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November 2018 Vol. 11 Iss. 11 Tellabration! A Celebration of the Oral Tradition Wednesday, November 7th | 6:30-8:30pm | Community Room No registration required

Tellabration is a mammoth storytelling event--and that’s no tall tale! It’s a storytelling phenomenon, made up of dozens of storytelling happenings all over the world. Its purpose is to introduce adults and children to the pleasures of the oral art of storytelling. It is one of the programs offered by The Connecticut Storytelling Center, based at Connecticut College in New London.

At Wallingford Public Library’s Tellabration, Rona Leventhal will perform. Rona Leventhal has been sharing her passion for the power of story for 27 years, putting laughter in the bellies and smiles in the hearts of listeners. One person said of Rona’s style, “Throughout the story I felt like I was watchingPhoto a Credit: fully Deborah staged Feingold play with scenery and a cast.” Rona’s performances are dynamic, evocative, funny...sometimes all at the same time! Rona is a Teller of Tales, a Workshop Leader, Coach, Teaching Artist, Consultant and by all accounts, a mensch.

Grayson Hugh and Polly Messer Thursday, November 29th | 7:00-8:00pm Community Room | No registration required

Grayson Hugh is an internationally-acclaimed singer/songwriter. His debut release Blind to Reason (RCA 1988) earned two gold records in Australia and the U.S. and garnered several international radio hits. His songs are a unique combination of highly poetic lyrics set to a fascinating blend of folk, bluegrass, classic soul, and rock ‘n roll.

His second record Road to Freedom was called one of 1992’s top ten albums by Billboard Magazine. Two songs from that record were featured in the filmThelma & Louise in 1991. Grayson taught songwriting at Berklee College of Music in Boston from 1999 through 2003. In 2010 Grayson released An American Record, co-produced by Polly Messer. His 2015 record Back to the Soul was on the Official Ballot for a 2015 Grammy in the Best Americana Album category.

Polly Messer began her career as a singer with the Connecticut swing band Eight to the Bar in 1977. While touring up and down the east coast with them, she met Grayson in a recording studio and soon after, began singing backup vocals for his band Grayson Hugh & the Wildtones. In 2007, she teamed up with Grayson once again to sing on his record. Polly and Grayson were married in August 2008.

This is a rare opportunity to hear Grayson Hugh and Polly Messer perform some of Grayson’s hits from radio and film, as well as previously unreleased songs, in an intimate, acoustic setting.

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Sensory Story Time Nutcracker Ballet Story Time Saturday, November 3rd | 11:00am Tuesday, November 20th | 10:30am or 11:30am Birth – Age 10 | Collins Room Ages 3 and up | Community Room Does your child have difficulty sitting through story time? If Join us for Nutcracker Creative Movement for so, this inclusive, interactive program of stories, songs, and children presented by ballet dancers from the movement may be just what you are looking for! Sensory Story Eastern CT Ballet Company. They will read the story Time is especially welcoming for children on the spectrum, those of the Nutcracker and dancers in costume will dance with a variety of learning styles or sensory integration challenges, and act out the story with the children. and their families. LEGO Club Mini-Makers: Fairy Tale STEAM Saturday, November 24th | 10:30am Tuesday, November 6th | 4:30pm Grades K-5 (and grown-up guest) Grades K-2 | Children’s Program Room Children’s Program Room The Big Bad Wolf is coming to huff and puff and blow your house Bring your imagination and join us for an hour of fun with LEGO down! Can you build a house strong enough to stop him? Parents bricks! At this program, kids and their grown-up will have a chance should plan to stay in the room with their child. No younger siblings, to show off their building skills with LEGO bricks provided by please. the Library. Because the LEGO bricks pose a choking hazard, no younger siblings please. Reading to Rover Wednesday, November 7th The Break-it Make-it Lab: 4:30pm – 5:30pm Toy Take Apart Workshop Ages 3 and up | Children’s Room Wednesday, November 28th | 4:30pm Sign up for a specific 15-minute time Grades 3-5 | Children’s Program Room slot to practice your reading skills with What makes your toys and gadgets click, buzz, and whir? Take a trained therapy dog! You don’t need them apart to find out! to be a proficient reader, just be able to turn the pages of a book. Learn and Grow Collaboration Station: The next time you read a book together with your child, try playing the Exploring LED Lights “I Spy” game using the book’s illustrations. This is a great way to be involved with the illustrations and build your child’s vocabulary, too! Wednesday November 7th | 6:30pm Grades 3-5 | Collaboratory Learn how to add LED lights to bookmarks and greeting cards. Text EZWPL to 313131 to receive one text message per week with A supervising adult must register with a tip to help your child (age 0-5) get ready to read. This is a free each child. service, but standard texting charges may apply.

