The Afghan – Audio CD Review

The Afghan
By: Frederick Forsyth
Book on CD
Read by:  Robert Powell
9 CDs, 11 Hours
Reviewed by:  Paul McMahon
Yes the same Frederick Forsyth who wrote Pillars of the Earth and World Without End.
He also wrote some mystery classics like Day of  the Jackal and Whiteout.
This is a terrorist based suspense novel.  Forsythe appears to have done a lot of research for [...]

National Book Award Winners Announced

Annette Gordon-Reed won the nonfiction award for The Hemingses of Monticello:  An American Family.
In addition to the above title, Tunxis Library also has in its collection the poetry award winner, Mark Doty’s, Fire to Fire:  New and Selected Poems.
The fiction award went to Peter Matthiessen for Shadow Country. The Young People’s Literature award went to [...]

Connecticut Restaurant Week

If you’re planning to eat out this week, click on the image below to see if your favorite restaurant is participating in the promotion.

Poet Laureate – Kay Ryan

If you’d like to read some of the works of this year’s Poet Laureate of the United States, Tunxis Library has three of her collections of poetry. Here is a fantastic page with information about her.

We have Wireless!

We are pleased to announce that we now have wireless access for personal computers in the Tunxis Library. When you fire up your laptop and search for available wireless networks, you will see the TXCC-Public network. This is it! Once connected you will be presented with an authentication or logon screen when you first attempt [...]

Chill Factor – Audio CD Review

Chill Factor
Book on CD
By Sandra Brown
Read by: Stephen Lang
Review by: Paul McMahon
The story is set in Western North Carolina, miles from the Tennessee border, mountainous, and a brutal ice storm lays down an inch of ice and then feet of snow.  Every step on ice under snow.  My butt still hurts.  The first thing you feel [...]