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SUMMARY:Cozy Con: Celebrating All Things Cozy Mystery! (in-person event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fun-filled day that celebrated cozy mysteries. We’re partnering with Kensington Books to plan a great day of authors\, programs\, book signings\, and giveaways!  Enjoy an author showcase\, speed dating with an author\, panel discussions\, and a scavenger hunt. There will be snacks\, a hot cocoa bar\, and plenty of swag! \nThis event is free to attend. Programs will begin at 11:00 am; the library opens at 10:00 am \nCheck back regularly for more details; details are subject to change\, as we’re still planning…. \nSign up for updates and reminders about this event by using Register Now button at the top of the page. \nAttending authors:  \nEllery Adams\, Lynn Cahoon\, Maddie Day \nKemper Donovan\, Peggy Ehrhart\, \nNicholas George\, Darci Hannah \nPatrice McDonough\, Leslie Meier\, Roz Noonan \nAndrea Penrose\, Allie Pleiter\, Emily Sullivan\, Carolyn Marie Wilkins \n~~ \nPlease note:  Michael Falco and Sally Goldenbaum can no longer attend this event (as of 1/2026)
URL:https://cthumanities.org/event/cozy-con-celebrating-all-things-cozy-mystery-in-person-event/
LOCATION:Avon Free Public Library\, 281 Country Club Rd\, Avon\, CT\, 06001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Activity,March 2026,Special Events,Written & Spoken Word
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260311T190000
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SUMMARY:Award-Winning Poet Brenda Hillman to Visit UConn as 59th Wallace Stevens Poet
DESCRIPTION:Internationally acclaimed poet Brenda Hillman will visit the University of Connecticut in March as the 59th Wallace Stevens Poet\, part of UConn’s longstanding Wallace Stevens Poetry Program. \nHillman will give a public reading on Wednesday\, March 11\, at 7 p.m. in the Konover Auditorium of the Dodd Center\, 405 Babbidge Road\, Storrs\, CT 06269. The event is free and open to the public and will feature readings by award-winning UConn student poets prior to Hillman’s appearance. \nHillman will also give a special reading for E.O. Smith High School students on Tuesday\, March 10\, as part of the program’s commitment to literary outreach and arts education. \nHillman is the author of numerous poetry collections\, including Practical Water\, which won the LA Times Book Award for Poetry; Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire\, winner of the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Northern California Book Award for Poetry; Extra Hidden Life\, Among the Days; and her most recent collection\, In a Few Minutes Before Later. In 2016\, she was named chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. \nHer honors also include the 2012 Academy of American Poets Fellowship\, the 2005 William Carlos Williams Prize for poetry\, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. \nHillman’s visit is organized by the Wallace Stevens Poetry Program Committee in UConn’s Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Funding is provided by the Aetna Chair of Writing\, the English Department Speaker’s Fund\, the UConn Humanities Institute\, and private donations from English faculty and community supporters through the 2024 UConn Gives Campaign. \nFor more information\, please visit the Wallace Stevens Poetry Program website.
URL:https://cthumanities.org/event/award-winning-poet-brenda-hillman-to-visit-uconn-as-59th-wallace-stevens-poet/
LOCATION:Thomas J. Dodd Research Center\, University of Connecticut\, 405 Babbidge Road\, Storrs\, CT\, 06269-1205\, United States
CATEGORIES:March 2026,Talks, Lectures, Presentations,Written & Spoken Word
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260311T103000
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SUMMARY:Book Voyagers
DESCRIPTION:Join us for music\, songs\, and stories! Local author\, educator\, musician\, and storyteller Leslie Woods will share her talent and love of books with you and your family. For more information or to register\, contact the library at (860) 447-1411\, or visit https://plnl.org/ .
URL:https://cthumanities.org/event/book-voyagers-3/
LOCATION:Public Library of New London\, 63 Huntington Street\, New London\, CT\, 06320\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Voyagers,Family Activity,March 2026,Written & Spoken Word
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260307T103000
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SUMMARY:Book Voyagers
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate with Poppi’s Planet\, “where hearts soar & imaginations roar\,” explores emotions through dance\, play\, and mindful activities. Youngsters leave with new ways to manage challenges and embrace joy in their hearts. For more information or to register\, contact the library at (860) 535-0383\, or visit https://www.wheelerlibrary.org/.
URL:https://cthumanities.org/event/book-voyagers-tycld-2/
LOCATION:Wheeler Library\, 101 Main Street\, North Stonington\, 06359
CATEGORIES:Book Voyagers,CTH Funded,February 2026,Written & Spoken Word
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SUMMARY:The Harvey Girl: Virtual Author Event with Dana Stabenow
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual conversation with Dana Stabenow\, to celebrate the release of her new book\, The Harvey Girl. \nFrom the award-winning author of the Kate Shugak Mysteries\, a thrilling new detective series set during America’s wild boom time of the nineteenth century.\n\nWELCOME TO THE GILDED AGE. WHERE NOT EVERYTHING GLITTERS. \n1890. The New Mexico Territory is a lawless frontier where criminals steal money and land alike with impunity. Everyone wears a six-gun and is ready and willing to draw it. \nIn the new city of Montaña Roja\, Fred Harvey’s growing empire is threatened by the robberies plaguing his newest Harvey House restaurant. To get justice\, he needs a skilled detective to go undercover and procure answers to questions the law will not ask. \nThe assignment falls to Clare Wright\, a young Pinkerton agent. Disguised as one of Harvey’s famous hostesses\, Clare travels west where she risks being exposed at every step of her investigation. To get answers – and to get out alive – there are only two things she can trust: her instincts\, and her derringer. \nDana Stabenow was born in Anchorage\, Alaska and raised on a 75-foot fishing tender. She knew there was a warmer\, drier job out there somewhere and found it in writing. Her first book in the bestselling Kate Shugak series\, A Cold Day for Murder\, received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America.  Follow Dana at stabenow.com \nPlease register; Zoom links will go out the day before the event
URL:https://cthumanities.org/event/the-harvey-girl-virtual-author-event-with-dana-stabenow/
LOCATION:Avon Free Public Library\, 281 Country Club Rd\, Avon\, CT\, 06001\, United States
CATEGORIES:March 2026,Written & Spoken Word
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260301T130000
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SUMMARY:Book Voyagers
DESCRIPTION:Have  you ever wondered what it would feel like to ride behind a team of dogs\, steering a loaded sled through mountainous terrain\, across the vast Alaskan tundra? If so\, join us as author Karen Land shares stories of the trail and the impressive dogs who run it. For more information or to register\, contact the library at (860) 429-3854 or visit https://www.willingtonpubliclibrary.org/ .
URL:https://cthumanities.org/event/book-voyagers-9/
LOCATION:Willington Public Library\, 7 Ruby Road\, Willington\, 06279
CATEGORIES:Book Voyagers,Family Activity,March 2026,Written & Spoken Word
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260227T130000
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SUMMARY:The Determined: Author Event with Rachel Rueckert (in-person)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an in-person event with author Rachel Rueckert\, to celebrate the release of her new book\, The Determined. \nThe Determined is a groundbreaking novel of historical fiction based on the real experiences of two of the Golden Age of Pirates’ most infamous women\, Anne Bonny and Mary Read\, who dared to subvert the rules and gender roles of their time. \n1721\, Spanish Town\, Jamaica. Captured\, convicted\, and pregnant\, twenty-three-year-old Anne Bonny faces the gallows. When writer Captain Charles Johnson enters the garrison\, she strikes a deal: she’ll tell this opportunistic fool her story if he sends a doctor to her friend\, Mary Read\, who’s battling prison fever. \nPrior to their arrest\, life at sea had offered Anne and Mary freedom that few women knew. Anne\, born into scandal in Ireland\, seeks home and elusive safety in South Carolina. Discovering the opposite\, she makes a bitter bargain for emergency passage to the Bahamas. \nAcross the Atlantic in England\, Mary confronts her own limitations as an illegitimate daughter. She sneaks into a merchant crew\, disguised as a cabin boy. But when war sends Mary into the cavalry\, she meets a challenge even she might not rival. \nWhen their paths collide in Nassau\, a notorious “pirate den\,” Anne and Mary find kinship aboard the Revenge—the fastest ship in the Caribbean. With the governor out for blood\, every raid brings more risk. From the high seas to the depths of a Jamaican prison\, Anne and Mary must navigate impossible choices\, each determined to taste freedom again. \nRachel Rueckert has been pirate-obsessed since she was a young girl. She wore a plastic sword through her belt loops\, drew ships on tests when she didn’t know the answers\, and dressed as a pirate every year for Halloween—including in her high school senior picture. She is now an award-winning writer\, editor\, and teacher who holds an MFA from Columbia University and an M.Ed from Boston University. She is fascinated by unconventional journeys and enjoys excavating real-life people—such as Mary Read\, Anne Bonny\, and Sam Bellamy—from the sands of history. After a decade in Boston\, she is currently based in the Bay Area. Learn more at https://rachelrueckert.com/ \n~~ \nBooks will be for sale at this event.
URL:https://cthumanities.org/event/the-determined-author-event-with-rachel-rueckert-in-person/
LOCATION:Avon Free Public Library\, 281 Country Club Rd\, Avon\, CT\, 06001\, United States
CATEGORIES:February 2026,Written & Spoken Word
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260221T113000
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SUMMARY:Book Voyagers
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy stories\, music and fun! Author\, educator\, musician\, and storyteller Leslie Woods will share her talent and love of books with you and your family. For more information or to register\, contact the library at (860) 447-1411\, or visit https://plnl.org/ .
URL:https://cthumanities.org/event/book-voyagers-tycld-5/
LOCATION:Public Library of New London\, 63 Huntington Street\, New London\, CT\, 06320\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Voyagers,CTH Funded,Family Activity,February 2026,Written & Spoken Word
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SUMMARY:Blood Countess: Murder\, Betrayal\, and the Making of a Monster/Virtual Author Event with Shelley Puhak
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual conversation with Shelley Puhak\, to celebrate the release of her new book\, The Blood Countess: Murder\, Betrayal\, and the Making of a Monster.  \nThere have long been whispers\, coming from the castle; from the village square; from the dark woods. The great lady— a countess\, from one of Europe’s oldest families— is a vicious killer. Some even say she bathes in the blood of her victims. When the king’s men force their way into her manor house\, she has blood on her hands\, caught in the act of murdering yet another of her maids. She is walled up in a tower and never seen again\, except in the uppermost barred window\, where she broods over the countryside\, cursing all those who dared speak up against her. \nFor over 50 years\, the Guinness Book of World Records has insisted that 17th century Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory was the world’s most prolific female serial killer. This summer\, however\, Guinness quietly revoked that title. Although they did not exonerate Bathory\, they walked back their claims\, stating that “her life history is so shrouded in legend that it is impossible to separate fact from fiction.” \nIn The Blood Countess\, bestselling author Shelley Puhak challenges that assertion\, showing that it is possible to excavate the true story. This is the first English-language biography of Elizabeth Bathory since 1997\, and it makes use of new archival evidence and new translations of old documents to settle the question of Bathory’s guilt once and for all. With the breathlessness of a whodunit\, Shelley traces the Countess’s downfall\, bringing to life an assertive woman leader in a world sliding into anti-scientific\, reactionary darkness—a world where nothing is ever as it seems. In this exhilarating narrative\, Puhak renders a vivid portrait of a tumultuous time\, revealing just how far we will go to destroy a woman in power. \nSHELLEY PUHAK writes literary nonfiction and poetry informed by rigorous historical research. Her prose has appeared in The Atlantic\, Smithsonian\, andVirginia Quarterly Review; been anthologized in Best American Travel Writing; and designated as Notable in four editions of Best American Essays. Her nonfiction debut The Dark Queens (Bloomsbury 2022)\, exploring the little-known queens Brunhild and Fredegund\, was a national bestseller and a USA Today Best Books selection\, an Amazon Editors’ Pick\, and a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist. Her second book The Blood Countess\, a reexamination of the notorious Elizabeth Bathory\, will be released in February 2026. \n​Shelley is also the author of three award-winning books of poetry. The most recent is Harbinger\, a National Poetry Series selection (Ecco/ HarperCollins 2022). Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Missouri Review\, Shenandoah\, and Verse Daily and been awarded the Anthony Hecht Prize\, the Towson Prize for Literature\, and two Maryland State Arts Council grants.  Learn more here. \nPlease register; Zoom links will go out the day before the event.
URL:https://cthumanities.org/event/blood-countess-murder-betrayal-and-the-making-of-a-monster-virtual-author-event-with-shelley-puhak/
LOCATION:Avon Free Public Library\, 281 Country Club Rd\, Avon\, CT\, 06001\, United States
CATEGORIES:February 2026,Virtual Event,Written & Spoken Word
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SUMMARY:Book Voyagers
DESCRIPTION:Every wonder what it takes to become a ballet dancer? “Backstage at the Ballet” is a 50-minute introduction to classroom ballet\, jazz\, and classical dance which highlights the dedication and strength required. For more information or to register\, contact the library at (860) 779-5383\, or visit https://www.killinglypl.org/ .
URL:https://cthumanities.org/event/book-voyagers-5/
LOCATION:Killingly Public Library\, 25 Westcott Rd\, Danielson\, CT\, 06239\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Voyagers,February 2026,Written & Spoken Word
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