Story Walks @ Choate Thursday, November 8th | 9:30am or 2:00pm Children’s Staff Pick Ages 3-5 | Kohler Environmental Center Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons Join retired kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Stowe to find hidden pages byAmy Krouse Rosenthal Preschool and up from a book along a trail through the woods and learn about nature along the way! Please meet us at the Kohler Environmental Everyone knows cookies taste good, Center (211 East Main Street) and follow the signs to the but these cookies also have something footbridge. good to say. Open this delectable book to any page and you will find out something about life.

2 Drop-In Programs

Chess Club Big Ideas Book Club Saturday, November 3rd | 10:00am – 12:00noon Saturday, November 10th | 10:30am Grades K-12 | Children’s Room Ages 3-6 | Children’s Program Room Join master chess player, Wayne Aguiar to learn and play this classic Join us for a casual, inclusive book club for strategy game. All are welcome: whether you are just learning, want families who want to introduce their kids to to improve your game, or just want to have fun. big ideas through picture books, discussion, and age-appropriate activities. Siblings are Firefighter Story Time welcome! This month, we will be talking Monday, November 5th | 1:30pm about gender. Registration is encouraged to Ages 2 and up | Library Parking Lot help plan for craft supplies. Join us for a special firefighter story time, complete with a real fire truck! Come listen Police Officer Story Time to fire truck stories, meet real Wallingford Thursday, November 15th | 10:30am firefighters, view one of Wallingford’s fire Ages 2 and up | Library Parking Lot trucks, and learn fire safety tips.Registration Come meet one of Wallingford’s Police Officers, for a reminder email is encouraged. hear some stories, and tour a police cruiser! The program will take place in the side parking Reading Buddies lot, but in the case of bad weather, we will meet Friday, November 9th | 6:00pm – 7:30pm in the Children’s Program Room. Registration Grades 1-2 | Children’s Program Room for a reminder email is encouraged. Need a little extra reading help? Choate student volunteers will join 1st & 2nd graders for activities such as reading together, playing Edward Leonard’s interactive games, and doing group read-alouds and skits. Saturday Sing-Along Saturday, November 17th | 10:30am Birth – Age 8 | Community Room Homework Help with Ms. Cabrera Put on your dancing shoes and join Edward Mondays & Wednesdays from 4:00pm to 8:00pm Leonard for a fun family program that Ms. Cabrera, a bilingual teacher, is available after school combines songs, dance, instruments, and during the school year. This program is meant to help parents of course, acting silly! understand their child’s assignments and to help children who don’t know how to begin.

Holiday For Giving This year Wallingford is celebrating its 50th At the end of the drive, we will pass all of the anniversary of Holiday for Giving and we’d like to help collected books on to the town so they can be make it a spectacular year! wrapped and distributed to families in need. Help make someone’s holiday a little brighter with Holiday for Giving is a town initiative that collects your generosity. We will accept donations through books, toys, food, and other household supplies December 6th. We appreciate your consideration! to help ensure that all of Wallingford’s residents have a happy holiday season. As a library, we will specifically be collecting books to aid the drive. If you are interested in participating, bring a new, unwrapped children’s book (or two!) directly to the Children’s Room and we will add it to our donation box.

