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Friends of the Library B-I-G ANNUAL BOOK (and audio books and movies and music and…much more) SALE Thursday, April 23 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Preview & Sale $10.00 admission Friends members get in free 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Friday, April 24 AND Saturday, April 25 @ Phillipsburg Free Public Library 200 Broubalow Way 908-454-3712 www.pburglib.org
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The Friends of Phillipsburg Free Public Library is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization of Library volunteers and advocates who support our Library’s mission to inspire lifelong learning, advance knowledge and strengthen our community. To learn more about the Friends of PFPL and how you can make a difference in your community, email us at info@FPFPL.org or call the Library at (908) 454-3712. Feel free to come to one of our monthly meetings held every 2nd Thursday of the month @7:00PM in the library.
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Popular eMagazines from Zinio If you haven't tried borrowing magazines through our Zinio service, now is the time. Zinio is easier than ever to use with the new Zinio for Libraries app, and every magazine you download is yours to keep. We offer Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Glamour, National Geographic and many other popular titles. You will need your PFPL library card to set up a free account. Check it out at http://www.pburglib.org/rbziniol.htm.
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Classic Book Club Tuesday April 14 at 7:00 p.m.Join our classic book club in a discussion of The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux. You've seen the movie and maybe the musical - check out the original. Multiple copies of the book are available for reserve. See the Coffee, Tea & Classics website for more information.
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Book Forum Wednesday April 15 at 1:30 p.m. The book club with no assigned reading. Share light refreshments and talk about whatever you have been reading lately.
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Film Screening: Enchanted April Thursday April 16 at 7:00 p.m. Two cloistered, married English women (Josie Lawrence, Miranda Richardson) impulsively rent an Italian villa and embark upon a vacation without their spouses. They are joined by two other ladies: the high-flown aging widow (Joan Plowright), and elegant upper-crust beauty (Polly Walker) whom they've never met. Under the spell of an exotic new location, the foursome are in for quite a few life-altering experiences, many of them amusing, and not a few very surprising. Impeccably accurate in its recreation of European manners and mores in the 1920s, Enchanted April is sheer bliss from fade-in to fade-out. Directed by Mike Newell. Rated PG. 90 min. 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 # 196808001
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Happy Bookers Discussion: An Available Man by Hilma Wolitzer Wednesday April 22 at 7:00 p.m. When Edward Schuyler, a modest and bookish sixty-two-year-old science teacher, is widowed, he finds himself ambushed by female attention. There are plenty of unattached women around, but a healthy, handsome, available man is a rare and desirable creature. The problem is that Edward doesn't feel available; he's still mourning his beloved wife. But then his stepchildren surprise him by placing a personal ad in The New York Review of Books on his behalf. Multiple copies of the book are available for reserve. See the Happy Bookers website for more information.
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The nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
Reunited when the elder's husband is sent to fight in World War II, French sisters Vianne and Isabelle find their bond as well as their respective beliefs tested by a world that changes in horrific ways. Selected by Louise, children's librarian.
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Silver thaw
by Catherine Anderson
When Jeb Sterling comes to her rescue after a cold snap leaves her and her 6-year-old daughter temporary homeless, Amanda Banning, trying to start a new life after escaping from an abusive marriage, has no idea just how much this kind and compassionate man will change her life. Selected by Lori, circulation staff.
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The string diaries
by Stephen Lloyd Jones
On the run with her husband and daughter, Hannah, hunted by a centuries-old monster, must use the diaries that have been handed down from mother to daughter since the 19th century to destroy an enemy who has the ability to look and sound like the people she loves. Selected by Maureen, circulation staff..
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Maurice
by E. M. Forster
Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge, this story by a master novelist introduces us to Maurice Hall when he is fourteen. We follow him through public school and Cambridge, and on into his father's brokerage firm. Maurice is a conventional young man in almost every way, "stepping into the niche that England had prepared for him": except that his is homosexual.
Written during 1913 and 1914 and not published until 1971, Maurice was ahead of its time in its theme and in its affirmation that love between men can be happy. Selected by Deb Messling, reference librarian.
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