After a serious injury, Eleanor Ritter’s mother, Rose, begins divulging secrets she has held for fifty years about her tumultuous childhood in Poland. Eleanor becomes obsessed with her mother’s past, only growing stronger when she meets her son’s soccer teammate’s Catholic family from Poland. The quest for answers to questions Read more [...]

Author Eric D. Lehman will lead a lively lecture about the remarkable story of “Connecticut Town Greens: History of the State’s Common Centers”. Town Greens are thought of as relics of another time, but as residents of Connecticut they are part of our lives. In fact, over 170 public spaces Read more [...]

Have you ever wanted to write a picture book? Join Author Heidi E. Y. Stemple for this 4-week, entry level class that will take you step by step from an idea to a manuscript. Authors and author/illustrators are welcome. Are you a published author already? This will work as a Read more [...]

Stop thinking about it and start writing that novel! Spend one Saturday with us at the Storyteller’s Cottage in Simsbury, and learn from three talented local authors how to get your novel organized, edited, and on its way to publication. It’s one-stop shopping! Meet lots of other local writers as Read more [...]

Dreidel Day is a 9 word board book for babies and toddlers. When Cat spins 1 dreidel on the first day of Chanukah, she embarks on an amusing 8 days adventure. Cat and Dreidels interact by spinning, bouncing, tumbling, hopping, balancing, hiding, resting and finally, lighting the menorah with another Read more [...]

Sunday Brunch at the Avon Library! “A perfect omelet is not a matter of reading a recipe but a way of doing, a way of cooking.”        —John E. Finn John E. Finn, author of The Perfect Omelet: Essential Recipes for the Home Cook, will be at the Avon Free Public Read more [...]

Avon Free Public Library International Book Discussion Series: South Africa Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, 2:00 PM: The Fever Tree by Jennifer McVeigh Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, 2:00 PM: Philida: a Novel by Andre Brink Monday, Jan. 7, 2019, 2:00 PM: Hum If You Don’t Know the Words by Bianca Marais Read more [...]

Join us for another fabulous author event and book signing with Adriana Trigiani! Her new book is Tony’s Wife. Love, ambition, and the consequences of both lie at the heart of this spellbinding epic of two working-class kids who become a successful singing act during the big band era of Read more [...]

EILEEN ALBRIZIO is a former ABC and NPR radio news host and journalist. During her tenure, she earned numerous first-prize honors for her news and features from the Associated Press and the Society of Professional Journalists. She’s a graduate of the CT School of Broadcasting and has earned a BFA Read more [...]

Avon Free Public Library International Book Discussion Series: South Africa Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, 2:00 PM: The Fever Tree by Jennifer McVeigh Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, 2:00 PM: Philida: a Novel by Andre Brink Monday, Jan. 7, 2019, 2:00 PM: Hum If You Don’t Know the Words by Bianca Marais Read more [...]