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President's Day holiday: Monday, February 18: Closed
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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, February 12 TIME: 7-8:30 pm Selection: Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Synopsis: After an unfortunate marriage to Sergeant Troy and an affair with Farmer Boldwood, Bathsheba Everdene finally becomes the wife of the man who has always loved her.
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Film Night: The NeverEnding Story DATE: Friday, February 15 TIME: 6-8 pm Director: Wolfgang Petersen Running Time: 94 minutes PG All ages are welcome at our family-friendly film nights, every third Friday of the month at 6 pm. For February, we'll screen The NeverEnding Story (1984). A troubled boy dives into a wondrous fantasy world through the pages of a mysterious book.
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Nerd Night: Trivia for Adults DATE: Tuesday, February 5 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. This month the prizes include 2 tickets to WIZARD WORLD PORTLAND on February 22-24th (courtesy of Wizard World Portland). Plus an assortment of WCCLS swag and other random items.
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Crafternoon Tea! DATE: Wednesday, February 6 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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Mindfulness Breath by Breath DATE: Saturday, February 9 TIME: 11am-12 pm Join us for a drop-in mindfulness class with experienced instructor Kimberly Carson. Each class provides a solid introduction to simple and effective stress reduction methods including various mindfulness, adaptive movement and breath-centered practices.
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Board Game Night DATE: Wednesday, February 13 TIME: 6-9 pm Come play board games at our monthly board game night. There's a new selection and variety every month. Feel free to bring games you'd like to play.
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Ukulele Jam DATE: Saturday, February 16 TIME: 11am-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, February 20 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, February 26 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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Art Night: Artful Paper Buntings DATE: Wednesday, February 27 TIME: 6-8 pm Handmade buntings are a fun way to decorate for a special occasion, and they can also add some every-day whimsy to a wall or window in your home! At our February Art Night, design, create, and take home a personalized d.i.y. paper bunting. Artists of all ages and abilities are welcome. Tea and art supplies are provided.
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The collected stories of Amy Hempel
by Amy Hempel
A complete collection of short works offers insight into the progression of the writer's work throughout a thirty-year period and features, among other tales, the complete texts of At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, Tumble Home, and The Dog of the Marriage. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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Flour water salt yeast [electronic resource] : the fundamentals of artisan bread and pizza
by Ken Forkish
"From Portland's most acclaimed and beloved baker comes this must-have baking guide, featuring scores of recipes for world-class breads and pizzas and a variety of schedules suited for the home baker. In Flour Water Salt Yeast, author Ken Forkish demonstrates that high-quality artisan bread and pizza is within the reach of any home baker. Whether it's a basic straight dough, dough made with a pre-ferment, or a complex levain, each of Forkish's impeccable recipes yields exceptional results. Tips on creating and adapting bread baking schedules that fit in reader's day-to-day lives--enabling them to bake the breads they love in the time they have available--make Flour Water Salt Yeast an indispensable resource for bakers, be they novices or serious enthusiasts."
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Digging up mother : a love story
by Doug Stanhope
This memoir from the cult comedian and former co-host of The Man Show describes his life and career, in which he left Hollywood to take on a relentless touring schedule, in his trademark abrasive, outrageous and oftentimes offensive style.
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Waking up : a guide to spirituality without religion
by Sam Harris
A guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology considers how to learn from the examples of religious sages and saints from a secular and philosophical perspective without formally committing to religion.
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The omnivore's dilemma : a natural history of four meals
by Michael Pollan
Offers insight into food consumption in the twenty-first century, explaining how an abundance of unlimited food varieties reveals the responsibilities of consumers to protect their health and the environment.
