In this Issue

• Spotlight: SINK / RISE

• Spotlight on the Children's Library

• Spotlight on Regional History

• This Week at the Library

• Upcoming Program Highlights

• Staff Title Review: On All Fronts

• Teen Book Beat

• Ask a Librarian

See our full calendar here.

Story Time: Camping

Monday, July 8

10:30 - 11:30 a.m.

Lecture Hall

How Dark Is It?

UCLA students will share information about the impacts of light pollution in Idaho, the different ways to measure it, and the results of their monitoring studies throughout the Central Idaho

Dark Sky Reserve since 2021.

Monday, July 8

5:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Lecture Hall + Livestream

More/register here.

Paws to Read with Wynslow

Wednesday, July 10

2:30 -3:30 p.m.

Children's Library

Tech Help Desk

Wednesday, July 10

5:00 -7:00 p.m.

Learning Commons

Sun Valley Jewish Film Festival: Remembering Gene Wilder

Wednesday, July 10

6:00 -7:30 p.m.

Lecture Hall

Brown Bag Poetry

Featuring the poetry of Joy Harjo, the 2024 Hemingway Distinguished Lecturer.

Thursday, July 11

11:30 -12:30 p.m.

Learning Commons

Spanish Lunchtime Language

This weekly class with Leonardo Padilla Sacha resumes on Thursdays

for July and August.

Thursday, July 11

3:00 -4:00 p.m.

Idaho Room

Artist Tina Barney in Conversation with Author Judith Freeman

Join Barney, the subject of Sun Valley Museum of Art’s exhibition Tina Barney: Homecoming and Freeman, for a conversation about their decades-long friendship, life in Sun Valley in the 1970s, travels in India, and the projects they are working on now.

Friday, July 12

5:00 -6:00 p.m. | Lecture Hall

Register through SVMoA.

Valley Traditional Music Jams

Saturday, July 13

3:00 -5:00 p.m.

Lecture Hall

On All Fronts invites the reader into war conflicts and a journalist’s life. Clarissa Ward has a fierce intellect and a passion for broad perspectives of journalism, most of all getting the news to people. As our multipolar world today is changing, journalists are being targeted around the globe—most aggressively in Gaza.

Every journalist killed is a further blow to our understanding of the world. 

Clarissa Ward’s memoir bearing witness to war is impressive. When the World Trade Centers’ Twin Towers were hit in 2001, Clarissa made it her mission to seek the story on the front and firsthand.

Her career started in 2002 as an intern at CNN’S Moscow bureau. She speaks six languages including Arabic, French, Italian, Russian, Mandarin and Spanish, and graduated with distinction from Yale University.

Her career story is evocative and engaging. Her writing invites the reader to see and understand conflicts from both sides.

Her unique expertise opens an aperture with insight, as she shares how professional journalism got the war in Iraq wrong. Tricks were being tactfully used to leak disinformation. Illusions were created, and there is an argument lifted to acknowledge truth. Clarissa has a critical eye when it comes to war. 

What I loved about her extraordinary story was her witness to the truth...

Read Janet's entire book review here.

Find more staff book recommendations here.

Hi my name is Nina. I love to read and play sports. My favorite sport is Nordic skiing and my favorite author is J.K Rowling. For my Book Beat review I read Alone by Megan E. Freeman.

Maddie is a 7th grader at the start of this story, and she and her friends have an amazing idea for the weekend:

They would stay at Maddie’s grandparents vacation home, and party all night long without their parents knowing. Maddie would tell her mom that she was at her dad’s house and her dad that she was at her mom’s house! Her friends would tell their own parents that they were sleeping over at each other’s house! A perfect plan, AKA how Maddie got herself into this mess.

One of her friends gets sick, so neither of Maddie’s two friends can go. Maddie decides to go anyway, so she can sleep in.

In the morning, she wakes up, looks at her phone, and sees an imminent threat warning, multiple missed calls, and a voicemail from both her Mom and Dad, both of whom thought Maddie was with the other parent. Maddie finds the whole town has been evacuated and she is all alone...

Read Nina's entire book review here.

See all Book Beat Reviews here.