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Weekly Program eNews
January 8, 2024
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Join us for a conversation with authors David Quammen and Betsy Gaines Quammen. A book signing will follow.
The event will also be livestreamed.
David Quammen is an author and journalist whose books include The Heartbeat of the Wild, Breathless, The Tangled Tree, Spillover, and The Song of the Dodo.
Betsy Gaines Quammen is an historian and writer. She is the author of American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God, and Public Lands in the West and True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America.
Thursday, January 11
5:30 p.m. • Lecture Hall
More/register here.
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Make It at the Museum
Come by the Wood River Museum of History + Culture for FREE crafts, fun, and prizes. We're offering four projects
to celebrate history and creativity.
This week: Cabinet of Wonders
Wednesday, January 10
Saturday January 13
Drop in 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
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Read It & Eat!
Middle Grade Book Club
How It Works:
• Pick up a FREE copy of the book at The Community Library. (Limited to first 10)
• Read it and prepare to discuss it in a group setting.
• Come talk about the book and eat!
What We’re Reading Now:
Measuring Up by Lily LaMotte
Illustrated by Ann Xu
For students in or entering grades 5-8. Space is limited. Registration is required. More/register here.
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Wednesday, January 24
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Children's Library
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Aprendizaje del inglés
(English Language Learning)
¡Gratis! Todos los martes, del 9 de enero al 19 de marzo, de 6:00 a 8:00 p.m. Abierto a adultos de todos los idiomas que quieran aprender inglés o mejorar sus habilidades.
Martes 9 de enero
(Tuesday, January 9)
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Idaho Room
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Paws to Read
Read to the Therapy Dog Wynslow
Reading to a therapy dog can decrease anxiety in kids and increase their reading confidence. Come read to Wynslow and see how comforting and fun reading can be!
Wednesday, January 10
2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Children's Library
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Tech Help Desk
Wednesday, January 10
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Learning Commons
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Brown Bag Poetry
Thursday, January 11
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Learning Commons
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Paint Club
Thursday, January 11
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Children's Library
Registration Required
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Upcoming Program Highlights | |
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January 15: Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Library, Museum, and Consign CLOSED; Gold Mine Thrift OPEN
January 17: “On This Day”: Ways of Thinking About Daily Writing with Writer-in-Residence Francisco Cantú
January 18: The Latest Science on the Big Wood River with Jon Ambrose
January 19: Darn It! Drop-in Darning and Visible Mending
January 20: SVJr. Film Workshop: Short-Form Media Production
January 24: Mental Well-Being Community Meeting
January 25: Introduction to Avalanches
January 31: Winter Read Kickoff with Maureen Corrigan: So We Read On
February 5: 5th Annual State of the Valley Forum
February 8: Valuing Water to Survive Climate Change with Evan Thomas
February 13: A Song Film by Kishi Bashi: "Omoiyari"
February 15: Gatsby: An American Myth, a Virtual Conversation with Martyna Majok
See our full calendar of events/register here.
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2024 Winter Read: The Great Gatsby | |
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Each winter, we read a story together.
To kick off the 2024 Winter Read of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, join us for an evening with Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air book critic and author of So We Read On: How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures. Events, speakers, a film screening, and book discussions continue through March 15 at The Community Library, and the Bellevue, Hailey, and Stanley public libraries.
Kickoff with NPR's Maureen Corrigan
Wednesday, January 31
5:30 p.m. • Lecture Hall
Registration is required.
More/register here.
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More about the Winter Read and The Great Gatsby here. | |
Book Review: Library Staff | |
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"So off they go on a bus trip
with a jar of money and a jar of ashes."
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Maintenance Manager Jerry McDonald recommends Smoke Signals by Sherman Alexie.
This past summer Sherman Alexie came to The Community Library for the annual Ernest Hemingway Seminar, this year themed, "Fathers and Sons".
Alexie spoke to a packed audience of 200 and introduced the Smoke Signals film he wrote the script for in 1998. Smoke Signals is funny yet very serious. It starts with the Reservation radio announcer talking about a car going by on the highway and how this event affects the doldrums of the day.
It’s a good day to be Indigenous!
You can’t help but enjoy this laid back vibe of life on the Rez, but the movie quickly changes to some serious flashbacks of a house on fire after a Fourth of July party, and the two main characters, Victor and Thomas when they were kids.
Victor’s father, Arnold, rescues Thomas from the fire and Thomas is forever grateful to him. But Victor’s experience with his father is mostly negative. His father has a drinking problem and becomes violent with Victor and his mother and eventually abandons them...
Read Jerry's entire review here.
Find more staff book recommendations here.
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Book Beat: Student Book Review | |
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Hi, my name is Rya. I am a sophomore and I enjoy reading, swimming, and traveling. For my Book Beat review, I read Atomic Habits by James Clear.
When he was a senior in high school, James Clear suffered a severe injury while playing baseball, which affected him for many years. In order to overcome this setback, he began implementing simple habits into his daily life and began to discover their power.
Now, James Clear is an incredibly well-respected author, speaker, and overall expert on self-improvement and the power of habits. In his #1 New York Times Bestseller Atomic Habits, Clear compiles all of his knowledge and research into a simple, realistic, and easy way to improve one’s life simply by utilizing the power of habits.
All of the advice in this book is backed by scientific research in neuroscience, biology, and psychology. It is filled with easily implementable systems...
Read Rya's entire book review here.
See all Book Beat Reviews here.
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