3 Teen Things

Introduction to 3D Printing Wednesday, November 7th | 3:30-4:30pm Teen Computers | Registration required Learn the basics of 3D printing! In this class students will learn all about our 3D printer – the Ultimaker2+. After this class you will be able to find objects to print and edit them to your specification, understand how to scale objects, and add support to them. Each student will get to print one object of their choice. First time participants only, please. Open to Teens in grades 6-12.

Teen Cuisine: Mashed Potatoes Thursday, November 8th | 3:15-4:30pm Community Room | Registration required It’s not Thanksgiving without mashed potatoes! Learn how to make this classic turkey day side dish from scratch! No boxed flakes here. Open to all in grades 6-12. All materials provided.

Introduction to Zentangle Tuesday, November 13th | 6:00-7:30pm Collins Room | Registration required The Zentangle Method is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. These patterns are called Tangles! In this class we will combine tangles to form a beautiful landscape! No drawing experience is required. All materials provided. Open to all in grades 6-12.

Dungeons and Dragons Adventure Saturday, November 17th | 12:00-2:00pm Collaboratory | Registration appreciated Come and participate in a 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons game with a knowledgeable Dungeon Master. Please come prepared with a level 3 character sheet and basic knowledge of 5th Edition rules and mechanics. No beginners please. Open to players in grades 9 and up. If you would like to learn how to play Dungeons and Dragons, stay tuned for the beginner’s workshop on Thursday, December 13th, just for teens!

Haunted Gargoyle Ornaments Thursday, November 29th | 4:00-7:00pm Collins Room | Registration required Haunt your holidays! Learn basic clay sculpting techniques and make your own pet gargoyle to hang on your tree or to keep you company at your desk. All sculptures will be featured in the display cases in the library’s front hallway and returned to you in time for the holidays! Open to all in grades 6-12.

4 Gatherings

Knit @ WPL Mystery Book Group: Tuesdays, November 6th & 20th | 6:00-7:30pm In the Bleak Midwinter Board Room | No registration required by Julia Spencer-Fleming Knit @ WPL is a place where knitters and crocheters Wednesday, November 7th | 3:00-4:15pm can practice their work in the company of others. Community Room | No registration required Newcomers are welcome to join, but knitting experience Clare Fergusson, the first female priest of an is required. Why knit? Research shows that knitting supports a healthy Episcopal church in Millers Kill, New York, finds herself immersed in brain and helps elevate mood. What are you waiting for? Grab your murder when a newborn baby is abandoned and a young mother is needles and yarn (we will provide materials if you are without) and come brutally slain, forcing her to dig deeply into the town’s secrets. to a fun-filled evening.The group meets the first and third Tuesday of each month. Copies of the book are available at the Information Desk. This Book Group is moderated by Carole Shmurak, author of 11 books and WPL Play Readers Professor Emerita at Central Connecticut State University. Tuesday, November 6th | 6:30-8:30pm Collins Room | No registration required Thursday Night Book Club: The Wallingford Public Library Play Readers perform dramatic The Accidental Tourist readings of comedies and dramas, monologues, scenes from William by Anne Tyler Shakespeare’s plays, and short plays of Thornton Wilder and Eugene Thursday, November 15th | 7:00-8:30pm O’Neill. Members of the group select plays and cast roles for members. Collins Room | No registration required You may join the WPL Play Readers as a spectator or participant. Grieving travel writer Macon Leary hates travel, adventure, surprises, and anything outside of Saturday Mornings with Poetry his routine. Then he meets Muriel, an eccentric Saturdays, November 10th & 24th| 9:45am-Noon dog trainer. Muriel up-ends Macon’s solitary Board Room | No registration required life, pulling him into a messy love story he A meeting of people who love reading and writing poetry. SMwP never imagined. In this irresistible novel, Anne provides poetic opportunities for anyone to share their poetry, discuss Tyler explores the chemistry of how opposites the literary works of poets known and unknown, and expand skills in attract and the struggle to rebuild a life after writing and editing poems in the shared camaraderie of comfortable, unspeakable tragedy. supportive members. Copies of the book are available at the Information Desk. Discussion Wallingford Writers Community moderated by Cindy Haiken. Refreshments will be served. Saturday, November 17th | 2:00-4:00pm Board Room | No registration required Wallingford Reads YA: Join the Wallingford Writers Community and discover how the Outrun the Moon by Stacey Lee fellowship of other writers can help you pursue your writing goals! Thursday, November 29th | 7:00-8:00pm Monthly meetings are facilitated by award-wining author, Cheryl Bardoe, Board Room | No registration required and creative writing teacher, Kristin Liu. All meetings include dedicated Fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong is determined writing time, craft techniques for fiction and literary nonfiction, and the to break from the poverty of Chinatown, San opportunity to share work in a supportive, creative forum. Francisco in 1906, and an education at St. Clare’s School for Girls is her best hope. Although St. Clare’s is off-limits to all but the wealthiest white girls, Mercy gains admittance through a mix of cunning and a little bribery, only to discover that Friday Night Flicks getting in was the easiest part. Not to be undone by a bunch of spoiled heiresses, Mercy stands strong—until disaster strikes. On April 18, a historic earthquake rocks San Francisco, destroying Mercy’s home and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again school. Friday, November 2nd | 6:00pm | Community Room | PG-13 All teens and adults are welcome at this book discussion where we A woman grapples with running her mother’s villa while also discuss Young Adult Literature. Lauren Rumi moderates. Copies of the expecting her first child and worries that she won’t be able to book are available at the Information Desk. handle everything on her own, so she enlists two of her mother’s friends for assurance, help and guidance.

