The Albion Public Library has been selected by the Maine Humanities Council to offer Let’s Talk About It, a free reading and discussion group with copies of the books available through the library.

This program is provided by the Maine Humanities Council’s Maine Center for the Book in cooperation with the Maine State Library.

The series The Gilded Age will begin at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31, at the library.

Books to be read and discussed are: “Age of Innocence” by Edith Wharton; “The Gilded Age” by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner; “The Rise & Fall of Silas Lapham” by William Dean Howell; “Devil in the White City” by Erik Larson; and “Poland Spring” by David Richards.

The discussion will be led by David Richards, director of the Margaret Chase Smith Library in Skowhegan. Richards holds M.A. in New England studies from USM and a Ph.D in history from UNH. He is the author of “Poland Spring, A Tale of the Gilded Age” and is currently working on a project for the Kennebec Highlands History Project learning about Central Maine native and game maker, Milton Bradley, the “Man Who Taught America How to Play”.

Books for the program are available for loan at the library.

To register, or for more information, visit the library, or call 437-2019.

The library is open 2-8 p.m. Monday and Thursday and 9-11 a.m. Wednesday and Saturday.