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Archive for 2022

The March Mystery Book Club Selection

Lisa Gardner's When You See Me novel cover.

Join us as we discuss When You See Me by Lisa Gardner. FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy and Sergeant Detective D. D. Warren have built a task force to follow the digital bread crumbs left behind by deceased serial kidnapper Jacob Ness. When a disturbing piece of […]

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Tuesday Book Club Title for March

9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland book cover.

Join us as we discuss The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim Defede. When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the […]

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Herbert Hoover In a New Light – 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 8 – Zoom Presentation

Black and white portrait of Calvin Coolidge.

Join us for this fascinating presentation by Phil Devlin! When liberal Democratic Senator Robert F. Kennedy appeared on the Dick Cavett show in the spring of 1968, Cavett asked him to name the man he most admired in American history. After pausing a few seconds, RFK looked […]

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Library Closed 02/25/22 Due to Icy Road Conditions

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Our online resources are available to you 24 hours a day! Libby has a wide range of audiobooks, e-books and magazines. Hoopla offers audiobooks, e-books, TV shows, movies, music, and graphic novels Scholastic Bookflix for Kids offers both fiction and non-fiction e-books, age appropiate games and puzzles. […]

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Check Out Our New Children’s Classic Section!

New classic starts book series location.

The Killingworth Library has a new children’s classics section! These abridged classic stories are ideal for readers aged 7 – 10 years old in grades 2 through 4: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Gulliver’s Travels Journey to the Center of the Earth Moby-Dick Oliver Twist Robinson Crusoe […]

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Bookmark Collection Contest

Saturn rings over icy alien landscape.

Winter evenings are an ideal time to study the night skies! This bookmark collection contest will feature different bookmarks on a space-themed topic (given when you check out a book). A different bookmark will be handed out each week during the month of February – you can […]

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The February Mystery Book Club Selection

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    The book club met on February 17, 2022 to discuss A Better Man by Louise Penny.  We rated the book a 4.3 with several 5’s.  Several members thought that they wished they knew more about the characters previously mentioned in earlier novels.  All agreed it […]

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Celebrate the 11th Annual Take Your Child to the Library Day with Killingworth Library! 

Take Your Child to the Library Day!

Take Your Child to the Library Day (TYCLD) is an international initiative that encourages families everywhere to take their children to their local library. Launched in 2011 right here in Connecticut by librarians Nadine Lipman (Waterford Public Library, retired) and Caitlin Augusta (Stratford Library) with artist Nancy […]

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For Everyone’s Safety – Masks Are Required While in the Library Building

Shakespeare statue wearing a face mask.

Help keep everyone safe! Remember, you can not tell if someone is immune compromised simply by looking at them! Practice kindness, and wear a mask!

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Tuesday Book Club Title for February

Egan's A Pilgrimage to Eternity book cover.

Join us at the February 8th meeting of the Killingworth Library Tuesday Book Discussion Group as we discuss A Pilgrimage to Eternity: from Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith by Timothy Egan. Moved by his mother’s death and his Irish Catholic family’s complicated history with […]

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