Tilton Library

Preschool Story Time
2016-04-06 11:00 - 12:00, 2016-04-13 11:00 - 12:00, 2016-04-20 10:00 - 12:00, 2016-04-27 11:00 - 12:00, 2016-05-04 11:00 - 12:00, 2016-05-11 11:00 - 12:00, 2016-05-18 11:00 - 12:00, 2016-05-25 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | MA
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, READ to grow. (Lawrence Clark Powell) – Come grow with us! No sign up needed – all children 0-5 (and their caregivers) are welcome.

Mystery Book Discussion - White Heat by M. J. McGrath
2016-04-07 18:30 - 19:45
Join us on the first Monday of the month for a lively discussion of this month’s title and other of life’s mysteries. Copies of the book are usually available at the circulation desk or can be reserved online or by asking at the desk. This discussion also features cheese pizza while it lasts. Free and open to all.

Booklist Reviews
*Starred Review* On remote and sparsely populated Ellesmere Island, half-Inuit Edie Kiglatuk, who has never lost a client, is the best guide in the Canadian High Arctic. Then one of two southerner white men, who hire Edie for a hunting expedition, is mysteriously shot and killed in an incident that local authorities cover up. When the victim’s colleague returns for a trip led by Joe Inukpuk, Edie’s beloved stepson, the man is lost in a blizzard, and Joe struggles home, incoherent and frostbitten, and soon commits suicide. Devastated by her loss, Edie—a 33-year-old divorcée, recovered alcoholic, and part-time teacher, who was financing Joe’s nursing training—falls off the wagon temporarily before setting out to prove the connection between the recent events. With occasional help from police sergeant Derek Palliser, a man obsessed with lemmings and a failed love affair, she risks her life to find the truth. In a gripping debut novel, McGrath (who has written nonfiction as Melanie McGrath) transports the reader to a land of almost incomprehensible cold and an unfamiliar but fascinating culture, taking on issues of climate change, energy exploration, local politics, and drug and alcohol abuse. Edie, a fiercely independent woman in a male-dominated milieu, is sure to win fans. Expect great things from this series. Copyright 2011 Booklist Reviews.

Friends of Tilton Library Meeting
2016-04-11 18:30 - 20:00
PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE! Monday, April 11th! Friends of Tilton Library, Inc. is a separate 501(c)3 membership organization and is open to anyone who wants to join. The Friends mission is to encourage and promote the enrichment and use of the library and to foster support for the library in the community. For people who want to show their support and appreciation of Tilton Library, being a Friend is the first step. Annual dues continue to be $15 per year and if necessary, you can contribute your time in lieu of dues. Come check us out at our monthly meetings at the library.

Quilters Wanted - Organizational Meeting
2016-04-14 18:30 - 19:30
Please join us to plan a quilt for Tilton Library’s 100th anniversary celebration. We will display and raffle a quilt made from a popular pattern circa 1916. We will sew as a group at the library or complete squares individually with an ideal completion date of November 2016. Please email Nancy Maynard (nancyomaynard@gmail.com) for more information.

HOLIDAY - LIBRARY CLOSED
2016-04-18
Tilton Library is closed on Sundays and holidays. Come visit on Tuesday, April 19 @1:00.

Book Discussion - Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
2016-04-21 18:30 - 20:00
Dr. Atul Gawande’s acclaimed bestseller, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, has started a national conversation about the deep flaws in our society’s current treatment of people with serious illness and those who are facing end of life.
Using Dr. Gawande’s book as a springboard and drawing on the rich resources of Cooley Dickinson Health Care, local librarians and medical professionals will look closely at our goals for end-of-life care and being to plan how to bring about better outcomes for ourselves and our loved ones. Discussion led by Cooley Dickinson Health Care professional.
This is a project of libraries in Hampshire and Franklin Counties and Cooley Dickinson Health Care and is free and open to all.
Copies of the book are available online or at the adult circulation desk.

