NORWAY – Norway Memorial Library’s Adult Summer Reading Program theme will be “Reading Someone Else’s Mail.” The discussion series is a selection of four epistolary novels, or novels told through letters and other documents.

The style of writing allows the reader to get to know characters through their own words and thoughts. The books chosen rely on that method to varying degrees and offer a wide range of subject matter. Those interested in taking part should stop at the library to sign up and purchase or borrow a book through Minerva.

Discussion leader will be Beth Kane.

The four titles selected are:

“Alice’s Tulips” by Sandra Dallas, the story of Alice, a young bride whose husband joins the Union Army, leaving her on his Iowa farm with his mother. Writing to her sister, Lizzie, she reveals details telling of her adjustment to farm life and small-town American customs. Discussion date will be 7 p.m. Thursday June 15.

“Letters from Yellowstone” by Diane Smith, told through letters written by the members of a field study expedition in the early days of Yellowstone National Park, giving descriptions of the park before it became a popular destination. Discussion date will be 7 p.m. Thursday, July 13.

“The Voyage of the Narwhal” by Andrea Barrett, is combined with narrative. The novel of an ill-fated 19th century Arctic expedition is told using journals, letters and newspaper accounts that bring the crew to life. Part adventure and part love story, combined with the mystery of the unknown Arctic, the reader hears from those on the expedition and those left behind. Discussion date will be 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 17.

“The Last Days of Summer” by Steve Kluger is the story of 9-year-old Joey, who is searching for a hero and thinks he may have found him in the unlikely Charlie Banks, third baseman for the New York Giants. Using letters, news clippings, report cards, a telegram from FDR and even matchbooks, the tale, set in the 1940s, is a nostalgic, if sometimes far-fetched, story of two lives changed forever. Discussion date will be 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14.