THIRD THURSDAY BOOK GROUP: In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende
2020-02-20 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
New York Times and worldwide bestselling author Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil.
An instant New York Times bestseller, In the Midst of Winter is about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that offers “a timely message about immigration and the meaning of home” (People).
During the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, Richard Bowmaster, a lonely university professor in his sixties, hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, and what at first seems an inconvenience takes a more serious turn when Evelyn comes to his house, seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant, Lucia Maraz, a fellow academic from Chile, for her advice.
As these three lives intertwine, each will discover truths about how they have been shaped by the tragedies they witnessed, and Richard and Lucia will find unexpected, long overdue love. Allende returns here to themes that have propelled some of her finest work: political injustice, the art of survival, and the essential nature of—and our need for—love.

MYSTERY BOOK GROUP: Last Child by John Hart
2020-03-05 18:30 - 19:30
After his twin sister Alyssa disappears, thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon is determined to find her. When a second girl disappears from his rural North Carolina town, Johnny makes a discovery that sends shock waves through the community in this multi-layered tale of broken families and deadly secrets.
Tilton Library’s mystery book discussion group has been meeting on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. since 2010. Group members choose the books to be discussed and library staffers order copies for members and others who might be interested in readng the books but not attending the meetings. The group is open to all. Free pizza (while it lasts) is provided by the Friends of Tilton Library. Books available at the library.

CANCELLED - Third Thursday Book Discussion: Braiding Sweetgrass
2020-03-19 18:30 - 19:30 | Tilton Library, 75 North Main Street, South Deerfield, MA, 01373, United States
We are thrilled to be participating in this year’s Libraries in the Woods community read. After suggestions from library staff throughout the region, and much discussion, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer has been chosen. Along with many book discussion gatherings, there will also be other events and happenings around this book taking place at more than 20 local libraries. This will be a wonderful opportunity to visit many of the lovely libraries in our region and to feel connected through the act of reading a book in common and then engaging in discussion and learning. We hope everyone will join us in this community-at-large endeavor!
“As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings―asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass―offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.”

Tilton Book-to-Art Facebook Group: Braiding Sweetgrass
2020-06-25 07:00 - 22:00
Direct Link to Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/763504304192279/
This wonderful book, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Kimmerer, was chosen and planned for the Community Read, as part of the regional Libraries in the Woods program. Due to COVID-19 shutdowns of libraries and just about every other thing in life, we were unable to run the programs planned by the 24 local libraries involved. However, a lot of people have read the book and love it and want to talk about it. So, we are doing this here in the Tilton Book to Art Group.
FREE online audiobook available without any waitlist on Overdrive, through the library:
https://cwmars.overdrive.com/cwmars-tilton/content/media/2854558
This event will involved a day long, come-when-you-can open Facebook discussion on June 25…and of course we highly encourage everyone to make art to accompany and express the feelings you have from the book. Any art is welcome, from doodles to paintings, photography to cake! Just take a photo of your creation and share it on the Tilton Book to Art Group page as part of our discussion. This book evokes so many wonderful images, we doubt you will leave it feeling uninspired. Talk to you and see you…and your art…then!

VIRTUAL THIRD THURSDAY BOOK GROUP: This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
2021-02-18 18:30 - 19:30
When Rosie and Penn and their four boys welcome the newest member of their family, no one is surprised it’s another baby boy. At least their large, loving, chaotic family knows what to expect. But Claude is not like his brothers. One day he puts on a dress and refuses to take it off. He wants to bring a purse to kindergarten. He wants hair long enough to sit on. When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl. Rosie and Penn aren’t panicked at first. Kids go through phases, after all, and make-believe is fun. But soon the entire family is keeping Claude’s secret. Until one day it explodes.

This Is How It Always Is is a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. And it’s about the ways this is how it always is: Change is always hard and miraculous and hard again; parenting is always a leap into the unknown with crossed fingers and full hearts; children grow but not always according to plan.

Please email the library at tiltonlibrary@cwmars.org to get the Zoom link a few days before the event.

Books available at the Tilton – call or email for a copy to check out on your account.

VIRTUAL THIRD THURSDAY BOOK GROUP: Astrophysics In A Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
2021-03-18 18:30 - 19:30
Over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and more than a million copies sold.
The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.
What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson.
But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in tasty chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day.
While you wait for your morning coffee to brew, for the bus, the train, or a plane to arrive, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry will reveal just what you need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes, from quarks to quantum mechanics, and from the search for planets to the search for life in the universe.

