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Greetings!
Welcome to National Poetry Month, a very special occasion that celebrates poets’ integral role in our culture, and that poetry matters. Since its modest beginning in 1996, National Poetry Month has become the world's largest literary celebration. And your library is a part of it. We invite you to join us for these fun and charming upcoming events, and take a moment to scroll down to view the poetry titles we think you'll really enjoy.
Spring is here, so we're able to hold our popular Story Times at the next Artisan Market, under the 14th Street Viaduct, on Sunday, June 16. We'll have crafts, giveaways, library cards, and -- of course -- books. Story Times happen at 12 pm and again at 2 pm. We'll see you there.
Do you want to read the Wall Street Journal, for free? We've just added the Journal to our app and website. Details are below. Feel free to put this vital resource to work for you.
Regards,
Jennie Pu
Library Director
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Get free access to the online Wall Street Journal with our app
If you've not downloaded our easy-to-use Library App, now's a good time. Not only will the app give you instant access to information on library events, account details, and downloadable eBooks and Audiobooks, but now it gives you free access to the Wall Street Journal via the Online Resources tab .
If you'd rather access the Journal site from your desktop, as a Hoboken Public Library Resident Card Holder, just email the Information and Digital Services team with your library barcode number, and we will send you a wsj.com access link.
On the app or website, you'll have free access for three days. And you can renew as often as you like.
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Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners
Fridays from 2:00 - 2:45 pm
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You're invited to a free weekly practice with local meditation teacher Evelyn Del Valle. Each week includes a brief talk about mindfulness followed by a group practice and take-home practice. All are welcome, and no experience is necessary.
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Cooking with Ms. Nicole - Unbirthday Cake Edition
Monday, April 10 @ 11:30 am
In person, and live on YouTube
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It's Nicole's birthday this month and we're celebrating by making some unbirthday cake! Come join her to make some delicious cake in celebration of her birthday or your unbirthday! Registration is required. If you have a food allergy, or have questions about this event, please email Ms. Nicole.
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American Sign Language (ASL)
End-of-Session Pizza Party!
Monday, April 17 @ 6 pm
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All current Beginner and Intermediate ASL students are invited to celebrate the end of the Winter Session with a Pizza Party. Come and sign with Thyson's friends in the Deaf and HoH community while celebrating your accomplishments.
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Pop-Up Library @ Wallace Elementary School!
April 17, 19 & 20 @ 8 am
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There’s going to be a Pop-Up Library at Wallace Elementary School. You'll be able to check out books, meet our librarians, and return books your borrowed at our last visit.
Please bring your library card to school for the Pop-Up Library. If you don't have a library card, please email Ms. Valerie: We can make library cards for you before we visit.
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Featured Title
The Wife of Willesden
by Zadie Smith
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In her stage-writing debut, celebrated novelist and essayist Zadie Smith brings to life a comedic and cutting 21st Century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic The Wife of Bath. The Wife of Willesden follows Alvita, a Jamaican-born British woman in her mid-50s, as she tells her life story to a band of strangers in a small pub. Wearing fake gold chains, dressed in knock-off designer clothes, and speaking in a mixture of London slang and patois, Alvita recalls her five marriages in outrageous, bawdy detail, and rewrites her mistakes as triumphs with anyone willing to listen. A thoughtful reimagining of an unforgettable narrative of female power, written with singular wit.
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The World and All That It Holds
by Aleksandar Hemon
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As Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and grinding tablets behind the counter of the pharmacy he inherited from his father. It's not quite the life he had expected during his poetry-filled student days in libertine Vienna, but it's nothing a dash of laudanum from the high shelf, a summer stroll, and idle fantasies about passersby can't put in perspective. And then the world explodes. In the trenches, fantasies fall flat. War devours all he's known, and the only thing Pinto has to live for are the attentions of Osman, a fellow soldier. Together, Pinto and Osman escape the trenches, survive near-certain death, and tangle with Bolsheviks; it is Pinto's love for Osman that keeps him going.
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by Vanessa Brantley-Newton
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Join us for National Library Week! |
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