Virtual Author Talks
Enjoy a range of talks from bestselling authors and thought leaders.
Registration Required: Register Online
Brought to you in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium.
Museum Passes
Museum Passes now available to borrow.
Ask a staff member for details or call 973-543-4018
Cook & Connect Club
Wednesday, January 7th, 11:00am
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Calling all cooks! Join our new monthly cooking club where each month a different culinary item will be the theme. Using that item of the month, participants will find and make a recipe of their choice at home. Then bring the recipe and the food item (if desired) to our meeting to discuss, share and taste. This months theme is Quick Breads.
Adult Monthly Craft: Needle Felting Dryer Balls
Wednesday, January 7th, 1pm
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Join our friendly craft group with a different project each month. This month’s craft is to make useful dryer balls using the needlefelting techniques.
All supplies are provided.
Reset With Eileen
Friday, January 9th, 1pm
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Join local Health and Life Coach Eileen Lupo as she offers a hands-on goal setting workshop. Take the time to establish healthy habits and prioritized focus for the new year ahead. Space is limited.
The Heart Of Central America: Guatemala
Monday, January 12th, 1pm
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Back by popular demand! Join professional traveler, Chris McCormack as he explores colorful colonial towns, ancient Mayan ruins, active volcanoes, beautiful lakes, and lush jungles of Guatemala. Space is limited.
Virtual Author Talks: David Brooks
Virtual
Tuesday, January 13th, 2pm
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Join us for an online discussion with prominent cultural writer and bestselling author David Brooks on his book, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply, in which he helps us pose essential questions: If you want to know a person, what kind of attention should you cast on them? What kind of conversations should you have? What parts of a person’s story should you pay attention to?
Driven by his trademark sense of curiosity and determination to grow as a person, Brooks draws from the fields of psychology and neuroscience and the worlds of theater, philosophy, history, and education to present a welcoming, hopeful, integrated approach to human connection. How to Know a Person helps readers become more understanding and considerate toward others, and to find the joy that comes from being seen. Along the way it offers a possible remedy for a society that is riven by fragmentation, hostility, and misperception.
Tuesday, January 13th, 2pm
Registration Required: Register Online
Join us for an online discussion with prominent cultural writer and bestselling author David Brooks on his book, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply, in which he helps us pose essential questions: If you want to know a person, what kind of attention should you cast on them? What kind of conversations should you have? What parts of a person’s story should you pay attention to?
Driven by his trademark sense of curiosity and determination to grow as a person, Brooks draws from the fields of psychology and neuroscience and the worlds of theater, philosophy, history, and education to present a welcoming, hopeful, integrated approach to human connection. How to Know a Person helps readers become more understanding and considerate toward others, and to find the joy that comes from being seen. Along the way it offers a possible remedy for a society that is riven by fragmentation, hostility, and misperception.
Non Fiction Book Club
Wednesday January 14th
1pm
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Book Club meets the second Wednesday of each month.
Read new titles and come ready for a lively discussion.
Register Once and you will be on “Non Fiction Book Club” mailing list and will receive program updates and weather related cancellations.
Virtual Author Talks: Julia Hotz
Virtual
Tuesday, January 20th, 2pm
Registration Required: Register Online
Be sure to jump start your new year with us as we chat virtually with journalist and author Julia Hotz about her book The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging.
The Connection Cure combines diligent science reporting, moving patient success stories, and surprising self-discovery to help us discover the lasting and life-changing power of social prescribing. Traditionally, when we get sick, health care professionals ask, “What’s the matter with you?” But around the world, teams of doctors, nurses, therapists, and social workers have started to flip the script, asking “What matters to you?”
Science shows that social prescribing is effective for treating symptoms of the modern world’s most common ailments—depression, ADHD, addiction, trauma, anxiety, chronic pain, dementia, diabetes, and loneliness. By integrating age-old medicines like art, nature, movement, and volunteer service into patient’s daily lives, social prescriptions are radically changing health and healthcare in more than thirty countries. Julia Hotz travels around the world to survey them —sea-swimming lessons for depression, “culture vitamins” for anxiety, a fishing club for ADHD, a farm-based day-care for dementia, a phone-buddy program for social isolation, and many more.
