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Garden Homefront e-news September 2019
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GHCL will be closed on Monday, Sept. 2 for the Labor Day Holiday. Have a safe and happy holiday weekend!
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Events held at (unless otherwise noted): The Garden Home Community Library Annex 7306 SW Oleson Rd Our Annex is located across the street in the Garden Home Marketplace shopping center - 2 doors down from the Bulldog Deli. Look for the yellow garden gnome outside the door.
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Tuesday Night Nourishment DATE: Tuesday, September 10 TIME: 7-8:30 pm Selection: The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict A tale inspired by the first wife of Albert Einstein follows the experiences of Mitza Mari, a female physics student at an elite late-nineteenth-century school in Zurich, where she falls in love with a charismatic fellow student who eclipses her contributions to his theory of relativity.
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Pizza and a Movie: Avengers Endgame DATE: Friday, September 20 TIME: 5:30-8:45 pm (PG-13, 2019, 180 minutes) -- Adrift in space with no food or water, Tony Stark sends a message to Pepper Potts as his oxygen supply starts to dwindle. Meanwhile, the remaining Avengers -- Thor, Black Widow, Captain America and Bruce Banner -- must figure out a way to bring back their vanquished allies for an epic showdown with Thanos -- the evil demigod who decimated the planet and the universe. Refreshments (pizza, air-popped popcorn, and soda) will be provided by the Library.
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Nerd Night: Trivia for Adults DATE: Tuesday, September 3 TIME: 6:30-8:30 pm On the first Tuesday of every month, come test your knowledge - solo or in a team – and find out who knows the most. Five varying sets of trivia, including current events and music. Prizes for most and least points at the end of the night.
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Crafternoon Tea! DATE: Wednesday, September 4 TIME: 2-4 pm Bring your own handcraft project (knitting, crochet, needlepoint, macramé, stamping, cardmaking, etc.) to work on, and enjoy the company of fellow craft enthusiasts! All levels are welcome. Tea is provided.
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Harvesting and Saving Heirloom Seeds (Ages 10 and up) DATE: Saturday, September 7 TIME: 11 am -12:15 pm
Join OSU Master Gardener Sarah Gramm Wolf in a hands-on approach to harvesting and saving heirloom seeds. Learn when to harvest, wet and dry methods of cleaning, drying, and storing seeds for maximum viability, and do-it-yourself viability testing before planting your saved seeds. Pioneers brought their saved seeds with them when they crossed the Oregon trail...the tiny, mighty seed! Leave this 1.25 hour event with seeds you can plant as well as multiple handouts to document your saved seeds for sharing, resources for heirloom seeds, references for growing and saving your favorite seed, plus online classes for seed saving, starting a seed library, and more.
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Board Game Night DATE: Wednesday, September 11 TIME: 6-9 pm New selection and variety of board games provided each month. Participants are also invited to bring their own games to share.
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Ukulele Jam DATE: Saturday, September 21 TIME: 11 am-12 pm Our ukulele jams are a relaxed and welcoming space, designed for musicians of all ages and abilities who enjoy creating music together. GHCL has a small selection of instruments available for use on a first-come basis; if you own your own ukulele please bring it to the jam. We also offer ukuleles for checkout, through our Library of Things.
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Crafternoon Tea! DATE: Wednesday, September 18 TIME: 2-4 pm Bring your own handcraft project (knitting, crochet, needlepoint, macramé, stamping, cardmaking, etc.) to work on, and enjoy the company of fellow craft enthusiasts! All levels are welcome. Tea is provided.
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Garden Gnomes du Plume: A Writer's Group DATE: Tuesday, September 24 TIME: 6:30-8:30 pm Looking to join a writers' group? Try ours and see if it’s a good fit for you. Our small group (limited to 15 people) meets monthly on the 4th Tuesday of each month (except December). The group is led by group members. In September the topic is character. The agenda and a writing prompt will be emailed one week before the meeting. RSVP is required.
If you are interested in attending or learning more, please email Heather or call 503-245-9932.
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Art PartyDATE: Wednesday, September 25 TIME: 6:00 – 8:00 pm Play fun collaborative drawing games, learn a ridiculous caption game that will make you laugh, and add your doodles to a giant collaborative wall drawing. Advanced and beginner artists are welcome! All ages. Art supplies and snacks will be provided.
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The long way to a small, angry planet
by Becky Chambers
Joining the crew of the aging Wayfarer, a patched-up ship that has seen better days, loner Rosemary Harper must unexpectedly risk her life when they are offered the job of a lifetime, which teaches her valuable lessons about love and trust, and that having a family isn't the worst thing in the universe. Original. 25,000 first printing.
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The flatshare
by Beth O'Leary
Entering a flatshare arrangement with a man on an opposite work shift, a heartbroken woman begins exchanging notes with the roommate she has never met and becomes his best friend, and possibly soulmate, through their correspondence. A first novel.
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An American marriage : a novel
by Tayari Jones
When her new husband is arrested and imprisoned for a crime she knows he did not commit, a rising artist takes comfort in a longtime friendship only to encounter unexpected challenges in resuming her life when her husband's sentence is suddenly overturned. By the author of Silver Sparrow.
