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Healthy and Easy Indian Cooking
with Vaishali
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Sunday, March 14, 2021
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Recommended for Adults
Limited Seats
Virtual Demo
Join Vaishali Chandrashekar, founder of
Cook Consciously with Vaishali for a
ZOOM demonstration from her kitchen as
she cooks healthy Indian recipes, which are simple to make and fancy enough to be
served for any occasion. Vaishali will be demonstrating:
Palak Paneer
Fresh spinach curry with paneer (Indian cheese cubes) and warm spices.
Tandoori Gobhi
Cauliflower florets marinated with tandoori spices and roasted and broiled to charred perfection.
Beets with Chickpeas and Fresh Coconut
South Indian style sautee shredded beets combined with chickpeas and fresh grated coconut.
Registration is required to receive the ZOOM link.
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Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague
By Maggie O’Farrell
Monday, April 5, 7:00 pm
Zoom Discussion
2020 Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year!
Set in Stratford, England, in the late 16th century, Hamnet imagines the emotional, domestic, and artistic repercussions after William Shakespeare and his wife lose their only son, 11-year-old Hamnet, to the bubonic plague in 1596. Four years later, the boy's father transposes his grief into his masterpiece, in which the father dies and the son lives to avenge him.
An award-winning writer who has published seven previous novels, Maggie O’Farrell excels at evoking the essence of the Shakespeares’ daily lives in Stratford. In addition to getting all the details right, O’Farrell succeeds in creating psychologically acute portraits of characters living at a distance of more than 400 years. Graceful and moving, Hamnet is a triumph of literary and historical fiction.
“This is historical fiction at its best.” -Publisher’s Weekly
“an utterly bewitching book suffused with incandescent beauty and intense emotion.” -The Literary Review
Registration is required to receive the Zoom link.
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Annual Meeting
Want to learn more about Friends?
Join us for our Annual Meeting!
Tuesday, April 6, 6:45-7:00 pm
Email us to receive the ZOOM link.
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From Pleasant Days to Greenwood A Century of Change in the Garden
Presented by
Abby O’Neill
Executive Director
Greenwood Gardens
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
7:00 p.m. via Zoom
Over the course of a century, two idiosyncratic families transformed Greenwood Gardens into an enchanted hideaway by gracing it with winding paths, terraced gardens, woodlands, grottoes, fountains, and Arts and Crafts follies.
Using archival and recent photos in her presentation, Abby O’Neill will illustrate how the families’ varied interests and styles mark the property, particularly in the Main Axis or the core portion of the garden.
Today, set against a backdrop of startling beauty and artifacts of the families’ unique histories, their legacy lives on. Greenwood Gardens is a peaceful haven where the visiting public can connect with both nature and the past.
Registration opens Tuesday, March 23.
Registration is required to receive the Zoom link.
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Butters, Oil & Syrups
with Stephanie Murphy
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Wednesday, April 28 at 7:00 pm
Zoom Demo
Recommended for Adults
Stephanie Murphy will lead us in demonstrations of simple-to-make Compound Butters, Infused Oils, and Simple Syrups that will elevate your cooking and save you time in the kitchen. You will be delighted to pull out the compound butters for easy, delicious finishes to your meals, use the oils to kick up your salads & popcorns, and add the simple syrups to your spring beverages!
Stephanie will show an introductory video, and then it's hands-on. An ingredient list will be sent to each participant one week in advance (participants may purchase their own materials to work along with Stephanie or may simply watch & learn!).
Registration opens Wednesday, April 7.
Registration is required to receive the Zoom link.
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This Is How it Always Is
by Laurie Frankel
Monday, May 3, 7:00 pm
Zoom Discussion
This is how a family keeps a secret…and how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a family lives happily ever after…until happily ever after becomes complicated. This is how children change…and then change the world.
This is Claude. He’s five years old, the youngest of five brothers, and loves peanut butter sandwiches. He also loves wearing a dress, and dreams of being a princess. When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl. Rosie and Penn want Claude to be whoever Claude wants to be. They’re just not sure they’re ready to share that with the world. Soon the entire family is keeping Claude’s secret. Until one day it explodes.
This Is How It Always Is is a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. And it’s about the ways this is how it always is: Change is always hard and miraculous and hard again, parenting is always a leap into the unknown with crossed fingers and full hearts, children grow but not always according to plan. And families with secrets don’t get to keep them forever.
Laurie Frankel has written one of those very rare, special novels that examines the way we live―in our homes, in our families, in our bodies―with an astonishing balance of humor, complexity, and above all, kindness.
―Ruth Ozeki, New York Times bestselling author of A Tale for the Time Being
This is a wonderfully contradictory story—heartwarming and generous, yet written with a wry sensibility."
―Publisher's Weekly
This Is How It Always Is isn’t only a novel about the challenges of life with an atypical child. It’s a story about the challenges of parenting and love.”
―BookPage
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Member-Merchant Initiative |
The Friends Member-Merchant Initiative is a benefit program designed to support local Millburn-Short Hills businesses and strengthen Millburn library ties with the community.
Show your Friends membership card to enjoy benefits at various
participating businesses in the Millburn-Short Hills community.
For more details about the Friends Member-Initiative program and updated information:
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Joining Friends has never been easier. We now offer an online membership option and payment by credit card or Paypal. If you love your Library, you should be a Friend! Click the link below to become a member and learn about what Friends are all about.
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