Wilton Reads 2024 culminates with Wilton Library's author talk event featuring Cristina Henriquez, acclaimed author of The Great Divide. The Great Divide is a fascinating historical novel about the Panama Canal construction, one of the greatest historical engineering feats. It importantly explores laborers, locals, activists, doctors, scientists, and others interwoven stories. They are clearly the […]
Professional book discussion leader Susan Boyar discusses Trespasses by Louise Kennedy this month on Zoom. Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, Trespasses is a shattering debut novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and unsanctioned love. “Trespasses may be a novel built along conventional lines, but it thrums throughout with the […]
Join Wilton Library online when Janet Krauss will lead a discussion of a selection of poems by John Lee Clark. Those registered will receive links to the poems and discussion questions in advance of the program. Lee Clark brings awareness to what it's like to "see" the world through his gift as a DeafBlind poet. […]
The New Yorker hails From Day to Day, the World War II concentration camp diary, as “among the most compelling documents to come out of the war,”. Secretly written by Odd Nansen, a Norwegian, it is one of only a handful ever translated into English. Nansen, arrested in January 1942, was held captive in various Nazi […]
Join Wilton Library on Tuesday, June 4, at 7 p.m. for an Author Talk with Anna Francese Gass. She discusses her new cookbook, Italian Snacking: Sweet and Savory Recipes for Every Hour of the Day. Chef, author and culinary influencer, Gass invites food lovers and home cooks on a delectable journey through the heart of Italy. […]
Join Wilton Library on Monday, June 10 at 7 p.m. for an Author Talk with Lisa Barr about her new historical saga The Goddess of Warsaw. In a riveting tale spanning six decades, readers explore Warsaw to Hollywood following a legendary screen actress with a dark secret about her Warsaw Ghetto experience. It's an enthralling […]
Professional book discussion leader Susan Boyar discusses North Woods by Daniel Mason this month at Wilton Library. Exploring the many ways people are connected to the environment and to one another across time, language and space, this sweeping collection of stories about a single house in the woods of New England is told through the […]
Join Wilton Library for an Author Talk program with Samantha Greene Woodruff in conversation with fellow author Jacqueline Friedland about Woodruff's latest novel, The Trade Off. Inspired by the true story of a pioneering investment legend, The Trade Off is a powerful novel about identity, sacrifice, family loyalties, and the complex morality of money. In this […]
Please join Wilton Library on Thursday, Feb. 6, at 7 p.m. when the library along with SPED*NET will present an author talk with Jill Mays on her new book Nurturing Nature: A Guide to Gardening for Special Needs. While the guide is geared specifically toward individuals with special needs, it has much to offer gardening groups […]
Join Wilton Library on Friday evening, Apr. 25, for a special author talk program with Wilton's First Selectman Toni Boucher as we celebrate the publication of her first book, The Husky Effect: How UConn is Creating the Entrepreneurs of the Future, a deeply personal story of entrepreneurship and ingenuity as well as a thoughtful exploration of the spirit […]
