Short story discussion in Spanish

Lawyers will be at the library for free private consultations on immigration and general legal issues. No appointments necessary; service on a first-come, first-served basis. Spanish translators available.
Co-sponsored by the Princeton Public Library, the Latin American Task Force, Lutheran Social Ministries of NJ, the Housing Authority of Princeton and the Mercer County Bar Association.
For more information, call Lucia Acosta at 609.924.9529 x316.

Search engine optimization -- getting your website a top ranking on Google, Yahoo, and other search engines, is an important part of developing an effective website. What are the secrets to moving your website to the top of the page? Matt Dawson of Image Cog website design, and Karen Hodges Miller of Open Door Publications will discuss techniques for optimizing your website. Topics will include natural vs. manufactured results, the effective use of keywords, and the importance of writing interesting and informative copy that attract visitors and keeps them returning to your site again and again.

A community of writers who are working to infuse true stories with emotional honesty, members of the group write memoir, essay and research-supported works in a flexible form that welcomes shifting voices and viewpoints, refined wordplay and the analytical modes of the essayist. The group publishes a journal, Solstice, to which members can contribute.
Registration required. Contact Janie Hermann: jhermann@princetonlibrary.org or call 609.924.9528 x228 for more information.

In the spirit of Socrates' belief that the unexamined life is not worth living, participants pose questions, listen to others, raise challenges, and consider alternative answers. All are invited and no preparation is necessary.

If you love to scrapbook and are looking for space to spread out and work, these three -hour sessions are for you. Bring your own scrapbooks, photos, and other supplies; the library will supply a cropping station. A scrapbooking expert will be on hand to offer advice and will also lead a make and take session, where you can make a seasonal border or other accent for your pages.

To ensure adequate supply of materials, registration is requested. Please call the library reference desk at 609-924-9529 x220 or e-mail

Actor B.D. Wong and director Roger Rees will open a new season of McCarter Live at the Library with a discussion of Herringbone, a one-man, multi-character musical that kicks off McCarter's new season in September.

Wong plays all 11 characters in Herringbone, a ghost story with a vaudeville twist. When 8-year-old George discovers his gift for tap dancing, everyone wants a piece of him. As the adults around him exploit his talents, George finds himself in a profound supernatural struggle for control over body and soul.

"Akeelah and the Bee": A precocious 11-year-old from South Los Angeles enters a spelling contest over the objections of her mother. Helped by a mysterious teacher and a cast of colorful characters from her neighborhood, she eventually finds herself at the National Spelling Bee.

A community of writers who are working to infuse true stories with emotional honesty, members of the group write memoir, essay and research-supported works in a flexible form that welcomes shifting voices and viewpoints, refined wordplay and the analytical modes of the essayist. The group publishes a journal, Solstice, to which members can contribute.
Registration required. Contact Janie Hermann: jhermann@princetonlibrary.org or call 609.924.9528 x228 for more information.

This playful, game-like alternative to ordinary conversation is designed to enrich interpersonal relationships. Moderated by Alan Goldsmith, Noodle Talks begin with a container filled with 400 fettuccini-like paper strips being passed around. On each strip, there are one or two questions covering the full gamut of life experience. Some questions refer to the past, others to the future; some are concrete, others metaphorical; some invite us to laugh at our foibles while others bring us to tears. There are no right or wrong answers, just the truth of our own inner or outer experience.

Saxophonist Bradford Hayes brings his quartet to the library for an evening of cool jazz spotlighting songs from the ensemble's latest recording, The Jazz Life. A fixture on the regional jazz scene, Hayes's group has performed in clubs, colleges and concert halls, including Birdland, Tavern on the Green and the Beacon Theater. A native of Virginia, Hayes has been a music educator in the Newark Public Schools for 24 years.

Let It Be No one changed more or influenced more change around them than The Beatles did during their relatively short time together. Following on the heels of the all-encompassing-engulfing White Album, the Beatles looked for an alternate approach to continue creatively together as a unit, writing, rehearsing, recording and performing a brand new album for the public, all the while filming the process.

