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Batter Up: Let's Talk Baseball

6:30pm–8:30pm
Adults, Everyone
Registration Required
Library Branch: New Providence Memorial Library
Room: Conti Room (Large)
Age Group: Adults, Everyone
Program Type: Sports & Games
Registration Required
Event Details:

Baseball enthusiasts are invited to discuss teams, players and issues of the sport with other baseball fans. Listeners are welcome too!

This event is in the "Adults" group
This event is in the "Everyone" group

NP Historical Society Mason Room Open

10:00am–12:00pm
Adults, Everyone
Library Branch: New Providence Memorial Library
Room: Mason Room
Age Group: Adults, Everyone
Program Type: Other
Event Details:

The Mason Room is the New Providence Historical Society’s climate-controlled archive of historical records pertaining to New Providence, which is located within the New Providence Memorial Library at 377 Elkwood Avenue.

This event is in the "Adults" group

Books & Bagels

10:30am–11:30am
Adults
Library Branch: New Providence Memorial Library
Room: Conti Room (Large)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Groups
Event Details:

A book club with no assigned reading! Join us for a free bagel from NP Bagel Cafe and we'll take turns speaking about the books that we're reading/ have enjoyed recently.

This event is in the "Teens" group
This event is in the "Adults" group

Knit Night/ Stay & Crochet

7:00pm–8:30pm
Teens, Adults
Library Branch: New Providence Memorial Library
Room: Coddington Room (Small)
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Knitters, crocheters and stitchers are welcome to come work on your works-in-progress.

This event is in the "Adults" group
Library Branch: New Providence Memorial Library
Room: Conti Room (Large)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Workshop/Lecture
Event Details:

George Aronson, a photographer and naturalist, will give a photographic lecture on landscape diversity in New Jersey. This presentation is sponsored by the New Providence Garden Club, which will hold its monthly meeting afterward.

This event is in the "Adults" group
This event is in the "Everyone" group

NP Historical Society Mason Room Open

10:00am–12:00pm
Adults, Everyone
Library Branch: New Providence Memorial Library
Room: Mason Room
Age Group: Adults, Everyone
Program Type: Other
Event Details:

The Mason Room is the New Providence Historical Society’s climate-controlled archive of historical records pertaining to New Providence, which is located within the New Providence Memorial Library at 377 Elkwood Avenue.

This event is in the "Adults" group

Morning Book Club

10:30am–11:30am
Adults
Library Branch: New Providence Memorial Library
Room: Conti Room (Large)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Groups
Event Details:

The morning book group will discuss the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss.

This event is in the "Adults" group

Movie: F1

1:00pm–3:30pm
Adults
Library Branch: New Providence Memorial Library
Room: Conti Room (Large)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Movie
Event Details:

Dubbed "the greatest that never was," Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) was Formula 1's most promising phenom of the 1990s until an accident on the track nearly ended his career.

This event is in the "Adults" group
This event is in the "Everyone" group
Virtual Event
Library Branch: New Providence Memorial Library
Room: Virtual
Age Group: Adults, Everyone
Program Type: Workshop/Lecture
Event Details:

Join us online and be one of the first to hear from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai about her astonishing memoir, Finding My Way.

This event is in the "Elem Children (6-12)" group
This event is in the "Teens" group
This event is in the "Adults" group

Trivia Night

6:30pm–8:00pm
Elem Children (6-12), Teens, Adults
Registration Required
Library Branch: New Providence Memorial Library
Room: Conti Room (Large)
Age Group: Elem Children (6-12), Teens, Adults
Program Type: Sports & Games
Registration Required
Event Details:

Test your knowledge at trivia night, which is hosted by quizmaster Mary Piekarski. The questions in this game are geared for people 18 and older but all ages are welcome to try.

This event is in the "Adults" group

Silent Book Club

7:00pm–7:45pm
Adults
Library Branch: New Providence Memorial Library
Room: Library Seating
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Groups
Event Details:

At Silent Book Club there's no assigned reading.  All readers are welcome—ebooks or audiobooks, poetry or prose, fiction or non-fiction... it's BYOBook. We gather to read together in quiet camaraderie.  

This event is in the "Elem Children (6-12)" group
This event is in the "Teens" group
This event is in the "Adults" group

Telescope Night at Lincoln Field

7:00pm–8:30pm
Elem Children (6-12), Teens, Adults
Offsite Event
Library Branch: Off Site
Age Group: Elem Children (6-12), Teens, Adults
Program Type: Other
Event Details:

Come look through telescopes at the night sky, thanks to volunteers from the Morris Museum Astronomical Society.