Please email the library at tiltonlibrary@cwmars.org to get the Zoom link a few days before the event.

Libraries in the Woods NEA Big Read Station Eleven Events
2021-04-01 08:00 - 2021-05-31 17:00
NEA Big Read

NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
NEA Big Read: Pocumtuck Valley is sponsored by the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association.
This series is funded in part by the Friends of Tilton Library.

NEA Big Read: Pocumtuck Valley in partnership with Libraries in the Woods sponsors this discussion of Station Eleven as part of a two month long series of discussions and related programs at 20+ local libraries.
APRIL 2021 EVENTS
April 10 Saturday, 11 am
What: Pondering the Pandemic: a Guided Doodling Workshop with Cara Bean
Where: Zoom, Wendell Free Library
♦ Find information and register here.
April 12 Monday, 6 pm
What: Bug-out Bags and Books! Would you be ready to bug-out if you had to? A bug-out bag contains the essentials you’d need, if you had to get out fast. Chelsea Jordan-Makely will talk about things to include in your bug-out bag and discuss four books in which the characters have to make quick getaways and survive on their wits, including Station Eleven. Prizes for “Youth,” “Most Prepared,” and “Most Creative.” Contest closes May 29th.
Where: Zoom, Griswold Memorial Library in Colrain
♦ Find information here. Email griswold@colrain-ma.gov to register.
April 14 Wednesday, 10 am
What: Book Discussion (contact Library to register)
Where: Location TBD, Warwick Free Public Library
♦ Find information and register here.
April 15 Thursday, 6:30pm
What: Book Discussion (virtual anticipated)
Where: Zoom, Tilton Library in South Deerfield
♦ Find information and register here.
♦ Email tiltonlibrary@cwmars.org for Zoom link
April 15 Thursday, 7-8:30 pm
What: Book Discussion
Where: Online, Meekins Library in Williamsburg
♦ Find information and register here.
April 20 Tuesday, 7 pm
What: Book Discussion
Where: Online, Westhampton Library
♦ Find information and register here.
April 22 Thursday, 6:30 pm
What: Theater Education Panel with John Bechtold, Cindy Naughton, Cynthia Strycharz and more
Where: Zoom, Pelham Free Public Library
♦ Find information and register here.
April 22 Thursday, 7 pm
What: Travels with Station Eleven’s Shakespeare, Sally Sutherland, lecturer emeritus at Mt. Holyoke College
Where: Zoom, Jones Library in Amherst
♦ Find information and register here.
April 26 Thursday, 7 pm
What: Book Discussion (virtual anticipated)
Where: Zoom, New Salem Public Library
♦ Find information and register here.
April 27 Tuesday, 1 pm
What: Book Discussion
Where: Online, Edwards Public Library in Southampton
♦ Find information and register here.

APRIL 27 KEYNOTE EVENT! REGISTRATION REQUIRED.

April 27 Tuesday, 7 pm
What: A Conversation with Emily St. John Mandel
Where: Zoom, hosted by New England Public Media, a Watch & Learn Event
♦ TO REGISTER FOR THE EVENT: https://wgbh.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2TazpTEmQIKgLKgeCf1Upw

In partnership with Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Libraries in the Woods, The Care Center, Springfield Public Forum, and All Hamotons Read

April 29 Thursday, 8 pm
What: The Suitcase Junket: Found Music—A performance in the spirit of The Traveling Symphony of Station Eleven
Where: Zoom, Tilton Library in South Deerfield
♦ Find information and register here.
♦ Email tiltonlibrary@cwmars.org for Zoom link

