NORWAY – The series of reading and book discussions on the topic of “Making A Difference” will continue at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 13, at the Norway Memorial Library with the book, “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” by Barbara Kingsolver.

The discussion will be led by Jeanette Baldridge, local author and owner with her husband of Lolliepapa Farm in West Paris. Books are available through the library’s information desk.

Kingsolver’s book brings the story of a year in which one family made every attempt to feed itself and how the family was changed by the first year of eating food produced from the same place where they worked, went to school, drank the water and breathed the air.

Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, the book is a family effort in which Kingsolver’s narrative is interspersed with essays and recipes contributed by her daughter, Camille Kingsolver, and sidebars contributed by her husband, Steven Hopp.

The book makes a case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet.

This discussion ties in with the library’s focus on local food choices being presented in a program on “Learn Local, Grow Local, Eat Local” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 9. Russell Libby, executive director of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners, will speak on “Our Next Agriculture: Building Deep Connections.” There will also be representatives of local food initiatives as well as local growers with information about procuring local products.

In addition the Western Maine Art Group has provided an exhibit of paintings, photos and prints of “Food in Art” that will be on display at the library until May 22. Artists represented are Barbara Traficonte, Victoria Denninger, Joanna Reese, Janis Hutchins, Cynthia Burmeister and Frost Farm Gallery.

The programs are free and open to the public, and the art exhibit is open anytime during regular library hours.