This event is in the "Adults" group
This event is in the "Everyone" group

NP Historical Society Mason Room Open

10:00am–12:00pm
Adults, Everyone
Library Branch: New Providence Memorial Library
Room: Mason Room
Age Group: Adults, Everyone
Program Type: Other
Event Details:

The Mason Room is the New Providence Historical Society’s climate-controlled archive of historical records pertaining to New Providence, which is located within the New Providence Memorial Library at 377 Elkwood Avenue.

This event is in the "Adults" group

Cookbook Club

1:00pm–2:00pm
Adults
Library Branch: New Providence Memorial Library
Room: Conti Room (Large)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Other
Event Details:

This month’s theme is Asian cuisine. We'll take turns discussing the recipes we chose on that topic.  

This event is in the "Adults" group

Haunting Chapters Book Club

7:00pm–8:00pm
Adults
Library Branch: New Providence Memorial Library
Room: Conti Room (Large)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Groups
Event Details:

Join the Haunting Chapters Book Club!

This event is in the "Teens" group
This event is in the "Adults" group

Bestselling Author Philippa Gregory

2:00pm–3:00pm
Teens, Adults
Virtual Event
Library Branch: New Providence Memorial Library
Room: Virtual
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Workshop/Lecture
Event Details:

Often called the “queen of British historical fiction,” Philippa Gregory returns to the infamous Tudor Court with a tale that is both timely and timeless.

This event is in the "Adults" group
Registration Required
Virtual Event
Library Branch: New Providence Memorial Library
Room: Virtual
Age Group: Adults
Registration Required
Event Details:

While the origins of Thanksgiving begin with the 1621 meeting between English colonists and members of the Wampanoag peoples, there is much more to the story.

This event is in the "Teens" group
This event is in the "Adults" group

Knit Night/ Stay & Crochet

7:00pm–8:30pm
Teens, Adults
Library Branch: New Providence Memorial Library
Room: Conti Room (Large)
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Knitters, crocheters and stitchers are welcome to come work on your works-in-progress in the Conti Room.

This event is in the "Adults" group
This event is in the "Everyone" group

NP Historical Society Mason Room Open

10:00am–12:00pm
Adults, Everyone
Library Branch: New Providence Memorial Library
Room: Mason Room
Age Group: Adults, Everyone
Program Type: Other
Event Details:

The Mason Room is the New Providence Historical Society’s climate-controlled archive of historical records pertaining to New Providence, which is located within the New Providence Memorial Library at 377 Elkwood Avenue.

This event is in the "Adults" group

Canceled: Books & Bagels

10:30am–11:30am
Adults
Cancelled
Library Branch: New Providence Memorial Library
Room: Conti Room (Large)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Groups
Event Details:

A book club with no assigned reading! Join us for a free bagel from NP Bagel Cafe and we'll take turns speaking about the books that we're reading/ have enjoyed recently.

This event is in the "Adults" group

Movie: Materialists

1:00pm–3:00pm
Adults
Library Branch: New Providence Memorial Library
Room: Conti Room (Large)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Movie
Event Details:

A young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex in this R-rated relationship drama from 2025.  Dakota Johnson stars as Lucy.

This event is in the "Adults" group
Virtual Event
Library Branch: New Providence Memorial Library
Room: Virtual
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Workshop/Lecture
Event Details:

You’re invited to learn from journalist and author Joseph Lee as he chats online with us about his stirring memoir, Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity.

This event is in the "Adults" group

Board Games at the Brewery

7:30pm–9:30pm
Adults
Offsite Event
Library Branch: Off Site
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Sports & Games
Event Details:

Buy yourself a beer or soda and play a board game in the back room at United Brewing! Mark and Elizabeth will introduce you to board games that go beyond the usual suspects you grew up playing.

This event is in the "Adults" group
This event is in the "Everyone" group

NP Historical Society Mason Room Open

11:00am–1:00pm
Adults, Everyone
Library Branch: New Providence Memorial Library
Room: Mason Room
Age Group: Adults, Everyone
Program Type: Other
Event Details:

The Mason Room is the New Providence Historical Society’s climate-controlled archive of historical records pertaining to New Providence, which is located within the New Providence Memorial Library at 377 Elkwood Avenue.