The Fifth Risk : Undoing Democracy

"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments, similar stories were playing out: Trump appointees were few a...

Every Breath

"Nicholas Sparks returns with his signature combination of gripping, emotionally resonant storytelling and love overcoming all odds"-- Provided by publisher.

Elevation

Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The latest from legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie, and moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together--a timely, upbeat tale abou...

Desperate Measures

Stone Barrington faces down danger on New York's mean streets in the latest thriller from perennial fan favorite Stuart Woods. Upon returning to the states from a European jaunt, Stone Barrington makes the acquaintance of a stunning woman who seems like s...

Dark Sacred Night

Harry Bosch teams up with LAPD Detective Renée Ballard in the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly. Detective Renée Ballard is working the night beat--known in LAPD slang as "the late show"--...

The Clockmaker's Daughter

"A rich, spellbinding new novel from the author of The Lake House - the story of a love affair and a mysterious murder that cast their shadows across generations, set in England from the 1860's until the present day"-- Provided by publisher.

The Big Fella : Babe Ruth and the World He Created

From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax, comes the definitive biography of Babe Ruth--the man Roger Angell dubbed "the model for modern celebrity." He lived in the present tense--in ...

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life : A Sortabiography

From the ingenious comic performer, founding member of Monty Python, and creator of Spamalot , comes an absurdly funny memoir of unparalleled wit and heartfelt candor We know him best for his unforgettable roles on Monty Python--from the Flying Circus to ...

A Noise Daownstairs

After a college professor catches a colleague trying to dispose of two dead bodies, his quiet life is shattered. He suffers from PTSD and begins to believe that a typewriter--a present from his wife--is making typing noises on its own. Is he losing his mi...

Killing Commendatore

The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84 In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohi...

Holy Ghost

Virgil Flowers investigates a miracle--and a murder--in the wickedly entertaining new thriller from the master of "pure reading pleasure" ( Booklist ) Pinion, Minnesota: a metropolis of all of seven hundred souls, for which the word "moribu...

The Fox

The #1 New York Times -bestselling master of international intrigue takes readers into the bleeding-edge world of technological espionage in a propulsive thriller that feels chillingly real. Former chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service Adrian W...

Gone So Long

Few writers can enter their characters so completely or evoke their lives as viscerally as Andre Dubus III. In this deeply compelling new novel, a father, estranged for the worst of reasons, is driven to seek out the daughter he has not seen in decades.Da...

GMORNING, GNIGHT! : little pep talks for me & you

From the creator and star of Hamilton, with beautiful illustrations by Jonny Sun, comes a book of affirmations to inspire readers at the beginning and end of each day. "When the world is bringing you down, Gmorning, Gnight! will remind you that you a...

Ambush

Only Detective Michael Bennett stands in the way of two lethal cartels fighting for New York City's multi-million -dollar opioid trade. And they know where Bennett, and his family, live. An anonymous tip about a crime in Upper Manhattan proves to be a set...

Thirst : A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World

An inspiring personal story of redemption, second chances, and the transformative power within us all, from the founder and CEO of the nonprofit charity: water. At 28 years old, Scott Harrison had it all. A top nightclub promoter in New York City, his lif...

a spark of light

"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis. The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center a women's repr...

There There

"This is a novel about what it means to inhabit a land both yours and stolen from you, to simultaneously contend with the weight of belonging and unbelonging. There is an organic power to this book--a revelatory, controlled chaos. Tommy Orange writes...

Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart

Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple-- "an American novel of permanent importance" ( San Francisco Chronicle)-- crafts a bilingual collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely...

Shell

In this spellbinding and poignant historical novel--perfect for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Flamethrowers --a Swedish glassmaker and a fiercely independent Australian journalist are thrown together amidst the turmoil of the 1960s and the d...

Shade : A Tale of Two Presidents

From Pete Souza, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Obama: An Intimate Portrait , comes a powerful tribute to a bygone era of integrity in politics. As Chief Official White House Photographer, Pete Souza spent more time alongside President Barack...

The Reckoning

John Grisham's The Reckoning is the master storyteller's most powerful, surprising, and accomplished novel yet October 1946, Clanton, Mississippi Pete Banning was Clanton, Mississippi's favorite son--a decorated World War II hero, the patriarch of a promi...

Presidents of War

"From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising saga of America's wartime chief executives Ten years in the research and writing,Presidents of Waris a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American...

The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

In this enchanting sequel to the number one bestseller The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom tells the story of Eddie's heavenly reunion with Annie--the little girl he saved on earth--in an unforgettable novel of how our lives and losses interse...

Witness: lessons from Elie Wiesel's classroom

In the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie , a devoted protégé and friend of one of the world's great thinkers takes us into the sacred space of the classroom, showing Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel not only ...

The Witch Elm

"A brilliant new work of suspense from "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years." (Washington Post) From the writer who "inspires cultic devotion in readers" (The New Yorker) and has been called "inca...

