Elsewhere: A Memoir
Richard Russo’s latest book, Elsewhere: A Memoir, will be featured at the next meeting of Bernardsville Public Library’s book group, Memoirs and Coffee. The book discussion will take place in the library on Tuesday, Feb. 26, at 10:30 a.m. Winner of the Pulitizer Prize for Fiction, Richard Russo wrote Elsewhere to explore his childhood in the dreary upstate New York town of Gloversville and his conflicted, but loving, relationship with his unusual mother. It is a memoir about about family and … Continue reading
Bernardsville Library: A Drum Major For Justice
Bernardsville Library was honored as a “drum major for justice” by Raritan Valley Community College at its annual MLK Community Partner Breakfast on Friday, January 25, 2013. Madelyn English, Bernardsville Library’s Adult Program Manager, represented the library at this occasion and was recognized for providing “service learning opportunities for the students of RVCC.” A “drum major for justice” distinction refers to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assertion that the greatest leaders serve others, putting justice above personal gain. In the … Continue reading
The Good Girls Revolt
Memoirs and Coffee, one of Bernardsville Library’s book groups, will discuss Lynn Povich’s The Good Girls Revolt, on Tuesday, Jan. 22, at 10:30 a.m. in the Community Room. Copies of the book are now available and new members are invited to attend. The Good Girls Revolt recounts the story of a movement for female workers’ rights at Newsweek in the 1960′s when women were deemed suitable only for the mail … Continue reading
Supporting Your Library
Libraries are able to stir the spirit, warm the heart, and enliven all those who enter. They are a portal for knowledge and a refuge in times of emergency. As charitable giving approaches the end of the calendar year, please remember your local library’s contribution to you and your family’s well being. Bernardsville Public Library is one of those libraries that has been there for you – open and operating – even in times of crisis. Most recently, during the … Continue reading
Under the Banner of Heaven
Saturday Samplers, a Bernardsville Library book group, will discuss Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer at its next meeting this Saturday, Dec. 1, at 3:30 p.m. New members are always welcome to attend Saturday Samplers meetings. Under the Banner of Heaven is an examination of an extremist religion born and bred in America, that of the Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints, an outgrowth of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, otherwise know as the Mormon Church. Centering … Continue reading
Zeitoun
Memoirs and Coffee, a Bernardsville Library book group, will discuss Dave Eggers nonfiction, Zeitoun, on November 27th at 10:30 a.m. Zeitoun is a deeply affecting narrative of one Syrian-American man’s nightmarish experiences in post-Katrina New Orleans. For a review of this book, please refer to Bernardsville Library’s blog, Book News and More. This monthly book group, facilitated by Pat Kennedy-Grant, is open to newcomers and meets in the Community Room. Copies of the book are now available at the circulation desk.
Bernardsville Library Maintains Its 5-Star Rating
Bernardsville Public Library is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a 5-star rating by Library Journal for the fifth consecutive time. Over the past five assessments from 2009 to 2012 (two editions having been published in 2009), Library Journal has selected a list of America’s Star Libraries whose performance it rates 5 stars based on criteria such as expenditures to population size. Five stars is the highest rating used by Library Journal. The journal’s rating table includes libraries … Continue reading
E-Readers, Loaded and Ready to Loan
Pew Internet, a project of the Pew Research Center, people are eager to try e-book readers and would like to borrow these e-readers from local libraries. One of Pew Internet’s charts (also seen on the left) tabulates the level of e-reader interest sorted by age, ranging from 60% positive interest for teenagers to 25% for seniors. The chart further demonstrates that there is an interest in learning how to use e-readers and how to download books onto them. It appears … Continue reading
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
The next book discussion to be held by Bernardsville Library’s book group, Memoirs and Coffee, is the narrative non-fiction selection Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo. The author examined the lives of dwellers in Annawadi, an impoverished Mumbai settlement over a three year period as India’s economic boom gave hope, often a false hope, to these particular inhabitants. The story of hope on the edge of despair is reflected in the … Continue reading
“An Evening with Bill Moyers”
The Friends of the Bernardsville Public Library proudly present an extraordinary benefit for the library, “An Evening with Bill Moyers,” on October 26th, 7 p.m. at Dolce in Basking Ridge. A famed broadcast journalist and author, Bill Moyers currently hosts “Moyers & Company” on PBS, and his website BillMoyers.com addresses topical issues and matters of concern to many. A resident of Bernardsville, Mr. Moyers will speak on the topic of the media’s effect on democracy at this very special benefit … Continue reading
