Summer Reading: A Universe of Stories
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Our 2019 Summer Reading Program, A Universe of Stories, begins later this month! Adult Summer Reading Our adult summer reading program is open to Phillipsburg Library cardholders, high school age and up. Visit our Adult Summer Reading webpage or come to the library for details! Teen Summer Reading Our teen summer reading program is open to students entering grades 6-12. Visit our Teen Summer Reading webpage or come to the library for details! Children's Summer Reading Our children's summer reading program is open to students entering PreK through 5th grade. Visit our Children's Summer Reading webpage or come to the library for details!
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Spring Nutrition Series: The Truth about Nutrition
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June 4 & 12 at 6:30pm Join us for the final two sessions of our Spring Nutrition series as we debunk some of the most common myths about Dairy and Non-Dairy Alternatives and Sugar and Non-Nutritive Sweeteners!
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How to Find Your Inner Peace
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Wednesday, June 5 at 6:00pm Life can have many ups and downs. Knowing how to find your inner peace and steer your life from your calm, steady center can help you make better decisions, access your inner strength, and benefit your overall health. In this talk, you will learn many helpful methods to quiet your mind and calm your body. You will learn how to select the centering methods that will be most effective for your own unique way of finding your inner peace.
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Tuesday, June 18 at 5:30pm You weighed in, and we listened! We are excited to announce that our Yarn Crafts Group will meet at 5:30pm on the first and third Tuesday of each month, beginning June 18.
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Arts Experience: Printmaking
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Wednesday, June 19 at 6:00pm Join us for a hands-on arts experience, assisted by members of the Phillipsburg Area Arts Community! All skill levels are welcome. This event is FREE but space is limited and registration is required.
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The Search for New Planets and Life in the Universe
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Tuesday, June 25 at 6:30pm Kick off our adult summer reading program with astronomer and Lehigh University professor, Dr. Joshua Pepper, as he discusses his work discovering new planets and the search for life in the universe!
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Science Tellers Presents: Aliens: Escape from Earth!
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Wednesday, June 26 at 10:00am During a midnight meteor shower, something mysterious falls from the sky toward Earth — but it’s not a shooting star. Two curious kids venture into the forest to investigate and find themselves mixed up with a family of visitors from another planet! Pursued by a crazy space scientist, they must risk everything to rescue the aliens and get them back to their spaceship — before it’s too late! Don’t miss this action-packed and educational alien adventure using science experiments for special effects. It’s totally out of this world! For all ages
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Wednesday, June 19 at 6:00pm Join us for a hands-on arts experience, assisted by members of the Phillipsburg Area Arts Community! All skill levels are welcome. This event is FREE but space is limited and registration is required. 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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Laughter Yoga Monday, June 10, 12:00pm & 7:00pm Laughing is a vocalization that anyone can do. It relieves stress, which helps keep disease away. Laughter has both psychological and physiological health benefits. Increased oxygen intake clears the lungs and the mind. Laughter is a cardiovascular exercise, ‘internal jogging,’ that burns calories. Here is your chance to try it for yourself! Cynthia Curtis from Funny Farm Laughter Club will lead an hour-long laughter yoga session.
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Classic Book Club: Their Eyes Were Watching GodTuesday, June 11, 7:00pm In 2019, the Classic Book Club is choosing books from those voted as favorites in the PBS Great American Read program. They are not all novels written by Americans, just novels read (and loved) by Americans. On June 11 at 7:00pm, we will discuss Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. Visit the Classic Book Club webpage for details!
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PFPL Writers Group Monday, June 10 & 24, 6:00pm 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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Book Forum Wednesday, June 19, 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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Film: Boy Erased Thursday, June 20, 7:00pm Jared Eamons, the son of a small-town Baptist pastor, must overcome the fallout after being outed as gay to his parents. His father and mother struggle to reconcile their love for their son with their beliefs. Fearing a loss of family, friends and community, Jared is pressured into attending a conversion therapy program. While there, Jared comes into conflict with its leader and begins his journey to finding his own voice and accepting his true self. Rated R; 115 minutes Partial funding is provided by the Warren County Cultural and Heritage Commission. Movie License #196808001
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Happy Bookers: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Wednesday, June 26, 7:00pm Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond's big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. Multiple copies of the book are available for reserve. See the Happy Bookers website for more information.
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No Time to Spare : Thinking about What Mattersby Ursula K. Le GuinDrawing on her blog, the award-winning author shares a collection of thoughts on aging, belief, the state of literature and the state of the nation. Selected by Norma, Library Assistant
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Daughter of Moloka'iby Alan BrennertA sequel to the best-selling Moloka'i follows the story of quarantined leprosy patient Rachel Kalama's daughter, who is raised by adoptive Japanese parents on a California grape farm before her unjust internment during World War II. Selected by Cindy, Library Assistant
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Ghostly Embraceby Brenda HurleyLouis never felt the knife that killed him, or saw the blood that seeped into the wood of the bed he was lying on. Trapped there in the bed of his own design and making, Louis, a craftsman from the 18th century, must confront the fact that he is a ghost who will never be able to touch or feel the world as he once did. As the years pass Louis struggles to deny his own anger and loneliness created by his death, leading him to haunt and petrify any one who owns his bed that keeps him captive. However, this all changes when he meets two women who live in a very different century to the one he knew and by chance he finds a way to visit them through their dreams. Selected by Lori, Library Assistant
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