Adults

All the Broken Places

Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame and fear at their heels, not knowing how hard it is to escape your past. Nearly eighty years later, Gretel Fernsby lives a life that is a far cry from her traumatic childhood. When a couple moves into the flat below her in her London mansion block, it should be nothing more than a momentary inconvenience. However, the appearance of their nine-year-old son Henry brings back memories she would rather forget.

Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul

In this insightful, funny, and whip-smart book, acclaimed writer Evette Dionne explores the minefields fat Black woman are forced to navigate in the course of everyday life. From her early experiences of harassment to adolescent self-discovery in internet chatrooms to diagnosis with heart failure at age twenty-nine, Dionne tracks her relationships with friendship, sex, motherhood, agoraphobia, health, pop culture, and self-image.

[CANCELLED] Memory Screening

Provided by Penn Medicine Princeton Health

Registration required. Call Information Services 732-390-6767 to register.

 

Take this opportunity to get a memory screening, consisting of a series of questions and/or tasks designed to test memory, language skills, thinking ability, and other intellectual functions.

ESL CAFE (Adults 18+)

Welcome! Join us in Meeting Room 2 for a social gathering where we can come together and get to know each other through conversation, sharing information, and crafts.

 

ESL Cafe is a gathering where people whose native language is not English meet and share about culture, interests, and hobbies through conversation.

Bomb Shelter: Love, Time and Other Explosives

From the bestselling author of I Miss You When I Blink  comes a poignant and powerful new memoir-in-essays that tackles the big questions of life, death, and existential fear with humor and hope. A lifelong worrier, Philpott always kept an eye out for danger, a habit that only intensified when she became a parent. But she looked on the bright side, too, believing that as long as she cared enough, she could keep her loved ones safe.