The witch's book of self-care : magical ways to pamper, soothe, and care for your body and spirit

Worship yourself the witchy way--learn how to nourish your body and spirit with herbal remedies, spells, and rituals inspired by witchcraft in this unique, enchanted guide to self-care! Self-care is a necessity for any modern woman, and this book helps yo...

A Sucky Love Story : Overcoming Unhappily Ever After

What if falling in love meant almost losing everything? Where does a moderately popular internet star who never leaves her house look for potential suitors? Online. Tinder, Bumble, Match.com, OkCupid--I tried them all. My thirty-one-year-old self clicked ...

The Secret Ingredient : The Perfect Ingredients for a Successful Life

Gigi Butler of Gigi's Cupcakes shares her personal success story, her hard-won business acumen, and the life-changing inspiration that she's gained from a challenging life. Each chapter includes a delicious dessert recipe for cupcakes and more! As a young...

Aftermath: Seven Secrets of Wealth Preservation in the Coming Chaos

In his most prescriptive book to date, financial expert and investment advisor James Rickards shows how and why our financial markets are being artificially inflated--and what smart investors can do to protect their assets What goes up, must come down. As...

The Minimalist Home: A Room-By-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life

A popular minimalist blogger and author of The More of Less shows you how to methodically turn your home into a place of peace, contentment, and purposeful living. One of today's most influential minimalist advocates takes us on a decluttering tour of our...

Game Changers:What Extraordinary People and World Class Thinkers Can Teach Us about Being Smarter, H

The bestselling author of Head Strong and The Bulletproof Diet answers the question, "How can I kick more ass at life?" by culling the wisdom of world-class thought leaders, maverick scientists, and disruptive entrepreneurs to provide proven tec...

Dressing on the Side (and Other Diet Myths Debunked)

Whether it's a new fad, "detox" diet, news report or a celebrity-endorsed supplement, the constant flow of diet information is cluttered, conflicting, and often devoid of scientific research-- leaving millions of us confused, overwhelmed, and fe...

Comfort Food Shortcut

Beloved television host and cookbook author David Venable is back with an eagerly anticipated collection of recipes, each with a full-color photo, that save on time but not on flavor. Who says everything has to be made from scratch? Here you'll find lots ...

The Clean Plate : Delicious, Detox-Friendly Recipes for Everyday Glow

Delicious food can heal the body. Reset and rebalance with clean recipes that are flexible and easy for busy weeknight meals or lunches on the go, and healthy enough for more intensive, doctor-supported cleanses. Gwyneth Paltrow gets the power of simple, ...

Bleak Harbor

Their son is gone. Deep down, they think they're to blame. Summertime in Bleak Harbor means tourists, overpriced restaurants, and the Dragonfly Festival. One day before the much-awaited and equally chaotic celebration, Danny Peters, the youngest member of...

13 Minute Murder

Michael Ryan has a talent to sell. He can kill anybody in just minutes-from the first approach to the clean escape. His skills have served him well, and he has a grand plan: to get out alive and spend his earnings with his beloved wife, Maria. An anonymou...

Death Comes to Bath

After Sir Robert's injury from the battle of Waterloo begins troubling him again, his wife Lucy insists they relocate from the village of Kurland St. Mary to Bath, along with her sister Anna, so that Robert can take the waters and recover. At the Roman ba...

The Mansion

In this white-knuckle thriller from the internationally bestselling author of the "apocalyptic extravaganza" ( Publishers Weekly ) The Hatching series, a family moves into a home equipped with the world's most intelligent, cutting-edge, and intu...

The Bride of Ivy Green

Much has happened in idyllic Ivy Hill in recent months, and while several villagers have found new love and purpose, questions remain--and a few dearly held dreams have yet to be fulfilled. Jane Bell is torn. Gabriel Locke is back and has made his intenti...

The Boy

An unfathomable loss or an unthinkable crime? #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag keeps you guessing in her most harrowing thriller yet. A panic-stricken woman runs in the dead of night, battered and bloodied, desperate to find help . . . When ...

The Dakota Winters

An evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the Winters, a family living in New York City's famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon's assassination It's the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Win...

Deep war : the war with China and North Korea, the nuclear precipice

After the United States suffers a devastating nuclear attack, and facing food shortages, power outages, cyber and AI assaults, and a wrecked economy, Admiral Dan Lenson leads an allied force assigned to turn the tide of war in the Pacific, using precisely...

Eggs on Ice

The Christmas season at the Cackleberry Club caf© is marred by murder in the latest book in the New York Times bestselling series. Some say that casting crusty attorney Allen Sharpe as Scrooge in the Kindred Players production of 'A Christmas Car...

The Enemy of My Enemy

Special agent James Cronley Jr. finds that fighting both ex-Nazis and the Soviet NKGB can lead to strange bedfellows, in the dramatic new Clandestine Operations novel about the birth of the CIA and the Cold War. A month ago, Cronley managed to capture two...

Ghost Virus

A young woman pours acid over her own body. A loving husband kills his wife. A headteacher throws her pupils out of a window. DC Jerry Pardoe and DS Jamila Patel of Tooting Police are at a loss. Why are such violent crimes being committed by the most unli...

Broken Ground

Internationale bestselling author Val McDermid is one of our finest crime writers, and her gripping, masterfully plotted novels have garnered millions of readers from around the globe. In Broken Ground , cold case detective Karen Pirie faces her hardest c...

