• Fairbanks Museum Lecture

    Brownell Library 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, United States
    Adults 19-54

    Join the  Brownell Library for a lecture about Climate Change by a guest speaker from the Fairbanks Museum! This lecture is for adults and is sponsored in part by Vermont Humanities. Attendees will be able to leave with a copy of "The Light Pirate" by Lily Brooks-Dalton, available while supplies Read more

  • Collecting Book & Media Donations

    Brownell Library 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, United States
    Adults 19-54

    The Brownell Library Foundation will be accepting books and media for their book sale.

  • Must Read Monday – The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

    Brownell Library 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, United States
    Adults 19-54

    The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon - In Person and Online - Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes Read more

  • Daily and ongoing programs for adults:

    Brownell Library 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, United States
    Adults 19-54

    Book Display: This month we are celebrating the country's 250th birthday! Stop by the library and check out a book, documentary, film, or magazine about the United States! Visit the KCR display! This month our display features art by the Essex Art League! Magazine Swap: Need some new reading material? Check Read more

  • Author Talk: “Asa James” by Jodi Lew-Smith

    Brownell Library 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, United States
    Adults 19-54

    Asa James, Winner of the 2025 prize for Historical Fiction in the American Legacy Book Awards.   Jodi Lew-Smith lives on a hill farm in Hardwick with her husband, dog, chickens, and 250 apple trees. She has always been a writer but also enjoys biology, which comes out in her Read more

  • Must Read Mondays – Audition by Katie Kitamura

    Brownell Library 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, United States
    Adults 19-54

    One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love. Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, Read more

  • Librarian’s Choice Book Discussion

    Brownell Library 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, United States
    Adults 19-54

    Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. He Read more

  • Must Read Mondays – Berry Pickers, by Amanda Peters

    Kolvoord Community Room
    Adults 19-54

    July 1962. Following in the tradition of Indigenous workers from Nova Scotia, a Mi’kmaq family arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge Read more

  • Must Read Mondays – The Lost Bookshop, by Evie Woods

    Brownell Library 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, United States
    Adults 19-54

    On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found… For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every Read more

  • Scavenger Hunt: Give a cow a cookie

    Brownell Library 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, United States
    Children 0-5

    This Scavenger Hunt is Inspired by The Cow Loves Cookies, pick up a scavenger hunt sheet at the youth desk and search the youth area for eight hungry farm friends.

  • Read with Sammy

    Read with Sammy
    Brownell Library 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, United States
    Children 0-5

    Sammy loves belly rubs, carrots, and listening to kids read! His owner is Kim Nowlan, a local educator. They are a certified team with Therapy Dogs of Vermont. Repeats every 2nd Tuesday of the month. For all ages.