The landscape is in constant flux. In highly disturbed areas -- like most of central New Jersey -- the change that is most dramatic is the invasion of a few alien species of plants that crowd out the native plants, reducing biodiversity and the ability of the landscape to serve as habitat for the wildlife that evolved with it over hundreds of thousands of years. This presentation by Jim Amon, director of stewardship for the D&R Greenway Land Trust, will explore the dynamics of the landscape and how to take actions that will enrich it and restore its

If you love to scrapbook and are looking for space to spread out and work, these three -hour sessions are for you. Bring your own scrapbooks, photos, and other supplies; the library will supply a cropping station. A scrapbooking expert will be on hand to offer advice and will also lead a make and take session, where you can make a seasonal border or other accent for your pages.

To ensure adequate supply of materials, registration is requested. Please call the library reference desk at 609-924-9529 x220 or e-mail

This husband-and-wife team combine their talents on tenor banjo and button accordion performances of tight-knit music honed by years of old-fashioned family music-making. Carberry was born in England but returned to Ireland in the 90s, deeply rooted in the music of her County Longford family. Although she started on the tinwhistle, she quickly followed in the footsteps of her grandfather and took up the banjo. Quinn was born into a family of accomplished musicians and storytellers in County Armagh. He took up the accordion in 1981 and has developed a highly refined individual style. He is regarded as one of Ireland's finest exponents of the accordion.

A Good Year A ruthless English investment broker finds there's more to life than financial conquest when he inherits the chateau and small vineyard where he grew up in Provence.

This two-week class is for people just beginning to research their families. You'll learn how to collect family information informally, organize what you know and identify the gaps in your information. We'll also take a brief look at some of the records you can use to fill in information and uncover earlier generations.

A community of writers who are working to infuse true stories with emotional honesty, members of the group write memoir, essay and research-supported works in a flexible form that welcomes shifting voices and viewpoints, refined wordplay and the analytical modes of the essayist. The group publishes a journal, Solstice, to which members can contribute.
Registration required. Contact Janie Hermann: jhermann@princetonlibrary.org or call 609.924.9528 x228 for more information.

F For Fake The great Orson Welles , never one to rest on his laurels and due to the quixotic nature of his career, masterfully interweaves tales of trickery involving Elmyr de Hory, Clifford Irving, Howard Hughes, Pablo Picasso and himself, a brilliant tour de force that has not been duplicated and is a very worthy bookend to Citizen Kane.

In the spirit of Socrates' belief that the unexamined life is not worth living, participants pose questions, listen to others, raise challenges, and consider alternative answers. All are invited and no preparation is necessary.

A Cable Ace-award winner and Audie-award nominee, Critt has narrated more than 150 titles of popular fiction, including 17 books for best-selling author Janet Evanovich. Critt will share a behind-the-scenes peek at the world of audiobook performance along with several excerpts from the zany world of Stephanie Plum. From her family's misguided attempts to play Cupid to a near-riot in a Vegas showroom, Critt will bring to life the Jersey characters that have made Evanovich and her creations a hit.

This two-week class is for people just beginning to research their families. You'll learn how to collect family information informally, organize what you know and identify the gaps in your information. We'll also take a brief look at some of the records you can use to fill in information and uncover earlier generations.

Students in the Westminster Conservatory Youth Opera Workshop will perform this piece, loosely based on the classic Greek myth and designed for a family audience.

This playful, game-like alternative to ordinary conversation is designed to enrich interpersonal relationships. Moderated by Alan Goldsmith, Noodle Talks begin with a container filled with 400 fettuccini-like paper strips being passed around. On each strip, there are one or two questions covering the full gamut of life experience. Some questions refer to the past, others to the future; some are concrete, others metaphorical; some invite us to laugh at our foibles while others bring us to tears. There are no right or wrong answers, just the truth of our own inner or outer experience.

New Jersey signer/songwriter Jeff Penque and sing Karen Fairweather will perform original music from their debut CD, Jersey Fresh, which features 11 songs written by Penque and performed by the duo. Jeff and Karen have been performing their special blend of folk-pop originals along with other favorites from the of the '60s and '70s in venues throughout the state.

If you love to scrapbook and are looking for space to spread out and work, these three -hour sessions are for you. Bring your own scrapbooks, photos, and other supplies; the library will supply a cropping station. A scrapbooking expert will be on hand to offer advice and will also lead a make and take session, where you can make a seasonal border or other accent for your pages.

