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The Governor’s Summer Learning Challenge

June 1, 202618 Views Prizes, Reading Challenge, Connecticut, Keychains, Connecticut State Library, Challenge

To participate in the Summer 2026 learning challenge, complete one activity from each category listed in the Challenge Form. After… Read More

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New Items at the
Plumb Memorial Library

Fallout Season 2

Goat

Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton

American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington

True Crime: A Memoir

How to Be a Rich Old Lady: Your Guide to Easy Investing, Building Wealth, and Creating the Wild, Beautiful Life You Want

The American Revolution: An Intimate History

And the Crowd Went Wild

Fatherland

The Gardener's Mindset: Connecting with Nature Through Plants

Maintain: The 3 Simple Shifts that Turn Temporary Weight Loss into Lasting Freedom

The 30-Day Inflammatory Reset: A Complete Guide to Healing Your Immune System

The Pagan Threat: Confronting America's Godless Uprising

Ash

Enormous Wings

Good Joy, Bad Joy

John of John

Meet the Newmans

The Reservation

06-01-2026

Fallout Season 2

DVDs

Fallout Season 2

In a future, post-apocalyptic Los Angeles brought about by nuclear decimation, citizens must live in underground bunkers to protect themselves from radiation, mutants and bandits.

Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton

Biographies & Memoirs

Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton

By Martha Ackmann. A larger-than-life new biography of country music legend and philanthropist Dolly Parton.In Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton, Martha Ackmann chronicles the life of an American Original. From her impoverished childhood in the Smoky Mountains to international stardom

American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington

Biographies & Memoirs

American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington

By H. W. Brands. From historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands comes an inspiring portrait of George Washington that examines his unrivaled leadership in the birth of AmericaFrom his early military career and role among the Virginia gentry, to his leadership during the American Revolution and

How to Be a Rich Old Lady: Your Guide to Easy Investing, Building Wealth, and Creating the Wild, Beautiful Life You Want

Business & Investing

How to Be a Rich Old Lady: Your Guide to Easy Investing, Building Wealth, and Creating the Wild, Beautiful Life You Want

By Amanda Holden. Women are the most potent force in the US when it comes to politics and economics, and studies show that they’re even better with money than men. But guess what? For every dollar a white man has, women on average have just 32 cents. And Black and Latina women, just a penny. With personal

The American Revolution: An Intimate History

History

The American Revolution: An Intimate History

By Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns. From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, The Roosevelts, and others: a richly illustrated, human-centered history of America's founding struggle—expanding on the landmark, six-part PBS series to be aired in November 2025“From

The Gardener's Mindset: Connecting with Nature Through Plants

Home & Garden

The Gardener's Mindset: Connecting with Nature Through Plants

By Stephen Orr. From Stephen Orr, the former editor-in-chief of Better Homes and Gardens, comes a collection of essays and photographs that examines the restorative power of gardening, while revealing his own challenges in the garden and offering advice on growing plants and vegetables at home.The road

Maintain: The 3 Simple Shifts that Turn Temporary Weight Loss into Lasting Freedom

Health, Mind & Body

Maintain: The 3 Simple Shifts that Turn Temporary Weight Loss into Lasting Freedom

By Susan Peirce Thompson. Reaching your goal weight isn’t the finish line—it’s where the real journey begins.New York Times best-selling author Susan Peirce Thompson, brain and cognitive scientist and founder of Bright Line Eating, teaches you the three identity shifts that will finally keep the weight

The 30-Day Inflammatory Reset: A Complete Guide to Healing Your Immune System

Health, Mind & Body

The 30-Day Inflammatory Reset: A Complete Guide to Healing Your Immune System

By Josh Redd. A practical, science-based roadmap to identify and eliminate hidden inflammation—the root cause of chronic health issues—through diet, lifestyle changes, and environmental modifications that will help you reclaim your energy, clarity, and vitality in just thirty days.From diabetes to cardiovascular

The Pagan Threat: Confronting America's Godless Uprising

Religion & Spirituality

The Pagan Threat: Confronting America's Godless Uprising

By Lucas Miles. THERE IS A RISING PAGAN THREAT TO THE CHURCH AND AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE.Pastor Lucas Miles, bestselling author of Woke Jesus: The False Messiah Destroying Christianity, delves into the alarming resurgence of pagan ideologies within the United States, posing significant threats to the church,

New Items at the
Huntington Branch Library

Avatar: Fire And Ash [Blu-ray]

