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Whatever holiday you celebrate, we wish you the happiest of holiday seasons! Christmas: Monday, December 24: Closing at 3 pm Tuesday, December 25: Closed New Years: Monday, December 31: Closing at 3 pm Tuesday, January 1: 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, December 11 TIME: 7-8:30 pm In December our group decides what we want to read in the next year. Please bring two titles to recommend. Books must be available in paperback and less than 500 pages. After discussing, the group votes. New members are always welcome.
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Film Night: The Artist is Present DATE: Friday, December 21 TIME: 7 pm Director: Matthew Akers & Jeff Dupre Running Time: 106 minutes Not Rated We wrap up our three-month series of films about artists with a documentary featuring the contemporary performance artist Marina Abramovic. This feature-length documentary film follows the artist as she prepares for what may be the most important moment of her life: a major retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. To be given a retrospective at one of the world's premiere museums is, for any living artist, the most exhilarating sort of milestone. For Marina, it is far more - it is the chance to finally silence the question she has been hearing over and over again for four decades: 'But why is this art?' -imdb.com GHCL film nights are funded by a grant from the Cultural Coalition of Washington County (CCWC). This event is free. Refreshments are provided.
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Nerd Night: Trivia for Adults DATE: Tuesday, December 4 TIME: 6:30-8:30 pm Come test your knowledge - solo or in a team – and find out who knows the most. Prizes for the best (and worst) of the night! We always have five sets of questions on various topics. Expect sets for current events and music.
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Crafternoon Tea! DATE: Wednesday, December 5 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, December 8 TIME: 11am-12 pm Join us for any and all of our series of FREE drop-in classes 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. Classes meet Saturday, December 8th, January 12th, and February 9th.
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Board Game Night DATE: Wednesday, December 12 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, December 15 TIME: 11am-12 pm Our ukulele jams are a relaxed and welcoming space, designed for adult musicians of all 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, December 19 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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Memories of a Czech Christmas DATE: Thursday, December 20 TIME: 5-6 PM Join Mark and Helena Greathouse for this musical program to learn about Christmas in another country. Hear traditional Czech Christmas songs with accordion accompaniment and dancing and stories from Helena’s childhood holidays. This is an interactive and humorous program for families where attendees can ask questions and enjoy music together.
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Bubble Wrap Up the New YearDATE: Monday, December 31 TIME: 11 am – 12:15 pm Location: GHCL Annex – 7306 SW Oleson Rd (across the street) Come wrap-up the new year by stomping on some bubble wrap, making noise and counting down the "noon" year. Refreshments & sparking apple cider provided. Free and open to anyone (all ages). Feel free to bring your own bubble wrap and noisemakers.
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River of teeth
by Sarah Gailey
In an alternate 1890s America, feral hippos have overrun the Mississippi bayou and it is up to Winslow Houndstooth and his motley crew to hunt them down and bring them under control
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Starfish
by Akemi Dawn Bowman
A half-Japanese teen grapples with social anxiety and a narcissistic mother in the wake of a crushing rejection from art school before accepting an invitation to tour other art schools on the West Coast
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Of love & war
by Lynsey Addario
The Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist presents a curated selection of images from her work in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa, in a collection that features essays by such contributors as Dexter Filkins, Suzy Hansen and Christy Turlington. Illustrations.
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Portland Farmers Market cookbook : 100 seasonal recipes and stories that celebrate local food and people by Ellen JacksonThe Portland Farmers Market is a year-round farmers market consistently named among North America’s Top Ten. This cookbook is a tribute to the farmers, chefs and shoppers, who embrace their world-class market like no other. With 100, seasonally organized recipes for every meal of the day, stories of the market’s farmers and producers, shopping and cooking tips, and glorious color photography, the Portland Farmers Market Cookbook is a celebration of a place and its people, who are proud to share their bounty with the Portland community and beyond.