Incredibles 2 Friday, November 9th | 6:00pm | Community Room | PG Mr. Incredible is left home with the kids when Elastigirl becomes For book news and reading suggestions the new face of superheroes. visit our library book blog at northmainbooknotes.blogspot.com

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6 22 THURSDAY 29 THURSDAY Library Closed - Thanksgiving 3pm | Laser Cut Snowmen Become a member of the 4pm | Haunted Gargoyle Ornaments Wallingford Public Library Association 23 FRIDAY 6:30pm & 7:30pm | Computer Tutoring Library Closed - Thanksgiving 7pm | Grayson Hugh and Polly Messer The Wallingford Public Library relies 7pm | Wallingford Reads YA: on member contributions in addition Outrun the Moon to funding it receives from the Town of 24 SATURDAY Wallingford. We hope you will support 9:45am | Saturday Mornings with Poetry 30 FRIDAY the Library by becoming a member of the 10:30am | LEGO Club Wallingford Public Library Association. Library Open 9:30am-9pm 25 SUNDAY Your support helps ensure that the Library Library Closed will continue to be a dynamic hub that serves and inspires individuals and families throughout our community. To join the 26 MONDAY Wallingford Public Library Association, 2pm | Introduction to hoopla visit our website or request a membership 4-8pm | Homework Help envelope at the Library. WORDS, a 7pm | Artistic Expressions of publication of the Wallingford Public Transgender Youth Library, is sent electronically to members of the Wallingford Public Library Association. As a non-profit 501(c)(3) 27 TUESDAY organization, we are also eligible to accept 11am-1:30pm | Literacy Volunteers a bequest from your estate plan. 7pm | Sex! Drugs! ...And Ronald Reagan

28 WEDNESDAY 4-8pm | Homework Help Staff Picks 4:30pm | Break-It Make-It Lab: Toy Take Apart Workshop 6pm | Computer Tutoring

Monday 10am-3pm Tuesday 10am-2pm Wednesday 1pm-5pm The Great Alone The Tattooist of Auschwitz The Secret History Thursday 1pm-4pm by Kristin Hannah Friday 10am-3pm by Heather Morris by Donna Tartt Children’s Saturday 10am-2pm JulieRio Cindy Librarians November Specials:

