Adult Programs

Adult Summer Reading Club
Monday, June 21, through Wednesday, August 11

Join the Adult Summer Reading Club (ASRC)! "Water Your Mind - Read" is this summer's theme. Catch a film, try a new genre, learn how to do water color with pencils, and more. The 2010 Summer Reading Program is open to adults ages 18 and older, with weekly prizes, programs and special events. It's not just the kids who will have fun this summer!

To find out more about the ASRC, to submit reviews, or to read the review blog, click here.

Monday Afternoon at the Movies 
Monday, August 2, at 1 p.m.

After the death of his partner, San Francisco private eye Sam Spade is dragged into a quest for a priceless statuette.  He encounters a gallery of high-living lowlifes who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the jewel-encrusted falcon.  DVD release of the 1941 film, starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton MacLane, Lee Patrick, Sydney Greenstreet, Jerome Cowan, and Ward Bond. (100 min., rated PG-13)

Monday Afternoon at the Movies 
Monday, August 16, at 1 p.m.

A man starts to hear a voice narrating the events of his life and finds that the voice is that of a woman writing a novel in which he is the main character.  He must meet the author and try to save his own life when he learns her plans to kill him off.  Starring Will Ferrell, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Queen Latifah. (113 min., rated PG-13)

Also check out programs being offered by the Washington Township Recreation Department.

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Book Clubs

Morning Book Club
10 a.m.:  Second Tuesday of the month

Aug. 10:  The Mermaid's Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
Sept. 14:  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Oct. 12:  One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García
      Márquez
Nov. 9:  Dakota by Kathleen Norris
Dec. 14:  The Tin Drum by Günter Grass

Evening Book Club
7:00 p.m.:  First Tuesday of the month

The book club will resume meeting in September.

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New Book Resources

Best Sellers Club

Do you always want to read the new books that a certain author publishes?  Then check out the author list for the Library's Best Sellers Club.  Choose up to 10 authors, and when one of your authors comes out with a new book, we'll automatically place a hold on that book for you! 

New Book Alert

Now you can find out about books you want to read before they're released!  Check out our monthly new book alert, and if you find a book that you'd like to read, go to the online library catalog and place a hold on it.  You'll be sure to be among the first to read that book.

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