Tilton Library

Friends of Tilton Annual Book Sale Continues - Deerfield Town Hall - 8 Conway Street
2017-10-28 09:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | MA
Prices range from $0.50 to $2 for fiction, non-fiction, cookbooks, kids books, and more! A specials table with unusual titles is an annual feature and these items are priced accordingly. Proceeds benefit programs and museum pass purchases for the library. $6 per bag from 1-2.

Yo Yo Monday
2017-10-30 17:00 - 18:00, 2017-11-06 17:00 - 18:00, 2017-11-13 17:00 - 18:00, 2017-11-20 17:00 - 18:00
Do you want to learn more yo-yo techniques? Visit Tilton Library on Mondays from 5-6 pm through November 20 for this free, fun program for all ages.

Author Visit - Michael Ponsor
2017-10-30 18:30 - 20:00
Ponsor’s second novel, “The One-Eyed Judge” was released in June 2017, and is the second book in the Judge Norcross Novels. Please join us to welcome a return visit of author and senior United States district judge Michael Ponsor. Both novels will be available for purchase and signing.

Preschool Story Time
2017-11-01 11:00 - 12:00, 2017-11-08 11:00 - 12:00, 2017-11-15 11:00 - 12:00, 2017-11-22 11:00 - 12:00, 2017-11-29 11:00 - 12:00, 2017-12-06 11:00 - 12:00, 2017-12-13 11:00 - 12:00, 2017-12-20 11:00 - 12:00
We meet at 11 in the children’s room and start the story at about 10 after. A trained therapy dog, Duffy, visits us after that and then we feed the worms in our vermiculture worm bin. Story time is free and open to all preschool children and their caregivers. No sign up needed.

Tilton Library Board of Trustees
2017-11-01 18:30 - 21:00, 2017-12-06 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 - The One Eyed Judge by Michael Ponsor
2017-11-02 18:30 - 19:30
“When FBI agents barge into Sidney Cranmer’s home accusing him of a heinous crime, the respected literature professor’s life becomes a nightmare. Cranmer insists the illicit material found by the agents isn’t his, but the charge against him appears airtight, and his academic specialty–the life and work of controversial author Lewis Carroll, creator of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland–convinces investigators he’s lying. Presiding over the case against Professor Cranmer, U.S. District Judge David Norcross fears his daily confrontation with evil has made him too jaded to become a husband and father. His girlfriend, Claire Lindemann, teaches in the same department as the defendant and is convinced of his innocence. Soon, she will take matters into her own hands. Meanwhile–with his love life in turmoil and his plans for the future on hold–a personal tragedy leaves Norcross responsible for his two young nieces. Unbeknownst to him, a vengeful child predator hovers over his new family, preparing to strike. Fast-paced, thrilling, and thought-provoking, this is legal fiction at its most realistic and compelling.”–provided by publisher.
Join us on the first Thursday 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.

Back Yard Play Time
2017-11-03 10:00 - 11:30, 2017-11-10 10:00 - 11:30
Come visit us on Fridays to play in our beautiful back yard with little wagons, bouncy cows, kid rakes, balls, ring toss, run-around rainbow streamers – or maybe your little one just wants to run around! Any weather – 10 – 11:30.

Annual Meeting - Friends of Tilton Library
2017-11-06 18:30 - 20:00
Each year, all Friends of Tilton members meet to elect a board of governors and approve an annual budget. This year, as in the past, the meeting will be preceded by a portfolio of homemade pies for all to share.
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.

HOLIDAY - LIBRARY CLOSED
2017-11-11
Tilton Library will be closed in honor of Veteran’s Day on Saturday, November 11.

