AUBURN — Auburn Public Library will offer a new book group during April and May for discussions on some great reads.

At 6 p.m. Thursday, April 4, the group will meet to discuss “Snow Child” by Eowyn Ivey, followed by a discussion at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 2, the historical novel “Above All Things.”

“Snow Child” is set in the frozen land of Alaska in 1920. Homesteaders Jack and Mabel are drifting apart, he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season’s first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone, but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear.

“Above All Things” is a heart-wrenchingly romantic historical novel by Tanis Rideout, based on British mountaineer George Mallory’s fatal attempt to climb Everest, and his wife Ruth, who is left at home, waiting for him to return to her. In the Himalayas two climbers strike out for the summit of the Earth’s highest mountain. In Cambridge, a wife collects the milk, gets three children out of bed and waits for news of her husband. A powerful, moving story of a husband driven to extraordinary lengths by his ambition and a wife terrified she will lose him to a cruel and pitiless rival.

Books may be acquired through the ILL process either by coming into the library or visiting www.auburnpubliclibrary.org.