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Liberti

The critically acclaimed and Whiting Award–winning author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman returns with an unforgettable story about the meaning of freedom.Coming of age as a free-born Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson w...

The Drowning Kind

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Invited and The Winter People comes a chilling new novel about a woman who returns to the old family home after her sister mysteriously drowns in its swimming p...

News of the World

In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women th...

A Distant Shore

She was a child caught in a riptide in the Caribbean Sea. He was a teenager from the East Coast on vacation with his family. He dove in to save her, and that single terrifying moment changed both their lives forever.Ten years later Jack Ryder is a daring ...

A Gambling Man

Aloysius Archer, the straight-talking World War II veteran fresh out of prison, returns in this riveting new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci. The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh st...

An Earl, the Girl and a Toddler

Masterminded by the ton's most clever countess, the secret society The Widow's Grace helps ill-treated widows regain their reputations, their families, and even find true love again--or perhaps for the very first time . . . Surv...

Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier

The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power--Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 ...

Broken (in the best possible way)

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy and Let's Pretend This Never Happened comes a deeply relatable book filled with humor and honesty about depression and anxiety.As Jenny Lawson&am...

Death on a Double Edge

Daniel Pitt's investigation into his colleague's murder leads him through London's teeming underbelly to the suspicious dealings of one of England's most influential shipbuilding magnates in a thrilling novel from&n...

Finding Ashley

In this blockbuster novel from Danielle Steel, two estranged sisters get the chance to connect again and right the wrongs of the past.Melissa Henderson is leading a quiet life. Once a bestselling author, she now pours all her energy into renovating a Vict...

Madam Speaker

The definitive biography of Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful woman in American political history, written by New York Times bestselling author and USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page. Featuring more than 150 exclusive in...

Northern Spy

The acclaimed author of Under the Harrow and A Double Life returns with her most riveting novel to date: the story of two sisters who become entangled with the IRAA producer at the BBC and mother to a new baby, Tessa is at work ...

Ocean Prey

Fan-favorite heroes Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers join forces on a deadly maritime case in the remarkable new novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author John Sandford.An off-duty Coast Guardsman is fishing with his family when he calls ...

Second First Impression

"Second First Impressions is the warmest, coziest, sweetest book of the year, an absolutely perfect blend of humor and heart. I want to live inside Sally Thorne's brain." —Emily Henry, New York Times bestselling of Be...

Sooley

In the summer of his seventeenth year, Sam­uel Sooleymon gets the chance of a lifetime: a trip to the United States with his South Sudanese teammates to play in a showcase basket­ball tournament. He has never been away from home, nor has h...

The Dictionary of Lost Words

In this remarkable debut based on actual events, as a team of male scholars compiles the first Oxford English Dictionary, one of their daughters decides to collect the “objectionable” words they omit.“A marvelous fiction about the power of language to ele...

The Son of Mr. Suleman

It's the summer of 2019, and Professor Pi Suleman is a Black man from Memphis with a lot to endure--not only as a Black man in Trump's America but in his hard-earned career as an adjunct professor. Pi is constantly forced to bite his ton...

Turn a Blind Eye

Turn a Blind Eye is the third installment in the gripping story of Detective Inspector William Warwick, by the master storyteller and #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles.Newly promoted to Detective Inspector, William Wa...

Whereabouts

Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. Lahiri's narrator, a woman questioning her place in the world, wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and t...

World travel : an irreverent guide

A guide to some of the world's most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the...

How Y'all Doing?

Viral sensation and Emmy Award-winner Leslie Jordan regales fans with entertaining stories about the odd, funny, and unforgettable events in his life in this unmissable essay collection that echoes his droll, irreverent voice.

When actor Leslie Jordan lear...

Children's May Printable Calendar

Teleidoscope Craft Bag

This craft is for children ages 3-14. The craft will be given out starting Saturday, May 8 through Sidewalk Service while supplies last! Craft can be picked up for immediate family members only. Sidewalk Service hours are Monday...

Mythical Creatures Drawing Workshop

Friday, 5/21, 7 pm. Learn to use basic shape construction and simple line techniques to create imaginative Mythical Creatures! No prior drawing experience needed in this follow-along program. Supplies needed are simple pencil, paper and eraser.&a...

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Circulation and other functions will be down throughout the morning.  Call us if you have any problems, we can help!  203-899-2780 ext.15106 or 203-899-2790 ext.15902.

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Click here for virtual tax filing.  "Note - One of the questions you will be asked is if you earn more than $66,000. Even if your income exceeds this amount do not check this box. We will prepare your ret...

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Holds may be placed from the library catalog, by phoning the library at 203-899-2780 ext. 15106, by emailing a request to nplrefdesk@gmail.com or by filling out the online request form.

If you require assistance, please reach out Monday through Saturday &a...

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• Central Kitchen 352 Main Ave 12 noon to 2 pm & 3:30 to 5:30pm&...

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Here's when your age group can register for the COVID vaccine in CT

The state of Connecticut is allowing vaccine providers with excess doses to begin booking COVID-19 vaccination appointments for residents aged 65 to 74 — and by Thursday, the governor says, all vaccine clinics will open to that age group...

Greater Norwalk Literacy Volunteers (GNLV)

Our mission is to teach adults to read, write, speak, and understand English...

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