Seventeen year-old Lenni Pettersson has been told she’s terminal, or as she explains, they’ve started calling it a “life-limiting” condition. In a bid to fill the remainder of her days at the Glasgow Princess Royal Hospital she joins an art therapy class where she meets eighty-three year-old Margot. As their unlikely friendship develops, Lenni and Margot realize that between them they have […]

Join us for a virtual presentation by Nick Bellantoni, Emeritus CT State Archaeologist about his new book, "And So The Tomb Remained": Exploring Archaeology and Forensic Science Within Connecticut's Historical Mausolea.  Stone and brick tombs were repositories for the physical remains of many of Connecticut’s wealthiest and influential families. The desire to be interred within […]

Join us for a virtual author event with Lionel Shriver, joining us from London! About Should We Stay or Should We Go: When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can’t cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer’s had steadily eroded this erudite man into a paranoid lunatic. Surely one’s own father passing should never come as such a […]

Kristan Higgins returns to the Avon Library! Join us for a virtual, moderated conversation with one of our favorite authors! About Pack Up the Moon: Every month, a letter. That's what Lauren decides to leave her husband when she finds out she's dying. Each month, she gives Josh a letter containing a task to help […]