August 20th: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer September 17th: Lavender House by Lev A.C. Rosen October 15th: Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto November 19th: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner December 17th: Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce
Computer Workshops
Fridays 9:00am - 10:30am
No Class on Friday, August 22nd!
Word Processing Basics - Beginner Class
Friday, August 29th
Learn basic word processing features using MS Word. Create, format, and edit simple documents. This is a beginner course.
Create Flyers using MS Word Friday, September 5th
Review of Word-processing basics. Create/format simple flyers for personal use or for your group or club using just textboxes and graphics!! Fun and easy class.
Insert Tabs into your Document using MS Word Friday, September 12th
Learn how easy it is to set, move and align data using tabs in your MS Word document.
Using Tables in MS Word Documents Friday, September 19th
Learn to insert tables in your Word document. We will create, format, sort simple tables; and also compare the use of tables vs tab settings for columnar data in a document.
Simple Newsletters using MS Word Friday, September 26th
Learn to create and format eye-catching newsletters for personal use or for your group or club. Learn to set up and save a masthead; format columns; add pictures and enhancements to your project.
No signup needed. All classes are free and open to the public. For more information, please call (609) 399-2434 ext. 5240 or click here.
The 8 Dimensions of Wellness: Intellectual Wellness
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OC Author Talk: Phyllis Coletta, Author of How to be a Good Dog - Learning to Sit, Stay and Heal
How to be a Good Dog - Meditation for Skeptics, Dog Lovers, and People Who Can't Sit Still
Tuesday, August 19th
6:30pm - 8:00pm
"How to Be a Good Dog - Learning to Sit, Stay, and Heal, uses the tenets of dog training as a relatable, effective way of learning to train our minds. We teach puppies with love, patience, and focus, and we can do the same with our feral thoughts, bringing peace and transforming the wild mind from enemy to ally.
The book is a hilarious romp through the park, with the author shamelessly sharing stories from her seriously unenlightened life and her journey from frantic Chihuahua to old black lab."
Phyllis Coletta is a local author who raised three boys in Ocean City, as a single mom, driving her straight to a crossroads in her early 40s where “it was either booze or Buddhism.” She found traditional meditation teaching semi-annoying and not a good fit for an unholy, loud girl from Philly. After a brain bleed in November of 2023 forced her to sit still for months, she decided to write a book about meditation for people who can’t stand books about meditation.
Phyllis has been a litigation attorney, high school teacher, EMT, writer, cowgirl, and Zen Buddhist chaplain. She lives in Somers Point (currently dogless in her empty nest), acting just like her beloved labs: following her nose and napping in the sun.
Meet Margaret Mandell, Author of And Always One More Time: A Memoir
Join us for an Author Talk, Q&A, and Book Signing.
Wednesday, August 20th
6:30pm - 8:00pm
And Always One More Time: A Memoir
“A moving, insightful, and beautifully crafted story of losing one great love and finding another.”
--Kirkus Reviews
The loss of a life partner strikes over one million women every year—shattering the present, leaving the future in doubt. At 65 years old Margaret Mandell loses her husband of 45 years to a fast-moving disease, and she cannot conjure a future without him. The bed is half empty. Her body betrays her. Laughter is elusive.
Filled with longing, chased by memory, Mandell begins to write letters to the man she loved, retracing their history together. But when a tenderhearted college professor steps quietly into her life, when he listens, attentively, as Mandell reads her accumulating stack of letters out loud, she is forced to recalibrate her vision of life—what is still possible, what is still necessary, how much love one heart can hold.
Wise in the ways of C.S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed, suspenseful in the tradition of Joyce Carol Oates’s A Widow’s Story, and as universal in its truths as Steve Leder’s The Beauty of What Remains, Mandell’s memoir offers hope in the aftermath of greatest loss. At 35,000 potent and swift-moving words, And Always One More Time can be read in a single setting.
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Author Talk and Book Signing: Major General William M. Matz Jr., US Army, Retired
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Functional Foods: Mushrooms
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Functional Foods: Coffee
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English Language Learner (ELL) Classes
Author Talk with Steve Wick, Author of The Ruins
Author Talk with Steve Wick
Monday, September 29th
6:30pm
In his gripping and electric novel, The Ruins, the grim horrors of Nazis in America collides with the manufacturing of the suburban dream - by a brilliant new voice in crime fiction.
Steve Wick grew up in southern New Jersey, went to college in Colorado, and began his journalism career at the tiny Colorado Springs Sun newspaper. He worked on the Phoenix Project, a collaborative effort by a group of journalists to continue the work of Phoenix Republic reporter Don Bolles, who was murdered in June 1976.
Steve was a long time editor and reporter at Newsday, the Long Island newspaper, where he shared in the paper’s 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for the paper’s coverage of the crash of TWA Flight 800. He lives in Cutchogue, on the North Fork of eastern Long Island. Learn more at Steve Wick – Official website.
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August Young Adult Events
Children's Resources
Click here for the August Calendar of Children's Events!