ADULT PROGRAMS
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Movies at the Library: A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
Wednesday, January 28 - 1:00 PM (2025, R, 139 minutes) © Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. An imaginative tale of two strangers and the extraordinary emotional journey that connects them. Stars: Colin Farrell, Margot Robbie, 莉莉·拉貝, Jodie Turner-Smith, Phoebe Waller-Bridge |
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Creative Writing Club: Epistolary
Thursday, January 29 - 1:00 PM Bring your creative juices to our writing club. Each month we will explore a different style, technique, or genre of writing. Short writing exercises and prompts will be given. Attendees can share rough drafts and finished products related to the given prompts or anything else they are working on. This month, we will be learning about epistolary writing. Registration is encouraged. Click here to register for Creative Writing Club: Epistolary. |
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Movies at the Library: Wicked: For Good
Wednesday, February 11 - 1:00 PM (2025, PG, 138 minutes) © Universal Pictures Now demonized as the Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba lives in exile in the Ozian forest, while Glinda resides at the palace in Emerald City, reveling in the perks of fame and popularity. As an angry mob rises against the Wicked Witch, she'll need to reunite with Glinda to transform herself, and all of Oz, for good. Stars: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh |
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Senior Meetup
Thursday, February 12 - 1:30 PM Join us in planning an ongoing series of afternoon meetups for seniors. The goal of this program is to provide a social space and activities for seniors. Bring your ideas for future meetings! Registration is required. Click here to register for Senior Meetup. |
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Thursday Night Book Club: Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray
Thursday, February 12 - 6:30 PM Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, armed with her trusty parasol and an unyielding determination to make a difference. When she’s not working with children in the crowded tenements in Hell’s Kitchen, Frances throws herself into the social scene in Greenwich Village, befriending an eclectic group of politicians, artists, and activists, including the millionaire socialite Mary Harriman Rumsey, the flirtatious budding author Sinclair Lewis, and the brilliant but troubled reformer Paul Wilson, with whom she falls deeply in love. But when Frances meets a young lawyer named Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a tea dance, sparks fly in all the wrong directions. She thinks he’s a rich, arrogant dilettante who gets by on a handsome face and a famous name. He thinks she’s a priggish bluestocking and insufferable do-gooder. Neither knows it yet, but over the next twenty years, they will form a historic partnership that will carry them both to the White House. Frances is destined to rise in a political world dominated by men, facing down the Great Depression as FDR’s most trusted lieutenant—even as she struggles to balance the demands of a public career with marriage and motherhood. And when vicious political attacks mount and personal tragedies threaten to derail her ambitions, she must decide what she’s willing to do—and what she’s willing to sacrifice—to save a nation. If you would like to join our book club, please contact the Library Director: [email protected] or (973) 365-4044 ext. 5 |
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Movies at the Library: Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
Wednesday, February 25 - 1:00 PM (2025, PG-13, 119 minutes) © Twentieth Century Fox From 20th Century Studios, “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” chronicles the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 “Nebraska” album when he was a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggling to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past. Recorded on a 4-track recorder in Springsteen’s New Jersey bedroom, the album marked a pivotal time in his life and is considered one of his most enduring works—a raw, haunted acoustic record populated by lost souls searching for a reason to believe. Stars: Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Paul Walter Hauser |
