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Garden Homefront e-news April 2017
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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 Baskin-Robbins. Look for the yellow garden gnome outside the door.
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Performer: Kevin Locke Mni Wiconi (Water Is Life) WHEN: Thurs., April 6 @ 7 pm Location: THPRD Garden Home Recreation Center - Gymnaisum
Garden Home Communitiy and West Slope Libraries are excited to be co-hosting this performance by Lakota/Anishnabe Kevin Locke. Locke (Tokaheya Inajin in Lakota translation “First to Rise”) is a world famous visionary Native American Hoop Dancer and preeminent player of the Indigenous Northern Plains flute. He is a NEA Heritage Award Fellow and Cultural World Ambassador from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in South Dakota. Kevin is Lakota and Anishnabe. His instructions were received from his immediate family and community and from extended family in every part of the world. He has learned many lessons in global citizenship and how we each draw from the richness of our individual heritages.
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Community Meeting: GHCL Annex Visioning Session WHEN: Tuesday, April 18, 7 pm
The Garden Home Community Library has created a new programming, event, and community space. Formerly the Community Store, this space allows the library to increase both the number and size of programs and events. Additionally, the Annex will be available as a meeting room for local not-for-profit groups. We envision this project being a true collaboration between the library and our community – so we want you to tell us what you need out of the Annex. Please join us with ideas in tow.
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Timely Topics Book Group WHEN: Sun., April 2 from 11 am to 1 pm We've started a quarterly book group, aimed at facilitating community conversations about current topics. Join us for a morning of coffee and conversation about our first selection: The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood.
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Books & Beer with Heather & Nick WHEN: Fri., April 7 @ 7 pm Come meet people, try a beer or two, and talk about Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. After our discussion we'll be listening to Rush's classic album 2112 on vinyl (it'll make sense after you've read the book). A few copies are still set aside in the library if you'd like to read it. Our May book - A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro - will be available beginning Fri., April 7.
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Author Ruth Wariner visits our Tuesday Night Nourishment Book Group! WHEN: Tuesday, April 11 @ 7 pm Our April book group will have a different format, because we're hosting author Ruth Wariner (The Sound of Gravel). She will talk about her book and share family photos. She will also do a Q&A. Books will be available for sale. Want to read the book before the event? Check in library for available copies. Our May book - Find a Way by Diana Nyad - will be available beginning April 11 at 6 pm.
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Free Film Day: Rogue One - A Star Wars Story WHEN: Saturday, April 8 TWO SCREENINGS: 1 pm & 7 pm This movie is PG-13. In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction. - Rotten Tomatoes
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Free Film Night WHEN: Fri., April 21 at 7:30 pm Director: Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund Language: Portuguese with English Running Time: 130 minutes "If you run, the beast will get you. If you stay, the beast will eat you." Part memoir, part gangster flick, and thoroughly original. Set in the slums of Rio de Janiero, City of God chronicles the rise of gangsters Zé Pequeno and Bené, as seen through the eyes of Buscapé, a boy with dreams of becoming a photographer.
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Nerd Night: Trivia for Adults WHEN: Tuesday, April 4 at 6:30 pm Come test your knowledge - solo or in a team – and find out who knows the most. Sets vary each month. Expect 5 sets of questions consisting of current events, science, history, entertainment and music. Individuals/teams with the most and the least correct answers always get a prize.
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Garden Home Board Game Night WHEN: Weds., April 12 from 6 - 9 pm
Come enjoy classic and/or new board games with other board game enthusiasts. Bring your own or play a selection (changes monthly, and/or as requested) brought by the event leader, Peter.
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Altera Vita: Tabletop Roleplaying WHEN: Sun., April 23 from 1:00-5:00 PM Tabletop roleplaying for all ages and experience levels. Characters and dice are provided - you need only bring your imagination.
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Library board member Christie Christopherson is our featured bookshelf for this month. She's been on the board for several years and is a past president. Christie works as a librarian at the Beaverton High School library. This past December, she graduated with her Masters in Library Science. Well done Christie! Here are a few of her favorite recent reads.
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Illuminae
by Amie Kaufman
Caught in the crossfire of a megacorporation rivalry in 2575, Kady and Ezra, who have just broken up, flee their home planet on an evacuation ship that is quickly overwhelmed by a fast-spreading plague. Simultaneous eBook.
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Heartless
by Marissa Meyer
A stand-alone prequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, written by the best-selling author of the Lunar Chronicles, follows the story of the Queen of Hearts, whose talent for baking and love for a mysterious court joker conflict with her mother's ambitions to make her a queen. Simultaneous eBook.
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Commonwealth : a novel
by Ann Patchett
A five-decade saga tracing the impact of an act of infidelity on the parents and children of two Southern California families traces their shared summers in Virginia and the disillusionment that shapes their lasting bond. (general fiction). Simultaneous.
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In the woods
by Tana French
Twenty years after witnessing the violent disappearances of two companions from their small Dublin suburb, detective Rob Ryan investigates a chillingly similar murder that takes place in the same wooded area, a case that forces him to piece together his traumatic memories. Reprint.
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Norse Mythology
by Neil Gaiman
The New York Times best-selling author of A View From the Cheap Seats presents a bravura rendering of the major Norse pantheon that traces the genesis of the legendary nine worlds and the exploits of its characters, illuminating the characters and natures of iconic figures Odin, Thor and Loki.
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The world's largest man : a memoir
by Harrison Scott Key
A humor columnist describes his father, who was more like a remote frontiersman than a 20th-century Mississippian, and the impact he ultimately had on how he related to his own children, despite his polar opposite views and life choices. 35,000 first printing.
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Little victories : a sportswriter's notes on winning at life
by Jason Gay
A popular columnist at "The Wall Street Journal" offers a rulebook for experiencing life and all its inherent humor by taking note of small daily victories, ones that are not necessarily meaningful, but that generate satisfaction and happiness
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Between you & me : confessions of a Comma Queen
by Mary Norris
A New Yorker copy veteran presents laugh-out-loud descriptions of some of the most common and vexing errors in language and usage, drawing on examples from classic literature and pop culture while sharing anecdotes from her work with celebrated writers. Reprint.
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Dear Committee Members : a novel
by Julie Schumacher
Enduring budget cuts and the favoritism of other departments at a small liberal arts college, literature professor Jason Fitger despairs of his writing ambitions and imposed role in a star pupil's would-be opus while writing wryly comic, passive-aggressive letters to students and colleagues.
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Can't we talk about something more pleasant?
by Roz Chast
Celebrates the final years of the author's aging parents' lives through cartoons, family photos, and documents that reflect the author's struggles with caregiver challenges
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