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All Booked Up
Windsor Library's Newsletter for Readers
November 2025
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The life and work of sculptor and Windsor resident Evelyn Beatrice Longman are profiled in the book Evelyn Beatrice Longman: The Woman Who Sculpted Golden Boy, Thomas Edison, and Other Monuments. The author Pat Hoerth Batchelder will read passages from the book and answer question about Longman's life and career on Saturday, November 15 at 1:00 PM.
Pieces of Longman's sculpture as well as related photographs will be on display in Meeting Room 1 from 12:30 to 1:00 PM, followed by the book talk from 1:00 to 2:30 PM.
Light refreshments will be served. Registration is required and is open. Please contact the Reference Desk with any questions at 860-285-1918.
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Baker and Taylor, the largest book vendor that libraries across the country has employed for years, is closing their doors in January 2026. New books have been slow to come in the last few months and while we are working on creating new relationships with the book vendors that are still accepting orders, we ask for your patience. New books may be slow to come in and holds may take longer. We encourage you to continue to put holds on the books that you want so that we know.
If you have any further questions, please call our Reference Desk at 860-285-1918.
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Coming to a bookshelf near you!
(click on the cover to place your hold today)
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The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander Newfoundland by Jim Defede
Narrated by Ray Porter
Length: 6 hours and 30 minutes
When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. The citizens of Gander met the stranded passengers with an overwhelming display of friendship and goodwill. This is the story of those 6 days - filled with tears and laughter. Available as a Hoopla Downloadable Audiobook.
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Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi
Her father has raised her as part of the Movement, a Black separatist group based in Philadelphia. Nigeria is homeschooled and vegan and participates in traditional rituals that connect her and other kids from the group to their ancestors. But when her mother--the perfect matriarch to their Movement--disappears, Nigeria's world is upended. Nigeria's mother had secrets. She wished for a different life for her children, which includes sending her daughter to a private Quaker school outside of their strict group. Despite her father's disapproval, Nigeria attends the school. There, she slowly begins to blossom and expand her universe. As Nigeria searches for her mother, she starts to uncover a shocking truth. One that will lead her to question everything she thought she knew about her life and her family.
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Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
England, 1580. A young Latin tutor - penniless, bullied by a violent father - falls in love with an eccentric young woman who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer. Agnes understands plants and potions better than she does people, but settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford. She becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast force in the life of her young husband, whose gifts as a writer are just beginning to awaken when their young son succumbs to the bubonic plague.
Release date November 27 in the theaters.
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And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Ten strangers, each with a dark secret, are gathered together on an isolated island by a mysterious host. One by one, they die, and before the weekend is out there will be none.
Offered as a book club kit through Windsor Public Library.
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Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
If you haven't yet heard of "lit-RPG," books, you only need to know that they combine elements of fantasy or science fiction with the mechanics of Role-Playing Games. (like Zelda, for example). The premise of Dungeon Crawler Carl is that aliens have taken over Earth and virtually forced humans into playing a game of survival (for real) that is broadcast across the universe. Intergalactic alien audiences watch a real-life Survivor program, and can view or follow or favorite the unwilling human players. At the time of takeover, Carl is caught outside with just his boxers, his ex-girlfriend's pink crocs and Princess Donut, her cat, so he is at a huge disadvantage when encountering the first-level monsters trying to smush or eat him. The combination of Carl and Donut is brilliant; they are compelling characters, and the action is edge-of-your-seat throughout. This is a stay-up-all-night-to-finish series of books.
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Weather by Jenny Offill
Writer Jenny Offill has the poet's knack of describing occurrences in everyday life that we hadn't really registered but that our subconscious had noticed, clearly, because suddenly her words start ringing bells. Lizzie is a librarian with a young son whom she drives to elementary school every morning. In compressed but expressive sentences, with "astounding comic timing," Offill conveys how a woman with a bullhorn in the parking lot prevents Lizzie from helping her fearful son navigate the school entrance (after she's seen an aide shove him to hurry him along). The heartwrenching fraughtness of a simple task, or the silly absurdity of work memos--everyday trivialities--are juxtaposed throughout the novel with snippets of facts Lizzie reads or hears about the progression of global warming and how to survive the looming apocalypse, to amazing insightful and comic effect.
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Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
With Hench, author Walschots hits it out of the park, with a setting that lays an undertone of humor under a story full of more humor as well as great characters and a compelling revenge plot. Anna Tromedlov, database specialist, does gig work through a temp agency serving a villainous client base--literally. Villains and their Superhero counterparts are just a mundane part of everyday life in this world. Some are truly comical, such as when they name themselves "the Tardigrade," but they do real damage, as Anna discovers when she's horribly injured on her next gig. Unable to move from a friend's couch for months, she hatches a scheme that will ultimately lead to a very satisfying, compelling arc of revenge. This will be a trilogy.
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