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Greetings!
We invite you to join us for our celebration of all things library and take part in National Library Week, April 23 - 29. You can enjoy all the events and services we offer.
On Friday we move the celebration to the Grand Street Branch in the Multi-Service Center for a Senior Dance Party On Saturday we're partnering with the Hoboken Housing Authority to hold a Community Talent Show at the Harrison Courtyard, 310 Jackson Street.
Those are just a few of the special events during National Library Week. There's even a historical exhibit that reaches back to the library's earliest days. To get an idea of what the exhibit covers, click here for the online experience.
Our library is a hub for the Mile Square City, providing education, entertainment, crafting classes, lectures, story times, social services -- all with a goal of serving our entire community. As part of that commitment, the titles we suggest below celebrate National Arab American Heritage Month, honoring the culture and contributions of Arab Americans and Arabic-speaking Americans. There is something for readers of every age.
I look forward to seeing you next week.
Regards,
Jennie Pu
Library Director
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Know Your Rights:
Elder Justice
Monday, April 24 @ 11 am
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Do you have questions about elder abuse and neglect, financial exploitation, Social Security or Medicaid, powers of attorney, or wills? An attorney will present on these topics and answer your questions.
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Community Talent Show
Saturday, April 29, 4 pm - 6 pm
Community Courtyard, 310 Jackson Street
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Celebrate the National Library Week grand finale with a Community Talent Show hosted by Hoboken Public Library and the Hoboken Housing Authority!
All youth ages 6 - 17 are welcome to showcase their talent, whether it's singing, dancing, poetry, or anything else you can share in 5 minutes!
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Revising Out Loud!
VIRTUAL SESSION
Tuesday, May 2, 6 pm - 8 pm
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Writers bring works in progress and actors/performers bring them to life in this new, collaborative artist meetup.
Folx of all genders and colors are welcome. Presented by the Hoboken Public Library and In Full Color, an award-winning organization empowering BIPOC through education and the arts.
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Garden State Jazz Greats on Zoom, featuring Wayne Shorter
Wednesday, May 3 @ 6:30 pm
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Come and join Jazz scholar Ben Young as he explores the majesty, style, and genius of New Jersey’s own jazz greats. May's featured artist is a Newark native and truly a Jazz giant. Tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter is a standout as a player, a writer, a sideman, and a leader. His stints with Art Blakey, Miles Davis, and Weather Report alone place him in the upper echelon of Jazz distinction.
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Featured Title
Building 46
by Massoud Hayoun
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Sam Saadoun, a closeted Jewish Arab university student from Los Angeles, travels to Beijing to pursue a gay Hollywood romance and other feelings of kinship that are unusual in hyper-capitalist spaces like the United States. But when he arrives in Beijing, Sam finds himself flung into a transformational existential crisis. Shadowy characters ask him to interrogate not just the ever-changing world city around him and its governing ideology of Socialism, but a disturbing murder mystery nestled in the bowels of his university's most curious behemoth of a building.
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An Unlasting Home: A Novel
by Mai Al-Nakib
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The debut novel from an award-winning short story writer: a multigenerational saga spanning Lebanon, Iraq, India, the United States, and Kuwait that brings to life the triumphs and failures of three generations of Arab women. Ranging from the 1920s to the near present, An Unlasting Home traces Kuwait's rise from a pearl-diving backwater to its reign as a thriving cosmopolitan city to the aftermath of the Iraqi invasion. At once intimate and sweeping, personal and political, it is an unforgettable epic and a spellbinding family saga.
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