Third Thursday Book Discussion - The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
2017-11-16 18:30 - 19:45
Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they hold Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined–an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New York Times Notable Book The Hazards of Good Breeding. Amid the ashes of Nazi Germany’s defeat, Marianne von Lingenfels returns to the once-grand castle of her husband’s ancestors, an imposing stone fortress now fallen into ruin following years of war. The widow of a resister murdered in the failed July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Marianne plans to uphold the promise she made to her husband’s brave conspirators: to find and protect their wives, her fellow resistance widows. First Marianne rescues six-year-old Martin, the son of her dearest childhood friend, from a Nazi reeducation home. Together, they make their way across the smoldering wreckage of their homeland to Berlin, where Martin’s mother, the beautiful and naive Benita, has fallen into the hands of occupying Red Army soldiers. Then she locates Ania, another resister’s wife, and her two boys, now refugees languishing in one of the many camps that house the millions displaced by the war. As Marianne assembles this makeshift family from the ruins of her husband’s resistance movement, she is certain their shared pain and circumstances will hold them together. But she quickly discovers that the black-and-white, highly principled world of her privileged past has become infinitely more complicated, filled with secrets and dark passions that threaten to tear them apart. Eventually, all three women must come to terms with the choices that have defined their lives before, during, and after the war–each with their own unique share of challenges.
Third Thursday is an informal group, open to all, no sign up necessary. Reserve your book at the adult circulation desk or online.

RUN TO THE LIBRARY!
2017-11-18 10:00 - 12:00
RUN (OR WALK) FROM ONE END OF THE LIBRARY TO THE OTHER! Course is designed to be completed in a circle and is about a mile long. Register by November 10th by calling 665-4683 or in person at the library. Participants are asked to get sponsors or make a donation on their own. Open to all ages and ability levels.

LIBRARY CLOSED -THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
2017-11-23

LIBRARY CLOSED - TOWN HOLIDAY - THE DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING
2017-11-24
See you on Saturday from 10-5.

Friends of Tilton Library Meeting
2017-12-04 18:30 - 20:00
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…

Mystery Book Discussion - Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
2017-12-07 18:30 - 19:45
A “brilliant and strikingly original re-imagining of the classic whodunit (a la Agatha Christie) with a contemporary mystery wrapped around it”– Provided by publisher.
When she realizes that the final chapter of mystery writer Alan Conway’s latest manuscript is missing and Alan later turns up dead, editor Susan Ryeland follows clues buried in the text to investigate the author’s suspicious death.
Join us on the first Thursday 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 featuresfree pizza while it lasts. Free and open to all.

"Polishing the Bones" a presentation by Penelope Tarasuk - POSTPONED
2017-12-11 18:30 - 20:00
“Polishing the Bones” is an intimate portrayal of a woman’s unfolding inner journey through her Jungian analysis, her dreams, and her terminal illness as she is guided deeper into the mysteries of life and the extraordinary transformation of her death.
The true story of an unusually creative woman, Laura, following her life’s transformation and individuation, with all its longing, pain, transcendent beauty, love, and life’s completion. After the conclusion of her Jungian analysis, Laura becomes terminally ill and is supported by a few intimates including her former analyst, who comes to live with the family to help her die. The intimacy and depth of relationship between the two women, and the foundation of guiding dreams that developed in the analysis, forms a container for an unfolding spiritual journey with numinous experience and sacred visions. We witness the tender care of Laura through and after her death as well as the experience of the author, who undergoes her own transformation through an awe-inspiring initiation into the realm of death itself.(from the publisher)
A Deerfield resident, Penelope Tarasuk is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Massachusetts working with individuals, couples, and families. She is a senior training analyst and faculty member of the New England Society of Jungian Analysts and the C. G. Jung Institute of Boston.

Jack Frost Party
2017-12-16 15:00 - 17:00
Drop in Saturday afternoon to make snowmen paper chains, decorate snowflake cookies, make origami 3D paper stars, make mitten garlands, make paper snowflakes, make birdseed cakes to hang outside and put snowballs (marshmallows) in cocoa! Free and open to all. No sign up needed.

Third Thursday Book Discussion - Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
2017-12-21 18:30 - 19:45
A memoir by an award-winning paleobiologist traces her childhood in her father’s laboratory, her longtime relationship with a brilliant but wounded colleague and the remarkable discoveries they have made both in the lab and during extensive field research assignments.
Third Thursday is an informal group, open to all, no sign up necessary. Reserve your book at the adult circulation desk or online.
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Deerfield Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. www.massculturalcouncil.org
