The Nashua Public Library invites you to participate in the fifth annual One City, One Book program. For 2007, as you may have heard, the book is Zorro by Isabel Allende. I’m sure you’ll enjoy this swashbuckling adventure story that reveals how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know so well.

As of February 2, over 150 Nashuans had checked a copy of Zorro out of the library. Are you one of them? If not, reserve it now; read it; talk about it with your friends, coworkers, and neighbors; and then attend the book discussions and other programs planned at the library relating to the story.

We hope that sharing our impressions on a common book will once again help to strengthen our community.

From now until the end of April, visit this blog to join the discussion of the book. Just be aware that some of our comments might reveal the ending of the book.

To get the discussion going, let's talk about Diego's and Bernardo, his "milk brother." Why do you think they are drawn to one another? How do you think they are able to maintain their relationship, which flies in the face of societal attitudes about class and race?