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Weekly Program Bulletin

January 30, 2023

Winter Read Kickoff and Artist Reception

Join us as we kick off the 2023 Winter Read of Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine. We'll be opening a new exhibit, giving away books, enjoying food and music, and

sharing how you can participate

in this community-wide read!

The exhibit, "Las Catrinas: A Celebration of Mexican Culture," features the exceptional

paper mâché art of Mexican artist

Carlos Lecanda—who joins us for this event—and showcases a variety of traditional characters with an

exclusive art piece inspired by 

Fajardo-Anstine's stories.

Thursday, February 2

6:00 p.m. | Library Foyer

More here.

• Story Time: Moon
• Spanish Lunchtime Language
• English Language Learning
• Audacious Read Book Group: The Prairie Trilogy by Willa Cather
• Sperm Whales: The Gentle Goliaths of the Ocean with Gaelin Rosenwaks
• Genealogy Workshop
• Read It and Eat Middle Grade Book Club
• Winter Read Book Group
• Brown Bag Poetry
• Sewing Club
• Unsaid, but Understood: Listening and Silence in Sabrina & Corina with Dr. Dora Ramírez
• "Work it Out Wombats!" with Idaho Public Television

See our full calendar 

of events here.

Read more here.

Winter Read Line-up!

• February 1: Winter Read Book Group begins (week 1 of 4)
• February 2: Winter Read Kickoff with free books, food, and fun, plus Exhibit opening: “La Catrinas: A Celebration of Mexican Culture”
• February 10: Unsaid, but Understood: Listening and Silence in Sabrina & Corina with Dr. Dora Ramírez, BSU
• February 13: A Storyteller’s Guide to Changing the World with tai simpson
• February 16: Creating an Inclusive Outdoors with Olivia Juarez, Green Latinos
• March 2: Warrior Women: Film Screening and Filmmaker Q&A
• March 9: Keynote with author Kali Fajardo-Anstine
• Book Discussions at valley libraries and online February 9, 21, 23, 26, and 28
• And more!

The Prairie Trilogy by Willa Cather

We invite you to delve into three books by Willa Cather that are loosely grouped together as the Prairie Trilogy: O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Antonia (1918). 

To join the Audacious Read, and to get the full reading schedule and Zoom link, Register Here.

February 7 - November 7

The first Tuesday of each month

4:00-5:00 p.m. | Zoom

More here.

The World is Our Stage: The Global Rhetorical Presidency

and the Cold War with Dr. Allison Prasch



In The World is Our Stage, Allison M. Prasch considers how presidential appearances overseas broadcast American superiority during the Cold War. Drawing on extensive archival research, Prasch examines five

foundational moments in the development of what she calls the

“global rhetorical presidency." Presented in partnership with the

Frank Church Institute at Boise State University. 

Watch the replay here.

"...life would be a heck of a lot easier if they stayed

galaxies far, far away."

Sara Zagorski, Gold Mine Thrift Store Retail Manager, recommends Love on the Brain by Aly Hazelwood. 

Now, I’m not generally one to (admit that I) like romance books or anything of the genre, but after the holidays I most definitely needed a bit of lighter fanfare than my usual sort.

During the last bit of the year my stress level is generally at an all-time high and whatever book I find myself reading has no business adding to it. Queue: Love on the Brain. . . .



Read Sara's book review here.

Find more staff book recommendations here.

Hello! My name is Sarah. I am 14 years old and an avid reader; it is one of my favorite things to do. Inspired by authors’ creations of magnificent places and surprising havens built by simple letters, I aspire to be an author and, meanwhile, nurture the love to write. For my Book Beat review, I read Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer.

In 1992, Chris McCandless, a twenty-four-year-old idealistic young adventurer, walked into the Alaskan wilderness with little more than a .22 caliber rifle and a bag of rice, after donating $25,000 in savings and leaving behind all he knew.

Four months later, he was found by a couple of moose hunters, dead, in the back of an old bus...

Read Sarah's Book Beat Review here.

See all Book Beat Reviews here.

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