Tuesday, April 1st at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss The Life Impossible by Matt Haig.

“What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don’t understand yet…”

When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan.

Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend’s life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past.

Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting March 3). The eBook and audiobook of this title are also available on the Libby app.

Registration is not required. Drop in to join our discussion over tea & treats.

Every Wednesday 1:00-2:30 PM

Adults are invited to join us at the Glen Rock Public Library for the Knit & Crochet Club!

Bring your project (supplies not provided by the Library) and join with others who also love to knit and crochet and craft together.

This is a drop-in event; registration is not required.

Wednesday, april 2 at 7:00 PM

Join professional organizer, Jean Marie Herron of Posse Partners, as she teaches you her space methodology as well as decluttering tips and tricks when deciding if our possessions should stay or go when it comes to spring decluttering.

Mary Ann McBride from Privatus Care Solutions will be joining to briefly share tips for individuals and families on scaling down for easier senior living and next steps.

RSVP to maryann.mcbride@privatuscare.com

Friday, april 4 at 11:00 AM

Join us for a fun movie morning every first Friday of the month.  Light refreshments will be provided

This month's movie is Saturday Night

tuesday, April 8th at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict. In collaboration with the Borough of Glen Rock’s visit to the Morgan Library special exhibit which is the subject of the book.

The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian—who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray.

In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps build a world-class collection.

But Belle has a secret, one she must protect at all costs. She was born not Belle da Costa Greene but Belle Marion Greener. She is the daughter of Richard Greener, the first Black graduate of Harvard and a well-known advocate for equality. Belle's complexion isn't dark because of her alleged Portuguese heritage that lets her pass as white—her complexion is dark because she is African American.

The Personal Librarian tells the story of an extraordinary woman, famous for her intellect, style, and wit, and shares the lengths to which she must go—for the protection of her family and her legacy—to preserve her carefully crafted white identity in the racist world in which she lives.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting March 20). The eBook and eAudio of this title is also available on the Libby app.

Registration is not required.

Tuesday, april 8th at 7:00 pM

Join us after hours for an exclusive first look at our upcoming elevator project AND the official unveiling of our 2025-2027 Strategic Plan. Kristen Comeaux, library director, and members of the Library Board of Trustees will provide an overview of the next three year's strategic vision and library priorities, as well as explain the full scope and plan for the upcoming construction project. Come curious - questions will be taken after!

Children are welcome, but need to be supervised as the children's room will be closed.

Register here with LibCal.

Every Wednesday 1:00-2:30 PM

Adults are invited to join us at the Glen Rock Public Library for the Knit & Crochet Club!

Bring your project (supplies not provided by the Library) and join with others who also love to knit and crochet and craft together.

This is a drop-in event; registration is not required.

Friday, april 11 at 11:00am

Join us as we create a simple string art masterpieces together with embroidery floss, nails and a wooden plaque!

If possible, please bring a hammer - some will be provided to share.

Register here with LibCal.

Friday, april 11th at 6:00 PM

Snowed in at the Swiss Alpine Lodge on new Year's Eve, 1934, ringing in the New Year of 1935...

Registration is required.

Light refreshments of cheese and crackers will be served.

WHAT TO PREPARE: Nothing, just yourself! Everyone will get to pick a character at the start of the evening OR you can pre-claim a character in case you want to construct a suitable costume and/or to prepare yourself. Character choices will be sent out closer to the day of the event.

We'll have pre-prepared tidbits for you to know about your characters and other guests each round. Some things you'll have to drop hints of during conversation, some things that are just for yourself to know!  There will be 3 rounds, with each round more information being revealed. Will you figure out who the murderer is?

WHAT TO WEAR: Whatever you find comfortable, but if you do want to dress up, this mystery is set in the 1930s.

Register here with LibCal.

Monday, April 14th at 6:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian

An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance about grief and found family, between the new star shortstop stuck in a batting slump and the reporter assigned to (reluctantly) cover his first season—set in the same universe as We Could Be So Good.

