Weekly Program Bulletin:
September 13, 2021
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Tuesday, September 14
Conversation and book signing with co-authors Alan Pesky and Claudia Aulum. In partnership with SVMoA.
6:00 p.m.
Outdoors on the Library's Donaldson Robb Family Lawn on 4th Street.
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Wednesday, September 15
Robert K. Elder, author of Hemingway in Comics will discuss his book and its accompanying exhibit, currently on display in the Library’s Foyer. Signing to follow.
6:00 p.m.
Outdoors on the Library's Donaldson Robb Family Lawn on 4th Street.
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Tuesday, September 14
Work with Buffy, and learn how to use the library’s eBook collection. Bring your device and questions!
11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.
Learning Commons.
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Tuesday, September 14
15-minute slots to work one-on-one with Paul over Zoom.
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Zoom.
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Thursday, September 23
Come and learn how to plan your next big project as inspired by David Allen’s Getting Things Done book.
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Learning Commons.
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Wednesdays
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Cimino Plaza,
outside the Children's Library.
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Wednesdays
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Cimino Plaza.
Pre-registration requested.
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Thursdays
11:30 a.m.
Cimino Plaza.
Order lunch by
NOON on Tuesday.
208-788-3468.
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Lyn Drewien, director of the Hailey Public Library, and Jenny Emery Davidson, executive director of The Community Library |
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Book Returns – Now in Ketchum and Hailey!
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The Community Library and Hailey Public Library announce a new reciprocal arrangement to accept each other’s book returns! You now can return The Community Library books at the Hailey Public Library, and vice versa. We will courier the returned books back-and-forth weekly.
The two libraries operate independently – The Community Library is a privately-funded public library, and the Hailey Public Library is a city-funded public library – and our collections are separate and distinctive, but we share a common purpose to connect people with books and ideas. We hope this arrangement will make it even easier for people to check out books from either location and return them where it is convenient, in either Hailey or Ketchum.
Let’s read, Wood River Valley!
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Children's Library Programs |
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TODAY: Monday, September 13
10:30 a.m.
Donaldson Robb Family Lawn on 4th Street.
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Next Week: Monday, September 20
10:30 a.m.
Donaldson Robb Family Lawn on 4th Street.
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Book Recommendations
from Staff and Students
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Diana Pringle, Gold Mine Retail Associate, recommends People We Meet On Vacation by Emily Henry.
We follow best friends Alex and Poppy who meet in college, and opposites attract in this modern day When Harry Met Sally. The pair shared a ride home from college and they started a decade-long friendship. Free spirited Poppy now lives in NYC traveling the world working as a
travel writer. Poppy is living the life she always wanted and has her dream job. Alex lives in their small Ohio hometown, working as a teacher ready to settle down and start a family. The pair connect every year for an epic vacation on her posh magazine tab. They were always best friends...until something happened.
When the story opens, they haven't spoken in two years. The story is then told in a series of flashbacks, tracing their friendship over the years. Poppy is hoping to have one more vacation to repair and save their friendship. If you like stories about relationships evolving over the years, and finding your soulmate, this is one of those books.
I was leaving on our first family vacation since the COVID-19 outbreak started. I was so excited to travel again, get away and read a good book. I had several books from the great book selection at the Gold Mine. However, as I went through security I realized I left my books in the car. I had no choice but to go to the airport newsstand and pay top dollar for a bestseller that would get me through the plane ride. The selection was sold out and slim, I made a quick choice and was not disappointed. I would recommend this book if you're looking for a light, fun, vacation read.
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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 Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.
A celestial consuming microorganism. A fifteen percent decrease in solar energy in the next ten years. A promised wipeout of half of humanity, best-case scenario.
Sounds like an apocalypse, right?
Yeah. Welcome to Project Hail Mary.
When a mysterious alien organism suddenly “infects” the sun and poses an extreme threat to all life on earth, Ryland Grace, a scientist-turned-middle-school-teacher with infectious enthusiasm, suddenly finds himself in space, the sole survivor of a last-ditch mission: save humanity and—by extension—Earth itself.
But no pressure, right?
After waking up from a coma that got him safely through the four-year trip, Ryland’s left with a spaceship, a mission, and no memory of how he got to a solar system light-years away from Earth. But as things start fuzzily returning to him, he begins to realize the indomitable task looming ahead of him—a heavy responsibility he must take on alone.
Or does he?
Andy Weir’s newest sci-fi novel is a highly entertaining, well-written, science-filled thought experiment that thoroughly portrays an original, fascinating—albeit terrifying—apocalyptic scenario that doesn’t fit any sort of alien invasion boxes of conventional literature. It wholly exceeded my expectations while taking me on a thrilling intergalactic journey, bouncing through the magnetic fields of cosmology and microbiology and physics and anthropology in a way that was clear, entertaining, and all-around mind-boggling.
Ready for a science-filled adventure? Climb aboard the Project Hail Mary—and fasten your seatbelt. It’s a wild ride.
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