MAY 2021 EVENTS
May 2 Sunday, 2 pm
What: Zine and Comic Workshop with Anne Thalheimer
Where: Zoom, Leverett Library (with Ashfield, Greenfield, and Wendell libraries)
♦ Find information and register here.
May 3 Monday, 6:30-7:30 pm
What: Book Discussion
Where: Zoom, Cushman Library in Bernardston
♦ Find information and register here.
May 5 Wednesday, 2 pm
What: Book DiscussionWhere: Zoom, Arms Library in Shelburne Falls, Buckland Public Library, Griswold Memorial in Colrain, Heath Public Library, and Shelburne Public Library
♦ Find information and register here.
May 5 Wednesday, 7:30 pm
What: Book Discussion (virtual anticipated)
Where: Zoom, M.N. Spear Memorial Library, Pelham Library, Leverett Library
♦ Find information and register—link coming soon.
May 6 Thursday, 7 pm
What: Conversation with Local Newspaper Editor Mike Jackson (Montague Reporter) about independent local journalism
Where: Zoom, Dickinson Memorial Library in Northfield
♦ Find information here and register by emailing dmemlib@gmail.com.
May 11 Tuesday, 6:30–7:30 pm
What: Coping with Trauma and Loss: How Therapy Can Help
Presentation and discussion with Susannah Sheffer, LMHC.
Where: Zoom, Sunderland Public Library
♦ Find information and register here.
May 15 Saturday, 10 pm–12 noon
What: Fire by Friction, presented by Wolf Tree
Where: Wendell Free Library (in person, 24 person limit)
♦ Find information and register here.
May 18 Tuesday, 6:30 pm
What: Book Discussion
Where: Zoom, Belding Memorial Library in Ashfield, Field Memorial Library in Conway, and S. White Dickinson Memorial Library in Whately
♦ Find information and register here–link coming soon.
May 19 Wednesday, 7:00pm
What: Two Plays, Two Actors – with Nick deRuiter and Jerri Higgins. Plays to be announced.
Where: Zoom, Cushman Library in Bernardston
♦ Find information and register here.
May 20 Thursday, 7 pm
What: Ask an Airline Attendant
Where: Zoom, Dickinson Memorial Library in Northfield
♦ Find information here and register by emailing dmemlib@gmail.com.
May 22 Saturday, 10 am
What: Walk and Talk Book Discussion
Where: Wendell Free Library
♦ Find information here.
May 23 Sunday, 2 pm
What: Historical Walking Tour of Turners Falls’ Post Industrial Ruins
Where: Montague Public Libraries, Turners Falls Canal District
♦ Find information here.
May 24 Monday, May 24, 6:30 pm
What: Station Eleven: The Collapse of Systems and the Reemergence of Neighborliness — a book discussion featuring David B. Schwartz, Ph.D.
Where: Zoom, Sunderland Public Library
♦ Find information and register here.
May 25 Tuesday, 6 pmWhat: Book Discussion
Where: Zoom, Erving Public Library and Dickinson Memorial Library in Northfield
♦ Register by emailing library@erving-ma.gov.
May 25 Tuesday, 6:30 pm
What: “Survival is Insufficient,” a discussion of this phrase’s meaning in Station Eleven and the Star Trek Voyager episode from which it was drawn.
Where: Zoom, Field Memorial Library in Conway, Belding Memorial Library in Ashfield, Arms Library in Shelburne Falls
♦ Find information and register here.
May 29 Contest endsWhat: Build a “bug-out bag” contest. Prizes for “Most Prepared,” and “Most Creative”
Where: Virtual, Griswold Memorial Library in Colrain
♦ Find information and register here.
Developing Programs
Information and registration links coming soon. Meanwhile, reach out to the hosting organization for information.
Date, Day & Time TBD
What: Book Discussion
Where: Zoom, Wendell Free Library
Date, Day & Time TBD
What: Survival (DIY Kit) Workshop
Where: Zoom, Erving Public Library
Date, Day & Time TBDWhat: Historical Walk of Erving “Ruins”
Where: Erving Public Library, outdoors location TBD
Date, Day & Time TBD
What: Historical Walk of Turners Falls’ Post Industrial Ruins
Where: Montague Public Libraries, Turners Falls Canal District
Date, Day & Time TBD
Name of Event: Book Discussion (virtual anticipated)
Library & Location: Arms Library, Buckland Public Library and Shelburne Free Public Library
Date, Day & Time TBD
What: Book Discussion (virtual anticipated)
Where: Leverett Library
Date, Day & Time TBD
What: “Survival is Insufficient” Poetry After the Rains
Collaborative Public Art Stenciling and Invisible Messages, Until It Rains!
Where: Arms Library and Shelburne Falls downtown, with the Art Garden
Date, Day & Time TBD
What: Citizen Journalism Workshop
Where: Belding Memorial Library in Ashfield
Date, Day & Time TBD
What: Book Discussion featuring David B. Schwartz
Where: Zoom, Sunderland Public Library
Date, Day & Time TBD (May, evening program)
What: Memory Making Journaling
Where: S. White Dickinson Memorial Library in Whately
Date, Day & Time TBD
What: Book Discussion
Where: Zoom, Orange Library
Date, Day & Time TBD
What: Trivia Night: what is this and what is it for?
Where: Zoom, Orange Library
Date, Day & Time TBD
What: Book Discussion
Where: Zoom, Field Memorial Library in Conway
Date, Day & Time TBD
What: Allen Steele PowerPoint presentation on the history of Science Fiction
Library & Location: S. White Dickinson Memorial Library in Whately

NEA Big Read Station Eleven Book Discussion
2021-04-15 18:30 - 20:00
NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.

