2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist
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Fed up with boring routines and looking for the perfect escape? If you’re a bookworm, chances are that your dream destination is actually just a book away. With this roundup of truly good beach reads, you’ll feel like you’re on a holiday from every day life — whether you have a vacation or not!
Join us for a film screening of, "Dear Corky" followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Curtis Chin.
USA. English. 2022. 17 min.
We librarians hear a lot about readers’ favorite writers, and some names come up over and over again. One of these is Irish mystery writer Tana French, whose gritty Dublin Murder Squad series provides the perfect blend of police procedure and intricate psychological suspense. Only trouble is, she doesn’t write them fast enough. No worries: here are some other terrific titles – many by less well known writers – that are sure to please.
Walk-ins welcome! If possible, please bring a mat or blanket to sit on to be comfortable.
Reiki is energy therapy, the goal of which is to promote deep relaxation, mental and emotional clarity, and increased well-being. For this meditation, you will lay or sit in a comfortable position to experience distance reiki accompanied by either a crystal bowl sound bath or music. Reiki energy will act directly reaching each person where they are, for their highest good, whether that is physical, mental, emotional or spiritual, or any combination.
This event will be held at the East Brunswick Community Arts Center, 721 Cranbury Road, East Brunswick, NJ 08816.
Playhouse 22 presents, "Creative Ink: Playhouse 22's Original Playreading Series" co-sponsored by the East Brunswick Public Library and the East Brunswick Arts Commission.
Hosted by Jon Heron
This is our rescheduled date. If you are already registered for August 5, you are registered for this event.
Adults aged 18 and older can join us at a local East Brunswick park and learn more about nature photography.
Attendees must bring their own camera: DSLR, mirrorless or smartphone are all fine.
Rain Date: August 12.
This memoir from a Chinese woman who arrived in New York City at age seven examines how her family lived in poverty out of fear of being discovered as undocumented immigrants and how she was able to find success.
"A thoughtful and illuminating bicycle journey along the Underground Railroad by a climate scientist seeking to engage with American history. The traces of the Underground Railroad hide in plain sight: a great church in Philadelphia; a humble old house backing up to the New Jersey Turnpike; an industrial outbuilding in Ohio. Over the course of four years, David Goodrich rode his bicycle 3,000 miles east of the Mississippi to travel the routes of the Underground Railroad and delve into the history and stories in the places where they happened."--Provided by publisher.
Sensing something is wrong with his owner, a domesticated crow abandons the only life he ever knew to discover that humans are turning into zombies, and must use knowledge gleaned from his television viewing to free other domesticated animals from their housebound prisons before it's too late.
A furniture salesman in 1960s Harlem becomes a fence for shady cops, local gangsters, and low-life pornographers after his cousin involves him in a failed heist.