Events held at (unless otherwise noted): The Garden Home Community Library Annex 7306 SW Oleson Rd 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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Saturday, November 11: Veteran's Day
The library is closed. Thank you Veterans!
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Wednesday, November 22
Library hours: 9 am - 3 pm
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Thursday, November 23
The library is closed. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Books & Beer with Heather & Nick WHEN: Friday, November 3 @ 7 pm Enjoy beer plus a discussion. Selection: Going Postal by Terry Pratchett. Arch-swindler Moist Van Lipwig never believed his confidence crimes were hanging offenses-until he found himself with a noose tightly around his neck, dropping through a trapdoor, and falling into-a government job? By all rights, Moist should have met his maker. Instead, it's Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, who promptly offers him a job as Postmaster. Since his only other option is a nonliving one, Moist accepts the position-and the hulking golem watchdog who comes along with it, just in case Moist was considering abandoning his responsibilities prematurely. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may be a near-impossible task, what with literally mountains of decades-old undelivered mail clogging every nook and cranny of the broken-down post office building; and with only a few creaky old postmen and one rather unstable, pin-obsessed youth available to deliver it. Worse still, Moist could swear the mail is talking to him.
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Tuesday Night Nourishment Book Group WHEN: Tuesday, November 14 @ 7 pm Selection: The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman Documents the true story of Warsaw Zoo keepers and resistance activists Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who in the aftermath of Germany's invasion of Poland saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish citizens by smuggling them into empty cages and their home villa.
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Detective Film Night WHEN: Friday, November 17 at 7 pm Director: Howard Hawks Rated: PG Running Time: 109 minutes The second of three films in our detective film series. This month we are screening the film-noir classic The Big Sleep, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. "Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love." (IMDb)
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The Last Waltz + Potluck WHEN: Friday, November 24 at 3-5 pm Martin Scorsese's classic “The Last Waltz” chronicles The Band's final public performance. Shot on Thanksgiving day 1975 at San Francisco's legendary Winter Ballroom, the film features stellar performances by The Band and bunch of their friends: Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and Van Morrison, to name a few. Bring whatever leftovers you'd like to share. No pressure. Don't feel like you have to bring something! Outlets will accessible for crock pots or other warmers.
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NaNoWriMo Write In WHEN: Thursdays in November - Nov. 2, 9, 16, & 30 Time: 5-8 pm We will be opening our doors every Thursday evening (except Thanksgiving) to invite folks to work alongside fellow writers during National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Stop by anytime during 5-8 and make progress on your novel and/or NaNoWriMo goals.
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Workshop: Introduction to Meditation WHEN: Saturday, November 4 from 10-11 am Learn the basics of meditation and how to train your mind in your daily life. Applying these methods in your everyday life will lead to happiness and a sense of purpose and harmony in your relationships. The structure of the class will include a guided 30 minute relaxation meditation, a 15 minute talk on the benefits of meditation and how to start a daily practice, a short Q and A and a 10 minute guided ending meditation based on the talk. This is a beginner course and open to everyone.
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Simple Holidays for Parents WHEN: Wednesday, November 15 from 6-8 pm Registration required, limited to 25 participants. This workshop is for parents only, so surprises can stay surprising! Parents, do the holidays stress you out? You are not alone and this workshop can help. Conscious Parenting consultant Diana Nunes Mizer can help you develop an approach to the holiday season that emphasizes warm moments together and creating traditions that will be special for your family long after this year.
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Author: Rabbi Eve Posen WHEN: Wednesday, November 29 from 7-8:30 pm Join us to celebrate Jewish Book Month with a reading and interactive discussion, including Q&A, with author Rabbi Eve Posen on the book Pirkei Imahot: The Wisdom of Mothers, the Voices of Women. This book explores contemporary Jewish women's voices and encourages readers to engage their voices and energies towards tikkun olam. Posen is assistant rabbi of Neveh Shalom, mother of a toddler and an infant, and a first-time author.
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Nerd Night: Trivia for Adults WHEN: Tuesday, November 7 @ 6:30 pm
A fun and informal evening that is anything but easy. I recommend playing as a team (join one or bring your own) to increase your chances and breadth of knowledge.
Prizes for highest and lowest scorers. Winning individual/team gets a mustache tote in honor of No-Shave November or WCCLS Swag.
Questions include current events, music, and three other varying sets.
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Garden Home Board Game Night WHEN: Wednesday, November 8 from 6 - 8 pm
Come enjoy classic and/or new board games with other enthusiasts. Each month features a new selection of games. You are also welcome to bring any you'd like to play.
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Crafternoon Tea! WHEN: Wedsnesday, November 15 from 2-4 pm
This group meets every third Wednesday of the month.
Bring your own handcraft project (knitting, crochet, needlepoint, macramé, 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 WHEN: Tuesday, November 28 from 6:30-8:30 pm Looking to join a writer's group? If so, I invite you to come to our next meeting and try it out to see if it’s a good fit for you. We meet on the 4th Tuesday of each month (except December).- It's a small group and we are looking for a additional members.
- This is NOT a critiquing group. We have a different topic each month.
- Group lead rotates and each leader can do whatever they want that month. Here are some recent topics: writing dialogue, writing non-fiction book proposal (guest speaker), holi-daze, etc.
