Discussion groups will meet at library

Discussion groups will meet at library

LEETONIA

Guests are always welcome to join in a book discussion group at the Leetonia Community Public Library, 181 Walnut St.

Upcoming November topics for adults follow: The fiction group will discuss “Light in the Ruins” by Chris Bohjalian when it meets at 10 a.m. Wednesday. It’s a story set in 1943 and 1955 in the war-ravaged area of Tuscany.

The classics group will be reading the novella by Herman Melville, “Bartelby the Scrivener,” at 6 p.m. Nov. 24. It’s a deceptively simple story with philosophical implications.

The nonfiction group will discuss “Your Inner Fish” by Neil Shubin at 6 p.m. Nov, 25. In this fascinating science text, Dr. Shubin explores the 3.5 billion-year history of the development of human anatomy.

New book of Watergate tapes out next August

NEW YORK

More transcripts of White House tapes from the Richard Nixon administration will be published next August, focusing on 1973, the year the world learned the recordings existed.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced last week that the new book will be called “The Nixon Tapes: 1973” and will be edited and annotated by Douglas Brinkley and Luke A. Nichter, who worked on last summer’s best-seller, “The Nixon Tapes: 1971-1972.”

The new transcripts will capture a turning point for Nixon, who had been easily re-elected in 1972.

Televised Watergate hearings in 1973 revealed widespread wrongdoing and the startling news that the president had been taping conversations. Nixon ended the recordings, which contained devastating evidence of White House misconduct, in July 1973 and resigned the following year.

Signed Rolling Stones book offered for $5,000

NEW YORK

The next Rolling Stones project will cost you a lot more than the average concert ticket.

A boxed, collector’s edition of “The Rolling Stones,” a coffee table book featuring hundreds of famous and little-known photographs, will be released in December. The publisher Taschen announced last week that band members Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ron Wood and Charlie Watts signed each of the available 1,150 copies. The asking price: $5,000. The regular edition, unsigned and slightly smaller in dimension, has a list price of $150.

In a statement issued through Taschen, Jagger said the book captures “many magical moments,” while Richards called it a “roller coaster” through the band’s 50 year history.

Staff/wire reports