Match+Book S4Ep2: Books for Spring and New Beginnings
On this episode of Match+Book, adult services librarian Paul Kibala shares some recommendations about books that evoke spring and new beginnings.
Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon
2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist
On this episode of Match+Book, adult services librarian Paul Kibala shares some recommendations about books that evoke spring and new beginnings.
Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon
EB Grow, created by the East Brunswick Public Library and Friends of the East Brunswick Environmental Commission present a Seed Swap in the Information Area next to the computer lab!
What is a seed swap?
Seed swaps are events where gardeners meet to exchange seeds and learn and share their knowledge with others.
What should I bring?
If you are able, bring harvested or packaged seeds, tubers, bulbs, or starts, a photo of the plant and any growing information if possible.
With passion and wit, Mary Oliver skillfully imparts expertise from her long, celebrated career as a disguised poet. She walks readers through exactly how a poem is built, from meter and rhyme, to form and diction, to sound and sense, drawing on poems by Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others. This handbook is an invaluable glimpse into Oliver’s prolific mind—a must-have for all poetry-lovers.
As Jenny Lawson's hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken (in the best possible way), she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty. But also with brutal humor: "People do different things to distract themselves during each treatment. I embroider. It feels fitting. I'm being magnetically stabbed in the head thousands of times as I'm stabbing the embroidery myself.
A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape. We remember him as a bulldog--squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls--but in 1924, when he became director of the FBI, he had been the trim, dazzling wunderkind of the administrative state, buzzing with energy and big ideas for reform.
Narrowly surviving the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, a bordello proprietor's daughter bonds with an unlikely new family, from a Chinese clan and an orphan caregiver to tenor Enrico Caruso and tabloid celebrity Alma Spreckels.
When her flailing department lands on the university's chopping block, Professor Naya Turner's friends convince her to shed her frumpy cardigan for an evening on the town. For one night her focus will stray from her demanding job. When she meets a charming stranger in town on business, Naya starts to rebuild her confidence, which was left toppled by her abusive ex-boyfriend. Soon she's flirting with the chance at a more serious romantic relationship - except nothing can be that easy. The complicated strings around her dating Jake might destroy her career \.
“I've always looked upon cartooning as comedy’s last frontier. I have done stand-up, sketches, movies, monologues, awards show introductions, sound bites, blurbs, talk show appearances, and tweets, but the idea of a one-panel image with or without a caption mystified me. I felt like, yeah, sometimes I’m funny, but there are these other weird freaks who are actually funny. You can understand that I was deeply suspicious of these people who are actually funny.”
On this episode of Match+Book, adult services librarian Paul Kibala shares some new titles by women writers.
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
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