Join us at the Windsor Public Library for Rona Leventhal’s storytelling workshop It’s Your Story – Tell It! on Wednesday, May 3 from 6:30 to 8:00 PM. Rona will help participants to collect story seeds from their life. Then choosing one of these memories Rona will then help them flush out their story for themselves or to engage listeners. Sponsored by the Windsor Library Association.

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No, But I Read the Book

Are You There God, Its Me Margaret by Judy Blume

Are You There God, It's Me Margaret starring Abby Ryder Fortson and Rachel Mcadams hits theaters on April 28. The movie is based on the 1970 novel by Judy Blume. Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are pink. She’s just moved from New York City to Farbook, New Jersey, and is anxious to fit in with her new friends—Nancy, Gretchen, and Janie. When they form a secret club to talk about private subjects like boys, bras, and getting their first periods, Margaret is happy to belong. But none of them can believe Margaret doesn’t have religion, and that she isn’t going to the Y or the Jewish Community Center. What they don’t know is Margaret has her own very special relationship with God. She can talk to God about everything—family, friends, even Moose Freed, her secret crush. Margaret is funny and real, and her thoughts and feelings are oh-so-relatable—you’ll feel like she’s talking right to you, sharing her secrets with a friend.

Kids or Teen Book of Interest

Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham

An unflinching, superbly written teen/young adult story about family, friendship, and integrity, set during the brutality and terror of the 1921 Tulsa race riots.

Book Club Corner

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

Listen Up (Audiobook recommendation)

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng

Narrated by Lucy Liu

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

From the very first page of this thoroughly engrossing and deeply moving novel, the young boy Bird’s story takes wing. Taut and terrifying, Ng’s cautionary tale in a dystopian near future in which Asian Americans are regarded with scorn and mistrust by the government and their neighbors transports us into an American tomorrow that is all too easy to imagine—and persuasively posits that the antidotes to fear and suspicion are empathy and love.

Spotlight: Non Fiction Corner

The Last Slave Ship: the true story of how Clotilda was found, her descendants and an extraordinary reckoning by Ben Raines

The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day - by the journalist who discovered the ship's remains.

What's Gotten Into You by Dan Levitt

For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks of life travelled billions of miles and across billions of years to make us who we are.

Soccernomics by Simon Kuper

Soccernomics is written with an economist's brain and a soccer writer's skill, and it applies high-powered analytical tools to everyday soccer topics, looking at data and revealing counterintuitive truths about the world's most loved game. It all adds up to a revolutionary new way of looking at soccer that could change the way the game is played.