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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Monday, January 1 New Year's Day
The library is closed for the holiday.
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Monday, January 15 Martin Luther King Jr Day The library is closed for the holiday.
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Garden Home Community Library is collecting new socks to share with people experiencing homelessness. Socks are one of the most needed clothing items for folks who don’t have permanent housing. Share your holiday warmth and give a pair of socks! We will be collecting new socks (please leave in packaging) through January 17th, 2018. If you have any questions, please contact Grace via email or call the library (503) 245-9932. Interested in having a deeper conversation about homelessness and affordable housing? Join us for a discussion sponsored by Oregon Humanities on Wednesday, January 17 at 6pm.
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Winter's here and that means WINTER READING! Sign up after January 1 in the library. Read five books, fill out your log and turn in before March 1 for a chance to win a prize. Adult prize is a $50 gift certificate to Annie Bloom's Books.
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Tuesday Night Nourishment Book Group WHEN: Tuesday, January 9 at 7 pm Selection: River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey Author: Candice Millard Millard's book chronicles the 1914 expedition of Theodore Roosevelt into the unexplored heart of the Amazon basin to explore and map the region surrounding a tributary called the River of Doubt, detailing the perilous conditions they faced. Check in library for limited available copies.
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Film Screening: The Dancing Outlaw WHEN: Monday, January 8 at 7 pm A screening in honor of Elvis’ birthday! "This unscripted, strikingly unique documentary film is a revealing portrait of the nearly extinct "Hillbilly" culture that focuses on Mountain Dancer Jesco White's uphill battle against abject poverty, drug abuse, petty crime and mental instability. In his struggle to live up to his father's legacy as the finest mountain dancer in Appalachia, he leans on Jesus, Elvis Presley, and his wife, Norma Jean." Special thanks to Jacob Young and DancingOutlaw.com
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Film Night: Marshall WHEN: Friday, January 19 at 7 pm Director: Reginald Hudlin Running Time: 118 minutes This 2017 film is about young Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases.
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Getting started with e-reading WHEN: Thursday, January 11 TIME: 10-11:30 am Location: Inside the library Did you get a new e-reader device for the holidays? Drop-in at the library anytime between 10-11:30 am where library staff will be available to help with your device (e-reader, table, phone). By the time you leave you'll have the right apps installed and know how to download and use ebooks and audiobooks.
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Bullet Journaling 101WHEN: Tuesday, January 16 TIME: 6:30 pm What's a bullet journal? A journal. A to-do list. An art project.
Why do it? Mindfulness + Productivity. Learn more and start your own. Led by Jennifer Willis, who's been bullet journaling since 2014. Bring your own journal and a pen.
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Oregon Conversation Project A Place to Call Home: Exploring Housing in Oregon WHEN: Wednesday, January 17 TIME: 6 pm Join us for a free discussion about affordable housing. At the most basic level, a home is a place that gives you shelter, protecting you from the weather and unsafe situations. It’s also where you live your life, eat your meals, raise your family. If housing is a basic human right, why do so many people struggle to find or keep housing? How do we as individuals and as a society make decisions that undermine the idea that we all have a right to home? This is the focus of "A Place to Call Home: Exploring Housing in Oregon", a free conversation with Cristina Palacios. This program is hosted by Garden Home Community Library and sponsored by Oregon Humanities.
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Open Maker Lab WHEN: Thursday, January 18 TIME: 2:30-5 pmCome and make something at our new Maker Space. See the new 3D printer in action! We'll also have snap circuits, paper circuits, art supplies, and a button maker available for people to use. This is a new ongoing program that will be offered monthly.
For questions or to get on the printing queue, please email Katrina.
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80's Aerobic Workout WHEN: Saturday, January 27 TIME: 10 - 11 am Let's go back to the 1980s! Feeling nostalgic for the VHS exercise videos you grew up with? We’re projecting 80s workouts for you to exercise to on our 18-foot screen. Wear your favorite neon leg warmers and leotard, or come as you are to enjoy a stylish kick off to a healthy new year. (Image source: http://www.cc.com/shows/key-and-peele)
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Garden Home Board Game Night WHEN: Wednesday, January 10 TIME: 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: Wednesday, January 17 TIME: 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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Writer's Group WHEN: Tuesday, January 23 TIME: 6:30-8:30 pm
This is a small group. We have room for a few additional members. You don't have to be a professional or published writer. This group includes writers who have day jobs and write as a hobby too. We have a different topic each month. Lead rotates monthly and leader chooses topic. Here are some recent topics: have a write-in, writing dialogue, writing non-fiction book proposal (guest speaker) and holidaze.