Hooks can be Deceiving

National bestselling author Betty Hechtman brings the Tarzana Hookers to a winning thirteenth installment in the Crochet mysteries. It's going to get knotty. The Tarzana Hookers crochet club is ready for its close-up! But Molly Pink may be getting too clo...

House of Lies

A new investigation threatens to unearth skeletons from Rebus's past in this "must-read" (Tana French) mystery. Rebus' retirement is disrupted once again when skeletal remains are identified as a private investigator who went missing over a deca...

Liar's Paradox

A master of international intrigue, New York Times bestselling author Taylor Stevens introduces a pair of wild cards into the global spy game--a brother and sister who were raised to deceive--and trained to kill . . . They live in the shadows, Jack and Ji...

Once Upon a River

"One of the most pleasurable and satisfying new books I've read in a long time. Setterfield is a master storyteller...swift and entrancing, profound and beautiful." --Madeline Miller, internationally bestselling author of Circe and The Song of A...

Pandemic

New York Times -bestselling author Robin Cook takes on the cutting-edge world of gene-modification in this pulse-pounding new medical thriller. When an unidentified, seemingly healthy young woman collapses suddenly on the New York City subway and dies upo...

Three Secret Cities

The thrilling new novel featuring Jack West, Jr. from New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Matthew Reilly! A shadow world behind the real world When Jack West, Jr. won the Great Games, he threw the four legendary kingdoms into turmoil. A...

Siege of Stone : Sister of Darkness: the Nicci Chronicles, Volume III

Set in the world of the Sword of Truth saga, the ramifications of New York Times bestseller Terry Goodkind's Shroud of Eternity extend throughout all of the Old World as familiar allies, dangerous magic, and creatures created by twisted sorcery all work a...

Delicate Touch

Stone Barrington uncovers a societal minefield in the exhilarating new adventure from #1 New York Times -bestselling author Stuart Woods. When an old acquaintance reaches out to Stone Barrington requesting assistance, the job seems easy enough. She needs ...

Fractured Truth

When the mutilated remains of a young woman are found in an Appalachian Mountain cave, newly sworn-in deputy sheriff Brynn Callahan is forced to track down a killer driven by twisted motives . . . Not long after donning the uniform of the McCreary County ...

Verses for the Dead

Preston & Child return with their #1 bestselling series, confronting FBI Special Agent Pendergast with the one challenge he never expected: a partner. After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI's New York field office, A. X. L. Pendergast is abruptly ...

Watching You

The instant New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the "riveting thriller" ( PopSugar ) Then She Was Gone delivers another suspenseful page-turner about a shocking murder in a picturesque and well-to-do English town, perfect &q...

Tiamat's Wrath

The eighth novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major television series. Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the...

Contempt: A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation

Twenty years after the Starr Report and the Clinton impeachment, former special prosecutor Ken Starr finally shares his definitive account of one of the most divisive periods in American history. Starr's narrative includes behind-the-scenes details that h...

December Printable Calendar

1000 Books Before Kindergarten

The program is simple. Read a book and log it into the system. When you reach a milestone, head to the library to pick up a prize!

Super Science

Tuesday, 12/11, 4 pm. For curious children in grades 1-5. Join in the hands-on fun to learn science while doing real experiments.

Visit form Mrs. Claus

Wednesday, 12/12, 4 pm. Sing holiday songs, listen to a tale with storyboards, and have your picture taken with Mrs. Claus!

PJs Pizza & Movie : Smallfoot

Families can enjoy Pizza & a Movie, there is a $1.00 fee per attendee. No registration required but space is limited to the first 80 people to arrive. Tickets will be handed out at 5:45, door will close at 6:15. For more information please call NPL Ch...

Winter Solstice Celebration

Sunday, 12/16, 2-4 pm. Join the celebration of the Winter Solstice to create winter decorations for the Children's Department and your home. All ages welcome!

Graphic Novel Book Club : Nightmare Before Christmas

3rd Wednesday of the month. 6-7 pm. Read a graphic novel and come discuss what you thought over pizza! Meant for 5th - 8th graders. No registration necessary! We will be reading the following books: September 19 - Illegal by Eoin Colfer; October 17 - Tim ...

Library Closings

12/24, library closes at 1 pm.

12/25, library closed.

12/31, library closes at 1 pm.

Scavenger Hunt

Friday, 12/21-12/31. Drop in to play! For ages 10 and up.

Countdown to New Year's Eve Party with Squeaky Clean

Dance your way into the New Year with live music with the band Squeaky Clean.  Families can join us in a countdown to noon to ring in the New Year just a few hours early.  All ages welcome!

Mayor Rilling Announces Search for Norwalk's Next Poet Laureate

The Poet Laureate will serve as an ambassador of the community’s vibrant artistic and literary life, promoting the literary community and celebrating the written word. I look forward to seeing all of the great applications for this valuable position,” sai...

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Here are 10 things you have to know to be computer literate today.

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Graphic Novel Book Club : Nightmare Before Christmas

3rd Wednesday of the month. 6-7 pm. Read a graphic novel and come discuss what you thought over pizza! Meant for 5th - 8th graders. No registration necessary! We will be reading the following books: September 19 - Illegal by Eoin Colfer; October ...