We're very excited to announce some new digital services available at the Phillipsburg Library! Freegal is a new music service we are happy to offer to our patrons! Users can download up to 3 songs per week and can listen to 3 hours of streaming per day. All you need is your library card number and PIN, and you can access the service through the Freegal website or through free mobile apps for your Apple or Android device. Rosetta Stone is now available to Phillipsburg Library patrons through JerseyClicks. Users can create an account using their valid library card number and select the language they wish to learn. OneClickDigital offers a selection of audiobooks and classic eBooks to patrons with valid library cards. Click here for more information about these and other digital services offered by the Phillipsburg Free Public Library!
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Fall Children's Programs begin this month! Laptime is for children ages 6 – 23 months with an adult caregiver, and is an active program of rhymes, music, play, and stories. Toddling Twos is for 2-3 year olds, and is a great program full of simple stories, flannel boards, songs, and more! Book Bunnies is for children ages 3-5 and is a fun program with stories, flannel boards, songs, and crafts! Evening Eagles is for students in grades 1 – 5, who are invited to join us for art projects, legos, games, and holiday crafts!
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Due to popular demand, we are bringing back Cynthia Curtis of Funny Farm Laughter Club to lead monthly Laughter Yoga sessions! This program will take place on the second Monday of the month at 6:00pm. Our next Laughter Yoga program will be September 12 at 6:00pm. Call the library at 908-454-3712 to sign up, or register online!
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Ongoing Events for Adults
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Film Screening: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Thursday, September 15, 7:00pm The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel follows a group of British retirees who decide to "outsource" their retirement to less expensive and seemingly exotic India. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel and bolstered with visions of a life of leisure, they arrive to find the palace a shell of its former self. Though the new environment is less luxurious than imagined, they are forever transformed by their shared experiences, discovering that life and love can begin again when you let go of the past. Rated PG-13; 124 minutes. The public is invited to stay for a brief discussion after the film. All films in this series are recommended for adults. For more information, call the library at 908-454-3712. Partial funding is provided by the Warren County Cultural and Heritage Commission. Movie License # 504025064
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Book Forum Wednesday, September 21, 1:30pm
The book club with no assigned reading. Share light refreshments and talk about whatever you have been reading lately.
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PFPL Writers Group Thursday, September 22, 7:00pm Do you have a story to tell?
Join the PFPL Writers Group!
We welcome all levels of writers from beginner to published professionals. We'll discuss fiction, poetry, nonfiction (including memoir), and more. Bring your ideas, a notebook, and your magic pen! Call the library at 908-454-3712 to sign up, or register online!
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Happy Bookers Discussion: Florence Gordon by Brian Morton Wednesday, September 28, 7:00pm An elderly woman, content to sit down and write her memoir, is besieged by family members who involve her in a variety of dramas and follies Multiple copies of the book are available for reserve. See the Happy Bookers website for more information.
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Did you ever have a familyby Bil CleggThis is a moving and beautifully written story of a tragedy's aftermath and the many odd threads that connect the people involved. When her daughter, ex-husband, lover and her daughter's fiancé die in a house explosion, June Reid flees to the west coast and lives anonymously in a tiny seaside motel. Luke, her much younger lover, is blamed for the explosion because of his past drug conviction, and the small Connecticut townspeople shun and shame Luke's mother Lydia. The writing is vivid, honest and humane. It calls on the reader to understand and to forgive the characters for their weaknesses and bad decisions, to grieve for their losses, and to root for their reclamation. Submitted by Deb Messling, Library Director
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Secret sistersby Jayne Ann KrentzReuniting at the hotel where one of them was brutally attacked as a child decades earlier, Madeline and Daphne are forced to confront painful memories and truths in order to solve the mysterious death of Madeline's father. Submitted by Ruth, Administrative Clerk
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Tales of the Northby Jack LondonIn a facsimile of the original turn of the century magazines, in which many of his works first appeared, are four of Jack London’s greatest novels in their entirety: White Fang, The Sea-Wolf, The Call of the Wild and Cruise of the Dazzler, plus 15 of his best loved short stories, including In the Forests of the North, In a Far Country and The White Silence, from the rare original illustrated magazines. Submitted by Norma, Circulation Staff
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Uprootedby Naomi NovikA tale inspired by the "Beauty and the Beast" story follows the experiences of Agnieszka, who becomes the latest girl chosen to serve an immortal wizard who protects their village from the malevolent forces of a nearby forest. Submitted by Mariola, Circulation Staff
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