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Parent hacks : 134 genius shortcuts for life with kids
by Asha Dornfest
"It's the indispensable handbook for the most seat-of-the-pants job there is--raising kids. Drawing from her award-winning blog, ParentHacks.com, which has been sharing MacGyver-like brilliance from real parenting experts-the moms and dads who are in thetrenches every day-Parent Hacks presents 134 ingenious tips and shortcuts for simplifying life with little kids, allowing the whole family to take a deep breath and have more fun. What's a parent hack? It can be as simple as putting the ketchup under thehot dog--minimizing the mess. Strapping baby into a forward-facing carrier when you need to trim her fingernails. Stashing a wallet and keys in a clean disposable diaper at the beach-who would ever poke through what looks like a used Pamper? Using painter's tape to baby proof outlets while traveling. On every page find unconventional solutions for those everyday challenges arranged by category from Pregnancy & Postpartum through Sleep, Food & Mealtime, Travel & Outings, and more. Plus dozens of useful lists-8 Ways to Keep Kids Entertained on a Plane, 13 Uses for Non-Slip Shelf Liners, the unexpected practical sides of pool noodles, zip-top plastic bags, and over-the-door shoe organizers"
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When breath becomes air
by Paul Kalanithi
A Ivy League-trained, award-winning young neurosurgeon describes his how after receiving a terminal diagnosis with lung cancer he explored the dynamics of his roles as a patient and care provider, the philosophical conundrums about a meaningful life and how he wanted to spend his final days.
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Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
The executive director of a social advocacy group that has helped relieve condemned prisoners explains why justice and mercy must go hand-in-hand through the story of Walter McMillian, a man condemned to death row for a murder he didn't commit. 30,000 first printing.
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Lost Lake
by Sarah Addison Allen
Seeking solace in a Georgia lakeside cottage with her eccentric 8-year-old daughter, recently widowed Kate wonders if the area's almost-magical ability for sparking romances has been imagined before experiencing a poignant renewal. By the best-selling author of Garden Spells. 125,000 first printing.
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Borne
by Jeff VanderMeer
In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a scavenger named Rachel finds a creature named Borne, a leftover from a biotech firm called The Company, and she takes it back to her underground layer where she must shield it from her drug-dealer boyfriend, Wick. By the author of the Southern Reach trilogy.
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Thinking, fast and slow
by Daniel Kahneman
A Nobel Prize-winning psychologist draws on years of research to introduce his "machinery of the mind" model on human decision making to reveal the faults and capabilities of intuitive versus logical thinking, providing insights into such topics as optimism, the unpredictability of happiness and the psychological pitfalls of risk-taking.
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Kong: Skull Island /
A scientific exploratory mission on an uncharted Pacific island becomes a battle for survival when a giant gorilla and other monsters become aware of their presence
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Ghostbusters /
When ghosts invade Manhattan, two paranormal enthusiasts, a nuclear engineer, and subway worker band together to stop the threat
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Get OutA young African-American man visits his Caucasian girlfriend's mysterious family estate.
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Goonies
A group of misfit children set out to find a missing treasure with the map they found in an attic
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Hidden figures /
Follows three African American women working as human computers for NASA during the space race of the 1950s and 1960s
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Iron Man 2 /
With the world aware of his identity as Iron Man, Tony Stark must battle to keep his technology out of the hand of the United States government as well as the villains seeking to take him down
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John Wick, chapter 2 /
John Wick is forced out of retirement to repay a debt to a former associate and finds he now has a bounty on his life
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Lion /
After getting lost on the streets of Calcutta as a five-year-old, thirty-year-old Saroo sets out to find his lost family
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The book smugglers : partisans, poets, and the race to save Jewish treasures from the Nazis by David E. FishmanThe nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts—first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets—by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders. It is a tale of heroism and resistance, of friendship and romance, and of unwavering devotion—including the readiness to risk one’s life—to literature and art. And it is entirely true. Based on Jewish, German, and Soviet documents, including diaries, letters, memoirs, and the author’s interviews with several of the story’s participants, The Book Smugglers chronicles the daring activities of a group of poets turned partisans and scholars turned smugglers in Vilna, “The Jerusalem of Lithuania.”
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Not our kind : a novel
by Kitty Zeldis
Forced to hide her Jewish identity from her employer's post-World War II Park Avenue community, a Vassar-educated tutor forges unexpected bonds before a crossed line leads to life-changing decisions. 40,000 first printing.
