All Booked Up

Windsor Library's Newsletter for Readers

June 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, June 16 from 7:00 to 8:30 PM. Registration Required.

Coming to a bookshelf near you!

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No, But I Read the Book

White Bird by R. J. Palacio

White Bird is a teen/tween book by R.J. Palacio that became a movie. Struggling to fit in at his new school after being expelled for his treatment of Auggie Pullman, Julian (Bryce Cheisar) is visited by his grandmother (Helen Mirren) and is transformed by the compassionate and heroic story of her attempts to escape Nazi-occupied France during WWII. Available as a book, graphic novel or DVD.

Book Club Corner

Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley

Every day Iona Iverson, a stylish, opinionated, larger-than-life magazine advice columnist, rides the train to work with her dog, Lulu. Every day she sees the same people, whom she knows only by nickname: Impossibly-Pretty-Bookworm and Mr-Too-Good-to-Be-True. Of course, they never speak. Seasoned commuters never do. Then one morning, the man she calls Smart-But-Sexist-Manspreader chokes on a grape right in front of her. He’d have died were it not for the timely intervention of Sanjay, a nurse, who gives him the Heimlich maneuver. This single event starts a chain reaction, and an eclectic group of people discovers that talking to strangers can teach you quite a bit about the world around you—and even more about yourself.

Spotlight: Books About Books

The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi

Read by Sneha Mathan Length: 11 hours

Vivid and compelling in its portrait of one woman's struggle for fulfillment in a society pivoting between the traditional and the modern, The Henna Artist opens a door into a world that is at once lush and fascinating, stark and cruel. A bold, ambitious, beautifully written novel about India…and about class, identity, love and deceit. A Reese's Book Club pick. Available as a Hoopla Audiobook.

The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods

Read by Avena Mansergh-Wallace

Length: 12 hours

The Keeper of Stories meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets. "The thing about books,' she said 'is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of." On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found... For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books. And by unlocking the secrets of the shelves, they find themselves transported to a world of wonder...where nothing is as it seems.

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

Read by Trevor Noah

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

One of the comedy world's fastest-rising stars tells his wild coming of age story during the twilight of Apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.