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TFPL News & Events - May 2021Don't forget, the Library is always open online!
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May is upon us & the Library has a ton of news! First off, the Library is expanding regular hours. Effective May 3rd, the Library will be open Monday - Thursday 10 am - 9 pm, and 10 am - 6 pm Friday & Saturday. You can also look forward to the return of the Bookmobile in May. We're excited about all our other events in May - check out our May Marathon Challenge, a Digital Concert from the Boise Phil, a historical presentation from the Friends of Stricker, Parking Lot Cinema, and more! Keep on reading for more information on what you can do at the Library in May.
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The Library is challenging you to get moving and get reading! Throughout May, you can log minutes reading, walking, or running - if you reach 262 minutes, you can enter for a Grand Prize! Listen to an audiobook while you walk or run to log double time! Enter the reading challenge on the Reader Zone App with code: db19c, or pick up a paper log from the Library. Plus, on May 1st you can help us kick the challenge off! We'll be at walking paths at CSI, Rock Creek Park, the Visitors' Center from 10 am to 1 pm with information about the challenge, and if you stop by, you can enter another prize drawing! Contact the Library for more information about the challenge, or find the event on our Facebook page!
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Has your household caught the gardening bug? Gardening is such an enriching hobby for grownups and kids alike. There are plenty of hands-on opportunities to learn science, math, social-emotional, and art concepts. Here are some of the non-fiction gardening books we’re loving right now!
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Plant, Sow, Make, & Grow: Mud-tastic Activities for Budding Gardeners by Esther CoombsThe perfect handbook for a young gardener. Inside, you’ll find lots of creative projects for those antsy times in between planting, weeding, and sowing when you still want to get your hands dirty and make something. You’ll find instructions for how to press flowers, how to make a sunflower bird feeder, and how to conserve water with repurposed plastic trash!
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Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Melliferaby Candace FlemingThis award-winning book is filled with beautiful illustrations that are sure to get your child interested in the life of a bee. Even grownups will gain a new respect for our most important garden helpers.
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The Farm That Feeds Us: A Year in the Life of an Organic Farm by Nancy CastaldoThis title spans the life of a year on the farm, but offers lots of great advice to those of us with smaller plots of our own. This book is for the curious child who wants to know more about how their food got to the store. It’s also for children who are a little more serious about their gardening game, covering topics like cool-weather crops, companion planting, and keeping chickens.
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Need to draft a will or create a lease? Do this and more with Law Depot! With customizable forms that adjust according to your needs and state laws, Law Depot can help you create, modify, save, and print hundreds of legal documents for personal or business use. Sign in with your Library card.
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May is a good time to think about making improvements, whether to yourself or your home. Subscribe to Home, Garden, DIY to learn about the newest titles to enhance your surroundings, or the Health, Wealthy, and Wise newsletter to see what’s new in self-help.
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Parking Lot Cinema Friday, May 21, 9:15 PM Twin Falls Public Library Parking Lot Pull into the Library Parking Lot for Movie Night! We’re showing nostalgic favorite based off a beloved children’s novel. Featuring a mean teacher, too much chocolate cake, and a telekinetic powers! Gates open at 8:45 pm, movie starts at 9:15.
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Friends of Stricker Saturday, May 15th, 11:00 AM Library Lawn As one of the oldest historical sites in Idaho, Rock Creek Station and Stricker Homesite offers a unique look at the changes experienced in the Magic Valley over the last 150 years. Come to the Library Lawn and learn how the Site has evolved, get a glimpse at the newest renovations, and see what the future will hold for the Site and our understanding of Twin Falls history. (Presented by Jennifer Hills, President of the Friends of Stricker, Inc.)
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Digital Concert: "Take Flight" by Boise Phil Tuesday, May 11th, 7:00 PM Zoom Join us on Zoom May 11th at 7:00 pm for a Digital Concert from Boise Phil. This concert features a String Quartet & a Wind Quintet. Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/95271607503
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The Bookmobile is back! The Twin Falls Public Library Bookmobile visits daycares, schools, parks, and apartment complexes. Patrons can register for library cards, check out a variety of materials, pick up holds, and return items. This summer the following stops will be open to the public. Tuesday: Oregon Trail Youth Complex - 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM - 300 Block of Highland Ave. Thursday: Cascade Park - 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM - 1800 Block of Stadium Blvd. Northern Ridge Park - 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM - 2300 Block of Parkview Dr. Friday: Fawnbrook Apartments - 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM - 647 Fawnbrook Ct.
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May is Asian American & Pacific Islander History Month! Check the titles below for some recommended reads, or check out our display at the Library for more!
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In "Minor Feelings", poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable, humorous, and provocative—and its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship, art and politics, identity and individuality, will change the way you think about our world. With sly humor and a poet’s searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and female friendship.
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"Things We Lost to the Water" is a mesmerizing debut novel from Eric Nguyen. This novel tells the tale of familial bonds, assimilation and home that centers around an immigrant Vietnamese family. Separated from her husband, Huong must figure out how to make a life for herself and her two young sons in New Orleans while coming to terms with the fact that her life will never be as she imagined. The family adapts to American life in ways that sometimes threaten to cause a rift between them, and it is only when Hurricane Katrina devastates their new home city that they find their way back to one another.
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