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, February 19 President's Day
The library is closed for the holiday.
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If you haven't already, don't forget to pick up a Winter Reading Log. Read five books, fill out your log and turn in for a chance to win a prize. Adult prize is a $50 gift certificate to Annie Bloom's Books. Finish one log and do it again. Fill out as many as you can and turn in before March 1. We don't care what you read. It could be a text book, audiobook, e-book, graphic novel, et al.
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Under 40 Book Group at the Bar WHEN: Thursday, February 8TIME: 7 pm Location: Garden Home Growlers (inside Lamb's Thriftway) Garden Home Community Library is starting a new book group – the Under 40 Book Group at the Bar. Are you someone under 40 that likes books, beers, and meeting people? If so, join us! Selection: The City & the City Author: China Mieville Inspector Tyador Borlu must travel to Ul Qoma to search for answers in the murder of a woman found in the city of Beszel.
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Tuesday Night Nourishment Book Group WHEN: Tuesday, February 13 TIME: 7 pm Selection: The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane Author: Lisa See Li-Yan and her family, devote their lives to farming tea. Like her mother, Li-Yan is being groomed to become a midwife in her Chinese village. She yearns for more and is allowed to pursue her schooling. The arrival of outsiders seeking the Pu’er tea of Yunnan brings the modern world into this isolated village. When Li-Yan finds herself alone and pregnant, she leaves her child, wrapped with a tea cake, at an orphanage. Her daughter is adopted by a couple from California, but she is drawn to the study of tea. A sweeping historical novel that juxtaposes ancient China with its modern incarnation. Check in library for available copies.
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Rainy Day Documentary Film Series #1: I Am Not Your Negro WHEN: Sunday, February 4 TIME: 2 pm Director: Raoul Peck Running time: 93 minutes We’re starting a new mini-series of afternoon documentary screenings during the coldest, rainiest months of the year. The first of three, I Am Not Your Negro, a film that is directed by Raoul Peck and based on James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript, Remember This House. “The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.” (IMDb)
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Film Night: Hidden Figures WHEN: Friday, February 16 TIME: 7 pm Director: Theodore Melfi Running Time: 127 minutes The second in a series of three films in celebration of holidays and history months! This month, we are screening Hidden Figures (2016), for Black History Month. “The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.” (IMDb)
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Library After-Hours: Trivia Night WHEN: Saturday, February 3 TIME: 5-7 pm Special location: West Slope Library – 3678 SW 78th Ave We’re partnering again with our friends at West Slope Library to throw a special after-hours Saturday night trivia contest. Five sets of 10 questions on various topics. Come compete and find out who knows the most trivia. Plus, there will be prizes! Refreshments provided.
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Nerd Night: Trivia for adults WHEN: Tuesday, February 6 TIME: 6:30 pm On the first Tuesday of every month, 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, including current events and music.
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Straight Outta Hollywood Theatre: The Movie Quiz! WHEN: Thursday, February 22 TIME: 7-8:30 pm We’re bringing Hollywood Theatre’s “The Movie Quiz” to Garden Home! Join us for an evening of trivia for every kind of film fan. Your movie knowledge will be put to the test with questions about ALL kinds of movies - old, new, good, bad and everything in between! With everything from audio clips to video montages to visual puzzles, it's time to flex that cinema-loving muscle and justify all of the time spent watching and reading about movies!
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Bob Ross Art DayWHEN: Thursday, February 1 TIME: 6-7:30 pm Join us for a casual art night of making happy clouds, happy trees, and happy accidents! We’ll be projecting episodes of Bob Ross’ “The Joy of Painting” and have fun art materials out to explore. All skill levels welcome.
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Computers for beginners WHEN: Saturday, February 10 TIME: 10-11 am Learn about some basics on how to use a computer. We’ll be working on a Windows platform and covering introductory steps to using a computer for beginners, with time at the end for questions. This will be a new series offered on the second Saturday of the month.
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Crafternoon Tea! WHEN: Wednesday, February 21 TIME: 2-4 pm
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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Board Game Night WHEN: Wednesday, February 21 TIME: 6-8 pm Come play board games with others. We offer a new selection and variety every month. Feel free to bring games you'd like to play.
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Harlem Renaissance Cafe WHEN: Saturday, February 24 TIME: 10 - 11:30 am We’re wrapping up Black History Month with a celebration of some of the greatest music and poetry from America’s cultural history. We’ll have a turntable set up with a selection of jazz music from the Harlem Renaissance as well as some handpicked favorites of literature and poetry from the era to enjoy. Join us for donuts and coffee as we experience an appreciation for the art from this historical movement. Coffee and donuts will be provided. All ages welcome.
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Astrophysics for people in a hurry
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Offers witty, digestible explanations of topics in cosmology, from the Big Bang and black holes to quantum mechanics and the search for life in the universe
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Born to run
by Bruce Springsteen
In a personal account inspired by the remarkable 2009 Super Bowl halftime show, a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer traces his life from his childhood in a Catholic New Jersey family and the musical experiences that prompted his career to the rise of the E Street Band and the stories behind some of his most famous songs. Simultaneous.
