South Orange Public Library

South Orange Public Library With the main building under construction until early 2027, the library is now operating in two temporary locations: 298 Walton Ave.

and Baird Center (5 Mead St.) Click here for hours and services:
www.sopl.org/temporary-locations

⛱😎 Looking for a good beach read? Look no further! There might be no such a thing as a perfect guy, but Xavier Rush come...
06/07/2026

⛱😎 Looking for a good beach read? Look no further!

There might be no such a thing as a perfect guy, but Xavier Rush comes disastrously close. A gorgeous veterinarian giving Greek god vibes-all while cuddling a tiny kitten? Immediately yes. That is until Xavier opens his mouth and proves that even sculpted gods can say the absolute wrong thing. Like, really wrong. Of course, there's nothing Samantha loves more than proving someone wrong... . . . unless, of course, he can admit he made a mistake.

But after one incredible and seemingly endless date-possibly the best in living history-Samantha is forced to admit the truth, that her family is in crisis and any kind of relationship would be impossible. Samantha begs Xavier to forget her. To remember their night together as a perfect moment, as crushing as that may be. Only no amount of distance or time is nearly enough to forget that something between them. And the only thing better than one single perfect memory is to make a life-and even a love-worth remembering.

Join us as we kick off the 2026 FIFA World Cup ⚽️ with a storytime and some soccer play with Soccer Shots and the South ...
06/05/2026

Join us as we kick off the 2026 FIFA World Cup ⚽️ with a storytime and some soccer play with Soccer Shots and the South Orange Farmer’s Market!

🗓️ Wednesday June 10
🕓 4:00pm - 5:00pm
📍 South Orange Farmer’s Market, Sloan Street Parking Lot

Applications available June 1 via the library website!Students entering grades 6-12 in the Fall can sign up to become a ...
05/31/2026

Applications available June 1 via the library website!

Students entering grades 6-12 in the Fall can sign up to become a VolunTEEN this summer! Complete the application and select ONE orientation session to attend, and give back to your community!

👉Check out this week's staff pick, a recommendation from Meti! Ellie works as an accountant at her father's successful i...
05/31/2026

👉Check out this week's staff pick, a recommendation from Meti!

Ellie works as an accountant at her father's successful investment company in New York City. She enjoys all the comforts her privileged lifestyle affords-a two-bedroom apartment overlooking Central Park, a generous trust fund, and a devastatingly attractive if often absent husband who works long hours for her father as well. Yet the introverted young woman who wants for nothing feels aimless and untethered. Her life takes a turn when she receives an anonymous invitation in the mail, asking her to join an elite women's club known only as "The Society." Intrigued, she begins to attend their lavish gatherings where she meets her new close companion, Aubrey, and enjoys the benefits of belonging to the group-friendship, sisterhood, and support from other successful and glamorous women. Then Ellie makes a horrifying discovery about the society and its "philanthropic work." The women of The Society harbor dark, dangerous secrets-secrets that may implicate Ellie's own family.

READ THE CAPTION😎🦖📖 2026 Summer Reading Theme: UNEARTH A STORY📖🦖 Readers of all ages are invited to participate in this ...
05/26/2026

READ THE CAPTION😎

🦖📖 2026 Summer Reading Theme: UNEARTH A STORY

📖🦖 Readers of all ages are invited to participate in this year’s summer reading program! Together we’ll explore events on a local scale, including the World Cup⚽️, America’s 250th Birthday 🇺🇸, programs and adtivites for youth and adults!

🦖📖 Sign up begins June 1st

📖🦖 Stamp Your Way Around BCCLS - a scavenger hunt begins June 15

🦖📖 17th annual VolunTEEN Program returns - applications available June 1

📖🦖 Daily, Weekly and Grand Prizes are made possible by the Friends of SOPL and generous donations from local businesses

😎Stay tuned for more into!!

On the morning of October 7th, 2023, Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s beloved twenty-three-year-old son, Hersh, was stolen from a...
05/24/2026

On the morning of October 7th, 2023, Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s beloved twenty-three-year-old son, Hersh, was stolen from a music festival billed as a celebration of unity and love—and, in that moment, her life was forever separated into The Before and The After. Over the next eleven months, she and her husband, Jon, would work tirelessly—in public and behind the scenes—to secure the hostages’ release, to breathe some humanity into the situation while they were experiencing relentless emotional and psychological torment. The power of her raw and fervent pleas soon made her the face of the hostage crisis. And when Hersh and five other captives were executed after surviving 328 days of violence and cruelty, she would also become the face of its ultimate cost.

In When We See You Again, Rachel pours her pain, love, and longing onto paper, giving voice to the broken among us, and reminding us that even when the world feels choked with darkness, light exists in a different way. How do we find it? Her own experience has been extreme, but at its essence, this is a universal story of trying to live with grief. It is a story of how we remember and how we persevere, of how we suffer and how we love.

Welcome to our new Library Trustee, Michelle Harrison (right), pictured next to Library Board President, Hildy Karp (lef...
05/22/2026

Welcome to our new Library Trustee, Michelle Harrison (right), pictured next to Library Board President, Hildy Karp (left).

All are welcome to attend Library Board Meetings held on the third Tuesday monthly, except in August and December.

Our beach passes are back for the 2026 season! 📖Grab your beach read, friends👙 & family🩳 and a beach pass courtesy of th...
05/21/2026

Our beach passes are back for the 2026 season!
📖Grab your beach read, friends👙 & family🩳 and a beach pass courtesy of the Friends of SOPL - and soak up some ☀️sun at the Jersey Shore!

☀️Beach Passes are limited to:

🌊South Orange resident card holders

🌊3-day checkouts

🌊no reserves,no renewals

🌊Passes are available first-come, first-serve

South Orange Public Library will be closed on Sunday May 24, and Monday May 25 in observance of Memorial Day. Business h...
05/20/2026

South Orange Public Library will be closed on Sunday May 24, and Monday May 25 in observance of Memorial Day.

Business hours will resume on Tuesday May 26.

Happy Memorial Day to all who celebrate!

This week's pick from Brent is part of a fantasy series so if you like this one there's more to read! Witchers are not b...
05/17/2026

This week's pick from Brent is part of a fantasy series so if you like this one there's more to read!

Witchers are not born. They are made. Before he was the White Wolf or the Butcher of Blaviken, Geralt of Rivia was simply a fresh graduate of Kaer Morhen, stepping into a world that neither understands nor welcomes his kind. And when an act of naèive heroism goes gravely wrong, Geralt is only saved from the noose by Preston Holt, a grizzled witcher with a buried past and an agenda of his own.

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Temporary Location: 298 Walton Avenue
South Orange, NJ
07079

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Monday 8:30am - 8pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5pm
Friday 8:30am - 5pm
Sunday 12pm - 4pm

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