
Tuesday, September 22
6 p.m., Online
Rosie Batty is joining us from Australia!
When Rosie's son Luke was beaten to death by his father in 2014 at a public sports match, this national hero turned unimaginable personal pain into a stunning movement for change all across Australia. We will contrast and compare the domestic violence landscape in Australia to what I see in Maine, and the chief hurdles and pathways to change as well as personal healing, I recommend you read her 2024 memoir Hope and also her first, Rosie: A Mother's Story
The authors of all these books have joined our discussions!
Watch our talk with Roddy Doyle!
Watch our talk with with Gretchen Cherington!
Watch our talk with Andre Dubus III!