Celebrate National Library Week at Long Hill Library!

April 11 through 17 is National Library Week. There are several events going on at Long Hill Library - come help us celebrate! For more information about any of these programs check out our Event Calendar. To register for any of these events please call us at 908-647-2088 ext. 0 (or stop by the library.)

Saturday April 10 - Yoga for Adults (age 15 and up), 11 am

Sunday April 11 - Selling on Ebay (limited to 75 attendees), 2 pm. Registration required.

Saturday April 17 - Join us in celebrating Five Years in our New Building! In the morning we'll have Singing Stories with the always popular Lou Gallo (registration required), then we have an afternoon concert at 2 pm with the rollicking Long Hill String Band (registration required) followed by an old fashioned ice cream social.

New Acquisitions at Long Hill Library

We've compiled a partial list of some of the great new reads we've purchased for your reading pleasure this month, at Long Hill Township Library. We publish this New Acquisitions list every month. To automatically receive the newsletter via email, click the "Newsletter Daily" link at the top of the newsletter to subscribe.

Some of the hot new titles this month include thrillers by Linwood Barclay, William Bernhardt, Harlan Coben, Linda Fairstein, Jesse Kellerman and Lisa Scottoline, as well as good reads from Karen Kingsbury, Lisa Lutz, Richard Paul Evans, and Susan Wiggs.

This list also includes The Weed That Strings The Hangman's Bag, the second Flavia De Luce mystery by Alan Bradley. The first one, A Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, is a great read about a quirky (and somewhat cranky) 12-year-old girl who solves crimes. I am looking forward to reading the second one.

I also just finished Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson, another book on this list. This debut novel was a pleasure to read. Anyone who was a fan of The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society (one of my favorites) will likely enjoy this charming book.

Happy reading!
Mary Martin, Library Director

Favorite Book Club Discussion Books from 2009

For all of us who are in book clubs, there are lots of great web sites out there that we can use to help us select books to read and discuss. One of them is Reading Group Choices, which just published their Top 10 Discussible Books from 2009 (based on a survey from readers). The list includes two of my favorite reads from last year, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Still Alice by Lisa Genova.

For those of you who prefer a more traditional approach to picking out book club books, I highly recommend Bookmarks Magazine, which Long Hill Library subscribes to. It comes six times a year and is chock full of book reviews, profiles of book clubs around the country, and more great information for bibliophiles. Stop by the library and check out an issue today!

Happy Reading,

Mary Martin
Library Director