28 Summers

By the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Summer of ’69: Their secret love affair has lasted for decades — but this could be the summer that changes everything.

When Mallory Blessing’s son, Link, receives deathbed instruc...

Alpha Night

New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh returns to her breathtaking Psy-Changeling Trinity series with a mating that shouldn’t exist...Alpha wolf Selenka Durev’s devotion to her pack is equaled only by her anger at anyone who wo...

Always the Last to Know

Sometimes you have to break a family to fix it.From New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins, a new novel examining a family at the breaking point in all its messy, difficult, wonderful complexity.The Frosts are a typical Americ...

Daddy's Girls

In Danielle Steel’s riveting novel, three women raised by their father on a sprawling California ranch now confront difficult truths about their past.Decades ago, after the death of his wife, Texas ranch hand JT Tucker took his three small daugh...

Dance Away with Me

At long last, the legendary New York Times bestselling author returns with a heartfelt novel of womanhood, a wild heart, and the healing power of love.Run, run, as fast as you can!

When life throws her one setback too many, midwife and young widow Tess Har...

Family for Beginners

Bestselling author Sarah Morgan returns with a life-affirming exploration of love, loss, and how families come in all shapes and sizes...New York florist Flora Donovan is living the dream, but her bubbly optimism hides a secret. She’s lonely. Or...

Hush

Top cop. Devoted sister. Now Inmate 3329. But prison bars won’t stop Harriet Blue from seeking justice for the murder of her brother.

Prison is a dangerous place for a former cop - as Harriet Blue is learning on a daily basis.

So, following a figh...

Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters

The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker returns to her most famous heroine, Mary Todd Lincoln, in this compelling story of love, loss, and sisterhood rich with history and suspense.In May 1875, Elizabeth Todd Edwards r...

The Persuasion

When Eve Duncan’s daughter, Jane MacGuire, becomes a madman’s target, Jane must team up with longtime love interest Seth Caleb in this suspense novel from the #1 bestselling author of Smokescreen.

Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and ex-Nav...

Searching for Sylvie Lee

A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women—two sisters and their mother—in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family...

Stop Doing That Sh*t

Erin Falconer, editor in chief and co-owner of the highly respected self-improvement site Pick the Brain (with over 1.8 million monthly page views), shows overscheduled, overwhelmed women how to do les...

The Circus

The gentle, off-beat narrator of The Circus is perfectly content with his quiet life. By day he works in a bakery, and by night he obsessively organizes and reorganizes his record collection: it’s all just the way he likes it. ...

The Fight to Flourish

How do you live a full life? Perhaps the better question is, how do you really live when life throws you sucker punches, when you face obstacles that seem to snuff out your faith, when yo...

The German Heiress

For readers of The Alice Network and The Lost Girls of Paris, an immersive, heart-pounding debut about a German heiress on the run in post-World War II Germany.Clara Falkenberg, once Germany’s most eligible and lauded heiress, earned the nicknam...

The Guest List

A wedding celebration turns dark and deadly in this deliciously wicked and atmospheric thriller reminiscent of Agatha Christie from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hunting Party.The bride – The plus one – The best man &...

The Lies that Bind

In the irresistible new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted and Something Borrowed, a young woman falls hard for an impossibly perfect man before he disappears without a trace . . .It’s 2 A...

The Little Bookshop on the Seine

It’s The Holiday on the Champs-ƒlysées in a great big love letter to Paris, charming old bookstores and happily-ever-afters!When bookshop owner Sarah Smith is offered the opportunity for a job exchange with ...

The Summer Deal

Brynn Turner desperately wishes she had it together, but her personal life is like a ping-pong match that’s left her scared and hurt after so many attempts to get it right. In search of a place to lick her wounds and get a fresh start, she heads...

The Summer House

Once a luxurious southern getaway on a rustic lake, then reduced to a dilapidated crash pad, the Summer House is now the grisly scene of a nighttime mass murder. Eyewitnesses point to four Army Rangers — known as the Night Ninjas — rec...

The Topeka School

Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of ’97. His mother, Jane, is a famous feminist author; his father, Jonathan, is an expert at getting "lost boys" to open up. They both work at a psychiatric clinic that has attracted...

Theft by Finding

David Sedaris tells all in a book that is, literally, a lifetime in the making.

For nearly four decades, David Sedaris has faithfully kept a diary in which he records his thoughts and observations on the odd and funny events he witnesses. Anyone who has at...

Welcome to Serenity

Sweet Magnolias is now a Netflix original series!Maddie Townsend might live in a town called Serenity, but there’s been nothing calm or peaceful about her life since her marriage broke up. This stay-at-home mom has no job skills, an out-of-contr...

2020 Summer Reading

Summer Programs for Children and Teens

Zumba

Join Ms. Lauren for a virtual high-energy aerobics class! ZUMBA® is a dance fitness program inspired by Latin dances. ZUMBA® classes are designed to incorporate leadership, respect, teamwork, confidence, coordination and cultural awareness...

Coding Tuesdays

Students will learn how to code with Scratch using a computer science program called CS First. Scratch is a free block-based computer programming language developed by MIT which can be used to create interactive stories, games and animations. This online ...

3D Design for Teens

3D Design For Teens Via Zoom. Learn to design 3D objects in Tinkercad with Norwalk Public Library. This 3D Design class is scheduled to take place on Thursdays from 5 pm -6 pm. It will be held live on the Zoom platform. Prior registration is required to j...

'Round the House Rhymes and Songs

Follow @NorwalkLibCT on Instagram for Rhymes and Songs with Evelyn!

Sofa Storytimes

Every Wednesday at 2pm on Instagram Live! (and available in Stories for the next 24 hours).

