Author Talk: Turney Duff – The Buy Side

Join us June 13th @ 7PM
Author Talk: Turney Duff – The Buy Side



Thursday, June 13, 7 – 8:30 p.m @ The Wilton Library

The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader’s Tale of Spectacular Excess shows vividly — and sometimes shockingly — the day-time rewards and night-time temptations of making a living on the Street. Former trader Turney Duff’s true account is a high-adrenaline journey into a culture where drugs, sex, and millions in trading commissions are never enough. Turney Duff began working on Wall Street in 1994, and his career included stints at Morgan Stanley, the Galleon Group, Argus Partners, and J.L. Berkowitz. See registration link for more details. Registration encouraged
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Actor, Author Andrew McCarthey

Author Talk: Andrew McCarthy – The Longest Way Home
Thursday, June 6, 7 – 8:30pm @ The Wilton Library

 

 

Written with absorbing honesty and an irrepressible taste for adventure, The Longest Way Home: One Man’s Quest for the Courage to Settle Down is an intimate memoir of self-discovery. In his New York Times Bestseller, award-winning travel writer and actor Andrew McCarthy takes us on a deeply personal journey played out amid some of the world’s most evocative locales. Best known for acting in iconic moves such as Pretty in Pink and St. Elmo’s Fire, McCarthy is also an editor-at-large at National Geographic Traveler. He has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Travel+Leisure, among others. Registration required.

So fun to see Giada DeLaurentis signing books at the Book Expo America convention. Super nice, super cute, super energy. Great new children series for young girls.
Check out her amazing website;
http://www.giadadelaurentiis.com/

 

Join Us at the Wilton Library on June 3rd Monday evening at 7PM

 

Brian Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them in Iraq as the head of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit. Whenever IEDs were discovered, he and his men would lead the way in either disarming the deadly devices or searching through rubble and remains for clues to the bomb-makers’ identities. And when robots and other remote means failed, one technician would suit up and take the Long Walk to disarm the bomb by hand. This lethal game of cat and mouse was, and continues to be, the real war within America’s wars in the Middle East. When Brian returned stateside to his wife and family, he entered an equally inexorable struggle against the enemy within, which he comes to call the “Crazy.”

This thrilling, heartbreaking, stunningly honest book alternates between two harrowing realities: the terror, excitement, and camaraderie of combat, and the lonely battle against the unshakeable fear, anxiety, and survivor guilt that he—like so many veterans—carries inside.

Castner, a graduate of Marquette University with an electrical engineering degree, served three tours in the Middle East as an officer of the U.S. Air Force—two of them leading an EOD unit in Iraq. In 2006, he received a Bronze Star for his service. Upon returning to the United States, he consulted as an independent civilian contractor, training military EOD units on tactical bomb-disposal procedures prior to their deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan. He lives near Buffalo, New York, with his wife and children.

Co-sponsored by WLA & the James B. Whipple American Legion Post 86.  Registration encouraged. To register, please click on the Sign Up button below or call 203-762-3950, Ext. 213. Wilton Library, 137 Old Ridgefield Road, Wilton. www.wiltonlibrary.org

Nature Conservancy Event this Sunday

 

Don't miss this event at the New Canaan Country School on Sunday May 19th @ 4:30pm.

RSVP @ Elm Street Books 203-966-4545

To Marry an English Lord

To Marry an English Lord

Tales of Wealth and Marriage

Sex and Snobbery

Don't miss Carol Wallace at the Stamford Ferguson Library this Wednesday evening, April 3rd @ 6:30pm. Refreshments served, $15.00 entrance fee.

Doors open at 6:00pm

Z, A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler

Zelda's moment is now and then.
"Fowler's Zelda is all we would expect and more, for she's daring and unconventional yet profoundly and paradoxically rooted in Southern gentility... A lovely, sad, and compulsively readable book."
- Kirkus Reviews - Starred review

I am nearly to the end of this wonderful romp of a book and feel myself joining the Fitzgeralds on all their
soirees across Europe and the USA. The colorful cast of characters never disappoints and you feel pulled to reread F.Scott Fitzgerald's classics to encounter the words with new vision.
Join us next Monday April 1st at 7pm at the Wilton Library to hear Therese Fowler speak on her novel and this incredibly interesting couple and times.
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