In Person - Front Street Readers Book Club: Read "December '41"

Tuesday, December 1, 2026 11:00 AM—12:30 PM Cheever Conference Room Ashland Public Library 66 Front St, Ashland, MA, 01721 Come join the long running Front Street Readers Book Club virtually for a discussion of December '41 by William Martin. Please register for this event. Once you register you will receive the confirmation and reminder emails. Synopsis:  In December '41, Martin takes us on the ultimate manhunt, a desperate chase from Los Angeles to Washington, D. C., in the first weeks of the Second World War. On the day after Pearl Harbor, shocked Americans gather around their radios to hear Franklin Roosevelt declare war. In Los Angeles, a German agent named Martin Browning is planning to kill FDR on the night he lights the National Christmas Tree. Who will stop him? Relentless FBI Agent Frank Carter? Kevin Cusack, a Hollywood script reader who also spies on the German Bund of Los Angeles, and becomes a suspect himself? Or Vivian Hopewell, the aspiring actress who signs on to play Martin Browning's wife and cannot help but fall in love with him? The clock is ticking. The tracks are laid. The train of narrow escapes, mistaken identities, and shocking deaths is right on schedule. It's a thrilling ride that will sweep you from the back lots of Hollywood to the speeding Super Chief to that solemn Christmas Eve, when twenty thousand people gather on the South Lawn of the White House and the lives of Franklin Roosevelt and his surprise guest, Winston Churchill, hang in the balance. We'll have some copies of the book at the library or you can order it from our online catalog. Sign up for our Ashland Public Library Newsletters! Return to main calendar Register online between 6/30/2025 9:00 AM and 12/1/2026 11:00 AM.