The 1960 baseball season is shaping up to be the worst year of Eddie O’Leary’s life. He can’t manage to hit the ball, his new teammates hate him, he’s living out of a suitcase, and he’s homesick. When the team’s owner orders him to give a bunch of interviews to some snobby reporter, he’s ready to call it quits. He can barely manage to behave himself for the length of a game, let alone an entire season. But he’s already on thin ice, so he has no choice but to agree.

Mark Bailey is not a sports reporter. He writes for the arts page, and these days he’s barely even managing to do that much. He’s had a rough year and just wants to be left alone in his too-empty apartment, mourning a partner he’d never been able to be public about. The last thing he needs is to spend a season writing about New York’s obnoxious new shortstop in a stunt to get the struggling newspaper more readers.

Isolated together within the crush of an anonymous city, these two lonely souls orbit each other as they slowly give in to the inevitable gravity of their attraction. But Mark has vowed that he’ll never be someone’s secret ever again, and Eddie can’t be out as a professional athlete. It’s just them against the world, and they’ll both have to decide if that’s enough.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting March 8). The eBook of this title is also available on the Libby app.

Registration is not required.

Every Wednesday 1:00-2:30 PM

Adults are invited to join us at the Glen Rock Public Library for the Knit & Crochet Club!

Bring your project (supplies not provided by the Library) and join with others who also love to knit and crochet and craft together.

This is a drop-in event; registration is not required.

Monday, April 21st at 7pm

Love the idea of a book group, but don't want to read deep literary works? This book group is just what you've been looking for!

We are reading: The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz. Copies are available at the circulation desk beginning March 17th.

 Join RoseMarie Cappiello and learn about mediumship.  She'll discuss how mediumship works, signs from your loved ones, dreams visits from loved ones and how to understand the grieving process.  She will also make spirit connections with loved ones as time allows.

The library will be open after hours for the event only.

Please register here with LibCal.

Registration opens March 15th

Every Wednesday 1:00-2:30 PM

Adults are invited to join us at the Glen Rock Public Library for the Knit & Crochet Club!

Bring your project (supplies not provided by the Library) and join with others who also love to knit and crochet and craft together.

This is a drop-in event; registration is not required.

Wednesday, April 23 at 7:00 PM

Join Swetha from The Paisley Corner for this fun workshop!

Participants will first learn the basics of watercolors. 
They will be guided them through a set of exercises to understand brush control
and water control. They will also learn watercolor techniques like “wet-on-wet” and “wet-on-dry”.

At the end of the workshop, participants will combine these techniques
to create vibrant feather bookmarks!

Glen Rock Library cardholders will be given preference.
Registration opens on March 15th. Register here with LibCal.

This event is generously sponsored by the Friends of the Glen Rock Library.

Thursday, april 24th at 10:30 AM

Join Jon Leslie for A Club in Motion! Restore your body to its natural state with the aid of a Mobility Club. Said tool addresses shoulder, elbow and wrist issues as well as building up resilience against future injuries. Benefits include:

• Improved core strength and shoulder mobility

• Enhanced grip

• Greater tendon and ligament resilience

• Mental calm due to repetitive movements

Register here with LibCal.

thursday, April 24th at 6:30 PM

Eleven Citizens. Two Sides. One Intractable Problem.

The Tennessee 11 documentary follows a group of ideologically diverse citizens in the wake of the Covenant School shooting in Nashville as they try to find common ground on one of the country’s most divisive issues: gun rights and safety.

The film depicts how eleven strangers, despite their different positions on guns, were able to work together to develop solutions to gun violence, in a state that has the 11th highest firearm death rate in the nation. The citizens’ productivity and respect for one another is juxtaposed with the state legislature’s inability to make progress on the same issue, including a tense special session that took place while the film was being shot and resulted in little agreement on gun.

Running time: 79 minutes. 30 minute facilitated conversation led by Maggie Jacoby to follow.

This screening has kindly been sponsored by the Better Together Film Festival.

Registration is required through the Better Together Film Festival here.

SUNDAY, April 27 at 2:00-4:00 PM

The Arts Council of Glen Rock (ACGR) invites artists of any level to its Open Studio at the Glen Rock Public Library.

Open Studio is a drawing session held once a month from November 2024 through April 2025. People of any age can join other artists one Sunday afternoon a month (2 :00 to 4:00 p.m.) to sketch.

