Tuesday, January 11 at 7pm on Zoom, registration required |
Jumpstart Your Financial Future with this series of workshops designed for people starting their financial life. Improve your knowledge and understanding of your personal finances, gain insight and information into tricky topics, and develop a healthier financial future.
Credit cards offer convenience and can be a huge help to building a credit profile, but they can also be a source of misuse. This workshop provides insights on how to manage credit cards, their hidden costs, and tips to avoid credit card traps.
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Thursday, January 20 at 7pm on Zoom, registration required |
Are you ready to check out some truly bad art?
Join the SPL and the Museum of Bad Art for a virtual art presentation.
Art has always helped get us through difficult times. In this virtual presentation Michael Frank, MOBA's Curator in Chief, explores some of the ways artists react to small and large, real and imagined, disasters with us.
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Sunday, January 23 at 2pm on Zoom, registration required |
Violinist Joshua Peckins returns to a virtual concert stage, presenting an immersive solo violin recital experience, pairing beloved music by J. S. Bach with fresh works by living and upcoming geniuses from around the world and rich commentary about the composers and their music.
“Improvisations” belongs to the 2021-22 project “Music Speaks.” The performance will include commentary about the composers and music.
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Thursday, January 27 at 7pm on Zoom, registration required |
Join local yoga teacher, Jenn Falk, for this series and engage your body with mindful care. We will spend an hour each class with various accessible yoga shapes, attention to breath, and meditative rest to explore the current moment within and around us. |
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Do you wish you were somewhere a bit more warm and/or tropical right now? So do we! Here are some of our favorite reads when it gets a little too wintry outside.
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His first full-length novel, this is a steampunk fantasy novel set in 1912 Cairo. When someone purporting to be the famed al-Jahiz, who opened the door between the worlds of the djinn and humans 50 years before, begins to wreak havoc on her beloved Cairo, Agent Fatma el-Sha'arawi of the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments, and Supernatural Entities is determined to unmask the impostor and save her city.
Recommended by Jo, Business Librarian
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ShanTil is always warmed when she visits the charming fictional town of Miracle Springs, North Carolina, complete with a bookstore housed in an old railway depot, a delectable bakery, and healing hot springs that attract tourists year round.
Recommended by ShanTil, Reference Librarian
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Peter Mayle is back in his beloved Provence after trying to live in other places. He celebrates his homecoming by sharing with us a whole new feast of adventures, discoveries, hilarities, and culinary treats, liberally seasoned with a joyous mix of Gallic characters.
Recommended by Brigid, Literacy and Volunteer Coordinator
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If the gray of winter is making you feel down then check out this tropical, romantic comedy set in Maui! After an entire wedding party comes down with food poisoning, the maid of honor and best man are told to go on the newly married couple's honeymoon. The only problem is the two of them can't stand each other.
Recommended by Jessica, Reference Librarian
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Follow nine people, all with trauma, conflict, and secrets of their own, as they spend ten days at a luxury retreat in the Australian bush: a stay that will change their lives forever. This is a fun read that will make you want to head to the spa (although maybe not this particular one...)
Recommended by Abby, Generalist Librarian
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Nineteen-year-old Juliet doesn't know what to expect when she comes out to her close-knit Puerto Rican family before leaving home for an internship with a feminist writer whom she worships. Over one life-changing summer, as she travels from the Bronx to Portland to Miami and back again, Juliet loses some of her illusions but finds her creativity, her community, and a new confidence in herself.
Recommended by Annie, Senior Substitute Librarian
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Fascinating survey of the five U.S. Territories: Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam. Part history, part travelogue, part cultural studies, part critique of the United States, this book is interesting and relevant.
Recommended by Alison, West Branch Children's Librarian
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More than 600 spectacular photographs of houses and gardens showcase the colorful lifestyle of the islands in this dreamy book. Feel the breezes, smell the tropical flowers, and luxuriate in the warmth of the sun!
Recommended by Mary, Reference Librarian
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