Professional book discussion leader Susan Boyar discusses Booker Prize Winner Last Orders by Graham Swift this month at Wilton Library. Four men gather in a London pub. They have taken […]
Professional book discussion leader Susan Boyar discusses Hell of a Book by Jason Mott on Zoom this month. A work of fiction that goes to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon Black Americans, and America as a whole. Mott’s poetic, cinematic novel tackles what it means to live in […]
Professional book discussion leader Susan Boyar discusses Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy this month on Zoom. Hailed as a classic of speculative fiction, Piercy’s landmark novel […]
Professional book discussion leader Susan Boyar discusses the Wilton Reads selection The Great Divide by Cristina Henriquez this month at Wilton Library. The Great Divide is a fascinating historical novel about one of the greatest engineering feats in history, the Panama Canal. It explores the interwoven stories of laborers, locals, activists, doctors, scientists. It sheds […]
Professional book discussion leader Susan Boyar discusses the Wilton Reads selection The Great Divide by Cristina Henriquez this month at Wilton Library. The Great Divide is a fascinating historical novel about one of the greatest engineering feats in history, the Panama Canal. It explores the interwoven stories of laborers, locals, activists, doctors, scientists. It sheds […]
For Wilton Reads 2024, Wilton Library's teen pick is Silver People by Margarita Engle. Set during the building of the Panama Canal, this novel in verse follows two main characters and a collection of different fictional and historical voices. Join to discuss the book and create some poetry of your own! Registration is required as […]
Students in grades 3-6 can celebrate Wilton Reads by joining Wilton Library to discuss the graphic novel Invisible by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and Gabriela Epstein. Five Latinx kids who barely know each other get stuck cleaning the cafeteria in the mornings before school. To their surprise, they find themselves secretly working together to make a […]
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 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. […]
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 […]