Baby Time
2016-04-22 10:00 - 12:00, 2016-04-29 10:00 - 12:00, 2016-05-06 10:00 - 12:00, 2016-05-13 10:00 - 12:00, 2016-05-27 10:00 - 12:00
Every Friday at 10 am. No sign ups needed. Our picture book area will be reserved for the littlest of our patrons to roll around (or practice standing) and meet eye to eye with their peers. All babies and their caregivers welcome. Free coffee for grownups (while it lasts).

English Conversation Group
2016-04-25 18:30 - 19:45, 2016-05-02 18:30 - 19:45, 2016-05-09 18:30 - 19:45, 2016-05-16 18:30 - 19:45
Do you want to practice your English? Come to a conversation group at Tilton Library on Mondays at 6:30. Facilitated by Michael Pollitt and organized by the Center for New Americans this drop-in program is free and open to all.

Friends of Tilton Library Meeting
2016-05-02 18:30 - 19:45
Friends of Tilton Library, Inc. is a separate 501(c)(3) membership organization and is open to anyone who wants to join. The Friends mission is to encourage and promote the enrichment and use of the library and to foster support for the library in the community. For people who want to show their support and appreciation of Tilton Library, being a Friend is the first step. Annual dues continue to be $15 per year and if necessary, you can contribute your time in lieu of dues. Come check us out at our monthly meetings at the library.

Valley Gives Day
2016-05-03 00:05 - 23:55
Valley Gives is a 24 hour philanthropy event encouraging residents in Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin Counties to contribute to their favorite nonprofits. Please help make our first Valley Gives Day a success. Donations in any amount appreciated. ValleyGivesDay.Org

Tilton Library Board of Trustees
2016-05-04 18:30 - 21:00
The Board of Trustees are an elected town body which is entrusted with overseeing, maintaining and planning the future for the most democratic of all our public institutions, the public library. Library Board members are responsible for working with other board members to oversee the library, establishing policy and plans, determining the final budget and conducting public relations. The powers and duties of trustees are covered in Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 78, section 10-13.
Meeting agenda is posted at Deerfield Town Hall at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting

Mystery Book Discussion - Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta
2016-05-05 18:30 - 19:45
Join us on the first Monday of the month for a lively discussion of this month’s title and other of life’s mysteries. Copies of the book are usually available at the circulation desk or can be reserved online or by asking at the desk. This discussion also features cheese pizza while it lasts. Free and open to all.
“When 13-year-old Jace Wilson witnesses a brutal murder, he’s plunged into a new life, issued a false identity and hidden in a wilderness skills program for troubled teens. The plan is to get Jace off the grid while police find the two killers. The result is the start of a nightmare. The killers, known as the Blackwell Brothers, are slaughtering anyone who gets in their way in a methodical quest to reach him. Now all that remains between them and the boy are Ethan and Allison Serbin, who run the wilderness survival program; Hannah Faber, who occupies a lonely fire lookout tower; and endless miles of desolate Montana mountains. The clock is ticking, the mountains are burning, and those who wish Jace Wilson dead are no longer far behind” — from publisher’s web site.

Tilton Library Plant Sale
2016-05-14 09:00 - 23:00
Donate your divided perennials on Friday at the back of the library. The plant sale is a Tilton Board of Trustees fundraising event and all proceeds benefit the library.

Third Thursday Book Discussion
2016-05-19 18:30 - 19:45
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude.
John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.
Third Thursday is an informal group, open to all, no sign up necessary. Reserve your book at the adult circulation desk or online.

Book Sale - Friends of Tilton Library
2016-05-20 16:30 - 2016-05-21 15:00
Preview sale for Friends members from 4:30 to 5:30 on Friday, May 20th (Memberships available at the door.) Public sale begins at 5:30 on Friday and continues on Saturday from 9-3. Book donations may be left at Deerfield Town Hall weekdays from 9-4. Please, no encylcopedias, no magazines or catalogs, no surplus materials from other businesses, institutions or other libraries, no law and reference books, no dated guides or manuals, no Reader’s Digest condensed books, no text books, Cliff notes or Spark notes, no books without covers.

English Conversation Practice
2016-05-23 18:30 - 19:45