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Our revolution : a future to believe in
by Bernard Sanders
The break-out Democratic candidate for president offers an inside account of his extraordinary campaign and a blueprint for future political action
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The princess diarist
by Carrie Fisher
The best-selling author of Postcards From the Edge and Hollywood icon best known for her Star Wars role shares interconnected essays exploring her life as the child of Tinseltown royalty, adventures on the sets of Star Wars and struggles with bipolar disorder. Simultaneous.
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You don't have to say you love me : a memoir
by Sherman Alexie
The National Book Award-winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian presents a literary memoir of poems, essays and intimate family photos that reflect his complicated feelings about his disadvantaged childhood on a Native American reservation with his siblings and alcoholic parents. 100,000 first printing.
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This is how it always is
by Laurie Frankel
A family reshapes their ideas about family, love and loyalty when youngest son Claude reveals increasingly determined preferences for girls' clothing and accessories and refuses to stay silent. By the author of Goodbye for Now.
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The found and the lost : The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin
by Ursula K. Le Guin
[This book] represents the first time that all of Le Guin novellas have been collected in a single volume. Featuring thirteen unforgettable stories, this literary treasure is easily one of the most anticipated collections of the year. In addition to more than 800 pages of extraordinary storytelling, [this book] also includes an introduction from the legendary author
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Dead feminists : historic heroines in living color
by Chandler O'Leary
"Providing a new and illuminating look at 27 women who've changed the world, Dead Feminists ties these historical women and the challenges they faced into the most important issues of today. Based on the cult-following limited edition Dead Feminists letterpress poster series by illustrator Chandler O'Leary and letterpress artist Jessica Spring, the book combines new art and lettering, archival photographs and ephemera, and revisits the original poster to tell each woman's story. Each chapter is a call toaction (Protect, Make, Grow, Teach, Lead, Tell, Share, Play), and shows how the women exemplified that quality in their own ways. This book takes feminist inspiration to a new level of artistry and shows how ordinary and extraordinary women have made a difference throughout history (and how you can too!)"
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Idaho : a novel
by Emily Ruskovich
A tale told from multiple perspectives traces the complicated relationship between Ann and Wade on a rugged landscape and how they came together in the aftermath of his first wife's imprisonment for a violent murder. A first novel.
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The Pillars of the earth
by Ken Follett
Set in twelfth-century England, this epic of kings and peasants juxtaposes the building of a magnificent church with the violence and treachery that often characterized the Middle Ages
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Blackout
by Connie Willis
Stranded in the past during World War II, three researchers from the future investigate period behavior and seek each other out in a shared effort to return to their own time. By the multiple Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author of The Doomsday Book.
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All the light we cannot see : a novel
by Anthony Doerr
A blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with their respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast. By the award-winning author of About Grace.
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Razor girl
by Carl Hiaasen
Involved in a car accident with a young scam artist, a man helplessly watches his life spiral out of control in the wake of a sand-stealing company, a Hawaiian-shirt-clad NYC mafia capo, a reality show accordionist and other eccentric characters. By the best-selling author of Bad Monkey.
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From scratch : inside the Food Network
by Allen Salkin
A behind-the-scenes history of the Food Network, published to coincide with its 20th anniversary, draws on inside access and interviews with hundreds of leading contributors to trace its rise from a tiny startup to a billion-dollar media and cultural juggernaut.
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American war
by Omar El Akkad
A first novel by an award-winning journalist depicts a second American Civil War and devastating plague in the late 21st century that forces a family into a camp for displaced people, where a young woman is befriended by a mysterious functionary who would transform her into a living weapon.
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We had the pleasure to host Ursula K. Le Guin to kick off our Summer Reading Program in 2015. She will be missed. Thank you for your beautiful words and wisdom Ursula! You will be missed. Below are GHCL staff's favorite Le Guin books. Please note: The Wizard of Earthsea is the first book in the Earthsea series. Not included: the Catwings series, a delightful series for children.
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The left hand of darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
While on a mission to the planet Gethen, earthling Genly Ai is sent by leaders of the nation of Orgoreyn to a concentration camp from which the exiled prime minister of the nation of Karhide tries to rescue him
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The Lathe of Heaven : A Novel
by Ursula K. Le Guin
George Orr discovers that his dreams possess the remarkable ability to change the world, and when he falls into the hands of a power-mad psychiatrist, he counters by dreaming up a perfect world that can overcome his nightmares, in a new edition of the classic science fiction novel. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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A wizard of Earthsea
by Ursula K. Le Guin
When Sparrowhawk, a young student at the School for Wizards, becomes overanxious and tries his dangerous powers too soon, he unleashes a terrible evil throughout the land
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Blue moon over Thurman Street
by Ursula K. Le Guin
A collection of poems and writings about the forty-five blocks of Thurman Street in Portland, Oregon, attempting to capture what is both unique and commonplace about it
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Searoad
by Ursula K. Le Guin
A series of interlinking tales and a novella by the author of the Earthsea trilogy portrays the triumphs and struggles of several generations of women who independently control Klatsand, a small resort town on the Oregon coast. Reprint.
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