Science Book Discussion: Sirens of Mars
2022-03-22 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
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 !
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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:
