Category: Historical
2024 Adult Reading Challenge! November
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2024/10/03/2024-adult-reading-challenge-november/
Adults! Welcome to year 3 of our year-long reading challenge. Explore different genres, discover new authors and be entered to win prizes. To complete the challenge, read just one book in each category by midnight on December 31st, 2024. Earn bigger prizes by reading...
2024 Adult Reading Challenge! April
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2024/04/04/2024-adult-reading-challenge-april/
Adults! Welcome to year 3 of our year-long reading challenge. Explore different genres, discover new authors and be entered to win prizes. To complete the challenge, read just one book in each category by midnight on December 31st, 2024. Earn bigger prizes by reading...
New Year, New Challenge! Adult Reading Genre Book Challenge 2024
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2024/01/04/new-year-new-challenge-adult-reading-genre-book-challenge-2024/
Adults! Welcome to year 3 of our year-long reading challenge. Explore different genres, discover new authors and be entered to win prizes. To complete the challenge, read just one book in each category by midnight on December 31st, 2024. Earn bigger prizes by reading...
A New Year, a New Challenge!
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2023/01/03/a-new-year-a-new-challenge/
DISCOVER DIFFERENT GENRES! FIND NEW AUTHORS! WIN PRIZES! JOIN OUR EXPLORING GENRES BOOK CLUB! Join us for a fun book challenge throughout 2023! Sign up and keep track via Beanstack. If you’ve participated in any of our recent summer or winter reading...
Summer Reading 2022!
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2022/06/20/summer-reading-2022/
Summer 2022 is all about Fairfield! What do you love about your town? How can you share your story? Learn something new, get creative, and have fun while earning points toward our community goal! We challenge Fairfielders of all ages to reach 1 million...
2022 Adult Reading Challenge! April
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2022/04/01/2022-adult-reading-challenge-april/
DISCOVER DIFFERENT GENRES! FIND NEW AUTHORS! WIN PRIZES! Join us for a fun book challenge throughout 2022! Sign up and keep track via Beanstack. If you’ve participated in any of our recent summer or winter reading challenges, you’re all set to go...
Popular Titles For June
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2021/06/09/popular-titles-for-june/
What your friends and neighbors are reading this month: THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME by Laura Dave “Dave pulls off something that feels both new and familiar: a novel of domestic suspense that unnerves, then reassures. This is the antithesis of the way...
Interested in History? Try One of These Popular Digital Titles!
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2020/03/28/interested-in-history-try-one-of-these-popular-digital-titles/
Interested in history? Now might be a great time to read or listen to a book while you’re staying home and staying safe. Here are a few suggestions that you can download from Overdrive with your Fairfield Public Library card. JEFFERSON’S DAUGHTERS By Catherine...
The Fire and the Darkness: the Bombing of Dresden, 1945
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2020/03/11/the-fire-and-the-darkness-the-bombing-of-dresden-1945/
THE FIRE AND THE DARKNESS: THE BOMBING OF DRESDEN, 1945 by Sinclair McKay February 13, 2020 marked the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Dresden, Germany by British and American bombers. Carried out in 3 raids, it was one of the most devastating attacks...
The Splendid and the Vile
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2020/02/21/the-splendid-and-the-vile/
THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE by Erik Larson Erik Larson is always my go-to author for narrative non-fiction. His newest, THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE, focuses on Winston Churchill, and those around him, during the Blitz. There has been plenty written about the...