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Weekly Program Bulletin

August 15, 2022

In the Spotlight

Wednesday, August 17

6:00 p.m. | Lecture Hall

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Mission: JOY - Finding

Happiness in Troubled Times


This 2021 documentary film follows the unlikely friendship of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who give a master class in how to create joy in a world that was never easy for them.


  Live In-Person Only

Poetry Workshop & Reading with Diane Raptosh 

Join us for a writing workshop, a reading, or both! Raptosh’s Hand Signs from Eternity’s Yurt explores civic unease in a series of 22 American sonnets.


Friday, August 19


2:00 - 4:00 p.m. 

Register for the Workshop


5:00 p.m.

Reading on the Lawn

Check This Out!

Thursday, August 25

4:30 - 6:30 p.m.

More here.

Mark Your Calendar for

Book Around the Library!


Food, Fun, and Freebies as You Explore The Community Library 


We’re booking around and inside the Library with activities for kids and adults, including a photo booth, Chihuly Cylinders Exhibit, Banned Book Bingo, book giveaway, chalk, bubbles & dragonflies, bites & beverages, music, and more.  

This Week at The Library

Story Time: School


Monday, August 15

10:30 a.m.

Lecture Hall

Creative Writing Workshop

Tuesday, August 16

Noon | Zoom

Exploring Hemingway’s

Sun Valley, Part 3


Wednesday, August 17

10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Note: This series is full.

TV Discussion Group:

The Bear


Wednesday, August 17

5:00 - 6:30 p.m. | Cimino Plaza

Advanced registration is requested.

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Lunch & Lit


Best $8 lunch in town! ($5 for seniors.) Plus a short reading and discussion. For all ages. Reserve your lunch by Thursday morning

by calling 208-788-3468.


Thursday, August 18

11:30 a.m. Cimino Plaza

Writing Workshop

Writing the American Sonnet 


Former Idaho Writer-In-Resident and Boise Poet Laureate Diane Raptosh leads us in writing poems to explore the American sonnet’s loose,

musical and inventive form.


Friday, August 19

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Idaho Room

Next Week at The Library

  • Story Time: Woodland Animals
  • "Joy Ride in a Paint Box": The Art of Winston Churchill with Lee Pollock
  • Tech Help Desk
  • TV Discussion Group, Part 2: The Bear 
  • Lunch & Lit

  • Book Around the Library! Open House Event

Click here for our full calendar.

Replay: Upbeat with Alasdair

In case you missed it. . .

Sun Valley Music Festival Music Director Alasdair Neale was joined by two special guest speakers: Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts and Grammy-nominated composer and pianist Gabriela Lena Frank. Both guests shared their creative experiences and musical influences and provided previews of their works to be performed during the Festival’s 2022 Summer Season...You can still catch the replay! 


Watch on Vimeo here.

          Want more? See our complete Vimeo program archive here.

Book Review: Library Staff

"While an alluring idea on the surface, it bodes ill for some who recover what perhaps was better left forgotten."

Pam Parker, Circulation Manager, recommends The Candy House by Jennifer Egan.


The Candy House (2022): Highly recommended for those that like to wax philosophic and unravel complex plots as they read. Be prepared for a dose of gritty reality. 


Jennifer Egan’s newest work of fiction, The Candy House, is unusual.  


Published as a novel, it reads more like a series of related short stories. A number of the characters appear in several stories but at different periods of their lives. Egan also revisits some favorites characters from her Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit From the Goon Squad, which makes this technically a sequel though it can be read as a stand-alone. 


The net effect is a fascinating exploration of the near future where a technology akin to the internet increasingly impacts people’s lives. A candy house is a drug house in urban lingo. But the premise of this novel involves a mind-tapping cube that downloads memories. Hence, Egan seems to be asking us, ‘Has technology become our drug of choice?’...


Read Pam's entire Book Review here.


Find more staff book recommendations here.

Book Beat: Student Book Review

Hello! My name is Kate. I am in 11th grade. I enjoy hanging out with friends and playing soccer in my free time when I am not at school. For my Book Beat review, I read Slammed by Coleen Hoover.


The book Slammed is about a girl named Layken whose father died when she was 18 years-old. Layken and her younger brother are forced to move from their perfect home in Texas, across the country to Michigan with their mother.


Disappointed and angry at her mom, Layken has to start all over in a new school with people she hardly knows. After school, she comes home to take care of her younger brother and fantasizes about a relationship with her neighbor, Will.


While juggling time with family, friends, AND a crazy relationship she has with her neighbor, she has to keep up with her schoolwork, mainly her poetry class...


Read Kate's entire Book Beat Review here.


See all Book Beat Reviews here.

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