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Jun 25 2025 Wed

Mahjong - Norma

10:00am–12:00pm
Dix Hills
Jun 25 2025 Wed

Mahjong - Norma

10:00am–12:00pm
This is not a library sponsored event.
Library Branch: Dix Hills
Room: Meeting Room 313
Type of Meeting

Mahjong

This event is in the "Adults" group
Jun 25 2025 Wed

Johnny Carson Part II - Dix Hills & Zoom

10:15am–11:30am
Adults
Dix Hills
Open
Registration Required
This event is in the "Adults" group
Jun 25 2025 Wed

Johnny Carson Part II - Dix Hills & Zoom

10:15am–11:30am
Dix Hills
Open
Registration will close on June 25, 2025 @ 10:00am.
Library Branch: Dix Hills
Room: Lecture Room 111
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lectures
Registration Required
Event Details:

Presented by Jack Schnur in partnership with the Green's Men's Group and made possible by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities.

Jun 25 2025 Wed

Dix Hills Mahjong Open Play - Barbara

11:30am–2:30pm
Dix Hills
Jun 25 2025 Wed

Dix Hills Mahjong Open Play - Barbara

11:30am–2:30pm
This is not a library sponsored event.
Library Branch: Dix Hills
Room: Meeting Room 314
Type of Meeting

Mahjong Open Play
All Levels
All welcome

This event is in the "Adults" group
Jun 25 2025 Wed

Arthritis Exercise - Dix Hills

12:30pm–1:30pm
Adults
Dix Hills
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Payment Required
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Jun 25 2025 Wed

Arthritis Exercise - Dix Hills

12:30pm–1:30pm
Dix Hills
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Registration is no longer available for this event.
Library Branch: Dix Hills
Room: Multipurpose Room 214
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Fitness
Registration Required
Payment Required
Event Details:

Instructor: Eden Bennett

Wednesdays, May 7, 14, 21, 28 June 4, 11, 18, 25 | 12:30 PM

Cost: $40 (8 classes)

This event is in the "Adults" group
Jun 25 2025 Wed

Arthritis Exercise - Virtual Program - Zoom

12:30pm–1:30pm
Adults
Virtual Branch
Closed
Registration Required
Payment Required
Virtual Event
This event is in the "Adults" group
Jun 25 2025 Wed

Arthritis Exercise - Virtual Program - Zoom

12:30pm–1:30pm
Virtual Branch
Closed
Registration is no longer available for this event.
Library Branch: Virtual Branch
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Fitness
Registration Required
Payment Required
Event Details:

Instructor: Eden Bennett

Wednesdays, May 7, 14, 21, 28 June 4, 11, 18, 25 | 12:30 PM

Cost: $40 (8 classes)

Jun 25 2025 Wed

Mahjong - Carol

12:30pm–4:30pm
Dix Hills
Jun 25 2025 Wed

Mahjong - Carol

12:30pm–4:30pm
This is not a library sponsored event.
Library Branch: Dix Hills
Room: Meeting Room 313
Type of Meeting

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    Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

    ALL first edition copies will be signed by the author! Signed copies available while supplies last.

    From V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger.

    This is a story about hunger.
    1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada.
    A young girl grows up wild and wily—her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize, or a pawn, in the games played by men. When an alluring stranger offers an alternate path, María makes a desperate choice. She vows to have no regrets.

    This is a story about love.
    1827. London.
    A young woman lives an idyllic but cloistered life on her family’s estate, until a moment of forbidden intimacy sees her shipped off to London. Charlotte’s tender heart and seemingly impossible wishes are swept away by an invitation from a beautiful widow—but the price of freedom is higher than she could have imagined.

    This is a story about rage.
    2019. Boston.
    College was supposed to be her chance to be someone new. That’s why Alice moved halfway across the world, leaving her old life behind. But after an out-of-character one-night stand leaves her questioning her past, her present, and her future, Alice throws herself into the hunt for answers . . . and revenge.

