Special Events/Announcements

Library Closed: New Year's Day

Monday, January 1

The Weston Public Library will be closed in observance of New Year's Day. We will reopen at 9am on Tuesday, January 2.  Check out the best of 2023 with selection from Hoopla, the Library's digital book, movie, and audiobook resource! Click here.

Have a happy and healthy New Year!

Library Closed: Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Monday, January 15

The Weston Public Library will be closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Interested in learning more about the life of the American Cicil Rights icon? Hoopla, the Library's digital book and movie resource, has a special collection dedicated to celebrating Dr. King in a variety of formats. Click here to check out a title today.

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

All CT Reads 2024 Virtual Author Launch

Friday, January 19 at 11:00am (Virtual)

All CT Reads is a year-long initiative to promote lifelong reading, learning, and connection that uses a rotating community committee structure to select one main book title and 3 shortlist book titles, each calendar year for three age groups: children (ages 8-12), teens (ages 13-18), and adults. We want a way to read together. We want continuous conversations across Connecticut. We want to offer avenues of participation for spaces big and small to talk about inclusivity, cultures and acceptance. Join us for this virtual discussion and Q&A with the authors Kelly Yang, Nick Brooks, and Daniel Black!

Click here to register.

Special Events for Parents

Navigating College Admissions Successfully in 2024

Wednesday, January 31 at 7:00pm via Zoom

This Zoom presentation will help families understand how the lingering effects from the pandemic have chnaged the college admissions landscape. Our presenters, Ron Feuchs and Jackie Tepper of Stand Out For College LLC, will discuss how it affects juniors, sophomores, and freshmen. Discussions will include:

- Current college admissions trends

- How the Supreme Court decision will impact the process and the increased importance on a student's ability to express their insights, experiences, and personal growth

- Importance of researching and visiting colleges

- The holistic admissions review process

- And more!

Click here to register.

Recurring Events

New Yorker Roundtable

Tuesdays, Jan. 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30 at 11:30am

Meetings are hybrid, in-person at the library and online via Zoom.

Join the Friends of the Library New Yorker Group to discuss articles from the current issue on politics, current events, literature, and more. The New Yorker is available online with your Weston Public Library card at https://researchitct.org/popularmagazinespublic/.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Weston Public Library.

Book Discussions

Friday, January 5, 11:00am

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Thursday, January 11, 10:30am

Howards End by EM Forster

To reserve a copy of the book, please email [email protected] If you would like to join either group virtually, please email [email protected] for the Zoom link.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Weston Public Library.

Cookbook Club
Monday, January 8 at 12pm

The Weston Public Library Cookbook Club is an opportunity for those who love cooking to share favorite recipes and try new recipes with neighbors and friends! Make your favorite dish to share and bring the recipe! This month's theme: Soups.

Looking for favorite recipes from previous meetings? You can check out all of the recipes here.

Please register. This group meets monthly in the Community Room.

Sip and Stitch
Thursday, January 11 at 7pm

Come spend an evening with friends and neighbors and share your projects. We can share our progress on old projects and the new ones we are starting!

Please register.

Service Spotlight

AtoZ World Food and AtoZ Food America

AtoZ Food World and AtoZ Food America showcase recipes, prep instructions/videos, cultural insights, culinary history, and regional etiquette. Going to visit France for Christmas? Why not learn how to make a bûche de Noël. Visiting Mexico for the first time? Learn what makes Chapulines, a street food, so special. Visit our website to access these great new offerings using your Weston Public Library card! 

Local History Resources

Learn more about the rich history of Weston through the library's Local History Resources including digitized versions of The Chronicle Quarterly, the Weston Forum, and more!

Click here for access.

Librarian Picks

January Releases

What new releases are librarians most looking forward to in January? Check out the selection below from Weston's Adult Services Librarian, Anne.

Avoid the rush and place your holds early at www.westonpubliclibrary.org. 

Wild and Distant Seas by Tara Karr Roberts   An outsider in Nantucket’s small, close-knit community in 1849, Evangeline Hussey, after her husband is lost at sea, makes choices that ripple through generations, across continents and into the depths of the ocean as she and her descendants seek to chart their own futures.

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan   Moving into Akbar Manzil, a ruined mansion off the coast of South Africa, Sana stumbles upon the long-forgotten story of Meena, the original owner’s second wife who died there tragically 100 years ago, awakening a grieving djinn, an invisible spirit who has haunted the mansion since Meena’s mysterious death.

The Waters by Bonnie Jo Campbell   Spending the days searching for truths on an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp, 11-year-old Dorothy Zook, the granddaughter of an herbalist and eccentric healer, finds her childhood upended by family secrets, passionate love and violent men where the only bridge across the water is her wayward mother.

The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James   In 1964, when Jaime Sonoro, Mexico’s most renowned actor and singer, discovers a book telling of the multitude of horrific crimes committed by his ancestors, he must pay for their crimes unless he can uncover the truth about his grandfather, the legendary bandido El Tragabalas, The Bullet Swallower.

The Curse of Pietro Houdini by Derek B. Miller   In 1943, 14-year-old Massimo, rescued by a mysterious man called Pietro Houdini who preserves the treasures within the Benedictine abbey’s wall, accompanies him on a World War II art-heist adventure where they lie, cheat, steal, fight, kill and sin to survive, while smuggling Renaissance masterpieces they’ve rescued from the “safe keeping” of the Germans.