When Deborah Kasdan’s sister returns from a gap year in Israel she seems to glow with health and beauty. Three years later she is diagnosed with schizophrenia. Roll Back the World is a heartbreaking story of love, grief, and guilt -- and a testament to the enduring bonds of siblings in the face of ineffective […]
Please join Wilton Library for a special Author Talk program as award-winning New York Times finance writer Rob Copeland talks about his brand new book The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend. Late last year, when the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund on the […]
Please join Wilton Library for a special Author Talk with Melissa Newman on Monday, Dec. 4 at 7 p.m., when she shares an extraordinary and deeply personal new look inside the private life of her parents Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward as presented in the recently published and lushly illustrated book, Head Over Heels: Joanne […]
Please join us for an Author Talk with Terence Hawkins, who will speak on January 11 from 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. about his first novel, The Rage of Achilles, first published in 2009 and republished in 2021. In The Rage of Achilles, Terence Hawkins recounts the "Iliad" as a novel and imagines a Trojan […]
The Greens at Cannondale will present an afternoon with our in-house artist, Howard L. Bonington, who will lecture on his book, Aviation on Cape Cod. Join us on Friday, Jan. 12 at 2 p.m. at the Greens at Cannondale Media Center. Following his lecture, there will be a meet and greet with the author, with […]
Home cooks looking for healthy comfort food, this one is for you! Darien Library and Wilton Library, along with Barrett Bookstore, team up to welcome social media sensation, Kat Ashmore, creator of Kat Can Cook, to talk about her new book, Big Bites: Wholesome, Comforting Recipes That Are Big on Flavor, Nourishment, and Fun. With […]
Join Wilton Library for a special Author Talk with Patrick Bringley. He shares his debut memoir, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me. This is an intimate look at The Met and its profound effect on Bringley's life while he grieved the death of his older brother. Caught up in […]
Join Wilton Library for an inspiring talk from Alison Jacobson. Sharing her inspirational story of overcoming struggles and tragedies, Jacobson empowers women to boldly break free of the self-imposed blocks that are preventing them from living their magnificent lives. At 57, Jacobson released her first book and completed the NYC Marathon, having never run in […]
Join the Wilton League of Women Voters, Wilton Library and the Wilton Historical Society for a community program featuring Alicia Cheng, who will speak about her recent book: This is What Democracy Looked Like: A Visual History of the Printed Ballot. Cheng's book, the first illustrated history of printed ballot design, illuminates the noble but […]
Join Wilton Library and the Wilton Coalition to Combat Antisemitism for an important talk, "Pittsburgh and Beyond: Antisemitism from the 2018 Synagogue Shooting to Today," by Mark Oppenheimer, on Monday, March 25 at 7 p.m. Oppenheimer is a NY Times columnist, Pulitzer grantee and the author of Squirrel Hill, the Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting […]