CDs, DVDs, Holiday Books, Cook Books Did You Know? BOGO

First Saturday of the Month: BOGO with the exception By using Amazon Smile to do your holiday of tote bags shopping (smile.amazon.com), 0.5% of your

Please note: The Book Seller no longer purchase will help support the Library. accepts donations on Friday afternoons

7 Happenings

Allergy-Conscious Holiday Cooking Artistic Expressions of Thursday, November 1st | 7:00-8:00pm Transgender Youth Community Room | Registration appreciated Monday, November 26th | 7:00-8:30pm Thanksgiving and the holiday season are here! For many Community Room | No registration required of us, that means lots and lots of cooking for family Take a journey and friends. But what if someone can’t eat gluten and into the lives someone else can’t eat dairy? No problem! Join Marisa of transgender McCoy, ShopRite of Wallingford’s Registered Dietitian, for youth through a program about allergy-conscious cooking. You will learn their artwork. about the eight main allergies, and what to substitute with Transgender when cooking and baking. And Marisa will make a fabulous youth advocate, gluten-free dessert to sample. Bring fun and flavor to certified coach, allergy-conscious cooking! and author Tony Ferraiolo, will Lunch & Learn: Fat Attack Returns bring you along for an exploration of his work with trans Monday, November 5th | 11:30am-1:00pm youth, told through the eyes of the youth themselves. Community Room | Registration required Join Tony for an open discussion and book signing of the Come and learn about “Fat Attack”--a fun and interactive books in his Artistic Expressions of Transgender Youth workshop designed to raise awareness about the amount series. of fat hidden in many food items we eat. Presented by Dianisi Torres, Nutrition Outreach Educator with UCONN’s Tony Ferraiolo is a Life Coach who has dedicated himself Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program. to promoting competent and respectful health care for Co-sponsored by Masonicare. the transgender community by educating providers, advocating on behalf of patients, and training educators Veteran’s Panel Discussion on providing a safe and respectful space for transgender Thursday, November 8th | 6:30-8:30pm children in a school environment. Community Room | No registration required To commemorate Veterans Day, a panel of veterans will Sex! Drugs! ...and Ronald Reagan? recount their experiences. Refreshments will be served. Tuesday, November 27th, 7:00-8:00pm Collins Room | No registration required Marc Youngquist is a retired MSgt U.S. Army. His book, The Local author Michael Jay 143rd in Iraq, will be for sale at this event. Proceeds benefit will talk about his book, Sex! the Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation to help blind veterans. Drugs!...and Ronald Reagan? which recounts true events Dennis Mannion, USMC, fought at the Siege of Khe Sanh. in and around the hotels Dennis is a retired coach and teacher from Sheehan High and restaurants where School. Michael worked: murders, attempted murders, Hamlet Hernandez had various deployments and robberies, attempted experiences as an officer with the U.S. Marines. He is the robberies, and infidelities. superintendent of the Branford Public Schools. After hearing Michael’s presentation, you will Yoga with Ramesh Patel definitely laugh, possibly Saturday, November 10th | 10:00-11:00am cry, and most certainly Community Room | Registration appreciated recommend this book to a This yoga class focuses on creating energy from within. friend. Copies of Michael’s book will be available for sale It also concentrates on physical health and mental and signing. well-being. During the class, we will focus on breathing techniques while doing the asanas (poses). The class will be a slower pace and focus on developing clear and safe Dungeons and alignment in foundational poses. Dragons Adventure Thursday, November 17th Please bring your own yoga mat, and do not eat a heavy meal 12noon-2:00pm | Collaboratory before class. Registration appreciated See Page 4 for info

