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All Booked Up
Windsor Library's Newsletter for Readers
September 2025
| | Are you a book enthusiast? Do you want to know what the next best book to read is? Are you part of a book club and are looking for the next title to discuss? Join the Windsor Public Library in our Meeting Room 1 for a Book Buzz Event to discuss books and reading on Monday, September 29 from 7:00 to 8:30 PM. Registration Required. To register, please call the Reference Desk at 860-285-1918 or go to windsorlibrary.com. | | |
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Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
Narrated by Will Damron and January Lavoy
Length: 9 hours and 30 minutes
2025 Audie Winner for Mystery
After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy's blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer. Lucy and Savvy were the golden girls of their small Texas town: pretty, smart, and enviable. Lucy married a dream guy with a big ring and an even bigger new home. Savvy was the social butterfly loved by all, and if you believe the rumors, especially popular with the men in town. It's been years since that horrible night, a night Lucy can't remember anything about, and she has since moved to LA and started a new life. But now the phenomenally huge hit true-crime podcast Listen for the Lie, and its too-good-looking host Ben Owens, has decided to investigate Savvy's murder for the show's second season. Lucy is forced to return to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend's murder, even if she is the one who did it.
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Murder on the Red River by Marcie R. Rendon
Did you used to like Lee Child's Jack Reacher back when the writing was as spare as the character's belongings? If you love works by masters of few words, try Murder on the Red River by Marcie R. Rendon. This is the first book in a mystery series featuring a young Chippewa woman, Cash Blackbear, who grew up in a series of foster homes that had more to do with exploiting the labor of Native children than they did with caring for them. There's no twistiness to the mysteries, only straightforward human greed and stupidity, but Cash Blackbear, as laconic as Rendon's own writing, is a central character at least as gripping as Jack Reacher.
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The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa
This book tells the spell-binding story of a decadent, fading aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of revolution and democracy. The author, who was the last in a line of Sicilian princes, wrote the novel in the 1950's, inspired by the decline of his own family. The book is in the fiction section and the DVD is with Foreign Films.
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Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the 1960s and despite the fact that she is a scientist, her peers are very unscientific when it comes to equality. The only good thing to happen to her on the road to professional fulfillment is a run-in with her super-star colleague Calvin Evans (well, she stole his beakers.) The only man who ever treated her-and her ideas-as equal, Calvin is already a legend and Nobel nominee. He's also awkward, kind and tenacious. Theirs is true chemistry. But as events are never as predictable as chemical reactions, three years later Elizabeth Zott is an unwed, single mother (did we mention it's the early 60s??) and the star of America's most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth's singular approach to cooking ('take one pint of H2O and add a pinch of sodium chloride') and independent example are proving revolutionary. Because Elizabeth isn't just teaching women how to cook, she's teaching them how to change the status quo. Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.
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The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
In this gorgeous debut novel, love becomes a force that can shatter space and time. Spanning a thousand years, this sweeping novel takes the reader from the drowned cities of Old Earth to the vast reaches of Umbai corporate space but always anchors itself in human connection. Even characters whose lives are glimpsed only in passing, are fully realized and achingly alive. This powerful, suspenseful story asks us to consider what we’d sacrifice for progress—or for the ones we love.
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How to Win at Travel by Brian Kelly
Kelly shares his greatest tips and strategies to experience the world in ways you never thought possible. This comprehensive guide is a road map with all of the knowledge and tools you need to become an expert traveler. Whether you're a young adult traveling solo, a road warrior business traveler, a growing family looking for new experiences, or a retiree ready to explore the world, reach for this guide to plan an unforgettable trip. Easy to read, informative, and inspirational, How to Win at Travel is the definitive travel guide for your next adventure, no matter how big or small.
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World Travel by Anthony Bourdain
A guide to some of the world's most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain.
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