To ensure adequate supply of materials, registration is requested. Please call the library reference desk at 609-924-9529 x220 or e-mail

In his debut novel, The Sex Ed Chronicles, Nachbar tells the story of a young journalist who fights to save a teacher's career in the emotionally charged arenas of sex education and student free press rights in a New Jersey public schools in 1980. The author has been involved with education politics for more than four decades as a student, urban planner, government affairs manager, software executive and now as a writer. He produces Educated Quest, a blog that offers and invites commentary on education politics, policy and technology.

A community of writers who are working to infuse true stories with emotional honesty, members of the group write memoir, essay and research-supported works in a flexible form that welcomes shifting voices and viewpoints, refined wordplay and the analytical modes of the essayist. The group publishes a journal, Solstice, to which members can contribute.
Registration required. Contact Janie Hermann: jhermann@princetonlibrary.org or call 609.924.9528 x228 for more information.

Juggling Life This film, directed by Princeton High School graduate Ben Saltzman, is a portrait of an award-winning teacher, a college student with an amazing talent for juggling and a young woman on a mission. The three are dedicated to making a difference by running the New Jersey is Beautiful Juggling Program, which provides an unforgettable character education lessons for the diverse collection of children involved.

The film screening will be followed by a Q&A session with filmmaker Ben Saltzman and NJ is Beautiful Juggling Program Coorindator Lou De Lauro and a live-action performance by De Lauro and other jugglers.

The Lives of Others A police captain in Cold War East Berlin becomes stuck in a dangerous game when he is asked to spy on a celebrated playwright and his lover.

Monsieur Verdoux Charlie Chaplin became an iconic figure throughout the world as "The Little Felllow" or "Tramp" in films over a three decade span. So it was quite a departure when, in 1947, he unleashed this "comedy of murders" with himself as a French banker turned ruthless bluebeard. While both a critical and financial failure at the time, Verdoux has since been recognized as one of Chaplin's finest and most sophisticated creations, as well as ahead of it's time in it's subtle clever indictment of the system and social structure.

Across the Universe In this psychedelic musical film that rolls to the beat of the Beatles, a young dockworker travels to America in the 60s and falls in love with a sheltered teenager whose brother has been drafted to fight in Vietnam. Together, they are swept up into the anti-war movement, the struggle for free speech and civil rights. 2 hours, 11 minutes

This two-week class is for people just beginning to research their families. You'll learn how to collect family information informally, organize what you know and identify the gaps in your information. We'll also take a brief look at some of the records you can use to fill in information and uncover earlier generations.

A community of writers who are working to infuse true stories with emotional honesty, members of the group write memoir, essay and research-supported works in a flexible form that welcomes shifting voices and viewpoints, refined wordplay and the analytical modes of the essayist. The group publishes a journal, Solstice, to which members can contribute.
Registration required. Contact Janie Hermann: jhermann@princetonlibrary.org or call 609.924.9528 x228 for more information.

Caregiver specialists discuss community resources for busy caregivers of older adults, featuring the role of Geriatric Care Manager. Speakers include Hilary Murray, Barbara Bristow, Jan McCurdy and Susan Hoskins.

Quick Books to Help Your Business Grow Presented by two business and tax professionals, Alfred Stephens and Stacy Svendor of @ Home Tax Pros, this session will teach advantages of Quick Books to effectively manage and grow your business. This seminar is suitable for both new and existing businesses.

Eloise Bruce and Angelo Verga "Rattle," Bruce's first book of verse, was published in 2004. She is a member of the poetry critique and performance group Cool Women and her poems have appeared in Sou'Wester , Blue Moon Review and American Letters and Commentary. She is on the staff of the Frost Place Center for Poetry and the Arts in Franconia, NH and works as a teaching artist for Young Audiences of New Jersey and Playwright's Theatre. Verga's poems have appeared in Rattle, Manhattan Review, New York Quarterly, Barrow Street, Heliotrope and numerous other journals. His most recent collection is "33 New York City Poems" and his work also appears in the thematic anthology "Birthday Poems." He is a founding member of Against the Tide: Poets for Peace, and is working on his sixth collection of verse, a book of love poems.

This new library database is an invaluable asset for those searching for timely, accurate and comprehensive global business information. OneSource provides key company, executive and industry information selected from more than 2,500 different sources, supplied by the world's premier information providers and seamlessly integrated into one, easy-to-use service that is accessible in the library or at home using your library card. Jane Brown, manager of the library's Reference and Adult Services Department, will demonstrate the capabilities of OneSource.

Captivity, the author's second novel, is set in a South Carolina chim