8 What’s Circulating? Technology Classes

Introduction to the Collaboratory At the Wallingford Public Library, we are more than just Wednesday, November 14th | 10:00-11:30am | Collaboratory books! If you’ve been using the Library for a while, you Registration required For the past two years that the Collaboratory has been open, you know we are always adding new items to our collection. may have been wondering just what it is, or what you can actually We launched a circulating ukulele and telescope last year do in there. This class will teach you about all the resources we have and since then we’ve added board games, lawn games, available for you, answer any questions you have, and show you tech equipment and more! Here’s a full list of ALL the examples of what you can do with the technology. objects you can currently borrow from the Wallingford Medigap Reports with Weiss Ratings Public Library: Tuesday, November 20th | 2:00-3:30pm | Board Room Registration required Arts Equipment Looking for a Medigap insurance plan? Learn how to run a customized report through the library’s Weiss Ratings database. 15” Cricket loom The Medigap Report will give you step-by-step guidance on how Brother sewing machine to select Medigap insurance plan so you can feel confident in your French box easel decision. Please note: The Wallingford Public Library cannot offer advice or assistance with selecting, or registering for, any insurance Ukulele plan. This program is for informational purposes only. Board Games Catan (and Seafarers Expansion) Introduction to hoopla Munchkin Deluxe Monday, November 26th | 2:00-3:30pm | Board Room Registration required One Night Ultimate Werewolf Hoopla is the Library’s service for borrowing digital movies, music, Pandemic and audiobooks. Hoopla can be used on a computer, as well as most Ticket to Ride Android and iOS devices. In this class you will set up your hoopla account and learn how to search their catalog and borrow materials. Jigsaw Puzzles Please bring your library card, your fully charged device, and any Lawn Games (16 different games, including associated passwords to class. Note: hoopla is only available to Bocce, Cornhole, Ladder Golf, Wallingford cardholders. Croquet, Giant Connect 4, and more!) One-on-One Computer Tutoring Technology Devices Wednesdays | 6:00 Auto code scanner Thursdays | 6:30pm or 7:30pm Canon PowerShot digital camera Registration required Learn keyboard or mouse skills, word processing, Internet searching, GoPro online job applications, e-mail, or social media. Kill A Watt energy meters Mini projector Telescope Interested in ebooks, digital magazines, and streaming music Wifi hotspots and video from the library? Contact Janet Flewelling at (203) 265-6754 or [email protected] for individual instruction using your own device.

9 In The Collaboratory

Registration Required Ongoing Drop-In Programs

Handmade Travel Journal Workshop Game Night! Monday, November 5th | 6:30pm First and Third Tuesday of the month Make a softcover pamphlet stitched journal with pockets! You will November 6th & 20th | 6:30pm | Open to adults and teens learn the bookbinding basics and discover how to use a bone folder Bring your friends for an evening of board and awl. In this project, we will use two stitching techniques for one and card games! Explore our collection of 30+ book. games. Learn how to play a new one or return to an old favorite. Have a game you love? Bring it along and teach others how to play! Autumn Luminaries Tuesday, November 6th | 7:00pm OR Bead ‘n Banter Thursday, November 8th | 3:00pm Second Tuesday of the month Upcycle a tin can into a fall themed luminary. Using a stencil, we’ll November 13th | 6:30pm | Open to adults and teens hammer holes in the can to allow light to come through before Bring your projects to work on, share decorating them with paint and embellishments. inspiration, ideas, patterns, & sourcing, and join us to chat about all things beading. This drop-in group is for adults interested in Welcome the Holidays making jewelry who are willing to learn from with Your Handmade Wreath and share with each other. This is not a class Saturday, November 17th | 2:00pm or workshop. Bring your own supplies and Create a one-of-a-kind wreath to kick off the holiday season with a portable task light if you need one. Basic instructor Jude Hsiang. All supplies provided, although you are jewelry making tools are available at the Library. welcome to bring your own gardening/work gloves, pliers, and pruners. In addition, you may bring and share the following natural Open Sew materials from your own yard (8” or longer pieces will be best): Third Wednesday of the month | (Due to Thanksgiving, the November Evergreens (needled or broadleaved), berries, dried seed heads, or meeting will be on Wednesday, November 14th) | 5:00-9:00pm cones. Bring your unfinished projects, either machine or hand sewing to work on or just stop by to get ideas Please note: This is a repeat program. Due to space constraints, for your next project. There are 4 portable sewing please do not register if you have attended machines (or bring your own) and there are also lots this program previously. of tools to share including rotary blades, cutting mats, cutting table, scissors, rulers, and more!

