Book Discussion Group: There There (in-person)
This month we will be reading There There by Tommy Orange.
Adults
Book Discussion Group: The Christie Affair
This month we will be reading The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont.
In 1925, Miss Nan O’Dea infiltrated the wealthy, rarefied world of author Agatha Christie and her husband, Archie. In every way, she became a part of their life––first, both Christies. Then, just Archie. Soon, Nan became Archie’s mistress, luring him away from his devoted wife, desperate to marry him. Nan’s plot didn’t begin the day she met Archie and Agatha.
Email Basics Part 1
Learn how to Email in this introductory class!
Topics in this class include:
-What is Email?
-Registering for an Email Account
-The Gmail Window
-Receiving and Reading Messages
-Composing and Sending Messages
-Deleting Messages and Trash
-Signing Out
-Email Etiquette
Registration is required! Visit the information services desk or call 732-390-6767.
For questions regarding technology classes, contact the technology instructor at 732-390-6689.
Puzzle Tournament & Swap
Stop by our puzzle swap, OR join our puzzle tournament!
Teams of up to four players are invited to show off their jigsaw puzzle skills at this tournament.
Register your team, or register as an individual to be assigned to a team on the day of the event.
At the Maison Hannon (for G. C.)
In just twenty seconds and twenty steps, you’ll fall for her. Because at your request for poetry, she’ll recite to you, from unblemished memory, twelve lines of Dante’s “Inferno” in her native Italian as you ascend the gilded staircase together. And by the time you reach the top, you’ll have plunged into her poetic forbear’s despair. For what words could you summon in your language to retrieve your heart from her own?
18+ Silent Book Club of Central NJ
Registration is recommended. You can sign up by clicking here.
At Silent Book Club, there's no assigned reading. All readers are welcome—ebooks, audiobooks, textbooks, comic books... it's BYOBook. Our events are free. Friends and strangers gather at a set time and location and settle in for an hour of silent, sustained reading. At the end of the hour, attendees can socialize—or not!
Meetings of the Silent Book Club of Central New Jersey rotate throughout Middlesex, Mercer, and Somerset counties.
The Hands of My Mother
Freckle-specked skin on the back of her hand with a wedding band and a solitaire diamond. On the fingers before hers, turquoise stones on silver. Before hers, plain gold. The hands of my mothers, working, fixing, making, smoothing, soothing. My thumb traces the skin of your hand and there I see ten fingers, pink nails, and freckle-specked skin on the back of your hand. Mine just like theirs, yours just like mine.
Wanderlust
Destined for cosmos while walking through mud, our minds long to float aloft while hands cling to soil and rock. Once upon a time, we sat at the sea’s edge watching waves with wonder. Now we gaze up, eyes tracing constellations as our toes are seasoned with dust. Starlit breadcrumbs beckon to earthly souls chained within flesh and hearts that beat for solid ground. Still, we yearn for the stories the stars hold.
Starving Artist
Fear once told me that art was a dangerous road called Starving Artist Way. So, I studied spreadsheets and sent emails instead. Now a phantom haunts the rafters and she is ravenous, clawing thoughts with sharpened fingernails and gnawing on bones. The artist rages to be free. “Neglect made me this way," she laments from her cage. A starving artist, yes, because I have starved her. Watch now as I set her free.
Library Book Escape
A little girl named Susan lived in the countryside and her days were filled with burying her nose in library books. Books were her comfort, escape, and place to dream. With each turn of the page, she embarked on fantastic reading adventures, traversing galaxies, and exploring the magic of books. Imagination soared in her hands and painted her world with wonder and curiosity as the absorbed the words on each page.