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Garden Homefront e-news June 2017
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Sign up begins June 1 Join us this summer for WCCLS Reads, a summer reading program for adults. Sign up online. Then come into the library to get a reading log. Everyone who signs up will be entered for a county-wide Grand Prize drawing (an e-reader). You can also sign-up at the Kick-off and Community night party on Weds., June 21 from 5-8 pm. Complete 10 of the boxes on the GHCL log. Then bring back your log between July 1 and Aug. 31. Returned logs will be entered into a drawing for the GHCL grand prize: a $100 gift certificate to Tastebud restaurant in Multnomah Village. Summer reading has programs for all ages. So your family, friends and/or housemates can join you in the fun.
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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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Books & Beer with Heather & Nick WHEN: Fri., June 2 @ 7 pm Come meet people, try a beer or two, and talk about the book The Circle. Hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful Internet company, Mae Holland begins to questions her luck as life beyond her job grows distant, a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, and her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. Audiobook copies are still available in the library if you'd like to read it.
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Tuesday Night Nourishment Book Group WHEN: Tuesday, June 13 @ 7 pm A post-apocalyptic reimagining of Lewis and Clark's epic journey is set in a world decimated by a superflu and nuclear fallout, where two explorers investigate rumors of a land with growing crops, plentiful rain, and a dangerous rising army. {Our next selection - In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume- will be available beginning June 13 at 6 pm.}
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Free Foreign Film Night WHEN: Fri., June 16 at 7:30 pm Film: The Deep (Iceland, 2012) Language: In Running Time: 95 minutes Based on actual events, a fisherman tries to survive in the freezing ocean after his boat capsizes off the south coast of Iceland.
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Family Movie Day WHEN: Sat., June 17 at 11 am In the irreverent spirit of fun that made The LEGO Movie a worldwide phenomenon, the self described leading man of that ensemble LEGO Batman stars in his own big screen adventure. But there are big changes brewing in Gotham, and if he wants to save the city from The Joker's hostile takeover, Batman may have to drop the lone vigilante thing, try to work with others and maybe, just maybe, learn to lighten up.
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Nerd Night: Trivia for Adults WHEN: Tues., June 6 @ 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., June 14 from 6 - 9 pm
Come enjoy classic and/or new board games with other enthusiasts. Bring your own or play those (changes monthly, and/or as requested) brought by the event leader, Peter.
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Altera Vita: Tabletop Roleplaying WHEN: Sun., June 25 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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Brian Doyle, the Oregon Book Award-winning author of Mink River, died May 27 from complications from a brain tumor. Doyle had written numerous books and articles, as well as editor of the Portland Magazine, a University of Portland publication. Below is just a small selection of Doyle's writings that are available in the WCCLS catalog.
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Children & other wild animals : notes on badgers, otters, sons, hawks, daughters, dogs, bears, air, bobcats, fishers, mascots, Charles Darwin, newts, sturgeon, roasting squirrels, parrots, elk, foxes, tigers and various other zoological matters
by Brian Doyle
"Novelist and essayist Brian Doyle describes encounters with astounding beings of every sort and shape in this collection of short vignettes. The book gathers previously unpublished work along with selections that have been published in Orion, The Sun, and The American Scholar, among others"
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Chicago
by Brian Doyle
An ode to Chicago is presented through the coming-of-age experiences of a young college graduate, who after renting an apartment on the lakeside north of the city befriends a motley assortment of locals and is swept up by a momentous period in Red Sox history. By the best-selling author of The Plover.
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The kind of brave you wanted to be : prose prayers and cheerful chants against the dark
by Brian Doyle
"Proems, taut tales, small stories with rhythm and blues and grace and bruise and laughter between the lines. Brian Doyle's The Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be is a book of cadenced notes on the swirl of miracle and the holy of attentiveness; a book aboutchildren and birds, love and grief and everything alive, which is to say all prayers. Brian Doyle's uncategorizable form is the brief story dressed like a poem but with the loose lyricism and verve of an essay. Here are chants and litanies, like gentle songs to the sacrament of every moment"
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The mighty Currawongs : & other stories
by Brian Doyle
"A collection of headlong tales by Oregon author Brian Doyle - exploring such riveting and peculiar topics as chess in the Levant, tailors who specialize in holes, how to report stigmata to your attending physician, the intense hilarity of basketball, how to have a bitter verbal marital fight in your car, an all-Chinese football team in Australia, soccer and Catholicism, what it's like to be in a ska band, a singing Korean baker, an archbishop who loses his faith between the salad and the entrée genius Girl Scouts who save a radio station, and a baby born from a lake in Illinois. And some other fascinating stories. Really. Trust us"
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The plover : a novel
by Brian Doyle
"Declan O Donnell left Oregon aboard his boat, the Plover, in search of solitude. Instead, he finds a crew, each in search of something themselves"
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Desert boys : fiction
by Chris McCormick
A series of evocative, linked stories follows the experiences of a young man's coming out and elusive childhood dynamics in California's Mojave Desert, where his life intersects with those of an alfalfa farmer, two curious girls, a black politician and an immigrant parent. A first novel.
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The hammer of Thor
by Rick Riordan
When the god of thunder's hammer goes missing, Magnus Chase and his friends are tasked with retrieving it before an onslaught of giants attacks the mortal world
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If I Was Your Girl
by Meredith Russo
A newcomer to a Tennessee community hides the secret about her gender reassignment that forces her to keep potential new friends at arm's length before meeting easygoing Grant, who captures her heart and who she fears will not accept the complicated realities of her life. Simultaneous eBook.
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Walking with Ramona : exploring Beverly Cleary's Portland
by Laura O Foster
""A walking tour of the Portland, Oregon neighborhood where Beverly Cleary spent her childhood and the landmarks, sights, and natural features that inspired her beloved children's books about Ramona, Beezus, and Henry Huggins"
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