    This is a story about life—
    how it ends, and how it starts.

    USA Today, 15 Most Anticipated of 2025
    BookBub, Most Anticipated of 2025 (and Reader’s Pick)
    Readers Digest, 20 Most Anticipated Books This Year
    Paste Magazine, Most Anticipated Fantasy Books of 2025
    BookRiot, Most Anticipated Books of 2025
    Men's Health, 25 Best & Most Anticipated Books of 2025
    The Nerd Daily, SFF to Devour in 2025
    Goodreads, Readers' Most Anticipated Books of 2025

  • Image for "The River Is Waiting"

    The River Is Waiting

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two Oprah Book Club Picks—She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True—Wally Lamb comes the propulsive story of a young father who, after an unbearable tragedy, reckons with the possibility of atonement for the unforgivable.

    Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into a tailspin. And that’s before he causes the tragedy that tears the family apart. Sentenced to prison, Corby struggles to survive life on the inside, where he bears witness to frightful acts of brutality but also experiences small acts of kindness and elemental kinship with a prison librarian who sees his light and some of his fellow offenders, including a tender-hearted cellmate and a troubled teen desperate for a role model. Buoyed by them and by his mother’s enduring faith in him, Corby begins to transcend the boundaries of his confinement, sustained by his hope that mercy and reconciliation might still be possible. Can his crimes ever be forgiven by those he loves?

  • Don't Let Him In

    Don't Let Him In

    From #1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Jewell, an author “at the very top of her game” (Lucy Foley)—three women are connected by one man in this kaleidoscopic thriller.

    “Who are you? Who are you really?”

    Nick Radcliffe is a man of substance and good taste. He has a smile that could melt the coldest heart and a knack for putting others at ease. He’s just what Nina Swann needed in her life after her husband’s unexpected death. But to Nina’s adult daughter, Ash, Nick seems too slick, too polished, too good to be true. Without telling her mother, Ash begins digging into Nick’s past. What she finds is more than unsettling…

    “Because there are things that don’t make sense, and I’ve been so patient, so very patient…”

    Martha is a florist living in a neighboring town with her infant daughter and her devoted husband Alistair. But lately, Alistair has been traveling more and more frequently for work, disappearing for days at a time. When Martha questions him about his frequent absences, he always has a legitimate explanation, but Martha can’t share the feeling that something isn't right.

    “You know that’s mad, don’t you? I’m your husband. We know everything there is to know about each other.”

    Nina, Martha, and Ash are on a collision course with a shocking truth that is far darker than anyone could have imagined. And all three are about to wish they had heeded the same warning: Don’t let him in. But the past won’t stay buried forever.

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    Park Avenue

    The HIGHLY ANTICIPATED adult debut novel from #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author Renée Ahdieh

    “Fans of Crazy Rich Asians, Schitt’s Creek, and White Lotus will get more than their fix of backstabbing and danger. A delectable and drama-filled thriller.” —Kirkus (STARRED review)

    “I can’t remember the last time I had so much fun reading a book!” —Nicola Yoon, #1 NYT BESTSELLING author

    Jia Song has always been destined for greatness. As the daughter of Korean bodega owners, she promised herself that she would have every Fifth Avenue luxury when she grew up, and it is all finally within reach. She has just made junior partner at her prestigious Manhattan law firm, she can count on her two best friends to have her back, and she is about to score the ultraluxe gold-on-gold Birkin bag of her dreams. So when her boss asks her to sit in on the hush-hush family implosion of a high-level client, she accepts without hesitation—only to find out that it is one of the most famous Korean families in the world.

    The Park family’s net worth is estimated at a billion dollars, and their megasuccessful Korean beauty brand has shaped the culture for the past two decades. But the patriarch is filing for divorce while his wife is dying, and their three children can’t stop snapping at one another. With both the family fortune and legacy under threat from the worst kind of scandal, it’s up to Jia to set things right—and she only has a month to do it. 

