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December 5, 2022

Creating the Idaho Women’s Suffrage

Commemorative Sculpture

Join Idaho State Historical Society’s Executive Director Janet L. Gallimore in a conversation about 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, this will be the first monument dedicated to women on the Idaho State House grounds. 

Tuesday, December 6 | 6:00 p.m.

Register here to attend in person.

Watch on Vimeo here.

After School: LEGO Play

Monday, December 5

3:00-4:00 p.m.

Children's Library

Together We Read! Book Club

Lessons in Chemistry

by Bonnie Garmus

The Community Library announces a new book club: Together We Read! This book club will be hosted every other month and led by a diverse range of library staff, covering all genres. December's pick is Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. The discussion will be led by library assistant Andrea Nelson. Registration is required.

Thursday, December 8

6:00-7:30 p.m.

Lecture Hall

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• Story Time: Joy
• Paint Club for Tweens and Teens
• SNUG: Spreadsheet (Nerds) User Group
• Genealogy Workshop
• Spanish Story Time
• Brown Bag Poetry
• Sewing Club
• Nature Journaling with Leslie Rego
• Inside a Chef's Head with Chef Joyce Doughty (+ free book!)
• Drop-in Holiday Craft for Kids

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Thriving Through the Holidays Using the

Community Resiliency Model with Laurie Strand

Participants learned 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.

Watch the replay here.

"Satisfy your curiosity about historical figures and places with these fun, information-packed small bites."

Helen Morgus, Children's Librarian, recommends the Who/What/Where/ Were” collection.

The Children’s Library houses a great collection of nonfiction for the curious of any age. And I really do mean ANY. If you are a person who likes to begin learning about a subject with an overview before going granular, children’s nonfiction is just the thing for you. Plus, bonus: illustrations! One of my favorite series within our spectacular collection is Who/What/Where/Were. 

The Who Was books are biographies, published by the children’s division of Penguin Books and authored by various writers. We have nearly 30 of them, from King Tut to Ruth Bader Ginsburg...



Read Helen's 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 Spaced Out by Stuart Gibbs.

This moon based alpha novel is creative, eventful and full of mysteries. Spaced Out is a story not fully related to one of the author’s other books called Space Case.

You will understand this book more if you read Space Case first. In the very end of Space Case, the main character Dash finds out Zan is an alien. This book is about when the base commander, (Nina the Machina) goes missing. Dash goes on an adventure to go find her. 

When the story starts, Dash is showing Zan the movie Star Wars. Dash is trying to explain what humans think aliens are like. Suddenly, the biggest jerks in the universe, the Sjoberg’s kids, (Lily and Patton), burst into Dash’s family’s room...

Read Thijs'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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