AFPL Adult Programs
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Jazz Age Murder: Author Event with Carolyn Marie Wilkins (in-person)
Community Room 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, United StatesJoin us for a in-person program: part author event, part musical event, with author Carolyn Marie Wilkins, to celebrate the release of her newest book in the A Psychics and Soul Food Mystery Series. About Let the Murderer Say Amen: As prosperity and great cultural changes sweep across 1920s Jazz Age America, Nola Ann Jackson learns […]
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Austria Book Discussion Series: The Last Train to London
Community Room 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, United StatesAustria Book Discussion Series at the Avon Public Library Mon., Aug. 3, 2026 at 2 PM: The Last Train to London Meg Waite Clayton A novel that is a tribute to victims and survivors of Nazis' early terrors, and to the woman who at great personal risk and sacrifice subverted Hitler's will. This is an […]
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C&C: Conversation & Camaraderie (in-person)
Atrium, First Floor Reference Area 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, United StatesConversations & Camaraderie: a Farmington Valley Men’s Social Group Focusing on friendship among men from Avon and the neighboring towns. This group is focused on in-depth, philosophical conversations on a variety of topics; each meeting will have a different conversation starter. As of January 2026, this group will meet every week. The same topic is explored […]
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Irena’s Gift: An Epic WWII Memoir of Sisters, Secrets, and Survival/Author Event with Karen Kirsten (in-person)
Community Room 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, United StatesJoin us for an in-person event with Karen Kirsten, to showcase Irena's Gift. If we seal off the past, how will we ever know the truth? In 1942, in German-occupied Poland, a Jewish baby girl was smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto in a backpack. That baby, Joasia, knew nothing about this extraordinary event until […]
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Sunlight Finds You/Author Event with Laura Moriarty (in-person)
Community Room 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, United StatesJoin us for an in-person presentation by author Laura Moriarty, to celebrate the release of Sunlight Finds You. A forbidden love blows open the world of a teenage girl, altering the trajectory of her life–from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Chaperone. It’s 1949, early in the Cold War, but St. Petersburg, Florida is warm, […]