When the Men Were Gone

In Marjorie Herrera Lewis's debut historical novel the inspiring true story of high school teacher Tylene Wilson--a woman who surprises everyone as she breaks with tradition to become the first high school football coach in Texas--comes to life. "A w...

War of the Wolf

Bernard Cornwell's epic story of the making of England continues in this eleventh installment in the bestselling Saxon Tales series--"like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer)--the basis of the hit Netflix television series The Last Kingdom...

Unsub

"A riveting psychological thriller inspired by the never-caught Zodiac Killer, about a young detective determined to apprehend the serial murderer who destroyed her family and terrorized a city twenty years earlier. Caitlin Hendrix has been a Narcoti...

Unsheltered

The New York Times bestselling author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, and The Poisonwood Bible and recipient of numerous literary awards--including the National Humanities Medal, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Orange Prize--returns with a timely...

Tuesday Nights

More than 200 simple weeknight dinners that deliver big weekend flavors in under an hour--with many that take only 25 minutes--f rom Christopher Kimball, one of Epicurious ' 100 Greatest Home Cooks of All Time. At Christopher Kimball's Milk Street, Tuesda...

This Will Only Hurt a Little

A  hilarious, heartfelt, and refreshingly honest memoir by the beloved comedic actress known for her roles on Freaks and Geeks , Dawson's Creek , and Cougar Town who has become "the breakout star of Instagram stories...Imagine I Love Lucy mi...

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...

A Light In the Attic

Hop On Pop

Charlotte's Web

A Wrinkle In Time

Where the Wild Things Are

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Harriet, the spy

Children's October 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!

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 ...

Book Sale

Children's Book Sale: Thursday, 10/25, 3 - 7 pm. 

Full Book Sale: Saturday, 10/27, 9 am - 5 pm.

1/2 Price: Sunday, 10/28, 1 - 4:30 pm.

$4 a Bag: Monday, 10/29, 9 am- 6 pm.

Free Books: Tuesday, 10/30, 9 am - 12 pm.

Decorate a Trick-or-Treat Bag

Tuesday, 10/30 from 9 am - 5 pm. Drop into the Children's Department, pick up a bag and decorate it to trick or treat in style! 

Halloween Parade with Ms. Karen

Tuesday, 10/30 at 2 pm. Show off those costumes and participate in storytime with Ms. Karen before parading around the library to pick up treats. Come early to decorate a bag for tick or treating!

Great American Read - Top 10 Books Leading the Pack!

Vote online here, on Facebook and Twitter using each book's unique hashtag (see below), or text each book's unique hashtag to 97979. You can vote once a day, every day, through midnight, October 18th! And be sure to share your picks on Facebook, ...

Please, support the library by taking 5 minutes to fill out the library survey.

The Norwalk Public Library today launched an online and print 12-question survey inviting all Norwalk residents and library users to express their opinions about the future development of the library’s programs, services and physical spaces. The survey, a...

Friends of NPL Fall Book Sale

The children's only book sale will be on Thursday, October 25 at 3:00 pm.
the Friends of the Norwalk Library Fall book sale will begin at 9 am on Saturday, October 27 through Tuesday, October 30.

Write Stories Inspired by Famous American Painters

Andrew Wyeth, and John Singer Sargent. Bring your imagination and prepare to be inspired!

Kim Kovach teaches fiction writing and creative non-fiction writing for adults. The author of six fiction books, Kim writes a weekly column for Halston Media newspape...

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Teen October Printable Calendar

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 ...

Electronics for Teens

 Mondays, 10/15 & 10/ 17, 5 pm. Teen Room. Grades 5 - 12.

Want to make a banana piano? Learn how to convert creative inputs into keyboard presses and mouse control. Then create your own inventions with littleBits and MakeyMakey electronic kits...

3D Thursdays

Thursdays, 5 - 7 pm.

Grades 6 and up; Grades 3 - 5 if accompanied by an adult.

Learn how to design fun objects in 3D using Tinkercad & SketchUp, and then print them in a variety of colors using the library’s 3D printers.

Robotics

Saturdays, 10/6 & 10/20, 3 pm. Teen Room. Grades 5 - 12.

Lego Mindstorms EV3 Robotics: Teens build and program physical robots.

Virtual Reality

Mondays, 10/1 & 10/22, 5 - 6 pm. Open to grades 5 - 12. Learn about virtual reality technology and how to use our new Roch Theta 360-degree camera to create your own VR content.

Cafe Club

The CAFE Club is an open-minded discussion group where we talk about social justice issues, cultures from around the world, and other trending topics from mental health to income inequality to racism and more. We’ll share documentaries, TED talk...

Honor Code

Hero at the Fall : a Rebel of the Sands novel

Genesis

The Gauntlet

Flight

The Disturbed Girl's Dictionary

By a Charm and a Curse

Between the Lines

Batgirl

All of This Is True : a novel