Although the Library is still closed to the public, our Book Drops at both the main library

Nonfiction Chat with librarians Susannah Violino and Tina Kramer on Wednesday,  July 8, at 3 p.m.

Not Your Usual Book Club will meet on Zoom Thursday, July 16, at 3 p.m.

From the internationally bestselling author of Somewhere in France comes an enthralling historical novel about one of the most famous wedding dresses of the twentieth century—Queen Elizabeth’s wedding gown—and the fascinating...

We Are Called To Be A Movement

We Are Called To Be A Movement 

by William Barber

It’s time for everyone who cares about the state of our nation to heed the call and join forces to redeem the soul of America.It’s time to come together and renounce the politics...

Know Your Price

Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities 

by Andre M. Perry

The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities has had very real, far-reaching, and negative economic and social effects. An enduri...

Revive Us Again

Revive Us Again: Vision and Action in Moral Organizing

by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II  (Author), Rev. Dr. Rick Lowery  (Author), Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis

A collection of sermons and speeches that lay out a groundbreaking vision for interse...

They Can't Kill Us All

They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement

by Wesley Lowery

A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Fred...

Stamped from the Beginning

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

by Ibram X. Kendi

The National Book Award-winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.

Some Americans insist that we’r...

The Hate U Give

The Hate U Give

By Angie Thomas

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal...

The New Jim Crow

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

By Michelle Alexander 

Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book...

How to Be an Antiracist

How to Be an Antiracist

by Ibram X. Kendi 

Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves ...

White Rage

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

by Carol Anderson

As Ferguson, Missouri erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as “black rage,...

Resist

Resist: 35 profiles of ordinary people who rose up against tyranny and injustice

by Veronica Chambers

You may only be one person, but you have the power to change the world.

Before they were activists, they were just like you and me. From Frederick Douglass ...

The Inner Work of Racial Justice

The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness

by Rhonda Magee

In a society where unconscious bias, microaggressions, institutionalized racism, and systemic injustices are so deeply ingrained, healin...

Teaching Race

Teaching Race: How to Help Students Unmask and Challenge Racism

 by Stephen D. Brookfield

A real-world how-to manual for talking about race in the classroom

Educators and activists frequently call for the need to address the lingering presence of ra...

Understanding and Dismantling Racism

Understanding and Dismantling Racism: The Twenty-First Century Challenge to White America

by Joseph Barndt 

More than 15 years have passed since Joe Barndt wrote his influential and widely acclaimed Dismantling Racism (1991, Augsburg Books). He has...

Private Racism

Private Racism

by Sonu Bedi

Usually, when we discuss racial injustice, we discuss racism in our public or political life. This means that we often focus on how the state discriminates on the basis of race in its application and enforcement of laws and polic...

Racism and Media

Racism and Media

by Gavan Titley

Digital media have radically altered understandings of racism so that an issue that has too often been assumed to belong to the past has been thrust into contemporary mainstream debates, news, and popular culture. In light o...

They Don't Teach This

They Don’t Teach This

by Eniola Aluko 

Discover this powerful memoir from one of Britain’s most inspiring women

First-class honors law degree. 102 appearances for England women’s national football team. First female pun...

What Do I Do When People I Know Are Racist?

What Do I Do When People I Know Are Racist? (Help Me Understand)

by Caitie McAneney

In a time of increasing political and social tensions, students are sure to find themselves in complicated ethical situations. What happens if someone they know and love is ...

Racial Stasis

Racial Stasis: The Millennial Generation and the Stagnation of Racial Attitudes in American Politics 

by Christopher D. DeSante and Candis Watts Smith 

Racial progress in the United States has hit a wall, and the rise of white nat...

On The Come Up

On the Come Up 

by Angie Thomas 

Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri’s...

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

by Christopher Paul Curtis

Enter the hilarious world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There’s Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron, who’s thirt...

Drita, My Homegirl

Drita, My Homegirl

by Jenny Lombard

A poignant story about the difficulties of leaving everything behind and the friendships that help you get through it.

Fleeing war-torn Kosovo, ten-year-old Drita and her family move to America with the dream of living a t...

I, Too, Am America

I, Too, Am America

by Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes was a courageous voice of his time, and his authentic call for equality still rings true today. Beautiful paintings from Barack Obama illustrator Bryan Collier accompany and reinvent the celebrated lines...

Black Klansman

Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime

by Ron Stallworth

When detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs Police Department, comes across a classified ad in the local paper a...

Hidden Figures

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

by Margot Lee Shetterly 

Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female ...

Where Is The Love?

Artist: The Black Eyed Peas

Album: Elephunk

Released: 2003

Genre: Pop

Watch the music video on YouTube.

Available on Hoopla,  Amazon Music, Google Play, Apple Music, iHeart Radio, and Spotify.

Freedom

Artist: Beyoncé

Featured artist: Kendrick Lamar

Movie: Beyoncé: Lemonade

Released: 2016

Genre: Pop

Watch the music video on YouTube.

Available for streaming on Amazon Music, Google Play, Apple Music, iHea...

Everyday People

Artists: Sly Stone, Ann Wilson

Album: I’m Back! Family & Friends

Released: 1969

Genre: Funk

Watch the music video on YouTube.

Available for streaming on Amazon Music, Google Play, Apple Music, and iHeart Radio.

Black or White

Artist: Michael Jackson

Movie: Michael Jackson’s This Is It

Album: Dangerous 

Released: 1991

Genre: Pop

Watch the music video on YouTube.

Available for streaming on Amazon Music, Google Play, Apple Music, iH...

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Certified IRS volunteers help the public with the process.

Those who need assistance will first have to fill out an online form and upload the required documents before submitting. 

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