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Young Adult/Teens   Adult Services   Book Discussions   Reference Databases   Internet Search Engines                                 Thursdays with Murder A mystery book discussion group for people who wish to enjoy and learn about mysteries. To do this we will not all read the same title for each meeting. Instead, we will read by author, by topic, or do comparisons. Before each meeting, each attendee will receive information about the reading for the following discussion. Information will be emailed, mailed or can be picked up at the Adult Services desk, including the next reading topic, a choice of authors, and ideas for discussion. It’s a different kind of book discussion group. We hope you’ll join us! Thursdays with Murder Your Passport to Murder, Year Two! 6:30 pm at Stoughton Public Library December ~ No meeting this month. See you in 2013!    January 10 ~ Destination Canada Meet Armand Gamache, Chief Inspector of the Sûreté du Québec in the mysteries of Louise Penny. No other new mystery writer has consistently won so many awards. February 14 ~ Scandinavian Noir Cold, dark stories for a cold, dark month.   March 15 ~ London “Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.” – Thomas Moore April 11 ~ Sunny Spain “For every person who likes Spain there are a dozen who prefer books on her.” ― Ernest Hemingway, from “Death in the Afternoon”   May 9 ~ Two Authors in Italy Donna Leon, who writes in English in Venice; and Andrea Camilleri whose Italian mysteries in Sicily have been translated into English.   June 13 ~ The Middle East For crime fiction, this includes mainly stories set in Israel or Turkey by authors Eric Ambler, Batya Gur, Barbara Nadel, and among others.   July 11 ~ “All Aboard!” Take the train from Istanbul to Paris with Hercule Poirot for “Murder on the Orient Express.” “Say what you like, trial by jury is a sound system.”   August 8 ~ We’ll Always Have Paris “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” – Ernest Hemingway   September 12 ~ The Russian Connection “There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.” – Russian Proverb   October 10 ~ China, the Middle Kingdom From Robert Van Gulik’s Judge Dee to Qiu Xiaolong’s Inspector Chen.   November 14 ~ “Brazil, Here I Come!” Samba, Carnival, Feijoada, Caipirinha, with mysteries by Leighton Gage and Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza. Tonight we choose our reading for next year. Always an exciting event!   December ~ No meeting this month. See you in 2014!     Reading lists are available at meetings and at the Adult Services Desk. Sponsored by the Stoughton Public Library _______________________________