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Basic black with pearls
by Helen Weinzweig
"A brilliant, lost feminist classic that is equal parts domestic drama and international intrigue. Shirley Kaszenbowski, nee Silverberg, is a middle-aged, middle-class woman in a Holt Renfrew tweed coat, a basic black dress, and a strand of real pearls.She may seem ordinary enough, pricing silk scarves at Eaton's or idling in hotel coffee shops, but in fact she is searching for her lover. He is an elusive figure, a man connected with "The Agency," a powerful technocrat who may or may not have suggesteda rendezvous based on a secret code in the National Geographic. Her search takes her to the world of her past as a Jewish immigrant in the Spadina-Dundas area of Toronto. She finds the bakeries and rooming houses of her youth still haunted by survivors of postwar Europe and by her own memories of guilt and loss, while the consolations of art, opera, and pornography offer only echoes of her own illusions and desires. Her strange, wryly funny odyssey ends in a dramatic confrontation scene with her husband and "the other woman," as she trades in her basic black for another chance.In Basic Black with Pearls, Weinzweig displays her gift for creating sympathetic characters in a slightly surreal, but always recognizable world"
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Anne Frank's diary : the graphic novel
by David Polonsky
"The only graphic biography of Anne Frank's diary that has been authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation and that uses text from the diary--it will introduce a new generation of young readers to this classic of Holocaust literature. This adaptation of Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl into a graphic version for a young readership, maintains the integrity and power of the original work. With stunning, expressive illustrations and ample direct quotation from the diary, this edition will expand the readership for this important and lasting work of history and literature"
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The fortunate ones : a novel
by Ellen Umansky
A unique Chaim Soutine work of art connects the lives and fates of two different women, generations apart, in a debut novel that moves from World War II Vienna to contemporary Los Angeles. By the author of Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge. A first novel. 75,000 first printing.
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The patriots : a novel / Sana Krasikov
by Sana Krasikov
Three generations of a Jewish-American family endure the difficult challenges of the Depression and the Cold War while pursuing dreams of better lives and reflecting on painful experiences from their earlier lives in Moscow. A first novel.
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The people and the books : 18 classics of Jewish literature
by Adam Kirsch
An anthology of Jewish literary classics stands as an essential exploration of a rich literary tradition spanning biblical through modern times and includes such entries as the books of Deuteronomy and Esther, the philosophy of Maimonides, the autobiography of Gluckel of Hameln and the Zionist manifestos of Theodor Herzl.
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Local Scene: M. Allen Cunningham
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M. Allen Cunningham is an author, editor and teacher who has written novels (two of which are in WCCLS), short stories, essays and cultural criticism. He has written for numerous periodicals, edited a collection of Henry David Thoreau's humor writings, and teaches creative writing at Portland State University. Cunningham was a facilitator for the Oregon Humanities Council Conversation Project, leading discussions in more than 25 communities on the cultural impact of e-reading, an experience that resulted in his book The Flickering Page. His newest, Perpetua's Kin, was published this fall.
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Perpetua's Kin by M. Allen CunninghamA multi-generational mystery, a reworking of Hamlet, and a profoundly contemporary exploration of the American experience as one family embodies it: our violent heritage, our vulnerability to the vastness of our own geography, our chronic restlessness and desire for regeneration through technology, and the impossibility of escaping the history that forms us and, always, demands a reckoning. In the nonlinear, fragmentary manner of memory and inherited stories, the novel moves across much of North America over more than a century, from Pennsylvania and Iowa in the 1820s, through an American south embroiled in civil war, to the remote west of the 1880s, and finally to World War II San Francisco. What emerges is a portrait of a family shaped as much by tumultuous world events as by its members' long-kept secrets.
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The green age of Asher Witherow by M. Allen CunninghamThe Green Age of Asher Witherow is a novel of tested loyalties, of condemnation and redemption. The characters’ deep emotional lives are complex and vivid, fluctuating from the doomed to the transcendent. As he unpacks his heart, Asher comes to realize that all his early traumas have somehow bonded him to the land surrounding Mount Diablo and infused his life with an inward wealth?a treasure at which we can only wonder.
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