Weekly Program Bulletin:
December 13, 2021
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Book Launch: Miners' Moon |
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Julie Weston Presents
Miners' Moon
6:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 16
Nellie Burns and her dog Moonshine travel with the Basque sheriff, Charlie Azgo, to investigate local officials involved in moonshining
and bribery. Proof of vaccination required to attend.
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Tuesday, Dec. 14
Attention Writers! Drop in for a virtual, writing-prompt based workshop, led by Martha Williams, the Library’s programs and education manager.
Noon-1:00p.m.
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Tuesday, Dec. 28
Do you have questions regarding your tablet, computer, phone or smart watch? Paul Zimmerman can help! Stop by the Library’s Lecture Hall to have all your questions answered. Masks required.
5:00-7:00 p.m.
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Wednesday, Jan. 5
In partnership with the Sun Valley Music Festival. Registration opens Dec. 17 through the Festival. Proof of vaccination and a mask will be required to attend in person.
6:30 p.m.
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The Library Welcomes. . . |
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Megan Dixon, who joins us this week as our December Writer-in-Residence. Megan has been a lecturer in geography, environmental studies, and writing at The College of Idaho in Caldwell since 2008. She spends time in the Wood River and Sawtooth Valleys each year with her students, and we are excited to welcome her to the residency apartment in the historic Ernest and Mary Hemingway House!
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Jeanne Rodger Lane
Center for Regional History
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Charles Dickens Exhibit
"Darkness is cheap. And Scrooge liked it."
Don't miss this rare collection of early editions of Dickens' classic works. The Library exhibit includes volumes and prints that will delight all ages ... from tiny books that could be hidden in a gentleman's vest pocket, to serial magazine pamphlets in which books were released chapter-by-chapter and mailed to anxiously waiting readers all over the world.
Helen Martin Spalding Collection
Community Library Foyer
Now through January
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Children's Library Programs |
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Story Time at the Library
Mondays, 10:30 a.m. Lecture Hall
Librarian Lee Dabney uses books to teach pre-school aged children letters, sounds, and a love of books.
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3D Paper Snowflakes
with Joni Cashman
Thursday, December 16
Kids create their own 3D snowflakes using recycled paper, making fun decorations for the tree, windows, and more. For ages 7+. Space is limited and sign-up is required.
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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The Library is hiring paid high school interns to support its upcoming community-wide Winter Read. Learn more here. Applications due December 20! |
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Let it Snow! Let it Snow!
Let it Snow!
But please take note: The Library, Gold Mine Stores, and Center for Regional History will be closed on the following days:
- Friday, December 24
- Saturday December 25
- Friday December 31
- Saturday, January 1
- Closed on Sundays, as usual
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Recommendations from
Staff and Students
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Judy Zimmer, Children's and Young Adult Librarian, recommends Home in the Woods by Eliza Wheeler.
During the Great Depression, Eliza Wheeler’s great grandmother lost her husband, was evicted from her home, and made to move with her eight children to an abandoned shack in the woods of Northern Wisconsin.
It seems that this would make for a sad tale. Instead, this picture book is a story of hope, love, perseverance, family, and home.
Using resourcefulness and the bounty of nature they transform the lonely, empty shack into a warm, bright home.
The illustrations, beautifully rendered in watercolor, are what first drew me into this book. Then I was impressed with the way the author seamlessly blends the narrative with the illustrations, taking the reader through the days and the seasons of her family’s life.
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Hello! My name is Sarah. I am in 9th grade and live in Ketchum. I enjoy playing board games, reading, mountain biking, Nordic and alpine skiing, playing with my family, snowmobiling, and being outside. For my Book Beat review, I read Endangered by Eliot Schrefer.
Sophie Biyoya-Ciardulli knows she’s got it luckier than most.
With her Italian-American father and Congolese mother, she attends high school in Florida and spends the summers at her mother’s bonobo sanctuary in Congo. She has money and opportunity and an escape—because Congo is a dangerous place, even for those who are trying to do good.
But the summer she turns sixteen, she rescues a sick and orphaned bonobo from a trafficker and nurses it back to health, christening it Otto. For the first time, Sophie understands why her mother has stayed in Congo, caring for the bonobos, instead of coming to America; why she always seems to put them before her family: she now knows what it’s like to feel responsible for another creature, and she and Otto are inseparable.
But just before she must leave, war breaks out in Congo. Foregoing the UN transport getting the American visitors out, she chooses to stay with the bonobos, risking her life to protect Otto in a society that doesn’t seem to care about humans, much less the empathetic apes that share 99.8% of their DNA.
Told with harrowing detail and care, Eliot Schefer weaves a story about the relationship between a girl and an ape—but really, it’s a story about much more than that. It’s the story of a country, of a species, of a war and a hope and a mission.
And it all began with Otto.
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