2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

Adults

Meet Ashley Watson, Community Alignment Specialist at Central Jersey Family Health Consortium

Are you a new or expecting parent? A caregiver? Curious about postpartum support?
Ashley is here to share resources and services that support birthing people and families in our community.

Topics include:

  • Postpartum Mental & Emotional Health
  • Physical Recovery After Birth
  • Parent & Caregiver Education
  • Breastfeeding & Lactation Services
  • Referrals to Community Resources

Serving: Middlesex, Hunterdon, Somerset, Mercer, Monmouth & Ocean Counties

Meet Ashley Watson, Community Alignment Specialist at Central Jersey Family Health Consortium

Are you a new or expecting parent? A caregiver? Curious about postpartum support?
Ashley is here to share resources and services that support birthing people and families in our community.

Topics include:

  • Postpartum Mental & Emotional Health
  • Physical Recovery After Birth
  • Parent & Caregiver Education
  • Breastfeeding & Lactation Services
  • Referrals to Community Resources

Serving: Middlesex, Hunterdon, Somerset, Mercer, Monmouth & Ocean Counties

Health Literacy Month Health Table

October is Health Literacy Month.

Visit Health Literacy Table in the library lobby October 6-11, 2025 to find information in multiple languages about health literacy and how it can affect your ability to make informed health decisions, take medicines correctly, manage a chronic disease and lead a healthy lifestyle.

Brought to you by Just For The Health Of It! Initiative, The Library's Prescription for Quality Health & Wellness Information.

Making Cents of Caregiving Costs

Trying to navigate the costs of caregiving? This is where we can help. In this free workshop, a guest speaker from the AARP Speakers Bureau will review essential information caregivers need to more easily manage some of the complexities of caregiving.

This informative session is meant to help you make informed and confident decisions in your caregiving journey, while balancing the financial impacts of caregiving.

First Lie Wins

The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she’s given a name and location by her mysterious boss, Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle is the job.

Evie isn’t privy to Mr. Smith’s real identity, but she knows this job isn't like the others. Ryan has gotten under her skin, and she’s starting to envision a different sort of life for herself. But Evie can’t make any mistakes—especially after what happened last time.

Lessons In Chemistry

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results. 

Remarkably Bright Creatures

After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors—until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.