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All Booked Up
Windsor Library's Newsletter for Readers
December 2024
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The Windsor Human Relations Commission and the Windsor Public Library present One Book One Windsor 2025. Join us at the Windsor Public Library for a lively discussion of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride on Sunday, January 12 at 2:30 PM. Refreshments provided. Books (regular print, large print, audiobook book, playaway, and electronic versions) are available at the Windsor Public Library & Wilson Branch one month prior to this program. Please reach out to the Human Relations Commission with any questions as well as Reference Librarian Danielle Tapper at 860-285-1925.
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Coming to a bookshelf near you!
(click on the cover to place your hold today)
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Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
Before catching the movie starring Amy Adams on December 6, check out Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder. At home full-time with her two-year-old son, an artist finds she is struggling. She is lonely and exhausted. She had imagined - what was it she had imagined? Her husband, always travelling for his work, calls her from faraway hotel rooms. One more toddler bedtime, and she fears she might lose her mind. Instead, quite suddenly, she starts gaining things, surprising things that happen one night when her child will not sleep. Sharper canines. Strange new patches of hair. New appetites, new instincts. And from deep within herself, a new voice...
With its clear eyes on contemporary womanhood and sharp take on structures of power, Nightbitch is an outrageously original, joyfully subversive read that will make you want to howl in laughter and recognition.
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The Most Boring Book Ever by Brandon Sanderson and Kazu Kibuishi
Listen, this book is boring. We're telling you it's boring. It's in the title of the book—in fact, it's THE MOST BORING BOOK EVER!
Don't peek behind the cover! Don't look at the pictures! And definitely don't follow along with the rip-roaring adventure the boy is experiencing. Stay focused on mundane things like sitting in chairs and doing homework. Any report of dragons or marauding airships is ridiculous! This book is BORING!
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Mrs. Plansky's Revenge by Spencer Quinn
While you are waiting to watch Thelma, check out Mrs. Plansky's Revenge by Spencer Quinn. Mrs. Loretta Plansky, a recent widow in her seventies, is settling into retirement in Florida and fielding requests for money from her beloved children and grandchildren. One night Mrs. Plansky is startled awake by a phone call from a voice claiming to be her grandson Will, who desperately needs ten thousand dollars to get out of a jam. Of course, Loretta obliges―after all, what are grandmothers for? By morning, Mrs. Plansky has lost everything. Law enforcement announces that it’s hopeless to find the scammers behind the heist. First humiliated, then furious, Loretta Plansky refuses to be just another victim. In a courageous bid for justice, Mrs. Plansky follows her only clue on a whirlwind adventure to a small village in Romania to get her money and her dignity back―and perhaps find a new lease on life, too.
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The Rewind by Allison Winn Scotch
The Hangover meets When Harry Met Sally in this whip-smart rom-com from New York Times bestselling author Allison Winn Scotch. When college sweethearts Frankie and Ezra broke up before graduation, they vowed to never speak to each other again. Ten years later, on the eve of the new millennium, they find themselves back on their snowy, picturesque New England campus together for the first time for the wedding of mutual friends. Frankie's on the rise as a music agent for the hottest bands of the late '90s, and Ezra's ready to propose to his girlfriend after the wedding. Everything is going to plan-they just have to avoid the chasm of emotions brought up when they see each other. But when they wake up in bed next to each other the following morning with Ezra's grandmother's diamond on Frankie's finger, they have zero memory of how they got there-or about any of the events that transpired the night before. Now Frankie and Ezra have to put aside old grievances in order to figure out what happened, what didn't happen...and to ask themselves the most troubling question of all: what if they both got it wrong the first time around?
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Spotlight: Short Days, Short Books | |
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Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
This is the heartwarming and surprising story of thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident Keiko Furukura. Keiko has never fit in, neither in her family, nor in school, but when at the age of eighteen she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of “Smile Mart,” she finds peace and purpose in her life. In the store, unlike anywhere else, she understands the rules of social interaction—many are laid out line by line in the store’s manual—and she does her best to copy the dress, mannerisms, and speech of her colleagues, playing the part of a “normal” person excellently, more or less. Convenience Store Woman is an ironic and sharp-eyed look at contemporary work culture and the pressures to conform, as well as a charming and completely fresh portrait of an unforgettable heroine.
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World of Wonders in Praise by Aimee Nezhukumatathill
Using her poet's eye, Nezhukumatathil writes a collection of essays on the everyday and extraordinary wonders of our world. The collection weaves memoir with naturalist study to open our eyes to the stunningly beautiful, yet sometimes harsh, world around us. Each essay centers on an animal or plant with special connection to Aimee's life as she navigates being a person of color, a new mom, a wife, a professor, a human. The collection is gorgeously illustrated by Fumi Mimi Nakumara. This small book is full of feeling and proves that you do not need to be a scientist to study nature. Anyone who needs a dose of wonder in their life should read this book.
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The Lost Wife by Susanna Moore
In the summer of 1855, Sarah Brinton makes the long and difficult journey from Rhode Island to the Minnesota Territory. When she arrives without family or friends, she quickly marries and has two children. Anticipating unease at the Indian Agency, where her husband is the new resident physician, Sarah instead finds acceptance and kinship among the Sioux women at the nearby reservation. When the Sioux Uprising of 1862 erupts, Sarah and her children are abducted by the Sioux, who protect her, but because she sympathizes with her captors, Sarah becomes an outcast to the white settlers. In the end, she is lost to both worlds. Intimate and raw, The Lost Wife is a searing tale of the conquest of the American West.
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