All Booked Up

Windsor Library's Newsletter for Readers

November 2023

When the weather outside is frightful, there’s nothing better than curling up with a hot drink and a good book. Kick the winter blues by signing up for the Third Annual Adult Winter Reading Program. Read books. Write reviews. Earn prizes. Starting December 21, you can stop by either the Main Library or Wilson Branch to sign up and receive one free drink at The Bean @226 on us! To learn more visit windsorlibrary.com. Program ends March 15. 

"Children are not meant to bear the woes of this life. . . . It breaks them. They will spend their adult lives doing everything in their power to never feel the weight of the world again."

The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem

Coming to a bookshelf near you!

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Book Club Corner

Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi

Kabul, 1978. The daughter of a prominent family, Sitara Zamani, lives a privileged life in Afghanistan's thriving cosmopolitan capital. But the ten-year-old's world is shattered when communists stage a coup, assassinating the president and Sitara's entire family. Only she survives. New York, 2008. Forty years after that fatal night in Kabul, Aryana's world is rocked again when an elderly patient appears in her examination room, a man she never expected to see again. It is Shair, the soldier who saved her, yet may have murdered her entire family. Seeing him awakens Aryana's fury and desire for answers.

While You're Waiting

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

Want to read Richard Osman's latest Thursday Murder Club entree (the Last Devil to Die) but still waiting. Why not check out Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn. You won't be disappointed.

Spotlight: Holiday Favorites

The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer

When her publisher insists that she write a Hanukkah romance, Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt, a Jewish woman with a secret career as a Christmas romance novelist, unexpectedly finds inspiration when she encounters a childhood aquaintance at the Matzah Ball, a Jewish music celebration on the last night of Hanukkah.

Skipping Christmas by John Grisham

Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded shops, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That's just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they'll skip the holiday altogether. But, as this weary couple is about to discover, skipping Christmas brings enormous consequences - and isn't half as easy as they'd imagined.

The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams

Working at the local library, Aleisha reads every book on a secret list she found, which transports her from the painful realities she's facing at home, and decides to pass the list on to a lonely widower desperate to connect with his bookworm granddaughter.