AUBURN – The Auburn Public Library will sponsor a book discussion of “The Disinherited” by Jack Conroy at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26.

Historian and Maine College of Art Professor Candace Kanes, discussion leader, will guide a talk in understanding the story, etched out of the author’s own experiences growing up in a desperately poor mining town. The story captures the robust and resilient essence of the American spirit during the Great Depression. Copies are available at the library.

For more information about the monthly book discussions, call 782-3191. Below is a listing of book discussion dates.

“Tender Is the Night” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thursday, March 25, at 6:30 p.m.

“Snow Falling on Cedars” by David Guterson, Thursday, April 22, at 10 a.m. at the Women’s Literary Union.

“Gone with the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell, Thursday, May 27, at 6:30 p.m.

“Uncle Tom’s Children” by Richard Wright, Thursday, June 24, at 6:30 p.m.

The discussion is part of the “Hope and Fear: Writing from the Great Depression” series, sponsored by the Maine Humanities Council and a program of the Harriet P. Henry Center for the Book.