- Sometimes we send out a monthly writing prompt “homework” each month of 2 pages or 1000 pages or less.
For further questions or to reserve your space, please contact Heather.
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Soviet daughter : a graphic revolution
by Julia Alekseyeva
"The story in comics of Lola, the author's great-grandmother, who lived an adventurous life as a feminist, secret service agent, military nurse, and Jewish refugee in the Soviet Ukraine. The story is interweaved with the author's political and romantic coming-of-age a century later in present-day Chicago"
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4 3 2 1
by Paul Auster
A single child born in 1947 experiences four parallel lifetimes poignantly marked by shifting family fortunes, athletic pursuits, friendships, sex, intellectual passions and the same intriguing woman. By the best-selling author of Winter Journal.
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As close to us as breathing : a novel
by Elizabeth Poliner
Enjoying summertime weeks of freedom at a popular Jewish beach with their children, beautiful Ada thrives away from her strict husband, while chef Vivie develops diplomatic skills and unmarried Bec is forced to choose between family beliefs and her passions for a married man. 50,000 first printing.
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The extra
by Abraham B Yehoshua
Upon the sudden death of her father, Noga, a harpist in a Netherlands orchestra, returns home to Jerusalem and finds the rhythm of her life interrupted and forever changed. By the author of A Woman in Jerusalem. 15,000 first printing.
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Lost in the sun
by Lisa Graff
As Trent Zimmerman struggles to move past a traumatic event that took place several months earlier, he befriends class outcast Fallon Little, who helps him understand that he can move on. Simultaneous eBook.
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Georgia peaches and other forbidden fruit
by Jaye Robin Brown
Moved by her radio evangelist father to a conservative community in Georgia, gay teen Jo is asked to hide her sexual orientation until she becomes an adult and is surprised by her instant popularity, a situation that is threatened when she falls in love with the girl of her dreams. Simultaneous eBook. 35,000 first printing.
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Fallout
by Gwenda Bond
Lois Lane is the new girl at East Metropolis High, and her instinct to ask questions brings her and her online friend, Smallville Guy, into conflict with some bullying video gamers called the Warheads
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Lois Lane : double down
by Gwenda Bond
Lois Lane has settled into life in Metropolis High, but after a visit to the "Suicide Slum," she finds herself and her online more-than-friend SmallvilleGuy embroiled in a mystery involving a flying man, and the dirty criminal underbelly of Metropolis
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Bone Gap
by Laura Ruby
Knowing that his sister has been kidnapped by a dangerous assailant and that she did not abandon the family like their mother did years earlier, Finn confronts town secrets to organize a search. By the Edgar Award-nominated author of Lily's Ghost. Simultaneous eBook. 50,000 first printing.
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The secret history of Wonder Woman
by Jill Lepore
A cultural history of Wonder Woman traces the character's creation and enduring popularity, drawing on interviews and archival research to reveal the pivotal role of feminism in shaping her seven-decade story. By the Pulitzer Prize-finalist author of New York Burning. Reprint.
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You're never weird on the Internet (almost) : a memoir
by Felicia Day
The entertainment artist best known for her web videos shares stories of her homeschooled childhood, her rags-to-riches professional successes and her thoughts on such topics as creativity, video games and feminism.
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County line
by Bill Cameron
When the steadfast Ruby Jane Whittaker drops out of sight, dogged ex-cop Skin Kadash sets out to discover what drove the woman he loves to leave her life behind so suddenly and without explanation. The discovery of a dead man in her apartment followed byan attack from a mysterious stalker leads Skin first to California, then across the country on a desperate journey deep into Ruby Jane's haunted past, and toward an explosive confrontation which will determine if either has a future
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Day one
by Bill Cameron
"Born and raised in southern Oregon farm country, Ellie Spaneker flees her home and abusive husband, her trail dogged by a brutal ex-cop in the hire of her vengeful father-in-law. In Portland, retired homicide detective Skin Kadash fills his idle days drinking coffee and searching for Eager Gillespie, a teen runaway of special interest as the only witness in a troublesome and long unsolved murder. Eager, meanwhile, is on his own, grifting and working the angles in the homeless underground, oblivious to the unfolding events which will force him to face the consequences of a crime, and a longing, which has haunted him for years. These disparate trails converge at a bloody standoff, the harrowing end of a string of violence that stretches from the high desert to the streets of Portland--committed by a perpetrator known only as Shadow."--Dust cover flap
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Chasing smoke
by Bill Cameron
A detective undergoing cancer treatment is brought into an investigation of apparent suicides by other cancer patients, all of whom were being treated by the same doctor -- the same doctor treating him
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Lost dog
by Bill Cameron
Early on a sodden Portland, Oregon morning, Peter McKrall, unemployed smart-ass and kleptomaniac, goes to the park to find his niece’s lost toy dog. He doesn’t realize his search is being watched by the paranoid killer of the dead hooker he finds instead.
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Property of the state
by Bill Cameron
Joey Getchie, a teenager raised in the foster system, becomes a suspect when a former classmate is injured in a hit-and-run accident and seeks help from Kristina, another foster teenager, whose own family situation has suddenly become dire
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