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OBA Ken Kesey Award for Fiction
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French exit
by Patrick deWitt
From bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial disintegration. Frances Price - tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature - is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there's the Price's aging cat, Small Frank, who Frances believes houses the spirit of her late husband, an infamously immoral litigator and world-class cad whose gruesome tabloid death rendered Frances and Malcolm social outcasts. Putting penury and pariahdom behind them, the family decides to cut their losses and head forthe exit. One ocean voyage later, the curious trio land in their beloved Paris, the City of Light serving as a backdrop not for love or romance, but self destruction and economical ruin - to riotous effect. A number of singular characters serve to round out the cast: a bashful private investigator, an aimless psychic proposing a seance, a doctor who makes house calls with his wine merchant in tow, and the inimitable Mme. Reynard, aggressive houseguest and dementedly friendly American expat. Brimming withpathos and wit, French Exit is a one-of-a-kind 'tragedy of manners,' a riotous send-up of high society, as well as a moving mother/son caper which only Patrick deWitt could conceive and execute.
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The Verdun affair : a novel
by Nick Dybek
A sweeping, romantic, and profoundly moving novel, set in Europe in the aftermath of World War I and Los Angeles in the 1950s, about a lonely young man, a beautiful widow, and the amnesiac soldier whose puzzling case binds them together even as it tears them apart. In 1921, two young Americans meet in Verdun, the city in France where one of the most devastating battles of the war was waged. Tom is an orphan from Chicago, a former ambulance driver now gathering bones from the battlefield; Sarah is an expatriate from Boston searching for the husband who wandered off from his division and hasn't been seen since. Quickly, the two fall into a complicated affair against the ghostly backdrop of the ruined city. Months later, Sarah and Tom meet again at the psychiatric ward of an Italian hospital, drawn there by the appearance of a mysterious patient the doctors call Douglas Fairbanks (after the silent film actor)--a shell-shocked soldier with no memory of who he is. At the hospital, Tom and Sarah are joined by Paul, an Austrian journalist with his own interest in the amnesiac. Each is keeping a secret; each has been shaken by the horrors of war. Decades later, Tom, now a successful screenwriter, encounters Paul by chance in LA, still grappling with the questions raised by this gorgeous and incisive novel: How to begin again after unfathomable trauma? How to love after so much loss? And who, in the end, was Douglas Fairbanks? From the bone-strewn fields of Verdun to the bombed-out cafes of Paris, from the riot-torn streets of Bologna to the riotous parties of 1950s Hollywood, The Verdun Affair is a riveting tale of romance, grief, and the far-reaching consequences of a single lie.
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Whiskey when we're dry
by John Larison
Facing starvation and worse when she is orphaned on her family's 1885 homestead, a 17-year-old sharpshooter cuts off her hair and disguises herself as a boy to journey across the mountains in search of her outlaw brother.
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The maw : a novel
by Taylor Zajonc
Milo Luttrell never expected to step inside the mouth of an ancient cave in rural Tanzania. After all, he's a historian--not an archaeologist. Summoned under the guise of a mysterious life-changing opportunity, Milo suddenly finds himself in the midst of an expedition into the largest underground system in Africa, helmed by a brash billionaire-turned-exploration guru and his elite team of cavers. It's a once-in-a-lifetime chance to finally solve a century-old disappearance of the famed explorer Lord Riley DeWar, an enigmatic figure who both made--and nearly ruined--Milo's fledgling career.
Determined to make the most of his second chance, Milo joins the team and begins a harrowing descent into one of Earth's last secrets: a dangerous, pitch-black realm of twisting passages and ancient fossils nearly two thousand feet underground. But when a storm hits the surface base camp, stranding the cavers and washing away supplies, all communication to the outside world is lost. As the remaining resources dwindle and members of the team begin to exhibit strange and terrifying abilities, Milo must brave the encroaching darkness to unearth the truth behind DeWar's fascination with the deep--and why he never left.
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Red clocks : a novel
by Leni Zumas
Five women—including a high school teacher, a biographer, a frustrated mom, a pregnant adopted teen and a forest-dwelling homeopath—struggle with changes in a near-future America where abortion and assisted fertility have been outlawed and where the homeopath is targeted by a modern-day witch hunt. By the author of The Listeners. 50,000 first printing.
