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Monday 9-5
Tuesday 9-5
Wednesday 9-8
Thursday 9-5
Friday 9-5
Saturday 9-12
Sunday 12-5
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“All of reading is really only finding ways to name ourselves, and, perhaps, to name the others around us so that they will no longer seem like strangers.”
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Annual Book and Plant Sale
Saturday, May 11 from 9am to 12 noon
Used books, including a large collection of vintage and vintage-looking books.
Plants donated by our members out front.
Donations of books, plants, DVDs, CDs etc gratefully accepted anytime during Library hours
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The Region 4 Backpack Program
Please help us help our students.
The Ivoryton Library will be collecting food in our entryway during the months of April and May.
Click on the link below for a list of requested items.
The Backpack Concept:
The Backpack Program provides students identified by school social workers at Essex Elementary, John Winthrop and Valley Regional High School with nutritious food when other resources are not available, such as on weekends or during school vacations. The food is delivered weekly to students and includes breakfasts, lunches, dinners, beverages and snacks.
Click here for the food list
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From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human history told through the archaeological discoveries of twelve shipwrecks across time.
The Viking warship of King Cnut the Great. Henry VIII's the Mary Rose. Captain John Franklin's doomed HMS Terror. The SS Gairsoppa, destroyed by a Nazi U-boat in the Atlantic during World War II.
Since we first set sail on the open sea, ships and their wrecks have been an inevitable part of human history. Archaeologists have made spectacular discoveries excavating these sunken ships, their protective underwater cocoon keeping evidence of past civilizations preserved. Now, for the first time, world renowned maritime archeologist David Gibbins ties together the stories of some of the most significant shipwrecks in time to form a single overarching narrative of world history.
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No stranger to loss – young siblings, a parent, a home country – Alexandra Fuller is nonetheless leveled when, suddenly and incomprehensibly – her son Fi, at 21 years old, dies in his sleep. She is painfully aware that she cannot succumb and abandon her two surviving daughters as her mother before her had done. From the mountains of Wyoming to a grief sanctuary in New Mexico to a silent meditation retreat in Alberta, Canada, Alexandra journeys the spine of the Rocky Mountains in an attempt to find how to grieve herself whole. There is no answer, and there are countless answers – in poetry, in rituals and routines, in nature and in the indigenous wisdom she absorbed as a child in Zimbabwe.
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Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business and marriage. On top of that, her beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, leaving Sara bereft with grief. But Aunt Rosie’s death also opens an escape from her life and a window into the past by way of a plane ticket to Sicily, a deed to a possibly valuable plot of land, and a bombshell family secret. Rosie believes Sara’s great-grandmother Serafina, the family matriarch who was left behind while her husband worked in America, didn’t die of illness as family lore has it . . . she was murdered.
Thus begins a twist-filled adventure that takes Sara all over the picturesque Italian countryside as she races to solve a mystery and learn the story of Serafina—a feisty and headstrong young woman in the early 1900s thrust into motherhood in her teens, who fought for a better life not just for herself but for all the women of her small village.
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Try before you buy?
Borrow Taylor Swift's new album (Double album - Surprise!)
as well as albums from her other eras
Click here for the collection
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Remember to check Hoopla's changing list of Bonus Borrows
available during the last 7 days of each month!
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"I wouldn't be a songwriter if it wasn't for books that I loved as a kid. I think that when you can escape into a book it trains your imagination to think big and to think that more can exist than what you see."
Taylor Swift
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Weekly Programs:
Storytime in the Garden
Wednesdays @ 9:30
Mommy & Me, Music & Movement
(Daddies & grandparents welcome, too!)
Fridays @ 9:30
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Family Day Celebration
during Storytime
Wednesday, May 15 @ 9:30
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Garden Wizards begin this month!
This is an after school program for students grades k and up who enjoy learning about our environment, caring for gardens and wildlife. We are partnering with local organizations and high school students.
Registration is requested as each week times may vary.
Contact Elizabeth Bartlett at 860-767-1252 for additional information and to register
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May 21
3:30 pm
by Henry David Thoreau
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May 17
4:00pm
by Ruth Ware
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"I do not remember 99 percent of what I read, but if the 1 percent of each book or article I do remember is a life-changing insight, then I don’t begrudge the 99 percent."
-- John Piper
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