Saturday hours

The Library will resume regular Saturday hours on Saturday, September 16th. Our hours will be 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM until next summer.

Programs for the week of September 11-16

Thursday, Sept. 14th - Seed Art program for Grades K- 3 join us from 4:00 - 4:45 PM.

Thursday, Sept. 14th - Friends of the Library will meet from 5:30 - 7:00 PM.

Friday, Sept. 15th - The Neptune 500 takes off at 3:30 - 4:30 PM for Grades 4-8.

Are you going to Barnes & Noble?

Friday and Saturday, September 8 & 9 Barnes & Noble Booksellers are holding a Book Fair Voucher benefitting NJ Public Libraries.

Stop by the library, pick up a flyer from our circulation desk and when you shop at Barnes & Noble this Friday & Saturday they will donate a percent of the net sale purchase to our library. This does not include the purchase of gift cards, membership cards, consumables or when using educator's discount cards.

Storytime Starts Again!

Storytime programs are starting again! Toddler and Preschool storytime start this week. Preschoolers, age 3 & 4, meet Monday afternoons, or Tuesday evenings. Toddlers, 2 years old and a parent, meet Thursday mornings. Call the Children's Department for more details, 732-775-8241 x305.

Programs for the week of September 5-9

Thursday Sept. 7th - Join the Perlious Pirate Adventure. Grades K-3 from 4:00 to 4:45 PM.

Saturday Sept. 9th - Come see us at Neptune Day! Take a look at our Huge Book Fair!

New Fiction - September 1st

Pegasus Descending - Burke

Dead Wrong - Jance

Judge and Jury - Patterson

The Messenger - Silva

New DVDs September 1st

ATL

Tsotsi

Sybil

V is for Vendetta

HUGE BOOK SALE

Join us September 9th at Neptune Day for our One Day Only book sale. 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, rain date Sept. 10th. New best sellers, hardcovers, paperbacks, books on tape, videos, music CDs, romanaces, mysteries.... Everything Must Go!!

Closed for Labor Day

The Neptune Public Library will be closed Monday September 4th in observance of Labor Day. We will have regular hours Saturday the 2nd, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM and Tuesday September 5th, 10:00 AM - 9:00 PM.

Programs for the week: August 28 - September 2

Monday August 28 - Join us for Tween Book Club 7:00 - 8:00 PM. Grades 4 - 8.

Staff Favorites August 21, 2006

Joyce Carol Oates - We Were the Mulvaneys
Fannie Flagg - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe








Edwidge Danticat - Breath, Eyes, Memory (African-American Fiction)
Louise Rennison - Dancing in my Nuddy-Pants (Young Adult Fiction)






C.S. Lewis - Out of the Silent Planet (Science Fiction)
Lillian Jackson Braun - The Cat who Brought the House Down (Mystery)

Programs for the week of August 21-26

Tuesday August 22, 3:00 - 4:30 PM - Join us for Tween Scrapbooking, Grades 4-8. Use this opportunity to work on your school Scrapbooking Projects or just save a few memories.

Friday August 25, 4:00 - 5:00 PM - Be Cool for School! Grades 4-8.

Saturday August 26, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Neptune Middle School Students, this is your last chance to work on your Scrapbooking Projects!

Programs this week

Summer Reading Club is over, but the fun continues. For those readers who finished the program and were given invitations the Summer Reading Club Parties will be Wednesday the 16th and Thursday the 17th. Please contact the Children's Department to find out when your reading group's party will be, 732-775-8241 ext. 305.

Programs this week

Grades K-3, Thursday August 10th race in for our Racing Bird Craft from 4-4:45pm.

Attention ALL READERS, Friday August 11th is the last day to report for the Summer Reading Club.

Programs this week.

Grades K-3, Thursday August 3rd join us for Teriffic Tissue Fish from 4-4:45pm.

Tweens, Grades 4-8, Friday August 4th join in our Ice Cream Social from 4-5pm.

New Arrivals: DVD

Eight Below

Syriana
16 Blocks
The Hills Have Eyes
Failure to Launch

Shadow Man
Annapolis

New Arrivals: Non-Fiction

Black Gold of the Sun - Eshun
Possible Side Effects - Burroughs
American HomeFront - Cooke
Burnt Toast - Hatcher
Goddess - Coulter
Now It's My Turn - Cheney
He Talk Like A White Boy - Phillips

New Arrivals: Fiction

Cover of Night - Howard
Twelve Sharp - Evanovich
SandCastles - Rice
The Wrong Hostage - Lowell
The Blue Screen - Parker
Circle of Quilters - Chiaverini
Proof Positive - Margolin
Debutante Divorcee - Sykes
Coming Out - Steel
The Traitor - Coonts

Sidewalk Replacement

Just a warning to all of our users, the sidewalks around the Neptune Public Library will be replaced during the time frame of August 1 and 2nd. Access into the Library will be limited these days and the driveway off Neptune Blvd. between us and the High School will be closed. You will need to enter the parking lot off Davis Ave. next to Walgreens. The BOOK DROP may be inaccessible during this time also, we will not charge overdue fines if this is the case.

Welcome to Neptune Public Library

Greetings and welcome to our new library homepage! In order to keep you more informed about what's happening at the library, we are presenting our website front page as a blog with links to the various pages of our traditional website. We'll be keeping you current on library programming, staff picks for new books, DVDs and music that are added to our collection, hours updates and other news!