End of Summer Reading + Upcoming Events

eNews 7.28.2023

It's time to celebrate!

Dear Hoboken,

Thank you to everyone who participated in this year's Mile Square Summer Reading Program. Your enthusiasm for reading has made this summer truly memorable, and we sincerely appreciate your unwavering support.

As the Summer Reading program comes to an end, we kindly remind all participants to pick up their prizes at the circulation desk. We have a variety of exciting prizes available, including custom HPL pins and gift cards, which we are confident you will enjoy as a token of your dedication to reading.

In addition, we would like to invite you to join us for our Adult Summer Reading Celebration. It will take place in the Large Program Room on Wednesday, August 9 from 5:00 - 6:30pm. There will be refreshments, goodie bags, and lots of exciting giveaways for everyone to enjoy.

Regards,

Jennie Pu

Library Director

Upcoming Events

Art Workshop with Liz Ndoye

Featured Artist, Ansel Adams

Wednesday, August 2 @ 10 am

Join us in August as we celebrate the joy of Summer! Our first class will focus on the work of photographer Ansel Adams. Students will be able to explore Adams' work while learning about tonality and shading.

Registration is required. Questions about this? Please email Laura.

Details and Registration here

Art in the Park with the

HPL BookBike

Thursday, August 3 @ 3 pm

Columbus Park, 900 Clinton St.

Looking for a fun and artistic way to spend your afternoon? Join us in Columbus Park every two weeks for live sketching with the Hoboken Public Library Book Bike! We'll teach you how to use different mediums to capture the beauty of the world around us.

Details here

Music Party with Play Date

Sunday, August 6 @ 11:30 am

Children's Room, 500 Park Ave

Celebrate the end of Summer Reading with a Music Party at the Library! Play Date will be performing their favorite songs during this family friendly show!

Registration is required. Questions about this? Please email Valerie.

Details and Registration here

Garden State Jazz Greats Featuring Tom Varner

Wednesday, August 9 @ 6:30 pm

Live on Zoom

Come and join Jazz scholar Ben Young as he explores the genius of New Jersey’s own jazz greats.

Tom Varner, a French horn player, is our featured artist for August. Varner established himself as an improviser in the 1980s by performing with Steve Lacy, John Zorn, Anthony Braxton, and others.

Details and Registration here

Recent Releases

Fiction for Adults

Featured Title

All The Pretty Places: A Novel

by Joy Callaway

"Joy Callaway returns with a captivating story of a strong woman in a striking setting, examining the life-changing effects of the beauty of nature and how that splendor is restricted to the rich and privileged in the Gilded Age."

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The Memory of Animals: A Novel

by Claire Fuller

"In the face of a pandemic, an unprepared world scrambles to escape the mysterious disease causing sensory damage, nerve loss, and, in most cases, death. Neffy, a disgraced and desperately indebted twenty-seven-year-old marine biologist, registers for an experimental vaccine trial in London--perhaps humanity's last hope for a cure. Though isolated from the chaos outside, she and the other volunteers--Rachel, Leon, Yahiko, and Piper--cannot hide from the mistakes that led them there. Claire Fuller's The Memory of Animals is an ambitious, deeply imagined work of survival and suspense, grief and hope, consequences and connectedness that asks what truly defines us--and the lengths we will go to rescue ourselves and those we love."

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Non Fiction