Introducing Friends Quick Picks!

Thanks to a generous gift from the Friends, we’re excited to introduce a new collection of best-seller books to the library. These Quick Picks are some of the hottest new titles, and have a 2-week loan period. There are no holds and no renewals, so books can get to the next person that much faster!

Look for the Friends Quick Picks near the New Fiction section at the library!

Doctor Who, Miss Austen, and Jack the Ripper will be at your library before you know it

The best of BBC Studios arrives on Kanopy next week, starting Tuesday, September 27th. Some of the profound, absurdly funny, and thrilling titles include:

Crime/Detective: Father Brown, Blackpool, Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Waking the Dead, and Ripper Street
Literary Adaptations: Dickensian, A Perfect Spy, and Maigret
Comedy: This Time with Alan Partridge and Alistair McGowan’s Big Impression Specials
Sci-Fi/Fantasy: Atlantis, Class, SS-GB
Drama: Broken, Banished, Born and Bred, and Thirteen
Films: Her Majesty Mrs. Brown and Miss Austen Regrets
Sitcoms: Here We Go, Hold the Sunset, In My Skin, Axe the Agent?, Last of the Summer Wine, and Mongrels
Cbeebies for Kanopy Kids: 150 episodes from popular kids’ series
Classic Doctor Who Standalone Specials: Doctor Who: Battlefield, Doctor Who: Planet of Fire, Doctor Who: Survival, and Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric

Kanopy is available for computers, iOS and Android devices and is also compatible with Roku, Apple TV and Chromecast. Get Kanopy free with your Blackstone Library card by clicking here or by downloading the app.

Sign up for Creativebug with your Blackstone Library card here!

New App for eBooks and Audiobooks

Try out the new Palace App for an enhanced collection of eBook and Audiobook titles.

The Palace Project groups together collections from OverDrive, the CT State Library collection and thousands of titles curated by the Digital Public Library of America. Titles are available in a number of languages and sign-up is quick and easy.

Just download the app from Google Play or the App Store, click on Find Your Library, scroll down to James Blackstone Memorial Library, enter your library barcode number and you are ready to borrow.

Any questions? Call 203-488-1441 x 318.

A beloved town event and Branford Garden Club fundraiser, Scarecrows On The Green is open to all organizations, businesses and individuals.

To register: www.branfordgardenclub.org/special-events

Local COVID-19 Clinics

SUNDAY 9/25, 10/2 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Griffin Health @ East Haven Town Green
Vaccine available for Ages 6 months - 11 and Ages 12+

MONDAY 9/26 1 PM - 5 PM
Griffin Health @ Parish Hall Trinity Church, 1109 Main St, Branford
Vaccine available for Ages 6 months - 11 and Ages 12+

TUESDAY 9/27 1 PM - 5 PM
Griffin Health @ Zion Episcopal Church, 326 Notch Hill Rd, North Branford
Vaccine available for Ages 6 months - 11 and Ages 12+

TUESDAY 9/27 2 PM - 6 PM
Griffin Health @ Blackstone Memorial Library, 758 Main St, Branford
Vaccine available for Ages 6 months - 11 and Ages 12+

WEDNESDAY 9/28, 10/26 12 PM - 4:30 PM
Griffin Health @ Walsh Intermediate School, 185 Damascus Rd, Branford
Vaccine available for 6 months - 11, 12+

THURSDAY 9/29, 10/13, 10/27 10 AM - 3 PM
Griffin Health @ Branford Community House, 46 Church St, Branford
Vaccine available for Ages 12+

FRIDAY 9/30 12 PM - 4 PM
Griffin Health @ Blackstone Memorial Library, 758 Main St, Branford
Vaccine available for Ages 6 months - 11 and Ages 12+

SATURDAY 9/24, 10/15 12 PM - 5 PM
Griffin Health @ Walsh Intermediate School, 185 Damascus Rd, Branford
Vaccine available for 6 months - 11, 12+

SATURDAY 10/1 9 AM - 2 PM
Griffin Health @ Soundview Family YMCA, 628 East Main St, Branford
Vaccine available for 6 months - 11 on 9/10, 6 months - 11, 12+ on 10/1

For more information click here.