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BLOOMFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY
NEWSLETTER
October 19 - 24, 2026
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Booksellers' Cellar October Specials:
Cookbooks + Mysteries: Buy One, Get One Free
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Prosser Library
1 Tunxis Ave
860-243-9721
Mon: 10 am-5 pm
Tue-Thu: 10 am-8 pm
Fri: 10 am-5 pm
Sat: 10 am-2 pm
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McMahon Wintonbury Library
1015 Blue Hills Ave
860-242-0041
Mon, Wed, Thu: 10 am-8 pm
Tue: 10 am-5 pm
Fri: 10 am-5 pm
Sat: 10 am-2 pm
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Public Service Announcement: All Library Parking Areas Open!
The McMahon Wintonbury Library parking lot is now open. Landscaping and other site work will continue throughout the fall, which may impact some parking spaces. Thank you to the Blue Hills Fire Department for their generosity and partnership throughout this process. For the shortest distance between library services and parking, accessible spaces are located directly outside the parking lot entrance at McMahon Wintonbury Library.
The Prosser Library parking garage is open. Handicap-accessible parking is available in the following locations:
-in front of Prosser Library along Tunxis Avenue
-in designated spaces in the parking lot at the base of the bridge
-in the parking garage
Please note that solar panel installation is underway. Equipment associated with this project may be visible on-site near the parking garage. Thank you for your patience and understanding as these improvements continue. We appreciate your cooperation!
| | Celebrate National Friends of Libraries Week | | |
This week, we’re joining libraries across the country in celebrating National Friends of Libraries Week (October 18–24, 2026), a time to honor and thank our incredible Friends of the Library for all they do.
Our Friends group plays a vital role in supporting our programs, enhancing our collections, and advocating for library services in the community. Their dedication and generosity make a lasting impact every day. Purchases of gently used books at the Booksellers' Annex at McMahon Wintonbury and the Booksellers’ Cellar at Prosser support library programs like our Summer Reading Program, helping us offer activities and events for children, teens, and adults all summer long.
Please join us in expressing heartfelt appreciation to our Friends for their unwavering commitment and countless contributions. We couldn’t do it without you!
| | | Online Resource Highlight | | What goes into a credit score? Join us at Credit 101 to learn: how to build credit, how to improve your score, why FICO scores and credit scores are different, and how the upcoming changes in the scores will impact everyone. Bring your questions! For Teens and Adults. | | | Staff will share information about the YWCA Hartford Region’s community programs and resources, focusing on civic engagement and voter participation. They will also include information about upcoming voter registration and election-related efforts, as well as Changemaker Academy workshops and opportunities for community members to get involved and share their input on issues that matter to them. Bring your questions! | | | Teens are supported in learning the roles of communication, respect, and personal choice in building healthy relationships. They explore what consent and boundaries look like in everyday interactions, practice identifying and expressing personal limits, and build skills to recognize and respect the boundaries of others while learning how to access support when needed. For ages 12 to 19. | | | If you’re struggling with a difficult or destructive manager, you’re not alone. Join Cathy Alfandre, author of Breaking Free from a Malignant Manager: Strategies to Reclaim Your Confidence & Career, for a discussion of this pervasive problem and practical strategies to survive and thrive again. Cathy Alfandre is a certified career coach and resume writer who serves as a practical and collaborative partner to those seeking greater fulfillment in their work. For Adults. | | | Get Out (2017) is an award-winning psychological horror film widely considered one of the greatest of the century. Rose invites her boyfriend Chris to a weekend getaway with her parents. At first, Chris reads the family's behavior as attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries leads him to a truth that he never could have imagined. Rated R. Runtime: 1h 44m. For Adults. | | | |
Who is an author? In this interactive program, Dana Meachen Rau, author of picture books, early readers, and nonfiction books, including titles in the "Who Was/Is?" series, will talk with kids about how writers work, how to find the heart of a story, and how writing can teach us about the world, others, and ourselves. Dana will have signed books available for purchase.
Best for ages 6 to 11, but all are welcome.
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Storytime @ Prosser
Monday, October 19 at 10:30AM
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Meditation (Virtual)
Wednesday, October 21 at 1:30PM
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Teen Gaming @ Prosser
Friday, October 23 from 2:30-4:30PM
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The People's Painter:
How Ben Shahn Fought For Justice with Art
by Cynthia Levinson
Children's Nonfiction
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Art Club: Dare to Create!
by Rashad Doucet
Middle Grade Fiction
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Poems to See By
by Julian Peters
Adult Nonfiction
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I'm Not Your Muse
by Lori Zimmer
Adult Nonfiction
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McMahon Wintonbury
1015 Blue Hills Ave.
Mon, Wed, Thu 10 am-8 pm
Tue 10 am-5 pm
Fri 10 am-5 pm
Sat 10 am-2 pm
860-242-0041
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Prosser
1 Tunxis Ave.
Mon 10 am-5 pm
Tue, Wed, Thu 10 am-8 pm
Fri 10 am-5 pm
Sat 10 am-2 pm
860-243-9721
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