I’d like to share some books to enjoy this spring.

As part of the Peterborough Public Library’s book club, I have taken part in discussions facilitated by librarian Karen Bisschop. Many of the titles are available at the Peterborough Public Library, Take Cover Books, Happenstance, Chapters or online.

Alternating between past and present, “City of the Muse,” the new book by Kate Hilton, delves into the discovery of some ancient papyrus scrolls, the women who were and are instrumental in their valuation and translation, and the solving of a century-old mystery of the death of one of the female papyrologists, Helen Gardiner, who is the narrator of the early section.

Helen’s discovery of a fragment of writing by Sappho in the fictional Egyptian city of Calliopolis, an early “scriptorium” or literary capital, propels the story, which explores the male-dominated field of archaeology in the........

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