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Weekly Program Bulletin

November 28, 2022

Generosity gives everyone the power to make a positive change in the lives of others and is a fundamental value anyone can act on.

Support The Community Library here on Tuesday, November 29.

Thriving Through the Holidays Using the Community Resiliency Model with Laurie Strand

The Community Resiliency Model (CRM)© trains community members to help themselves and others within their wider social network. The goal of the CRM is to create “resiliency-focused” communities that share a common understanding of the impact of chronic and/or everyday stress on the nervous system. During this introductory session, participants will learn to use three strategies based on human biology and neuroscience to create new pathways that strengthen the ability to cope and bounce back faster when dealing with stress, and to grow the resilience that is already present.

Thursday, December 1 | 6:00 p.m.

Register here to attend in person.

Watch on Vimeo here.

Read It & Eat!

Middle Grade Book Club

Pick up your FREE copy of Once upon a Tim and start reading now! We'll share a lively conversation plus some gruel together!

(Make that, soup and bread.)

Wednesday, November 30

4:00-5:00 p.m.

Children's Library

Registration required. Limit 10.

Sign up here.

Nature Journaling

with Leslie Rego

An intimate journey into the sketchbook world and how drawing can offer a moment of stillness and peace within an often chaotic world. For supplies bring a current sketchbook, if you are working in one, travel-size water color set and brush, or just a pencil or pen and paper. This workshop will run on Thursdays: December 1, 8, and 15.

Thursday, December 1

4:00-5:00 p.m.

Learning Commons

• Story Time: Evergreens
• After School LEGO Play
• Lunchtime Creative Writing Workshop
• Audacious Read Book Group: Don Quixote
• Creating the Idaho Women’s Suffrage Commemorative Sculpture
• Tech Help Desk
• Brown Bag Poetry
• Nature Journaling with Leslie Rego
• Together We Read! Book Club: Lessons in Chemistry
• Drop-in Holiday Craft for Kids

Click here for our full calendar

Kennedy Library Forum: 

The Life and Legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway

Timothy Christian, professor emeritus at the University of Alberta, discussed his new book, Hemingway’s Widow: The Life and Legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway, with Jenny Emery Davidson, executive director of The Community Library. Watch the Replay Here.

"Natalie Haynes weaves vivid tales of vastly different women into one beautiful, heart-breaking tapestry that redefines what it means to be thrust into the heart of war."

Kyla Merwin, Communications Manager, recommends A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes.

War: Stratagems, combat, mortal wounds, loss, despair, weapons of destruction, endless days of boredom punctuated with heart-rending violence. 

These are the accoutrements of the women in Natalie Haynes’ inspired re-telling of the Trojan War. Fasten your seatbelts!

You’ll meet Penelope, wife of Odysseus; Helen, bearing the face that launched a thousand ships; the Amazon princess Penthesilea; Hecabe (Hecuba), mother to Hector and Paris; Iphigenia, sacrificed by Agamemnon (uh…her father).

You’ll see these heroic women, and many more, as you’ve never seen them before—with tremendous depth and emotional lives as finely wrought as the hilt of a sword...



Read Kyla's book review here.

Find more staff book recommendations here.

Hello! My name is Felix. I am 11 years old and I like to play sports (soccer, basketball, swimming and skiing). My favorite flavor of ice cream is cookie dough. I like to read fantasy, realistic fiction, and sci-fi. For my Book Beat review, I read Boys of the Beast by Monica Zepeda.

Boys of the Beast is an amazing book for many reasons, but what really stood out to me is that it takes three cousins who are different in so many ways and brings them together. 

Oscar is suffering from mental health issues because his dad died in a school shooting. Ethan has come out to his parents as gay but hasn’t told them that he has an online boyfriend. Matt has parents who him to go to a Christian school and become a doctor even though he wants to go to film school at UCLA.

Though brought together by the unfortunate event of their grandmother’s death, this leads to something positive when Matt inherits her car and they all decide to go on a road trip to Albuquerque...

Read Felix's Book Beat Review here.

See all Book Beat Reviews here.

Click here to see our Year-in-Review and download the Library's Annual Report

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