    As Jia sorts through the lies and subterfuge, chasing the truth across the globe on private jets, she finds herself falling for this broken, badly-behaving family in ways she can’t quite explain. But it is also becoming clear that the Parks are hiding dark secrets. Can she find the truth in time to protect the Parks’ fortune and secure her success at the firm? And can she hold on to what’s most important, even if it means admitting that what she's always wanted isn’t what she actually needs?

  • Image for "The Phoenix Pencil Company"

    The Phoenix Pencil Company

    In this dazzling debut novel, a hidden and nearly forgotten magic--of Reforging pencils, bringing the memories they contain back to life--holds the power to transform a young woman's relationship with her grandmother, and to mend long-lost connections across time and space.

    Monica Tsai spends most days on her computer, journaling the details of her ordinary life and coding for a program that seeks to connect strangers online. A self-proclaimed recluse, she's always struggled to make friends and, as a college freshman, finds herself escaping into a digital world, counting the days until she can return home to her beloved grandparents. They are now in their nineties, and Monica worries about them constantly--especially her grandmother, Yun, who survived two wars in China before coming to the States, and whose memory has begun to fade.

    Though Yun rarely speaks of her past, Monica is determined to find the long-lost cousin she was separated from years ago. One day, the very program Monica is helping to build connects her to a young woman, whose gift of a single pencil holds a surprising clue. Monica's discovery of a hidden family history is exquisitely braided with Yun's own memories as she writes of her years in Shanghai, working at the Phoenix Pencil Company. As WWII rages outside their door, Yun and her cousin, Meng, learn of a special power the women in their family possess: the ability to Reforge a pencil's words. But when the government uncovers their secret, they are forced into a life of espionage, betraying other people's stories to survive.

    Combining the cross-generational family saga and epistolary form of A Tale for the Time Being with the uplifting, emotional magic of The Midnight Library, Allison King's stunning debut novel asks: who owns and inherits our stories? The answers and secrets that surface on the page may have the unerasable power to reconnect a family and restore a legacy.

  • Image for "King of Ashes"

    King of Ashes

    Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby returns with King of Ashes, a Godfather-inspired Southern crime epic and dazzling family drama.

    When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father’s car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the family—and the family business—together. Neveah and their father, who run the Carruthers Crematorium in the run-down central Virginia town of Jefferson Run, see death up close every day. But mortality draws even closer when it becomes clear that the crash that landed their father in a coma was no accident and Dante’s recklessness has placed them all in real danger.

    Roman, a financial whiz with a head for numbers and a talent for making his clients rich, has some money to help buy his brother out of trouble. But in his work with wannabe tough guys, he’s forgotten that there are real gangsters out there. As his bargaining chips go up in smoke, Roman realizes that he has only one thing left to offer to save his brother: himself, and his own particular set of skills.

    Roman begins his work for the criminals while Neveah tries to uncover the long-ago mystery of what happened to their mother, who disappeared when they were teenagers. But Roman is far less of a pushover than the gangsters realize. He is willing to do anything to save his family. Anything.

    Because everything burns.

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New DVDs

  • Final Destination: Bloodlines

    Final Destination: Bloodlines

    The newest chapter in New Line Cinema's bloody successful franchise takes audiences back to the very beginning of Death's twisted sense of justice. Plagued by a violent recurring nightmare, college student Stefanie heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all.

  • Fight or Flight

    Fight or Flight

    Exiled American agent Lucas Reyes is given one last chance to redeem himself the assignment is to track down and identify a mysterious, international high-value asset known only as The Ghost on a flight from Bangkok to San Francisco. Complicating matters, the plane is filled with assassins from around the world who are assigned to kill them both. The pair must work together in a fight for their lives. At 37,000 feet, the stakes have never been higher.

  • Until Dawn

    Until Dawn

    One year after her sister Melanie mysteriously disappeared, Clover and her friends head into the remote valley where she vanished in search of answers. Exploring an abandoned visitor center, they find themselves stalked by a masked killer and horrifically murdered one by one...only to wake up and find themselves back at the beginning of the same evening. Trapped in the valley, they're forced to relive the night again and again only each time the killer threat is different, each more terrifying than the last. Hope dwindling, the group soon realizes they have a limited number of deaths left, and the only way to escape is to survive until dawn.

  • Sinners

    Sinners

    Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

  • Hell of a Summer

    Hell of a Summer

    Camp counselor Jason arrives at Camp Pineway thinking his biggest problem is that he feels out of touch with his co-workers. What he doesn't know is that a masked killer is on the campgrounds, brutally picking counselors off one by one.

  • The Monkey

    The Monkey

    When twin brothers Bill and Hal find their father's old monkey toy in the attic, a series of ghastly deaths commence. The brothers decide to throw the toy away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years.

  • Snow White

    Snow White

    The live-action adaptation of the 1937 animated film 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' from Disney. A princess joins forces with seven dwarfs and a group of rebels to liberate her kingdom from her cruel stepmother the Evil Queen.

  • Sneaks

    Sneaks

    Sneaks follow the adventures of Ty, a misguided designer sneaker who doesn't know life outside the comforts of his velvet-lined shoe box.  After his sister is stolen by a shady collector, Ty must venture into NYC to find and rescue her. In his adventure, Ty meets a rag-tag group of footwear friends from all walks of life who help him find the courage to step outside of his shoe box and find his "sole-mate."

  • Novocaine

    Novocaine

    When the girl of his dreams is kidnapped, everyman Nate turns his inability to feel pain into an unexpected strength in his fight to get her back.

  • A Minecraft Movie

    A Minecraft Movie

    The adventure comedy follows a group of misfits who are transported from their everyday lives into the imaginative, blocky world of Minecraft. As they navigate this new environment, they must learn to master its challenges and search for a way back home. Combining action, humor, and Minecraft's unique aesthetics, the movie promises an exciting blend of creativity and heartwarming moments, appealing to fans of Minecraft, adventure films, and creative storytelling.

  • The Wedding Banquet

    The Wedding Banquet

    From Director Andrew Ahn comes a joyful comedy of errors about a chosen family navigating the disasters and delights of family expectations, queerness, and cultural identity. Angela and her partner Lee have been unlucky with their IVF treatments but can't afford to pay for another round. Meanwhile their friend Min, the closeted scion of a multinational corporate empire, has plenty of family money but a soon-to-expire student visa. When his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris rejects his proposal, Min makes the offer to Angela instead: a green card marriage in exchange for funding Lee's IVF. But their plans to quietly elope are upended when Min's skeptical grandmother flies in from Korea unannounced, insisting on an all-out wedding extravaganza. With a pitch-perfect cast of multigenerational talent, this fresh reimagining of Ang Lee's beloved, Award-winning rom-com teems with humor and heart in a poignant reminder that being part of a family means learning to both accept and forgive.

  • The Friend

    The Friend

    A story of love, friendship, grief, and healing, about a writer who adopts a Great Dane that belonged to a deceased friend and mentor.

  • In the Lost Lands

    In the Lost Lands

    The story centers on a queen who, desperate to fulfill her love, makes a daring play: she sends the powerful and feared sorceress Gray Alys to the ghostly wilderness of the Lost Lands in search of a magical power, where the sorceress and her guide, the drifter Boyce, must outwit and outfight man and demon.

  • A Working Man

    A Working Man

    Levon Cade left his "profession" behind to live a simple life working construction and spending time with his daughter. But when his boss's teenage daughter vanishes, he's called upon to re-employ the skills that made him a legendary figure in the shadowy world of black ops. Levon's hunt for the missing college student takes him to the heart of a sinister criminal conspiracy creating a chain reaction that will threaten his new way of life.

  • The Unbreakable Boy

    The Unbreakable Boy

    When Scott and Teresa learn that their son, Austin, is autistic and has brittle bone disease, they initially worry about his future. However, with Scott's growing faith and Austin's incredible spirit, they become unbreakable as they find joy, gratitude and courage in the most trying times.

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