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All Booked Up
Windsor Library's Newsletter for Readers
August 2021
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The library currently offers curbside service for all of your holds and checkouts. Call 860-285-1910 to schedule a pickup. |
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“In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”- Barack Obama from The Audacity of Hope |
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Coming to a bookshelf near you!
(click on the cover to place your hold today)
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In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even his own name. But he can sense the beating heart of the city, see its history, and feel its power. Every great city has a soul. Some are ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York? She's got six.
Narrated by Robin Miles
Length: 16 hours
2021 Best Female Narrator Audie Award Winner
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The 2020 Martin Scorsese movie The Irishman, starring Robert De Niro, is based on the book I Heard You Paint Houses. The first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran were, "I heard you paint houses." To paint a house is to kill a man. Sheeran learned to kill in the U.S. Army, where he saw an astonishing 411 days of active combat duty in Italy during World War II. After returning home he became a hustler and hit man, working for legendary crime boss Russell Bufalino. When Bufalino ordered Sheeran to kill Hoffa, he did the deed, knowing that if he had refused he would have been killed himself. Sheeran's story includes new information on other famous murders including those of Joey Gallo and JFK, and provides rare insight to a chapter in American history. The movie, an epic gangster drama is called "poignant, funny and profound".
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Did you know that Dune Road by Jane Green takes place in Connecticut? In a tiny beach community, the heroine is a single mom who works for a a famous and famously reclusive novelist. When she stumbles on a secret that the great man has kept hidden for years, she knows that there are plenty of women in town who would love to get their hands on it-including some who fancy the writer for themselves.
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These delightful books provide a perfect guide to first steps in learning social skills, manners and self-care for the littlest learners. With titles like Penguin Misses Mom, Little Monkey Calms Down, and Bear Says Thank You - there is a title and an animal for everyone. Toddlers love them because of the simple sentences and bright, bold illustrations. An excellent choice for parents who want to encourage emotional awareness in their children and manners.
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Spotlight on: Mystery Corner |
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In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. There's Red Ron, the infamous former socialist firebrand, still causing trouble; gentle Joyce, widowed, pining for another resident, but surely not as innocent as she seems; Ibrahim, a former therapist who understands the darker side of human nature; and Elizabeth? Well, no one is quite sure who she really is, but she's definitely not a woman to underestimate. When a local developer is found dead, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case. The friends might be septuagenarians, but they are cleverer than most. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late? A clever and very funny book.
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Not all of the best mystery books have to leave a heavy sense of dread at the bottom of your stomach, and The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is proof of that. The sleuth who saves the day in this novel is Flavia, an intuitive 11-year-old whose father is accused of murder. A stranger has ended up dead in the family’s yard, one who happened to have been seen arguing with Flavia’s dad days before. Determined that her stamp-loving father, who has been heart-broken since the death of his wife, would never kill anyone, Flavia tours the town to try and prove his innocence. Light-hearted as it may sound, this novel’s puzzle is incredibly well-crafted and its classical mystery style, reminiscent of the works of Agatha Christie and Josephine Tey, makes it easy to finish the volume in one sitting.
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When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home.
When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders--a black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman--have stirred up a hornet's nest of resentment. Darren must solve the crimes--and save himself in the process--before Lark's long-simmering racial fault lines erupt.
A rural noir suffused with the unique music, color, and nuance of East Texas, Bluebird, Bluebird is an exhilarating, timely novel about the collision of race and justice in America. (goodreads.com)
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