Max Facts by Max Spurr

The holidays are approaching! They seem to come faster and faster every year, don’t they? Laser Cut Snowmen Maybe it’s just me, since we’ve been preparing Tuesday, November 20th | 7:00pm OR for the holidays here in the Collaboratory since Thursday, November 29th | 3:00pm Construct a snowman using parts cut out on our laser cutter, and September. We get started so early because things become very then decorate them using paints and other decorations. Basic busy around the holidays. We get such an influx of laser cutter computer skills required. requests, that each year we have a cutoff date for holiday laser cutter requests. This year, the last day holiday laser cut requests can be submitted is December 6th. Any laser cut jobs submitted Talking TED after December 6th will have no guarantee of being finished in time Thursday, November 8th | 7:00pm | Registration required for the holidays. All jobs are entered into the queue in the order New discussions on the second Thursday of each month they are submitted. Requests can be submitted any time during Join librarian Cindy Haiken to watch and discuss a popular TED Collaboratory full service hours. There are no deadlines for the self- talk. In November, we will be watching and discussing Casey service machines we have in the Collaboratory like the Silhouette Gerald’s thought-provoking TED talk “The Importance of Doubt.” and Cricut machines. I can’t wait to see what you make!

Laser Cutter Cut-Off Date: December 6th

10 The Last Words

Pages by Chris Ciemniewski New in Novels by Cindy Haiken

With Thanksgiving around the corner, we know food is probably on your Holly Golightly, the heroine of Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s, mind! So while you’re in-between your said that “Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that meal preparations (or maybe you’re season of beginning, spring.” As we flip the calendar to November, lucky enough to not have to be in the pull out the wool sweaters and start to think about Thanksgiving, kitchen at all!), you may want to check here are some wonderful new novels to read in anticipation of the out the stories behind some of the cold weather to come: world’s great chefs. The Adults by Caroline Hulse – A now-separated couple, their Before becoming the first female Iron Chef, Cat Cora was just a girl daughter and their new significant others go on holiday together in from Jackson, Mississippi. She grew up in a Greek home pursuing an attempt to give the daughter a “normal” family Christmas. a passion for cooking things from scratch. However, outside the kitchen she struggled with sexual abuse and growing up as a lesbian Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners by in the Deep South. Cooking as Fast as I Can (B COR) showcases how Gretchen Anthony – Matriarch Violet Baumgartner even those on the road to culinary fame may have to overcome their learns the hard way that no family is perfect when own challenges and hardships. her daughter reveals a shocking secret at Violet’s husband’s retirement party. After being orphaned at three years old in Ethiopia when his mother and sister died of tuberculosis, Marcus Samuelsson was adopted by The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem – A a couple in Sweden. There, his adoptive grandmother Helga instilled woman crosses the outskirts of California’s Inland Empire with a in him a love for cooking. Training in kitchens across Europe, Marcus stranger in search of a friend’s missing daughter and discovers embraced his multicultural upbringing by opening his restaurant, her companion’s complicated relationship with warring tribes of Red Rooster Harlem in New York City. Red Rooster Harlem features outcasts. a multicultural dining experience with a similarly diverse crowd of diners including presidents, jazz musicians, and bus drivers. His Forever and a Day by Anthony Horowitz – This biography Yes, Chef (B SAM) tells his unlikely journey from Ethiopia, thrilling prequel to Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale through Europe, and lastly New York City, where he finally feels at follows the mysterious demise of Agent 007 in the home. French Riviera underworld and the emergence of new agent, James Bond. Raised by a single