Bring your art materials and draw from a provided still life and/or clothed model. There is no instruction. There is no fee to participate.

This is a drop-in event, but to be added to ACGR’s Open Studio email “reminder” list, send a note to acgr@glenrocknj.net with “Open Studio” in the subject line.

Every Wednesday 1:00-2:30 PM

Adults are invited to join us at the Glen Rock Public Library for the Knit & Crochet Club!

Bring your project (supplies not provided by the Library) and join with others who also love to knit and crochet and craft together.

This is a drop-in event; registration is not required.

Thursday, May 1st at 10:30 AM

Join Jon Leslie for A Club in Motion! Restore your body to its natural state with the aid of a Mobility Club. Said tool addresses shoulder, elbow and wrist issues as well as building up resilience against future injuries. Benefits include:

• Improved core strength and shoulder mobility

• Enhanced grip

• Greater tendon and ligament resilience

• Mental calm due to repetitive movements

Register here with LibCal.

Tuesday, May 6 at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden.

A house is a precious thing…

It is 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the war is truly over. Living alone in her late mother’s country home, Isabel knows her life is as it should be—led by routine and discipline. But all is upended when her brother Louis brings his graceless new girlfriend Eva, leaving her at Isabel’s doorstep as a guest, to stay for the season.

Eva is Isabel’s antithesis: she sleeps late, walks loudly through the house, and touches things she shouldn’t. In response, Isabel develops a fury-fueled obsession, and when things start disappearing around the house—a spoon, a knife, a bowl—Isabel’s suspicions begin to spiral. In the sweltering peak of summer, Isabel’s paranoia gives way to infatuation, leading to a discovery that unravels all Isabel has ever known. The war might not be well and truly over after all, and neither Eva—nor the house in which they live—are what they seem.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting March 30). The audiobook of this title is also available on the Libby app.

Registration is not required. Drop in to join our discussion over tea & treats.

Tuesday, June 3 at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss The Wedding People by Alison Espach.

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.

It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan—which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can’t stop confiding in each other.

In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach’s The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting May 5). The eBook & audiobook of this title are also available on the Libby app.

Registration is not required. Drop in to join our discussion over tea & treats.

Wednesday, June 25th at 6:30PM

Social Security is a complicated program. This information session, led by an advisor through the Association of Financial Consultants will help you to understand how it works and how you can manage and maximize your benefits. You will hear about the do’s and don’ts of retirement. Upon completion of this educational seminar, you may discover strategies to utilize to enjoy retirement.

No registration required.

Tuesday, July 1 at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss Playground by Richard Powers.

Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up in naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane’s work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough.

They meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, whose deposits of phosphorus once helped feed the world. Now the tiny atoll has been chosen for humanity’s next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea. But first, the island’s residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away.

Set in the world’s largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting June 2). The eBook & audiobook of this title are also available on the Libby app.

Registration is not required. Drop in to join our discussion over tea & treats.

Tuesday, August 5 at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss The Sicilian Inheritance by Jo Piazza.

Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business and marriage. On top of that, her beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, leaving Sara bereft with grief. But Aunt Rosie’s death also opens an escape from her life and a window into the past by way of a plane ticket to Sicily, a deed to a possibly valuable plot of land, and a bombshell family secret. Rosie believes Sara’s great-grandmother Serafina, the family matriarch who was left behind while her husband worked in America, didn’t die of illness as family lore has it . . . she was murdered.

Thus begins a twist-filled adventure that takes Sara all over the picturesque Italian countryside as she races to solve a mystery and learn the story of Serafina—a feisty and headstrong young woman in the early 1900s thrust into motherhood in her teens, who fought for a better life not just for herself but for all the women of her small village. Unsurprisingly the more she challenges the status quo, the more she finds herself in danger.

As Sara discovers more about Serafina, she also realizes she is coming head-to-head with the same menacing forces that took down her great-grandmother. At once an immersive multigenerational mystery and an ode to the undaunted heroism of everyday women, The Sicilian Inheritance is an atmospheric, binge-worthy delight.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting June 30). The eBook & audiobook of this title are also available on the Libby app.

