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, May 14 TIME: 7-8:30 pm Selection: Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St Helens by Steve Olson Combining history and science, describes the 1980 eruption of Washington's Mt. St. Helens, one of the largest in human history, which killed 57 people and deposited ash in 11 U.S. states and five Canadian provinces.
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Film Night: The Red Turtle (PG) DATE: Friday, May 17 TIME: 6-8 pm At our May Film Night, we'll screen The Red Turtle (PG, 2016, 81 min). Directed by Michaël Dudok De Wit. A vivid and imaginative story of a shipwreck, a deserted island, and a red turtle. Entirely dialogue-free and animated by Studio Ghibli, The Red Turtle was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
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Crafternoon Tea! DATE: Wednesday, May 1 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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Art of the Story Festival 2019 Kelly Hoffman - The Comeback Kid DATE: Friday, May 3 TIME: 6:30-7:30 pm This event is part of WCCLS’ 15th annual Art of the Story Festival, which features four storytellers and 14 performances around the county. Garden Home and West Slope libraries host performer Kelly Hoffman with “The Comeback Kid: how I learned how to always have the perfect comeback and other nerve-wracking adventures.”
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Nerd Night: Trivia for Adults DATE: Tuesday, May 7 TIME: 6:30-8:30 pm A fun and informal evening that is anything but easy. I recommend bringing or joining a team to increase your chances and breadth of knowledge. Questions include current events, music, and more. Prizes for highest and lowest scorers.
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Board Game Night DATE: Wednesday, May 8 TIME: 6:00-9 pm Come play board games. New selection provided each month. Participants are also invited to bring their own games to share.
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Stress Reduction Workshop DATE: Saturday, May 11 TIME: 11 am-12 pm Join National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM) student Cadence Wong as she leads stress reduction workshop on mental health. This is an informative workshop designed to introduce participants to the modalities of self-care or naturopathy, so if people have medical questions or concerns related to the program, they should consult their doctor.
Register for this free class in person or by phone: 503-245-9932.
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Crafternoon Tea! DATE: Wednesday, May 15 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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Ukulele Jam DATE: Saturday, May 18 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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Art Night: Salt+Glue+Watercolor DATE: Wednesday, May 22 TIME: 6-8 pm Drop in and learn a relaxing and playful art technique: draw with glue, sprinkle your glue drawing with salt, then experience the fun and relaxing art of saturating your temporal drawing with watercolor. Advanced and beginner artists are welcome! All ages. Art supplies will be provided.
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Garden Gnomes du Plume: A Writer's Group DATE: Tuesday, May 28 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 and the topic changes monthly. A writing prompt and agenda is sent 7 days before the meeting. RSVP is required.
If you are interested in attending or learning more, please email heatherw [at] wccls.org or call 503-245-9932.
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Celestial Bodies
by Jokha Alharthi
Celestial Bodies is a coiled spring of a novel, telling of Oman's coming-of-age through the prism of one family's losses and loves.
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The years
by Annie Ernaux
"Available in English for the first time, the latest astonishing, bestselling, and award-winning book by Annie Ernaux. The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present -- even projections into the future -- photos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertising, headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and writing notes from six decades of diaries. Local dialect, words of the times, slogans, brands and names for the ever-proliferating objects, are given voice here. The voice we recognize as the author's continually dissolves and re-emerges. Ernaux makes the passage of time palpable. Time itself, inexorable, narrates its own course, consigning all other narrators toanonymity. A new kind of autobiography emerges, at once subjective and impersonal, private and collective. On its 2008 publication in France, The Years came as a surprise. Though Ernaux had for years been hailed as a beloved, bestselling and award-winning author, The Years was in many ways a departure: both an intimate memoir "written" by entire generations, and a story of generations telling a very personal story. Like the generation before hers, the narrator eschews the "I" for the "we" (or "they", or "one") as if collective life were inextricably intertwined with a private life that in her parents' generation ceased to exist. She writes of her parents' generation (and could be writing of her own book): "From a common fund of hunger and fear, everything was told in the "we" and impersonal pronouns.""
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The Pine Islands by Marion PoschmannWhen Gilbert Silvester wakes one day from a dream that his wife has cheated on him, he flees - immediately, irrationally, inexplicably - for Japan. In Tokyo he discovers the travel writings of the great Japanese poet Basho. Suddenly, from Gilbert's directionless crisis there emerges a purpose: a pilgrimage in the footsteps of the poet to see the moon rise over the pine islands of Matsushima.
Along the way he falls into step with another pilgrim: Yosa, a young Japanese student clutching a copy of The Complete Manual of Suicide. Together, Gilbert and Yosa travel across Basho's disappearing Japan, one in search of his perfect ending and the other a new beginning.
Serene, playful and profound, The Pine Islands is a story of the transformations we seek and the ones we find along the way.Book Annotation
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Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead
by Olga Tokarczuk
In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . .
A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?
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The Shape of the Ruins
by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and literary investigation. When a man is arrested at a museum for attempting to steal the bullet-ridden suit of a murdered Colombian politician, few notice. But soon this thwarted theft takes on greater meaning as it becomes a thread in a widening web of popular fixations with conspiracy theories, assassinations, and historical secrets; and it haunts those who feel that only they know the real truth behind these killings.
This novel explores the darkest moments of a country's past and brings to life the ways in which past violence shapes our present lives. A compulsive read, beautiful and profound, eerily relevant to our times and deeply personal, The Shape of the Ruins is a tour-de-force story by a master at uncovering the incisive wounds of our memories.
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The Remainder
by Alia Trabucco Zerán
Felipe and Iquela, two young friends in modern day Santiago, live in the legacy of Chile’s dictatorship. Felipe prowls the streets counting dead bodies real and imagined, aspiring to a perfect number that might offer closure. Iquela and Paloma, an old acquaintance from Iquela’s childhood, search for a way to reconcile their fragile lives with their parents’ violent militant past. The body of Paloma’s mother gets lost in transit, sending the three on a pisco-fueled journey up the cordillera as they confront the pain that stretches across generations.
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Local Scene: Therese Oneill
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