The History Book Group will discuss Patrick Radden Keefe’s “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland” at 6:30 p.m. Thurs. June 20th on the 2^nd floor of the library. In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of The Troubles. The violence affected not only people like McConville’s children, but also members of the Irish Republican Army embittered by a peace that fell far short of the goal of a united country. “Say Nothing” chronicles the conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath.

The Friday Book Group will meet at 2:00 p.m. Fri. June 21st on the 2^nd floor of the library to discuss Rachel Kadish’s “The Weight of Ink.” Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, “The Weight of Ink” is the interwoven tale of two women: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history. Helen is summoned by a former student to view a cache of seventeenth-century Jewish documents newly discovered in his home during a renovation. Enlisting the help of an American graduate student, Helen embarks on one last project: to determine the identity of the documents’ scribe, the elusive “Aleph.”