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The Morris Public Library will offer Story and Music Time for participants ages 9 mo. - 5 years old every Tuesday at 10 am. Please call to register: 860-567-7440. Sing songs, read a story, pick up a craft!

The Fantasy Book Club will take place on Friday, November 21, at 6:30 PM. The group will discuss "Quicksilver" by Callie Hart. Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen’s reservoirs for as long as she can remember. In the land of the unforgiving desert, there isn’t much a girl wouldn’t do for a glass of ...

The Popular Book Club will take place at the Morris Public Library on Tuesday, December 2, at 6:30 PM. The group will discuss "The Poisonwood Bible," by Barbara Kingsolver. The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it ...

The Morris Public Library Online presents the Women & Money Online Series: How to Make Sense of Today's Financial Markets, on December 10 at 1 PM, with Julia Strayer and Liz Maccarone, of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management. The Women & Money Series is a way to empower and educate women of any age on financial matters that affect their lives. Morris patrons are invited to participate in the sessions on a monthly basis. REGISTER BELOW: December 10th @ 1PM: How ...

The Mystery Book Club will meet at the Morris Public Library on Wednesday, December 10, at 6:30 PM. The group will discuss "A Great Deliverance" by Elizabeth George. To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale’s lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they’d hidden to escape the ravages of Cromwell’s raiders.Now into Keldale’s pastoral web of old ...

Join our newest Children's Book Club, grades 3-5, at the Morris Public Library, on Friday, December 12, at 5 pm. Make friends, socialize and discover stories to love! The group will discuss "Cress Watercress" by Gregory Maguire. Ask for your copy of the book at the library. We request that caregivers remain in the library/building during the event. Absolutely feel free to participate in our book discussion with the youngsters! To register: 860-567-7440 or https://morrispubliclibrary.net/library-calendar-event-registration/

The Fantasy Book Club will gather at the Morris Public Library on Friday, December 19, at 6:30 PM. The group will discuss "Fourth Wing" by Rebecca Yarros. Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general―also known as her tough-as-talons mother―has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body ...

Author Talk and Signing “Belonging: Digging Up Roots to Find My Place” with Jennifer Moscatello Berkeley, Morris Public Library, Thursday, January 15, 6:30 PM. Snow Date – January 22. Belonging: Digging Up Roots to Find My Place is a powerful and introspective exploration of family, identity, and self-discovery. Set against the backdrop of an Italian American family in the Bronx, the book unearths deep-rooted traditions, unspoken tensions, and the author’s quest to move from inherited roles to authentic self-hood. Combining lyrical stories ...