BloomsDay
Monday, June 16 2025 at 7pm
North Reading Room, Oradell Library
The Oradell Public Library is holding a Bloomsday Celebration on Monday, June 16th at 7 p.m. This will be part of a worldwide celebration honoring the publication of the immortal work of James Joyce, Ulysses.
Festivities will include readings by two of our area’s leading Library Directors, Daragh O’Connor from nearby River Edge and John Trause, the Director of the Oradell Library. Additional readers will include Michael Tubridy, author of the book An Irish Passion for Justice, and Mary Margaret Carter. Anyone interested in joining the readers please contact the Library at 201-262-2613 or contact Dianne Daniele at Sonnydeeb40@mail.com. If you are a reader or just someone who enjoys a good story, join us and be thrilled by the words of this important and wonderful book. The Supreme Court decision will also be discussed.
Cookbook Club
TUESDAY, June 17, 2025, 7:00pm
Oradell Library Junior Room – Craft Area
The Art of Simple Food (2007) by Alice Waters
Email Moderator, if Interested: andrea.sisti@oradell.bccls.org
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Evening Book Club
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 at 7 p. m.
South Reading Room, Oradell Library
Email Adult Services Librarian Orla Cassidy, if interested: orla.cassidy@oradell.bccls.org.
The book to be discussed is The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Fall Prevention with Bergen New Bridge Medical Center
Friday, June 20, 2025 at 12:30pm
South Reading Room, Oradell Library
Join Registered Nurse Lavern Mitchell Bio to learn strategies for preventing falls. Refreshments will be served. No registration required.
IFC FILM CLUB
MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2025 at 7 p. m.
North Reading Room, Oradell Library
The film chosen for the next meeting on Monday, June 23, 2025, is The Children’s Hour (1961), an American drama film, produced and directed by William Wyler from a screenplay by John Michael Hayes, based on the 1934 play of the same title by Lillian Hellman.
Email Library Director, if interested: trause@oradell.bccls.org.
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Morning Book Club
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 at 11 a. m.
South Reading Room, Oradell Library
Email Adult Services Librarian Orla Cassidy, if interested: orla.cassidy@oradell.bccls.org.
The book to be discussed is The Woman with the Blue Star by Pam Jenoff
Read more about the Morning Book Club.
Fourth of JUly Craft Class
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 at 7pm
North Reading Room, Oradell Library
Linda will lead a group in creating an Independence Day themed craft! All materials will be supplied. Registration is required. Register by calling the library at 201-262-2613, stopping by, or registering online.
Click here to register.
Civil War Discussion Group
MONDAY, July 7, 2025 at 6 p. m. (Note earlier time)
South Reading Room, Oradell Library
The next meeting will be on Monday, July 7, 2025, starting early at 6 p. m., with the screening of the film Field of Lost Shoes (2014), based on a true story of the American Civil War, culminating at the Battle of New Market, May 1864, in which a group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must confront the horrors of an adult world, when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valley.
MEMOIR WRITING WORKSHOP
WEDNESDAY July 9, 2025 at 1 p. m.
North Reading Room, Oradell Library
On the second Wednesday of every month, the Library hosts a Memoir / Creative Writing Workshop in the lower level meeting room of the Library.
If interested, please email the Library to sign up at oradcirc@bccls.org.