Yearly Archives: 2017

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December Book Suggestions: Give the Gift of Books!

Birthday? Holiday? Thank you? No better gift than books to read and share.  Check out our suggestions below plus be sure to check out the display in the Teen Room for more ideas.   This one summer by Mariko Tamaki Every summer, Rose goes with her mom and dad to a […]

Sharing Stories of the Vietnam War

Join Rutgers Oral History Archives (ROHA) Director Shaun Illingworth for a discussion of his work documenting the Vietnam War generation. Illingworth and the Rutgers Oral History Archives (ROHA) staff have developed an online repository featuring over 900 full-text interviews with NJ veterans, home front eyewitnesses, war workers and more from […]

Holiday Magic Show for Families!

Sign up for the Holiday Cheer Magic Show with Ed Smoot! Tuesday, December 5, at 7:00 p.m. in the Library’s Community Room This is a special magic show that not only includes amazing magic tricks, but also captures the joy and true gifts of giving, sharing, and family. The best […]

Happy Thanksgiving! November Book Suggestions: Orange

November is National Sweet Potato Month!  So in honor of this delicious superfood, we’ll be highlighting ORANGE books!  We have shades of tangerine, apricot, melon, peach, persimmon, and more! Bang! by Sharon G. Flake Mann is only thirteen, yet he has already had to deal with more than most go […]

Saturday Book Club

Have you read Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and want to discuss your thoughts with others? Then join us tomorrow, November 18th at 11:00 am in the Historical Room for the Second Saturday Book Club. Haven’t read the book but are interested in seeing what the book club is all […]

Movie Matinee- The Glass Castle

A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who’s an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children’s imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty. Rated PG-13.  2 hours 7 minutes. Sign up here.