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OBA Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Non-Fiction
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When the US Army Corps of Engineers began planning construction of The Dalles Dam at Celilo Village in the mid-twentieth century, it was clear that this traditional fishing, commerce, and social site of immense importance to Native tribes would be changed forever. Controversy surrounded the project, with local Native communities anticipating the devastation of their way of life and white settler-descended advocates of the dam envisioning a future of thriving infrastructure and industry. In In Defense of Wyam, having secured access to hundreds of previously unknown and unexamined letters, Katrine Barber revisits the subject of Death of Celilo Falls, her first book. She presents a remarkable alliance across the opposed Native and settler-descended groups, chronicling how the lives of two women leaders converged in a shared struggle to protect the Indian homes of Celilo Village. Flora Thompson, member of the Warm Springs Tribe and wife of the Wyam chief, and Martha McKeown, daughter of an affluent white farming family, became lifelong allies as they worked together to protect Oregon's oldest continuously inhabited site. As a Native woman, Flora wielded significant power within her community yet outside of it was dismissed for her race and her gender. Martha, although privileged due to her settler origins, turned to women's clubs to expand her political authority beyond the conventional domestic sphere. Flora's and Martha's coordinated efforts offer readers meaningful insight into a time and place where the rhetoric of Native sovereignty, the aims of environmental movements in the American West, and women's political strategies intersected.
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Dangerous subjects : James D. Saules and the rise of black exclusion in Oregon
by Kenneth R. Coleman
Dangerous Subjects describes the life and times of James D. Saules, a black sailor who was shipwrecked off the coast of Oregon and settled there in 1841. Before landing in Oregon, Saules traveled the world as a whaleman in the South Pacific and later as a crew member of the United States Exploring Expedition. Saules resided in the Pacific Northwest for just two years before a major wave of Anglo-American immigrants arrived in covered wagons.
In Oregon, Saules encountered a multiethnic population already transformed by colonialism — in particular, the fur industry and Protestant missionaries. Once the Oregon Trail emigrants began arriving in large numbers, in 1843, Saules had to adapt to a new reality in which Anglo-American settlers persistently sought to marginalize and exclude black residents from the region. Unlike Saules, who adapted and thrived in Oregon’s multiethnic milieu, the settler colonists sought to remake Oregon as a white man’s country. They used race as shorthand to determine which previous inhabitants would be included and which would be excluded. Saules inspired and later had to contend with a web of black exclusion laws designed to deny black people citizenship, mobility, and land.
In Dangerous Subjects, Kenneth Coleman sheds light on a neglected chapter in Oregon’s history. His book will be welcomed by scholars in the fields of western history and ethnic studies, as well as general readers interested in early Oregon and its history of racial exclusion.
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Power in the telling : Grand Ronde, Warm Springs, and intertribal relations in the casino era
by Brook Colley
"From 1998 through 2013, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs sought to develop a casino in Cascade Locks, Oregon. This prompted objections from the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, who already operated a lucrative casino in the region. Brook Colley's in-depth case study unravels the history of this disagreement and challenges the way conventional media characterizes intertribal casino disputes in terms of corruption and greed. Instead, she locates these conflicts within historical, social, and political contexts of colonization. Through extensive interviews, Colley brings to the forefront Indigenous perspectives on intertribal conflict related to tribal gaming. She reveals how casino economies affect the relationship between gaming tribes and federal and state governments, and the repercussions for the tribes themselves. Ultimately, Colley's engaging examination explores strategies for reconciliation and cooperation, emphasizing narratives of resilience and tribal sovereignty"
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Birding without borders : an obsession, a quest, and the biggest year in the world
by Noah K Strycker
In 2015, Noah Strycker, a young American birder, became the first person to see more than half of the 10,000 bird species on planet Earth in one year. Traveling to forty-one countries on seven continents with just a small backpack, a pair of binoculars, and a series of one-way tickets, Noah not only set a new world record, he also captured the hearts and imaginations of people all over the world.
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