Please join MacArthur genius, Pew and Guggenheim Fellow, renowned conservationist, and NY Times/Nat Geo/Huff Po author, Carl Safina as he kicks off IFAW’s speaker series with his talk based on his seventh book, Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel. Beyond Words brings forth powerful and illuminating insight into the unique personalities of animals through extraordinary stories of animal joy, grief, jealousy, anger, and love.The similarity between human and nonhuman consciousness, self- awareness, and empathy calls us to re-evaluate how we interact with both domestic and wild animals. (more)

Join local author Howard Bonington for a discussion of his book, “Aviation on Cape Cod.” Bonington has produced a series of pen and ink drawings portraying some of the history and events in aviation related to Cape Cod.... (more)

The Brewster Ladies’ Library has started an evening book discussion group! The group will meet on the last Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. in the downstairs meeting room of the Library. For our September meeting, we will be discussing the book A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman.... (more)

The Brewster Ladies’ Library book discussion group meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 1:00 p.m. to discuss a book chosen by the group. For the month of October, we will be discussing King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild. “The intersection of the boundless egos of Henry M.... (more)

Join author Sally Gunning, State Representative Sarah Peake, and NPR’s Mindy Todd as we discuss the book, The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women who Helped Win World War II. “Author Denise Kiernan re-creates, with cinematic vividness and clarity, the surreal Orwell-meets-Margaret-Atwood environment of Oak Ridge.” - The Daily Beast. During World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee was home to over 70,000 people, consuming more electricity than New York City.... (more)

Denise Kiernan, author of The Girls of Atomic City, will be the featured speaker for the fifth annual Frances Mapes Nickerson Memorial Lecture in Brewster on Saturday, October 14th, 2017. Denise Kiernan is an author, journalist, TV writer, and producer.... (more)

The Brewster Ladies’ Library has started an evening book discussion group! The group will meet on the last Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. in the downstairs meeting room of the Library. For our October meeting, we will be discussing the book Longbourn by Jo Baker.... (more)

It’s time for the annual Literary Evening at the Brewster Ladies’ Library! Brewster writers are invited to pick up applications at the Library, Town Hall, or Council on Aging and apply to read their work at this fun event.... (more)