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A gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin, where he endures life in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold. By the best-selling author of Rules of Civility.
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Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
by Trevor Noah
The host of The Daily Show With Trevor Noah traces his wild coming of age during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed, offering insight into the farcical aspects of the political and social systems of today's world.
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Nomadland : surviving America in the twenty-first century
by Jessica Bruder
An award-winning journalist sets out on the road to explore the new phenomenon of “workampers” who are migrant workers made up of transient older Americans who took to the road after discovering that their social security came up short and their mortgages were underwater.
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Spanish Harlem : El Barrio in the '80s by Joseph RodriguezTo live in Spanish Harlem, New York's oldest barrio, is to confront some of the city's most endemic problems: crime, drugs, AIDS, and chronic unemployment. Yet the mecca where Puerto Ricans first established themselves in the 1940s is now the "capital of Hispanic America" home to 120,000 people, half of whom are Latino. Shot in the mid-to-late 80s, Joseph Rodriguez's superb photographs bring us into the heart of Spanish Harlem, capturing a spirit and a time that survives despite the ravages of poverty. In a now-distant landscape littered with abandoned buildings, ominous alleyways, and plagues of addiction, the residents of Spanish Harlem persevered with flamboyant style and gritty self-reliance. From idyllic scenes of children playing under the sprinklers on the playground, or performing the Bomba Plena on "Old Timer's Day," to shocking images of men shooting up speedballs and children dying of AIDS, Rodriguez showcases a day in the life of the barrio.
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Bumperhead
by Gilbert Hernandez
Follows the life of a boy named Bobby as he grows from childhood to middle age and searches for meaning in school and work and lets possibilities pass him by as he dreams of what could have been
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Museum of the Americas
by J. Michael Martinez
"Winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series Competition, selected by Cornelius Eady--an exploration in verse of imperial appropriation and Mexican American cultural identity The poems in J. Michael Martinez's third collection of poetry circle around how the perceived body comes to be allegorically coded with the transhistorical consequences of an imperial sociopolitical narrative. Engaging eighteenth-century Mexican casta paintings, the morbid lynching postcards of William Horne, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and Martinez's own family lineage, Museum of the Americas traces an aesthetic out of racialized scenes of corporeal excess. Hybrid in form, Museum of the Americas voices itself in theory, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Throughout, Martinez questions how "knowledge" of the body is organized through an observer's visual perception of that body. For Martinez, the corporeal always serves as a repository of the human situation, a nexus of culture. His work revives and repurposes the persecuted ethnic body from the biopolitical appropriations that render it a disposable aesthetic object"
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The crusades of Cesar Chavez : a biography
by Miriam Pawel
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Union of Their Dreams draws on thousands of documents and interviews to examine the myths and achievements marking the life of the iconic labor leader and civil rights activist, portraying him as a flawed but brilliant strategist who was often at odds with himself. 30,000 first printing.
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The house of broken angels : a novel
by Luis Alberto Urrea
Across one bittersweet weekend in their San Diego neighborhood, revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of family patriarch Miguel "Big Angel" De La Cruz and his mother, and recounting the many tales that have passed into family lore. By the Pulitzer Prize-finalist author of The Hummingbird's Daughter. 50,000 first printing.
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The house of impossible beauties
by Joseph Cassara
A first novel, inspired by the House of Xtravaganza made famous in the documentary Paris Is Burning, follows a cast of gay and transgender kids navigating the Harlem ball scene of the 1980s and 1990s. 50,000 first printing.
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Thread that keeps us /Over the past two decades, a strong sense of place has shaped the music of CALEXICO, infusing their albums with a stylistic unpredictability and richness of texture. While 2015’s Edge of the Sun brought the Tucson-bred band to the Mexico City borough of Coyoacán, their new full-length The Thread That Keeps Us mostly came to life in a house studio near the Northern California coast nicknamed “The Phantom Ship” by CALEXICO vocalist/guitarist Joey Burns and drummer John Convertino.
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Edge of the sun /Calexico s follow-up to 2012 s acclaimed Algiers, Edge of the Sun began with a songwriting retreat to the historic Mexico City borough of Coyoacán. Working for the first time with Mexican collaborators, Calexico expanded their horizons as the guest list grew to include musicians from a myriad of backgrounds, origins, and genres, including Sam Beam from Iron and Wine, Ben Bridwell from Band of Horses, Nick Urata from Devotchka, Carla Morrison, Gaby Moreno, Amparo Sanchez, multi-instrumentalists from the Greek band Takim, as well as Neko Case.
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Local Scene: Kristina McMorris
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Sold on a Monday : a novel
by Kristina McMorris
When struggling reporter Ellis Reed takes a photograph of a sign advertising two children for sale in 1931, it leads to his big break and evokes memories from his past
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The edge of lost
by Kristina McMorris
Weaves together the story of the disappearance of a prison guard's daughter on Alcatraz in 1937, and an Irish boy's efforts 20 years earlier to find his real father in America. Original.
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The pieces we keep
by Kristina McMorris
Veterinarian Audra Hughes welcomes the help of Afghanistan War veteran when her son's fear of flying opens up a decades-old mystery. Original.
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