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All Booked Up
Windsor Library's Newsletter for Readers
September 2023
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Are you a book enthusiast? 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, October 2 from 7:00 to 8:30 PM. Registration Required. Free. 860-285-1918. Sponsored by the Windsor Library Association. | |
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"Brownsville . . . is a place where people cling to their dreams because they know for a fact that that's all they'll ever have. It is a place where children learn lessons they'll spend the rest of their lives trying to forget."
--Walter Mosley, Every Man a King
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Coming to a bookshelf near you!
(click on the cover to place your hold today)
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Push by Sapphire
The novel Push by Sapphire (2009) was made into the movie Precious, directed by Lee Daniels in 2010. An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girl's horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem inferno. For Precious Jones, 16 and pregnant with her father's child, miraculous hope appears and the world begins to open up for her when a courageous, determined teacher bullies, cajoles, and inspires her to learn to read, to define her own feelings and set them down in a diary. Mo’Nique, who played the mom, won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
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The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila
If you liked Harlem Shuffle, a crime novel set in mid-20th century Harlem by Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead, you might enjoy The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris. In Harris’ slyly brilliant debut also set in NYC, a young editorial assistant is thrilled when her glaringly White employer hires another Black woman—but it soon becomes clear there’s something sinister about the new girl, who isn’t what she seems. Both a biting social satire and a thriller!
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Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Before the Covenant of Water came Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese. A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel - an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. An unforgettable journey into one man’s remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others.
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On The Hustle by Adriana Herrera
Narrated by Lola James and Sean Crisden
Length: 10 hours
Fed up with the demands made by both her family and her icy boss, Alba Duarte leaves it all behind and moves to Dallas. But when her former boss shows up in Texas with a tempting job offer, how can she say no?
*Winner of an Audie Award*
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Spotlight: Historical Fiction | |
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The House GIrl by Tara Conklin
Two remarkable women, separated by more than a century, whose lives unexpectedly intertwine . . .
2004: Lina Sparrow is an ambitious young lawyer working on a historic class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the descendants of American slaves.
1852: Josephine is a seventeen-year-old house slave who tends to the mistress of a Virginia tobacco farm—an aspiring artist named Lu Anne Bell.
Conklin persuasively intertwines the stories of these two women separated by time and circumstances but united by a quest for justice.
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The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Osla puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Mab works the legendary codebreaking machines and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Beth's shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles, and she becomes one of the Park's few female cryptanalysts. 1947. As the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip whips post-war Britain into a fever, the three women are reunited by a mysterious encrypted letter-- the key to which lies buried in the long-ago betrayal that destroyed their friendship and left one of them confined to an asylum.
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West with giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It's 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to deliver Southern California's first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo. Part adventure, part historical saga, and part coming-of-age love story, West with Giraffes explores what it means to be changed by the grace of animals, the kindness of strangers, the passing of time, and a story told before it's too late.
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