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The talented Ribkins : a novel
by Ladee Hubbard
A wildly inventive novel tells the story of Johnny Ribkins, a 72-year-old African-American antiques dealer and patriarch of a gifted family, the members of which sometimes stumble in their efforts to succeed in life.
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Welcome to Braggsville
by T. Geronimo Johnson
Struggling with culture shock after leaving his tiny old-Dixie town to attend UC Berkeley, D'aron makes friends with three idiosyncratic characters who challenge him to protest his home community's annual Civil War reenactment. Reading-group guide. By the author of Hold It 'Til It Hurts. Simultaneous.
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The Residue Years : a novel
by Mitchell S. Jackson
Working to reclaim her children after rehab, Rhonda avoids the toxic people of her past, focuses on her faith and worries about her eldest son, who involves himself in drug dealing in a misguided attempt to secure funds for a family home. 30,000 first printing.
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The cutting season
by Attica Locke
When the dead body of a young woman is found on the grounds of Belle Vie, the estate's manager, Caren Gray, launches her own investigation into Belle Vie's history, which leads her to a centuries old mystery involving the plantation's slave quarters--and her own past. 50,000 first printing.
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No one is coming to save us : a novel
by Stephanie Powell Watts
A tale inspired by The Great Gatsby is set in the contemporary South and follows the difficulties endured by an extended black family with colliding visions of the American dream. A first novel by the author of We Are Taking Only What We Need. 50,000 first printing.
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How to read the air
by Dinaw Mengestu
The son of Ethopian immigrants decides to retrace the journey his parents took just after they moved to America, but before he was born, in order to make sense of the volatile generational and cultural ties that have forged him. By the author of The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears.
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Big machine : a novel
by Victor D. LaValle
Scraping out an existence as a New York bus porter, recovering addict and suicide cult survivor Ricky Rice is inducted into a band of paranormal investigators who share his experience of having heard voices that may have a divine source
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All systems red
by Martha Wells
A team of scientists and their security android, who unbeknownst to the scientists has hacked its own governor module, must investigate a neighboring mission that has gone dark
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Binti
by Nnedi Okorafor
When Binti is offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy, she must rely on the gifts of her people and the wisdom found within the school
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Grief Is the Thing With Feathers
by Max Porter
A recently widowed father of two has difficulty dealing with his grief and the overwhelming sadness of his children, until they are visited by Crow, an actual crow, who serves as an antagonist, protector, therapist and babysitter and helps them heal.
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Island of the blue dolphins : The Complete Reader's Edition
by Scott O'Dell
A special edition of the 1961 Newbery Medal-winning book about a native American girl who lives alone on an island after violent encounters with Europeans off the Southern California coast includes two excised chapters and critical and historical essays.
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Of mice and men
by John Steinbeck
The American novelist's classic work of two itinerant farmhands' perpetual search for a home
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The child finder : a novel
by Rene Denfeld
Hired by a family that has become desperate to find the young daughter who went missing three years earlier, a talented private investigator embarks on a search in a mysterious forest in the Pacific Northwest, where she is forced to confront painful realities from her own past as a lost child.
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The enchanted : a novel
by Rene Denfeld
Arriving at an ancient stone prison, the Lady, an investigator who searches for buried information from prisoners' pasts that can save those soon-to-be-executed, digs into the past of a killer named York, who can sense what others cannot, and unearths shocking secrets of her own. 40,000 first printing.
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Ask me why I hurt : the kids nobody wants and the doctor who heals them
by Randy Christensen
A medical director of a mobile clinic that provides health services to homeless teens offers insight into how a lack of affordable health care is affecting disadvantaged youths, describing some of his most memorable cases and the dangers that are threatening both patients and caregivers. 40,000 first printing.
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