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October 17, 2022

Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros’ lecture is proudly presented by The Community Library and Sun Valley Museum of Art. Cisneros is an award-winning poet, short story writer, novelist, and essayist whose work explores the lives of the working-class. A book signing with Chapter One Bookstore will follow. Tickets are $15 for adults and $5 for students 18 & under. Tickets at www.svmoa.org.

Tuesday, October 18

6:00 p.m.

Wood River High School Performing Arts Theater in Hailey

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Please Note: MASKS will be required at this event at our speaker's request. Also, this program will not be livestreamed

or available for later viewing. 

Brown Bag Poetry

Thursday, October 20

11:30 a.m.

Learning Commons

Thursday, December 8

6:00 p.m. • Lecture Hall

• Story Time: Monsters
• Creative Writing Workshop
• Spanish Lunchtime Language
• English Language Learning
• A Conversation with Martyna Majok, 2022 Sun Valley Playwrights' Resident
• Brown Bag Poetry
• No Visible Bruises with Rachel Louise Snyder
• Reading of Martyna Majok's play Ironbound at the Argyros
• Drop-In Craft: Haunted House Scratch Art

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“Early in the novel, all emotional hell breaks loose when a series of deaths transpire and the townsfolk grapple with the horror and confusion of confronting these nightmarish tragedies.” 

Carter Hedberg, Director of Philanthropy, recommends Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger.

William Kent Krueger’s gripping book, Ordinary Grace, places on full display the dark side of the fictional town of New Bremen, Minnesota...not too far from where I grew up. 

It is the summer of 1961—a time of excitement with a new young president and the Twins baseball franchise making its debut in Minnesota. Thirteen-year-old Frank Drum is expecting to have a fine summer doing the things he loves to do— visiting the soda counter, reading comic books, walking along the river with his little brother, and mowing lawns to earn some extra money.

When calamity hits, Frank’s summer turns ugly. Yet he is able to bravely and with budding maturity, confront tragic deaths, scandal, human frailty, and his own limitations...



Read Carter's entire Book Review here.

Find more staff book recommendations here.

Hey, I'm Finn. I’m a 17 year old in the valley who loves to read, and loves writing about what I read just about 10x more. The analysis and application of literature is the second lyric in a duet between reader and author, and I love being a part of that! For my Book Beat review, I read Carry On by Rainbow Rowell.

How many of us have the “it hurts too good” feeling for a spoiled ending? The “edge of your seat, just push me off, but not yet!” feeling?

The affectionate thrill of knowing what happens before you appropriately get there is an equally exhilarating and infuriating feat.

Few will venture to the final page of their novel, and fewer will be satisfied with the jarring jump ahead. However, Rainbow Rowell captures the sweet spot of "knowing the ending" in her striking fantasy novel, Carry On.

Acting as an implied finale to an on-going story, Carry On follows the ferocious and rambunctious life of the magical world’s Chosen One, Simon Snow...

Read Finn's Book Beat Review here.

See all Book Beat Reviews here.

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