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Weekly Program Bulletin

October 31, 2022

In the Spotlight

Moon Bones Book Launch with Julie Weston


The Community Library welcomes local author Julie Weston to the Lecture Hall to celebrate the launch of her latest book, Moon Bones. Weston will read intrepid adventures from the pages of Moon Bones, discuss her

writing process, and take questions from the audience.

A book signing with Iconoclast Books will follow.


Thursday, November 3

6:00 p.m. • Lecture Hall

Register Here •  Watch on Vimeo Here

This Week at The Library

Story Time: Halloween


Monday, October 31

10:30 a.m.

Tree House

Spanish Lunchtime Language


Tuesday, November 1

12:00-1:00 p.m.

Programs Studio

Audacious Read Book Group: Don Quixote


Tuesday, November 1

4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Zoom

English Language Learning


Tuesday, November 1

6:00-8:00 p.m.

Idaho Room

Tech Help Desk


Wednesday, November 2

5:00-7:00 p.m.

Learning Commons

Spanish Story Time


Wednesday, November 2

5:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Tree House

Brown Bag Poetry


Thursday, November 3

11:30 a.m.

Learning Commons

Gold Mine Ski Opening

One of the biggest events of the Year! The Gold Mine Ski Opening features alpine and Nordic skis, boots and helmets, down coats and pants,

fleece, hats, boots, and many more winter essentials! 

Note: The Gold Mine will be CLOSED Wednesday, November 2

in preparation for the big event. 


Gold Mine Ski Opening

Thursday, November 3

331 Walnut Avenue, Ketchum • Doors Open at 10:00 a.m.

Winter Read Reveal!

Announcing the title for the 2023 Winter Read: Sabrina & Corina: Stories by award-winning author Kali Fajardo-Anstine.


The Winter Read is a valley-wide community read with Hailey, Bellevue, and Stanley libraries all participating. Stay tuned for events beginning in January and culminating with a visit from the author on March 9, 2023.  


Sabrina & Corina: Stories is "fierce and essential" according to the New York Times Book Review. It is available at The Community Library in English and Spanish. More here.

Next Week at The Library

  • Story Time for Toddlers
  • Spanish Lunchtime Language
  • Creative Writing Workshop
  • NEW Monthly Spreadsheet Users Group
  • English Language Learning
  • Genealogy Workshop
  • Brown Bag Poetry
  • The Journey Continues: Year Two of the Wood River Trails Coalition's Trail Monitoring Program

Click here for our full calendar.


In Case You Missed It!

No Visible Bruises with Rachel Louise Snyder

The Community Library and The Advocates presented a conversation with Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us, a finalist for the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction, winner of a Kirkus Award in Nonfiction, a New York Times Top 10 Books of the Year, and winner of the LA Times Book Award and the New York Public Library's Bernstein Award. 

This program was presented in partnership with The Advocates.


Watch the Replay Here - Available through November 10

Book Review: Library Staff

"Our hero is hated by everyone, demons to angels, and pretty much hates them all right back."

Will Duke, Information Systems Manager, recommends Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey.


Today is Halloween. My offering to you is a magical mashup of urban fantasy and hard-boiled detective, mixed with just about everything else. 


“I wake up on a pile of smoldering garbage and leaves in the old Hollywood Forever cemetery behind the Paramount Studio lot on Melrose.” 


James Stark is back on earth. From Hell. Literal Hell. Lucifer and demons and the rest of the great unwashed from down below. And that’s how the book starts: with a compelling back story... 



Read Will's entire Book Review here.

Find more staff book recommendations here.

Book Beat: Student Book Review

Hello! My name is Sarah. I am fourteen 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 Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo.


Ketterdam is a city of kill-or-be-killed, where the only god honored is profit and the only moral is the one that suits the job.


Located on the island nation of Kerch, it’s a bustling center of commerce and crime. Within its boundaries are the makings of an unlikely team: Kaz Brekker, master thief; Inej Ghafa, acrobat turned spy; Jesper Fahey, a sharpshooter with a gambling addiction; Nina Zenik, Grisha Heartrender; Matthias Helvar, witch-hunter and convict; and Wylan Van Eck, demolition expert.


Beyond the borders of Kerch, a dangerous drug is brewing...


Read Sarah's Book Beat Review here.

See all Book Beat Reviews here.

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