NEA Big Read: Pocumtuck Valley is sponsored by the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association.

This series is funded in part by the Friends of Tilton Library.

NEA Big Read: Pocumtuck Valley in partnership with Libraries in the Woods sponsors this discussion of Station Eleven as part of a two month long series of discussions and related programs at 20+ local libraries. Click here for a full listing: https://deerfield-ma.org/nea-big-read-pocumtuck-valley/

EMAIL TILTONLIBRARY@CWMARS.ORG FOR ZOOM LINK TO THIS BOOK DISCUSSION.

Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 novel is set in a dystopian post-pandemic world. Now that we’re experiencing an actual pandemic, the NEA Big Read of this fictional story provides an opportunity for local communities to discuss our real pandemic experience, as well as the role the arts play in our lives (a central theme in Station Eleven).

A National Book Award Finalist
A PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist
Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end.
Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed.

Third Thursday Book Discussion: The Locals by Jonathan Dee
2021-05-20 18:30 - 20:00
Meets on Zoom – email tiltonlibrary@cwmars.org for Zoom link. IF WEATHER IS NICE – we may meet outside behind the library – call 413-665-4683 or email to find out that day

“Summons up a small American town at precisely the right moment in our history . . . a bold, vital, and view-expanding novel.”—George Saunders
A rural working-class New England town elects as its mayor a New York hedge fund millionaire in this inspired novel for our times—fiction in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen and Jennifer Egan.
A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK
Mark Firth is a contractor and home restorer in Howland, Massachusetts, who feels opportunity passing his family by. After being swindled by a financial advisor, what future can Mark promise his wife, Karen, and their young daughter, Haley? He finds himself envying the wealthy weekenders in his community whose houses sit empty all winter.
Philip Hadi used to be one of these people. But in the nervous days after 9/11 he flees New York and hires Mark to turn his Howland home into a year-round “secure location” from which he can manage billions of dollars of other people’s money. The collision of these two men’s very different worlds—rural vs. urban, middle class vs. wealthy—is the engine of Jonathan Dee’s powerful new novel.
Inspired by Hadi, Mark looks around for a surefire investment: the mid-decade housing boom. Over Karen’s objections, and teaming up with his troubled brother, Gerry, Mark starts buying up local property with cheap debt. Then the town’s first selectman dies suddenly, and Hadi volunteers for office. He soon begins subtly transforming Howland in his image—with unexpected results for Mark and his extended family.
Here are the dramas of twenty-first-century America—rising inequality, working class decline, a new authoritarianism—played out in the classic setting of some of our greatest novels: the small town. The Locals is that rare work of fiction capable of capturing a fraught American moment in real time.

Thursday Book Discussion: Tell The Wolves I'm Home
2021-06-24 18:30 - 20:00
Meets on Zoom – email tiltonlibrary@cwmars.org for Zoom link. IF WEATHER IS NICE – we may meet outside behind the library – call 413-665-4683 or email to find out that day

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A heartfelt story of love, grief, and renewal about two unlikely friends who discover that sometimes you don’t know you’ve lost someone until you’ve found them
“A dazzling debut novel.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
“Tremendously moving.”—The Wall Street Journal
“Touching and ultimately hopeful.”—People
1987. The only person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus is her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can be herself only in Finn’s company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June’s world is turned upside down.
But Finn’s death brings a surprise acquaintance into June’s life. At the funeral, June notices a strange man lingering just beyond the crowd. A few days later, she receives a package in the mail containing a beautiful teapot she recognizes from Finn’s apartment, and a note from Toby, the stranger, asking for an opportunity to meet. As the two begin to spend time together, June realizes she’s not the only one who misses Finn, and that this unexpected friend just might be the one she needs the most.

YA/Adult Book Discussion: The Cat I Never Named
2021-07-15 18:30 - 19:30 | Tilton Library, 75 North Main Street, South Deerfield, MA, 01373, United States
The book, The Cat I Never Named: A True Story of Love, War, and Survival by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess is the sensitively told story of a Muslim-Bosnian teen, her family, and life during the Bosnian War – and the stray cat who kept an eye on them.
The discussion will be led by Barry Dietz who is known for his dynamic, engaging talks on all manner of subjects and who has a long history of leading book discussions for YA and Adults
Contact Julie Cavacco at jcavacco@cwmars.org / 665-4683 to reserve a copy of the book.
This event will be held outside, the rain date is July 22, 2021 at 6:30pm.

