The Liar’s Club: A Memoir, by Mary Karr. Check availability here
Wow! Where do I begin? Very fast paced, extremely vivid true story of a WILD childhood. I read this for hours on end over the weekend, staying up late because I was dying to know how it turned out. No [...]
The premier science encyclopedia, The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, can now be accessed online at the Tunxis Library web site. The 8,500 signed articles in the encyclopedia, as well as 110,000 definitions, and over 2,000 biographies can be accessed through AccessScience. Additional features include RSS feeds, Flash animations, image galleries, podcasts, [...]
Three Cups of Tea: one man’s mission to fight terrorism and build nations – one school at a time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. Check availability here
After a failed attempt to climb K2, the world’s second highest peak, Mortenson was lost and dying when he was taken in by villagers in a remote [...]
Before or after attending the Tunxis Writers Festival on April 23, see our display of books by the featured authors just inside the new library entrance. You can see a list of the titles and their availability here.
The winners in Fiction and History are owned by Tunxis Library:
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
HOT READ PS3554.I259 B75 2007
What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
E338.H69 2007
For a complete list of winners click here
High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxins, and Human Health
Writing Tides: Finding Grace and Growth through Writing
Weight Loss Surgery: Is it right for you?
Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television
The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrists’ [...]
Shadow Dance by Julie Garwood
Grass for His Pillow by Lian Hearn
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century by Thomas L. Friedman