Registration Required: Register Online
Be sure to jump start your new year with us as we chat virtually with journalist and author Julia Hotz about her book The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging.
The Connection Cure combines diligent science reporting, moving patient success stories, and surprising self-discovery to help us discover the lasting and life-changing power of social prescribing. Traditionally, when we get sick, health care professionals ask, “What’s the matter with you?” But around the world, teams of doctors, nurses, therapists, and social workers have started to flip the script, asking “What matters to you?”
Science shows that social prescribing is effective for treating symptoms of the modern world’s most common ailments—depression, ADHD, addiction, trauma, anxiety, chronic pain, dementia, diabetes, and loneliness. By integrating age-old medicines like art, nature, movement, and volunteer service into patient’s daily lives, social prescriptions are radically changing health and healthcare in more than thirty countries. Julia Hotz travels around the world to survey them —sea-swimming lessons for depression, “culture vitamins” for anxiety, a fishing club for ADHD, a farm-based day-care for dementia, a phone-buddy program for social isolation, and many more.
Great Decisions Discussion Group
Starts Tuesday, January 27th, 7pm
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Will Meet the 4th Tuesday of Each Month
Join us monthly for our newly formed Great Decisions Discussion Group, where curious minds come together to explore today’s most important global issues. Using brief readings and videos from the Great Decisions series, we’ll have a friendly, guided conversation about international affairs, foreign policy, and how world events connect to our everyday lives. No expertise required—just an interest in learning, listening, and sharing perspectives in a welcoming library setting.
Once you have signed up we will contact you about picking up the briefing book & how to watch the masterclass videos.
2026 topics are
1.America and the World: Trump 2.0 Foreign Policy
2.Trump Tariffs and the Future of the World Economy
3.U.S.-China Relations
4.Ruptured Alliances and the Risk of Nuclear Proliferation
5.Ukraine and the Future of European Security
6.Multilateral Institutions in a Changing World Order
7.U.S. Engagement of Africa
8.The Future of Human Rights and International Law
Book Club
Wednesday, January 28th, 1.30pm
Registration required. Register Online
Book Club Meets the last Wednesday of the month
Read the book and come ready for a lively discussion
Register Once and you will be on our “Book Club” mailing list and will receive program updates and weather related cancellations.
Virtual Author Talks: Liz Moore
Virtual
Wednesday, January 28th, 7pm
Registration Required: Register Online
We are thrilled to welcome Liz Moore to discuss her latest work, The God of the Woods, an instant New York Times bestseller and one of NPR’s 2024 “Books We Love” highlights.
Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found.
As a panicked search begins, a thrilling drama unfolds. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow, Moore’s multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore’s most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet.
Join us in conversation with Liz as we embark on a tale of thrilling twists and disturbing disappearances. Register today to “enter the woods,” if you dare!
Registration Required: Register Online
We are thrilled to welcome Liz Moore to discuss her latest work, The God of the Woods, an instant New York Times bestseller and one of NPR’s 2024 “Books We Love” highlights.
Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found.
As a panicked search begins, a thrilling drama unfolds. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow, Moore’s multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore’s most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet.
Join us in conversation with Liz as we embark on a tale of thrilling twists and disturbing disappearances. Register today to “enter the woods,” if you dare!
Sourdough 101
Thursday, January 29th, 7pm
Registration Required: Register Online
Join Sophie Curtis of Sour Bellies, as she explores the world of sourdough bread. This hands-on workshop will offer sourdough bread education, tips, tricks and tastes. Each participant will leave with their own jar of sourdough starter. One per household. Space is limited.Registration Required. FREE
Registration Required! One Jar Per Household!
Please Note – Priority is given to Mendham Township Residents.
Registration for Mendham Township Residents will open 12/29/25.
Registration for Non-Residents will open 1/22/26.
