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Library Grand Prix Friday, October 18 | 2 - 4 PM Race, build, drive, eat, and talk about cars. Learn about physics, and graphs. Bring your own Hotwheels car to race!
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Trunk-or-Treat at the Library Sunday, October 27 | 6:30 - 7:30 PM Join Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority for a book-themed trunk-or-treating experience in the library parking lot. The Kappa's support literacy for kids and will highlight the importance of books and reading with this fun activity. The library will not be open during the event, but children will receive a coupon for a free prize when they return to the library another time. Co-sponsored by Manhattan Public Library
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Escape Library For Teens Wednesday, October 9 | 4 - 5 PM Using teamwork, you have 60 minutes to "escape" the library. The room theme is a surprise and will include puzzles, codes and a prize at the end. Two rooms of the same design run concurrently and the two rooms compete to solve the puzzle first. Each team consists of a maximum of 8 teens, meaning that a total of 16 teens can attend the Escape Library program each month. Registration is required. Register online or at the Adult Services Desk or Teen Zone Desk.
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Teen After Hours Saturday, October 19 | 5:30 - 8:30 PM We're opening the library on Saturday night just for teens. Play games, compete for prizes and hang-out! All free! Pizza will be served for dinner at 5:30 pm. Teens must be signed in by a guardian and picked-up inside the parking lot entrance at 8 pm. Parents and guardians must come to the door and sign their teens out if they have marked on the permission form that they will pick up their teen. Teens whose parents or guardians have marked that they may walk home will sign themselves out. Registration and signed parent permission forms required in advance of the program. Parent permission forms and registration can be submitted at the Adult Services Desk or Teen Zone Desk.
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A Thousand Colors for My Town Thursday, October 10 at 5 PM Auditorium Mr. Edwin Rodríguez, founder and director of the Colombian peace and reconciliation foundation A Thousand Colors for my Town, will give a talk about how the symbolic language of art can be a tool to build up communities devastated by generations of political violence. He will show how miniature houses made by perpetrators of violence have been creatively transformed into symbols of healing by individuals who envision a peaceful country where groups with different ideologies can coexist.
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Second Sunday Music Sunday, October 13 at 1:30 PM Auditorium Join us in the auditorium for the sounds of music the second Sunday of each month, from September through December. Each session will feature a different style of music performed by a different local music group. This session will feature classical music by the faculty of the Community School for the Performing Arts.
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Archimancy by J.A. White
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Bone Hollow by Kim Ventrella
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Ghost Hunt! by Melissa Lagonegro
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