Zine Making Workshop
2021-08-14 11:00 | Just Roots, 34 Glenbrook Drive, Greenfield, MA, United States
We’re excited to co-host a zine-making workshop at Just Roots, with Trouble Mandeson, author of “These Women: An Illustrated Collection of Kickass Women.” Besides making zines, we’re also going to share a free lunch! Email griswold@colrain-ma.gov or go to https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SfGbmzX_OSvvyf40k_ntwZiKErLdx2h_/view?usp=sharing to register! Be sure to let us know if you will be staying for lunch!

Third Thursday Book Discussion: Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
2021-11-18 19:00 - 20:00
We will meet inside the children’s room after closing with masks on, chairs spaced apart, and windows cracked open.

A New York Times Bestseller • A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, People, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, TIME, The A.V. Club, Buzzfeed, and PopSugar
“I can’t believe how good this book is…. It’s wholly original. It’s also perfect…. Wilson writes with such a light touch…. The brilliance of the novel [is] that it distracts you with these weirdo characters and mesmerizing and funny sentences and then hits you in a way you didn’t see coming. You’re laughing so hard you don’t even realize that you’ve suddenly caught fire.” —Taffy Brodesser-Akner, author of Fleishman is in Trouble, New York Times Book Review
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Family Fang, a moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with a remarkable ability.
Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable friends at their elite boarding school. But then Lillian had to leave the school unexpectedly in the wake of a scandal and they’ve barely spoken since. Until now, when Lillian gets a letter from Madison pleading for her help.
Madison’s twin stepkids are moving in with her family and she wants Lillian to be their caretaker. However, there’s a catch: the twins spontaneously combust when they get agitated, flames igniting from their skin in a startling but beautiful way. Lillian is convinced Madison is pulling her leg, but it’s the truth.
Thinking of her dead-end life at home, the life that has consistently disappointed her, Lillian figures she has nothing to lose. Over the course of one humid, demanding summer, Lillian and the twins learn to trust each other—and stay cool—while also staying out of the way of Madison’s buttoned-up politician husband. Surprised by her own ingenuity yet unused to the intense feelings of protectiveness she feels for them, Lillian ultimately begins to accept that she needs these strange children as much as they need her—urgently and fiercely. Couldn’t this be the start of the amazing life she’d always hoped for?
With white-hot wit and a big, tender heart, Kevin Wilson has written his best book yet—a most unusual story of parental love.

Books available though Tilton and CWMARS.

Book Discussion: Rising by Elizabeth Rush
2021-11-30 19:00 - 20:00
The Tilton Library is happy to announce a special book discussion (outside of the Third Thursday series) that we’re holding on Tuesday November 30 at 7pm in the Children’s Room.

We will be discussing the book Rising by Elizabeth Rush: https://www.amazon.com/Rising…/dp/1571313818/ref=sr_1_1…

This is part of a larger program that Tilton is a part of as a “partner library,” with the national organization Science Friday: https://www.sciencefriday.com/

Here is a description of the SciFri Book Club that just wrapped up:
https://www.tiltonlibrary.org/scifri-book-club-rising-by…/

Again, OUR DISCUSSION of this book is happening on 11/30. To prepare, you can not only read the book (we will have copies at the library that you can borrow), but also listen to the SciFri Book Club discussions on their PODCAST: https://www.sciencefriday.com/science-friday-podcasts/

We hope to see you on the 30th to talk about this book!

Science Book Discussion: Sirens of Mars
2022-03-22 19:00 - 20:00
WINNER OF THE PHI BETA KAPPA AWARD FOR SCIENCE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Times (UK) • Library Journal
Mars was once similar to Earth, but today there are no rivers, no lakes, no oceans. Coated in red dust, the terrain is bewilderingly empty. And yet multiple spacecraft are circling Mars, sweeping over Terra Sabaea, Syrtis Major, the dunes of Elysium, and Mare Sirenum—on the brink, perhaps, of a staggering find, one that would inspire humankind as much as any discovery in the history of modern science.
In this beautifully observed, deeply personal book, Georgetown scientist Sarah Stewart Johnson tells the story of how she and other researchers have scoured Mars for signs of life, transforming the planet from a distant point of light into a world of its own.
Johnson’s fascination with Mars began as a child in Kentucky, turning over rocks with her father and looking at planets in the night sky. She now conducts fieldwork in some of Earth’s most hostile environments, such as the Dry Valleys of Antarctica and the salt flats of Western Australia, developing methods for detecting life on other worlds. Here, with poetic precision, she interlaces her own personal journey—as a female scientist and a mother—with tales of other seekers, from Percival Lowell, who was convinced that a utopian society existed on Mars, to Audouin Dollfus, who tried to carry out astronomical observations from a stratospheric balloon. In the process, she shows how the story of Mars is also a story about Earth: This other world has been our mirror, our foil, a telltale reflection of our own anxieties and yearnings.
Empathetic and evocative, The Sirens of Mars offers an unlikely natural history of a place where no human has ever set foot, while providing a vivid portrait of our quest to defy our isolation in the cosmos.