mother as one of seven children in poor South Boston, Barbara Lynch grew up boosting booze, cars, and cabs. Jeeves and the King of Clubs by Ben Schott – The return of Bertie Always narrowly avoiding arrest or falling victim to drugs or Wooster and his unflappable valet Jeeves in an homage to P.G. violence, Lynch’s autobiography Out of Line (B LYN) describes how Wodehouse that is full of hijinks, entanglements, imbroglios and she overcame her troubled youth and found a passion in cooking. Wodehousian wordplay. Eventually she founded an empire of restaurants in Boston ranging from clam shacks to upscale dining experiences. A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne – An aspiring writer meets a celebrated novelist in a hotel in Jacques Pépin’s journey to becoming “the best chef in America” 1988 and uses the man’s long-held secret in his started during the Second World War. He grew up in war-torn first novel. France working on a farm in exchange for food when his father was captured by German soldiers. By age ten Jacques was enduring Also of note this month are the 9th Simon a trial by fire in his mother’s café. Slowly, he worked his way up Serrailler novel by Susan Hill (The Comforts of Home), the 19th book through the feudal system of France to become Charles de Gaulle’s in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall personal chef as the world began putting itself back together. As told Smith (The Colors of All the Cattle), the 26th Alex Cross thriller by in his autobiography The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen (B PEP), James Patterson (Target), the 23rd Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child he then came to America where he met a group of as-yet-unknown (Past Tense), the 14th NUMA Files thriller by Clive Cussler (Sea of chefs, including Julia Child–and the rest is culinary history! Greed), the 14th Chief Inspector Gamache novel by Louise Penny (Kingdom of the Blind), the 25th Stephanie Plum adventure by Janet To paraphrase Remy’s realization in the Disney-Pixar filmRatatouille , Evanovich (Look Alive Twenty-Five) and new novels by Jeffrey these chefs exemplify that “not everyone can become a great chef, Archer (Heads You Win), David Baldacci (Long Road to Mercy), but a great chef can come from anywhere.” Elizabeth Berg (Night of Miracles), Barbara Taylor Bradford (Master of His Fate), Richard Paul Evans (The Noel Stranger), Liane Moriarty (Nine Perfect Strangers), Danielle Steel (Beauchamp Hall) Adriana Trigiani (Tony’s Wife).

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November Hours Save the Date! Open Monday-Friday 9:30am - 9:00pm Etsy Artisan WORDS, a publication of the Open Saturdays Holiday Bazaar Wallingford Public Library, 9:30am - 5:00pm is mailed to members of the Wallingford Public Library Association. Closed Sundays Saturday, December 8th Main Library 200 North Main Street Veterans Day 9:30am-3:00pm Wallingford, CT 06492 Closed Monday, November 12th Phone (203) 265-6754 Text (203) 903-8447 wallingfordlibrary.org Thanksgiving A select group of crafters from the Library’s Etsy Early Closing at 6pm on Craft Entrepreneurship programs will come together Yalesville Branch Wednesday November 21st to offer a personalized shopping experience for 400 Church Street the holiday season. Meet the artists and purchase Closed Thursday and Friday Yalesville, CT 06492 unique handcrafted items including handmade (203) 269-3688 November 22nd & 23rd soaps and lotions, photography, original prints, textiles, pottery, and more! While each crafter has Jane Fisher an online shop, don’t miss this unique opportunity Director to see the artisan goods in person and meet the Silently, one by one, in the infinite artists. WORDS is edited by meadows of heaven, Blossomed the Christopher Ciemniewski “ The Wallingford Public Library has been proud from contributions by lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the to offer the introductory craft entrepreneurship library staff members. angels. workshop in partnership with Etsy, a global e-commerce platform for handcrafted goods. The program was presented in memory of Marcia W. Fix, ” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow an avid quilter, knitter, and WPL librarian. Text us! Evangeline (203) 903-8447