All Booked Up

Windsor Library's Newsletter for Readers

July 2026

Our new catalog, Vega, is live. And our new Library Connection Mobile app is also available.

Here are some instructions on how to reset your password in our new catalog which you will need to do to be able to login to the app.

1. Go to windsorlibrary.lcicatalog.org and click on Log In which will be in the top right hand corner.

2. Enter your library card number (barcode) and click reset password.

3. Enter your library card number again. Click on "Send Passcode Reset Link." This will send a link to the e-mail you have on file with your library card number. If you do not have an e-mail or you do not use that e-mail anymore, please call the library to change this information. 

4. Once you receive the link in your e-mail, reset your password to something with at least 8 characters. 

5. You should be able to login then and see your checkouts, place holds, etc. 

When in doubt, please reach out to us with your questions! You may call the Windsor Public Library at 860-285-1910 or the Wilson Branch at 860-247-8960.

Coming to a bookshelf near you!

(click on the cover to place your hold today)

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin



Set in 1970s Harlem, a couple, who have been friends since childhood, dream of a future together. But their plans go awry when he is arrested for and convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. If Beale Street Could Talk is based on the 1974 novel by American writer James Baldwin. In book form and on DVD.

Listen Up (Audiobook Recommendation)

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Narrated by Marin Ireland and Simon Jones

Length: 15 hours

This book interweaves five storylines across centuries—from 15th-century Constantinople to a future spaceship—all connected by a single, ancient fictional text about a man's quest for a utopian paradise. 

Book Club Corner

The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon



A gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history. Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community. Months earlier, Martha documented the details of an alleged rape committed by two of the town's most respected gentlemen--one of whom has now been found dead in the ice. But when a local physician undermines her conclusion, declaring the death to be an accident, Martha is forced to investigate the shocking murder on her own. Over the course of one winter, as the trial nears, and whispers and prejudices mount, Martha doggedly pursues the truth. Her diary soon lands at the center of the scandal, implicating those she loves, and compelling Martha to decide where her own loyalties lie.

Spotlight: Graphic Novels

Ginseng Roots: A memoir by Craig Thompson

Ginseng Roots follows Craig Thompson and his siblings-who spent the summers of their youth weeding and harvesting rows of coveted American ginseng on rural Wisconsin farms for one dollar an hour-and interweaves this lost youth with the three-hundred-year history of the global ginseng trade and the many lives it has tied together. Stretching from Marathon, Wisconsin, to northeast China, Ginseng Roots charts the rise of industrial agriculture, the decline of American labor, and the search for a sense of home in a rapidly changing world.

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

This graphic novel is the late author's memoir detailing her experience growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran's last emperors, Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Intensely personal, profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis is at once a story of growing up and a stunning reminder of the human cost of war and political repression. It shows how we carry on, through laughter and tears, in the face of absurdity. 

Final Cut by Charles Burns

This graphic novel follows a teenage outcast named Brian who struggles with his mental health and his reality while obsessively making a sci-fi movie with his friends in the woods. Full of references to classic sci-fi and horror movies, this character driven coming-of-age story shows what it truly means to both express oneself, and lose one's self, in art.