MEETING IN THE TILTON CHILDREN’S ROOM – MASKS REQUIRED

NOTE: TO GET A COPY OF THE BOOK THROUGH THE TILTON LIBRARY, CALL OR EMAIL US OR PLACE A HOLD THROUGH CWMARS Here.

This is part of the Tilton’s participation in the Science Friday Book Club. For more details, CLICK HERE.

Third Thursday Book Group: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
2022-05-19 19:00 - 20:00
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare’s life … here is a novel … so gorgeously written that it transports you.” —The Boston Globe
In 1580’s England, during the Black Plague a young Latin tutor falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman in this “exceptional historical novel” (The New Yorker) and best-selling winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.
A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a tender and unforgettable re-imagining of a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, and whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down—a magnificent leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists.
Copies of book available at Tilton adult circulation desk and through CWMARS.

Dr. Rosie Helps the Animals Author & Illustrator Visit
2022-07-16 10:00 - 11:00 | Tilton Library, 75 North Main Street, South Deerfield, MA, 01373, United States
Do animals get earaches? Sore throats? Stomachaches? Who can help if they can’t talk? Dr. Rosie can!
Meet the local author, Jennifer Welborn and the illustrator, Rozilla MH
Learn How Dr. Rosie helps animals and practice helping stuffed animals yourself! Bring a stuffed animal if you can.
Book Signings, Book Reading & Hands-On Activities !
Contact the library to sign up

True You Book Signing
2022-11-05 10:00 - 11:00 | Tilton Library, 75 North Main Street, South Deerfield, MA, 01373, United States
NEW DATE
Local authors Gwen Agna & Shelley Rotner visit the Tilton Library to read their new picture book about gender diversity! Copies of this and Shelley’s other books will be available for purchase.
Event with be held outside or inside with masks, depending on the weather.

How to Bake a Universe Author Visit
2022-11-15 15:30 - 16:30 | Tilton Library, 75 North Main Street, South Deerfield, MA, 01373, United States
Calling all cosmic chefs! Alec Carvlin will be reading his debut picture book, How to Bake a Universe, at the Tilton Library!
Kids will love decorating their own cosmic sunglasses, hearing the book read aloud by the author, and asking questions about the fun and funky science at the end. So come on down and bring nothing!
https://www.howtobakeauniverse.com/

Atlas Farm Book Discussion
2023-03-29 18:00 - 19:30
Tilton Library & Atlas Farm Store are co-hosting a Book Discussion!
Closing the Food Gap “sets out the dream of a nation without poverty and hunger, telling stories of people and
community projects that have made a difference in the lives of the food-insecure.”
In Closing the Food Gap, food activist and journalist Mark Winne poses questions too often overlooked in our current conversations around food: What about those people who are not financially able to make conscientious choices about where and how to get food? And in a time of rising rates of both diabetes and obesity, what can we do to make healthier foods available for everyone?
To address these questions, Winne tells the story of how America’s food gap has widened since the 1960s, when domestic poverty was “rediscovered,” and how communities have responded with a slew of strategies and methods to narrow the gap, including community gardens, food banks, and farmers’ markets. The story, however, is not only about hunger in the land of plenty and the organized efforts to reduce it; it is also about doing that work against a backdrop of ever-growing American food affluence and gastronomical expectations. Over the last three decades, Winne has found a way to connect impoverished communities experiencing these health problems with the benefits of CSAs and farmers’ markets; in Closing the Food Gap, he explains how he came to his conclusions.

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POSTPONED: Third Thursday Book Group September 21 2023
2023-09-21 19:00 - 20:00
**THIS DISCUSSION HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL THIRD THURSDAY IN OCTOBER**
In honor of Banned Books Week:
