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Weekly Program Bulletin

September 5, 2022

Photo Credit: Keith Dannemiller

 Tickets are $15 for adults and $5 for students 18 & under.

Tickets go on sale at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, September 13 at www.svmoa.org.

Sandra Cisneros LIVE

Tuesday, October 18

6:00 p.m.

Wood River High School Performing Arts Theater in Hailey

Sandra Cisneros’ lecture is proudly presented by The Community Library and Sun Valley Museum of Art. Cisneros is an award-winning poet, short story writer, novelist, and essayist whose work explores the lives of the working-class.

Her novel The House on Mango Street has sold over seven million copies, has been translated into over twenty-five languages, and is required reading in elementary,

high school, and universities

across the nation.  

Note: This program will not be livestreamed or available for later viewing. Her presentation will be in both English and Spanish.

A book signing with Chapter One Bookstore will follow.

More info here.

Lunch & Lit

Friday, September 9

11:30 a.m. | Cimino Plaza

Order your lunch early!



More Here

• Story Time: Woodland Animals
• Creative Writing Workshop
• English Language Learning
• State of the Valley Forum with Wood River Women's Foundation
• "Rewired" A Wellness Speaking Event

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"Forché presents truth as something personal and individual, verified by physical senses and therefore impossible to ignore."

Janet Ross-Heiner, Library Assistant and ELL Instructor, recommends What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forché.

Over the past six years I have cultivated relationships with many patrons who have a great passion for reading.

I invite you now to read, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forché.

Forché's incantation with writing has a tone that is scorching and poetic. I felt spellbound when reading her. She has also written a book of poems: A distilled form of poetry after seven extended trips to Salvador, In the Lateness of The World (811.54 FOR).

Forché presents truth as something personal and individual, verified by physical senses and therefore impossible to ignore. Her memoir suggests that those who truly take the time to walk in the shoes of others will themselves be changed, and that when they speak out against suffering, they do so with authority.

What You Have Heard Is True is a beautiful and important book of one poet’s awakening to the suffering of others and to the power of words...

Read Janet's entire Book Review here.

Find more staff book recommendations here.

Hello! My name is Thijs. I enjoy reading (maybe a little too much) and being outdoors. I have a younger brother and my favorite dessert is root beer floats. For my Book Beat review, I read The We are Wolves by Katarina Nannestand.

We are Wolves is one of the best books about World War ll and the effects of what came after that I have ever read.

What I thought made We are Wolves stand out from the other books I have read about World War II is that it came from the German’s point of view.

I found this book very engaging to read and hard to put down as I wanted to find out what happened. This book is about a family that consists of three children named Liesel, Otto and Mia, their parents plus their grandparents Opa and Oma. This book starts on the day that their father is leaving to go to war with the proud German army to fight the Russians...

Read Thijs's entire Book Beat Review here.

See all Book Beat Reviews here.

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