In this Issue

• Earth: A Year in Orbit Film Screening

• Holiday Stories at Sun Valley Lodge

• This Week at the Library

• Upcoming Program Highlights

• Staff Film Review: Thelma

• Teen Book Beat: Alebrijes

• Ask a Librarian

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Story Time: Holidays

Monday, December 23

10:30 - 11:30 a.m.

Treehouse

Holiday Stories at Sun Valley Lodge



Monday, December 23

3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

Off-Site at Sun Valley Lodge

Gold Mine Christmas Sales Event

Find ornaments, decorations, garlands, wreaths, artificial trees, tree stands, lights, and more. As Christmas Eve approaches, the Progressive Sale begins...



Through December 24

CLOSING at 3:00 p.m. Christmas Eve

Open Monday-Saturday

10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

4th & Walnut in Ketchum

Brown Bag Poetry



Thursday, December 26

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Learning Commons

Valley Traditional Music Jams



Saturday, December 28

3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Lecture Hall

Community Gingerbread Contest

Stop by the Sun Valley Lodge this holiday season to see the charming and intricate gingerbread houses and vote for your favorite. The winning nonprofit (hint-hint) will receive a cash prize. Thank you Magpie and Monkey Co. for creating your masterpiece "Wild & Free" on behalf of

The Community Library! More here.

Through December 31

Sun Valley Lodge | Boiler Room

Vote in-person only

Collections Manager Aly Wepplo recommends the action-comedy film Thelma, starring June Squibb. 

Thelma is a different kind of action hero. She's 93, a widow, mother, and grandmother, and her family doesn’t trust her to live independently anymore. Her adoring late-bloomer grandson visits often to take her on errands and help her navigate the internet. 

And then she gets scammed. A con artist calls, pretending to be her grandson, and explains he’s in jail. He desperately asks her to send $10,000 in bail. She does. And that money is gone. Thelma’s family explains that she’s been tricked, and she decides she’s not going to take it. She’s going to kick butt.

A stolen scooter and a nursing home breakout kick off a series of action scenes you won’t see in other movies.

Getting up from a fall or reaching something from a high shelf become delightfully high-stakes moments. In the end, Thelma learns to lean on other people, and her grandson learns to rely on himself. It seems everyone has grown up a bit...

Read Aly's entire book review here.

Find more staff book recommendations here.

Hi, my name is Kire. I am in 6th grade and I love to read. Other than reading I like to do gymnastics and play viola. For my Book Beat review, I read Alebrijes by Donna Barba Higuera.

Alebrijes is an odd and interesting book that is set in the future. For 400 years, the world has been a wasteland in which there is only one settlement of people living on Earth as far as we know. This settlement is called Pocatel.

The story follows a thirteen-year-old boy named Leandro who lives in this town as a poor Cascabel. The Cascabels are the descendants of those who worked in the San Joaquin Valley. The Cascabels are frowned upon by the rich Pocatellon people. Leandro and his sister live a horrible life in Pocatel and want to leave to find a better place to live.

Little did Leandro know that his sister would steal a strawberry from a fruit stand...

Read Kire's entire book review here.

See all Book Beat Reviews here.

With the turning of the year comes turning of the pages in the good work

of the Library, Wood River Museum,

and Gold Mine stores.

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