In this Issue

• Spotlight: Ernest Hemingway’s Best Friend

• Spotlight: LEGO Racers

• This Week at the Library

• Upcoming Program Highlights

• Staff Review: Dinners with Ruth

• Teen Book Beat: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

• Ask a Librarian

See our full calendar here.

Story Time: Moon

Monday, November 18

10:30 - 11:30 a.m.

Treehouse

Family Night:

Perler Beads & Apple Cider

This is a drop-in event. All supplies are provided. Note: Perler beads are small

and not suitable for children under age 3.

Monday, November 18

3:30 - 5:00 p.m. | Children's Library

Beginning Knitting

Monday, November 18

4:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Foyer - Fireplace

Spanish Lunchtime Language

Tuesday, November 19 

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Idaho Room

KRC Workspace

Tuesday, November 19 

Drop in 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Lecture Hall

English Language Learning

Tuesday, November 19 

6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Idaho Room

Virtual Creative Writing Workshop



Wednesday, November 20

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Zoom

Paws to Read with Wynslow

Wednesday, November 20

2:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Children's Library

Tech Help Desk

Wednesday, November 20

5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Learning Commons

Brown Bag Poetry

Thursday, November 21

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

Learning Commons

Nature Journaling

Thursday, November 21

4:00 - 5:00 p.m. | Idaho Room

6-week class series. Registration required.

New series begins December 5 and is

open for registration here.

Library Assistant Leona Anthony recommends Dinners with Ruth by Nina Totenberg.

Rarely does a person wake up one morning and decide that she is going to be a trailblazer.

Timing, opportunity, and a supportive sisterhood of friends can pivot a hardworking woman with curiosity, determination, and empathy toward a successful career to then open doors for other women in the same field.

Prize-winning reporter Nina Totenberg was a trailblazer for female journalists when women were traditionally offered jobs as secretaries, nurses, and schoolteachers.

In Dinners with Ruth, Nina recounts how her steadfast sisterhood of friends, which included Ruth Bader Ginsburg, thrived and survived because they consistently showed up and cared for one another through life’s highs, lows, and in between. This is an uplifting book filled with devotion, hope and optimism.

In 1975, when Nina walked into National Public Radio (NPR) in Washington, DC, it was a small organization that focused on the daily ninety-minute show, All Things Considered. What primarily stood out to her was that women held important jobs within the organization, and they were helping each other succeed...  

Read Leona's entire review here.

Find more staff book recommendations here.

My name is Reese. I like playing softball and volleyball, skiing, and hanging out with family and friends. My favorite genre of book is mystery and some subtle horror. For my Book Beat review, I read A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson.

I think that this book, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is the perfect mystery. It has aspects of suspense, closure, and so much more. It has everything from happy parts, sad parts, and parts where you are left with so much suspense that you can’t put the book down.

Pippa Fitz-Amobi is a young girl detective who works to solve a mystery that forever haunts her town. When another older girl is supposedly murdered by her boyfriend, Pip doesn’t believe it. When an opportunity for Pip to dig deeper into the case shows itself, she takes it to prove Sal innocent...

Read Reeses's entire book review here.

See all Book Beat Reviews here.