E-Books Available Through the Library

Get an e-reader for a holiday gift? Before you start buying e-books, check out what you can borrow for free. Join us on Saturday, January 25 for "E-Book Lesson", at 11 a.m. Learn to use the e-book catalog, see the extra titles purchased just for Riverdale, and understand the process of checking out and downloading your choice. Call us at (973) 835-5044 to register, or register online.

January Book Club Meeting

Thought about joining a book club? Haven't gotten around to it? Let the New Year be the time to join the Riverdale Public Library Book Discussion Group. The January 27 selection is Outlander by Diane Gabaldon. "In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an "outlander"—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord...1743."
Books are available at the front desk - pick up your copy today.
Great books, great food and great discussions - make this the year you join.

Author Talk - Laurie Leinwand

Make Friends with Change – Wednesday, November 20, from 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Speaker, author, and certified life coach, Laurie Leinwand, MA, LPC, discusses where to begin to change one’s life. Leinwand is one of the authors of Catch Your Star - Top Experts Share Insights for Lifelong Fulfillment

Upcoming Author Talk

Book Discussion with Wil Mara — Join local author Wil Mara of Pompton Lakes on Thurs., Nov. 14, 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the Riverdale Public Library. He'll be discussing his new book, Frame 232,the first in a new suspense series. Frame 232 is a fiction story about a conspiracy about the JFK assassination. There will be a Q & A afterwards, and books will be available for purchase and to be signed by the author.

National Book Awards

Readers are always looking for their next read. Why not try the National Book Award finalist lists?

Fiction Finalists:

Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
James McBride, The Good Lord Bird 
Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge 
George Saunders, Tenth of December

Non-Fiction Finalists:
Jill Lepore, Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
Wendy Lower, Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
George Packer, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
Alan Taylor, The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
Lawrence Wright, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief

For a full-list of finalists, check out National Book Awards 
Winners of the National Book Awards will be announced November 20,  

Gravestone Art

Gravestone Art and Symbolism - Wednesday, October 23, 6:30 p.m. Lorna and Phil Wooldridge of Wise Owl Workshops discuss early New England burial grounds as the first public art galleries of the New World. Learn about past and present memorialization and symbolism, and the changing techniques of these tranquil sites that display artistic, cultural and religious changes of the region. More about the presenters

 

Registration required - call the library at 973-835-5044 or click the registration link on our website at www.riverdalelibrary.org

Book Discussion Club Makes Selections

The Book Discussion Group at the Riverdale Public Library has made selections for the next few months. This group normally meets the fourth Monday of each month, at 6:30 p.m. New members are always welcome to join this lively group for great reads and good discussions.  Refreshments served.

November 25: Claude and Camille by Stephanie Cowell
 December, Date TBD: The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck
 January 27:Outlander by Diane Gabaldon