The date has been set! Join your friends and neighbors at Chandler's Restaurant at Yankee Candle on Thursday, March 12th. Tickets $25 in advance available at the library or from a Friend of Tilton or Tilton Library Trustee.
"Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?: a Memoir by Roz Chast is this month's title for discussion. From Booklist New Yorker cartoonist and prolific author Chast (What I Hate from A to Z, 2011) writes a bravely honest memoir of watching her parents decline, become too frail to stay in the Brooklyn apartment they called home for five decades, suffer dementia and physical depletion, and die in their nineties in a hospice-care facility. Unlike many recent parent-focused cartoon memoirs, such as Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother? (2012) and Nicole J. George’s Calling Dr. Laura (2012), in which the story is as much about the cartoonist’s current work and family life as it is about his or her parents, Chast keeps her narrative tightly focused on her mother and father and her own problematic—though not uncommon—guilt-provoking relationships with them. Chast’s hallmark quirky sketches are complemented by annotated photos from her own and her parents’ childhoods. Occasionally, her hand-printed text will take up more than a full page, but it’s neatly wound into accompanying panels or episodes. An unflinching look at the struggles facing adult children of aging parents. --Francisca Goldsmith
Focusing on communication using sign language, pictures, spoken words, written words, and movement. A sign language interpreter attends story time once a month until June. Each program features an age appropriate book and related activity. No sign up needed – all children 0-5 (and their caregivers) are welcome
Focusing on communication using sign language, pictures, spoken words, written words, and movement. A sign language interpreter attends story time once a month until June. Each program features an age appropriate book and related activity. No sign up needed – all children 0-5 (and their caregivers) are welcome
This is our third and final (we hope) mystery titled "Open Season". Join us on the first Thursday of the month for lively discussion and pizza (while it lasts). "Originally entitled The Stalking Horse (a title that was used on another book published just a month before this was set to appear,) Open Season concerns a mysterious man in a ski mask, who forces the police to reopen an old murder case by compromising all the members of the old jury. Joe, soon realizing that his department is being used as a stalking horse to flush out the real murderer, must discover who that person is, before the man in the ski mask gets to him first." (from the author's website). Reserve your copy of Archer Mayor's debut online or at the circulation desk.
Focusing on communication using sign language, pictures, spoken words, written words, and movement. A sign language interpreter attends story time once a month until June. Each program features an age appropriate book and related activity. No sign up needed – all children 0-5 (and their caregivers) are welcome
The Friends of Tilton Library are seeking gently used or new books in good condition, clean, dry and mold-free. General fiction, mysteries, classic titles in excellent condition, general non-fiction, cooking, gardening,crafts, arts, dance, photography, architecture, biography and history, books for kids and teens, books on cd and dvds. Please DO NOT bring books without covers, encyclopedias, magazines and catalogs, dissertations and theses, text books, Cliff or Spark notes, Reader's Digest Condensed Books, law and reference books, dated guides and manuals (travel, computer, etc.), ANY surplus from businesses, institutions or other libraries.
Focusing on communication using sign language, pictures, spoken words, written words, and movement. A sign language interpreter attends story time once a month until June. Each program features an age appropriate book and related activity. No sign up needed – all children 0-5 (and their caregivers) are welcome
This month's title is our first from science fiction - a tale of survival against enormous odds. Find out what the hype is all about, reserve your copy online or at the circ desk and join us at the library at 6:30. Special guest, James Cambias, author of "A Darkling Sea" will help lead the discussion.
A C/WMARS system upgrade is scheduled for Patriot's Day weekend. The system will be unavailable on Sunday April 19th and Monday April 20th. There will be a read-only version of the online catalog and no holds will be able to be placed during that period.