Registration is not required. Drop in to join our discussion over tea & treats.

Tuesday, September 2 at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss Enlightenment by Sarah Perry.

From the author of The Essex Serpent, a dazzling novel of love and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends.

Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay have lived all their lives in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are kindred spirits—torn between their commitment to religion and their desire to explore the world beyond their small Baptist community.

It is two romantic relationships that will rend their friendship, and in the wake of this rupture, Thomas develops an obsession with a vanished nineteenth-century astronomer said to haunt a nearby manor, and Grace flees Aldleigh entirely for London. Over the course of twenty years, by coincidence and design, Thomas and Grace will find their lives brought back into orbit as the mystery of the vanished astronomer unfolds into a devastating tale of love and scientific pursuit. Thomas and Grace will ask themselves what it means to love and be loved, what is fixed and what is mutable, how much of our fate is predestined and written in the stars, and whether they can find their way back to each other.

A thrillingly ambitious novel of friendship, faith, and unrequited love, rich in symmetry and symbolism, Enlightenment is a shimmering wonder of a book and Sarah Perry’s finest work to date. 

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting August 4). The eBook & audiobook of this title are also available on the Libby app.

Registration is not required. Drop in to join our discussion over tea & treats.

Tuesday, October 7 at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips.

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn’t spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital’s entrance by a war veteran who has forced himself into their world. There, far from family, a beloved neighbor, and the mountain home they knew, they try to reclaim their lives.

The omnipresent vagaries of war and race rise to the surface as we learn their story: their flight to the highest mountain ridges of western Virginia; the disappearance of ConaLee’s father, who left for the War and never returned. Meanwhile, in the asylum, they begin to find a new path. ConaLee pretends to be her mother’s maid; Eliza responds slowly to treatment. They get swept up in the life of the facility—the mysterious man they call the Night Watch; the orphan child called Weed; the fearsome woman who runs the kitchen; the remarkable doctor at the head of the institution.

Epic, enthralling, and meticulously crafted, Night Watch is a stunning chronicle of surviving war and its aftermath.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting September 2). The eBook & audiobook of this title are also available on the Libby app.

Registration is not required. Drop in to join our discussion over tea & treats.

Tuesday, November 4 at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange.

Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father’s jailer. Under Pratt’s harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.

In a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the family listeners first fell in love with in There There—warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts—asking what it means to be the children and grandchildren of massacre. Wandering Stars is a novel about epigenetic and generational trauma that has the force and vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book from one of the most exciting writers at work today and soaring confirmation of Tommy Orange’s monumental gifts.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting October 6). The eBook & audiobook of this title are also available on the Libby app.

Registration is not required. Drop in to join our discussion over tea & treats.

Tuesday, December 2 at 2:00 pm

Join us to read and discuss Clear by Carys Davies.

John, an impoverished Scottish minister, has accepted a job evicting the lone remaining occupant of an island north of Scotland—Ivar, who has been living alone for decades, with only the animals and the sea for company. Though his wife, Mary, has serious misgivings about the errand, he decides to go anyway, setting in motion a chain of events that neither he nor Mary could have predicted.

Shortly after John reaches the island, he falls down a cliff and is found, unconscious and badly injured, by Ivar who takes him home and tends to his wounds. “Clear chronicles the surprising bond that develops between these two men…pack[ing] a great deal of power into a compact tale” (The Wall Street Journal) about connection, home, and hope—in which John begins to learn Ivar’s language, and Ivar sees himself reflected through the eyes of another person for the first time in decades.

Unfolding during the final stages of the infamous Scottish Clearances—a period of the 19th century which saw whole communities of the rural poor driven off the land in a relentless program of forced evictions—this singular novel explores what binds us together in the face of insurmountable difference, the way history shapes our deepest convictions, and how the human spirit can endure despite all odds. Moving and unpredictable, “a love letter to the scorching power of language” (The Guardian), Clear is “a jewel of a novel” (The Washington Post)—a profound and unforgettable listen.

Titles will be available at the Circulation Desk (starting November 3). The eBook & audiobook of this title are also available on the Libby app.

Registration is not required. Drop in to join our discussion over tea & treats.