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Weekly Program Bulletin

December 12, 2022

Inside a Chef's Head with Chef Joyce Doughty

Chef Doughty will take us into the workings of a chef's mind. The program will focus on culinary techniques and principles, learned in a professional kitchen, that can easily translate to the home kitchen. 

All attendees will receive a complimentary copy of one of Chef Doughty’s recently published books, 

The Chef Within—Breakfast

and Dinner Editions. 

Thursday, December 15 | 6:00 p.m.

Register here to attend in person.

Watch on Vimeo here.

Paint Club for

Tweens and Teens

Tuesday, December 13

3:30-5:00 p.m.

Children's Library

Registration required

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.

Thursday, December 15

4:00-5:00 p.m.

Learning Commons

Drop-in. No registration required.

• Story Time: Snowmen
• Christmas Story Time at Sun Valley Resort
• Lunchtime Creative Writing Workshop
• Together We Read! Book Club: Lessons in Chemistry (Rescheduled to December 20)
• Brown Bag Poetry
• The Nutcracker Holiday Event/Ballet Sun Valley
• Drop-in Holiday Craft for Kids
• Early Close Saturday for the Holiday

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Creating the Idaho Women’s Suffrage

Commemorative Sculpture

Idaho State Historical Society’s Executive Director Janet L. Gallimore presented the journey

to create the Idaho Women’s Suffrage Commemorative Sculpture. A legacy of the 2020 Idaho

Women 100: Courageous Past, Unlimited Future initiative, commemorating the passage of

the 19th Amendment and

women’s suffrage.



Watch the replay here.

…it straddles the fine line between exploring the value of an independent life, and the pivotal question of the whole tale: What is a life without love?

Regional History Museum Librarian, Olivia Terry, recommends The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker.

The Cherry Robbers tells the fictional story of Sylvia Wren, one of America’s most iconic artists of the twentieth century. Her vast talent has made her a household name, but Sylvia herself is an extremely private person, careful not to reveal any details from her past.

But when a reporter starts aggressively digging into her life, Sylvia quickly unravels, unable to suppress the secrets of who she once was.

Sylvia isn’t actually Sylvia. She is Iris Chapel, the second youngest of the six Chapel sisters and the only surviving sibling. Growing up in the 1950s, Aster, Rosalind, Calla, Daphne, Iris, and Hazel, are essentially trapped in their giant Victorian family home...



Read Olivia's book review here.

Find more staff book recommendations here.

Hello! My name is Duncan. I love to Nordic and alpine ski in the winter and I like to bike, hike, and camp in the summer. For my Book Beat review, I read Pet by Akwaeke Emezi.

I loved Pet because it is a story that I would not usually read. This book was written by Akwaeke Emezi in 2019 and is a fantasy. The main character’s names are Pet, Redemption, and Jam.

Pet is a mysterious creature that came from a painting to help them save Redemption’s little brother. Redemption is one of Jam’s friends who doesn’t know that his brother is in severe danger until it is almost too late.

And Jam is the girl who summoned Pet...

Read Duncan'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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