HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE AND CRAFT SALE
Saturday, December 2rd
9:30 am - 3 pm
continues 4pm - 7pm during the Town's Hometown Holiday celebration.
There will also be crafts for kids during the Hometown celebration.
Handmade Crafts and Gifts
Teacup Auction
Book Cart Sale
Sponsored by the Harwinton Library Friends
The sale will continue through December 21st during regular library hours.
Small Works Art Exhibit
continues thru December 30th.
Featuring all local artists. Please support them and your library!
All art pieces are $100 (30% goes to the library)
PROGRAMS IN DECEMBER
Special Christmas Storytimes
Tuesdays and Thursdays @ 10 am
Come and join Mrs. Molly who has put together two very special Christmas Storytimes. You can choose between the Tuesday sessions or the Thursday sessions!
Tuesdays Dec. 12th + 19th
Ages 0 – 2
Thursdays Dec. 14th + 21st
Ages 3 – 6
No need to register. These are drop – in Storytimes.
Afternoon Book Discussion
Thursday, December 14th @ 2 pm
This month’s selection is The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn’t thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she’d claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse where she once lived, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy. A groundbreaking work as delicate as a butterfly’s wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. Copies are available to borrow.
Mrs. Claus Storytime
Saturday, December 16th @ 10 am
Register here
Please register for this very special storytime with Mrs. Claus. She will read the Night Before Christmas then we will all make a craft or two! Each kid will get their chance to get a picture and visit with Mrs. Claus and they will all receive an individualized gift.
This is a very special program with a limited amount of space.
It’s for all children.
Hungry Readers/Teen Time
Saturday, December 16th @ 1 pm
For this combined teen time and hungry readers, you can choose to relax, color, and puzzle, or make your own mini Christmas wreath for your room or do both!
Ages 11+. No need to register.
Evening Book Discussion
Monday, December 18th @ 6 pm
This month’s selection is Foster by Claire Keegan. A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when she will return home. In the strangers’ house, she finds a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to blossom in their care. And then a secret is revealed and suddenly, she realizes how fragile her idyll is.
Winner of the Davy Byrnes Memorial Prize, Foster is now published in a revised and expanded version. Beautiful, sad and eerie, it is a story of astonishing emotional depth, showcasing Claire Keegan’s great accomplishment and talent. (Amazon) Copies are available to borrow.
Kids Winter Craft Day
Thursday, December 28th
Come any time we are open on Thursday (9:30-5) and enjoy some winter crafts. There will be several to choose from in our activity room!
Family Film
Friday, December 29th @ 1 pm
Come see this family movie on our big screen. Feel free to bring snacks and comfy pillows.
Get out of the house during the week of Christmas!
Explore your Ancestry
Harwinton's Town Historian Susan Fenn McClen will visit our library to offer her expert help to those interested in researching their genealogy! Call to schedule your session.
Mindful Meditation
Wednesdays @ 3:30
Please join our afternoon meditation group at the library. All are welcome! Register online or contact: harwintonlibraryfriends@gmail.com
NEW TITLES
Have you checked out our newest ADULT Non-Fiction?
The Art of Custom Sneakers: How to Create One-of-a-Kind Kicks by Xavier Crews
Behind the Shoulder Pads: Tales I Tell My Friends by Joan Collins
Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets by Jeff Horwitz
The Christmas Book by David Trigg
Gatherings: Casual-Fancy Meals to Share by America’s Test Kitchen
Heirloom Rooms: Soulful Stories of Home by Erin Napier
House Love: a Joyful Guide to Cleaning, Organizing, and Loving the Home You’re In by Patric Richardson
I Must Be Dreaming by Roz Chast
The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook by Kristina McGrath
Land Art: Creating Artworks In and With the Landscape by James Brunt
The Last Outlaws: the Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang by Tom Clavin
The Lost Tomb: and Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder by Douglas Preston
My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel and Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer
Space Shuttle Stories: Firsthand Astronaut Accounts From All 135 Missions by Tom Jones
Children's Titles
The Big Book of Nature Art by Yuval Zommer
Glitter Everywhere! By Chris Barton
The Umbrella by Beth Ferry
Ellie Engle Saves Herself by Leah Johnson
The Golden Frog Games by Claribel Ortega
Young Adult Titles
A Curse for True Love by Stephanie Garber
Girls Like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko
Ander & Santi Were Here by Jonny Garza Villa
NEW DVDS
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
A Haunting in Venice
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
PAW Patrol: the Mighty Movie
NEW DOWNLOADABLES
eBooks
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Dirty Thirty by Janet Evanovich
eAudiobooks
Bright Lights, Big Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
None of This is True by Lisa Jewell
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
LIBRARY HOURS & PHONE
Monday & Wednesday, 12:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Tuesday & Thursday & Friday 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Saturday 9:30 am - 3 pm
CLOSED: December 22-25 for Christmas
PHONE 860-485-9113