Avatar: Fire and Ash

Christy

Dracula

Resident Alien: Season Three

Solo Mio

The Count of Monte Cristo

Worldbreaker

Entangled States: A Life According to Quantum Physics

Everything You Want Is on the Other Side of Hard

George Orwell: Life and Legacy

Shot Ready

Small Town Girls: A Writer's Memoir

Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery

How Great Ideas Happen: The Hidden Steps Behind Breakthrough Success

Kennedy's Coup: How America Descended Into Vietnam

Nuclear Weapons: An International History

Republic and Empire: Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence

The Unfinished Business of 1776: Why the American Revolution Never Ended

Do Aliens Speak Physics? and Other Questions About Science and the Nature of Reality

Avatar: Fire And Ash [Blu-ray]

DVDs

Avatar: Fire And Ash [Blu-ray]

Return to Pandora for the third chapter of Marine turned Na’vi leader Jake Sully and his family. Reeling from one death, the Sullys set out to prevent another — aided by the Wind Traders. But on the way, they’re attacked by the Ash People, who blame Eywa for their ravaged home. Warning: Some flashing-lights

Entangled States: A Life According to Quantum Physics

Biographies & Memoirs

Entangled States: A Life According to Quantum Physics

By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan. A young queer millennial physicist unveils some of the most mind-bending physics concepts in the universe—and uses them to illuminate their own fascinating life story“I see physics everywhere,” Karmela Padavic-Callaghan writes. “It offers itself to me when I try to make

Everything You Want Is on the Other Side of Hard

Biographies & Memoirs

Everything You Want Is on the Other Side of Hard

By Ken Rideout. From the fastest marathoner in the world over fifty—and maybe the planet's most determined underdog—an inspiring tale of resilience, redemption, and personal transformation.Born into a broken family in Somerville, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston, Ken Rideout grew up in a household

Small Town Girls: A Writer's Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Small Town Girls: A Writer's Memoir

By Jayne Anne Phillips. A luminous memoir in essays from the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist, who reflects on her origins and the mysteries of memory.“The painful thing about adolescence is that everything seems absolute, and the painful thing about adulthood is that nothing does.”Jayne Anne Phillips

Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery

Biographies & Memoirs

Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery

By Gavin Newsom. From California Governor Gavin Newsom comes an intimate and poignant account of identity, belonging, and the defining moments that inspired a life in politics“Go slow,” his political elders advised him. But young Gavin Newsom didn’t know such a speed. A month into his first term as mayor

How Great Ideas Happen: The Hidden Steps Behind Breakthrough Success

Business & Investing

How Great Ideas Happen: The Hidden Steps Behind Breakthrough Success

By George Newman. Great ideas are all around us, waiting to be discovered. Here's how to find them.We're used to imagining creativity as a lightbulb moment—sudden, mysterious, reserved for the gifted few. But what if ideas aren't conjured from thin air? What if they're discovered—more like precious artifacts

Kennedy's Coup: How America Descended Into Vietnam

History

Kennedy's Coup: How America Descended Into Vietnam

By Jack Cheevers. Combining the dark intrigue of a Cold War thriller and the propulsive writing of a novel, Kennedy's Coup is a landmark work that will change your understanding of America's involvement in one of the most controversial and consequential wars in our history.Based on a decade of research

Nuclear Weapons: An International History

History

Nuclear Weapons: An International History

By David Holloway. A groundbreaking history of nuclear weapons across the world, from their invention to the end of the Cold WarHow should we deal with nuclear weapons? The discovery of nuclear fission fundamentally changed the world order. Its power was harnessed, nuclear bombs invented, and the cities

Republic and Empire: Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence

History

Republic and Empire: Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence

By Trevor Burnard and Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy. A fresh look at the American Revolution as a major global eventAt the time of the American Revolution (1765–83), the British Empire had colonies in India, Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific, Canada, Ireland, and Gibraltar. The thirteen rebellious American

The Unfinished Business of 1776: Why the American Revolution Never Ended

History

The Unfinished Business of 1776: Why the American Revolution Never Ended

By Thomas Richards. A clarion call for taking back the American Revolution from the far right, published for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of IndependenceWho gets to claim the legacy of the American Revolution and the mantle of patriotism that goes along with it? In a sharp, irreverent, deeply

Do Aliens Speak Physics? and Other Questions About Science and the Nature of Reality

Science

Do Aliens Speak Physics? and Other Questions About Science and the Nature of Reality

By Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner. “If we ever meet aliens, the first thing we should do is give them this book.”―Phil Plait, astronomer and author of Under Alien SkiesA hilarious, mind-bending investigation into how much humans and aliens might have in common, scientifically speaking―from a best-selling

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