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All events will be held at: 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.
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Author visit: Don Nelson Sons of Slabtown & Tales of Westside Sports WHEN: Sat., March 4 @ 1:30 pm One part reading and one part history presentation by Portland author/historian Don Nelson. The book will be available for sale.
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Books & Beer with Heather & Nick WHEN: Fri., March 3 @ 7 pm We'll have some copies set aside so you can ask at our check out desk (available first come, first served) or place holds for the book. Synopsis: A tale of lost memories, vengeance and war by the award-winning author of The Remains of the Day follows the experiences of a couple who journeys across a troubled land of mist and rain the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years. In April we're reading Ernest Cline's Ready Player One. Copies will be available beginning March 3.
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Tuesday Night Nourishment Book Group WHEN: Tuesday, March 14 @ 7 pm Ask at circulation desk for set aside copies. Snyopsis: The quiet 1960s midwestern life of the Land family--father Jeremiah, and children, Reuben, Davy and Swede--is upended when Davy kills two teenage boys who have come to harm the family. On the morning of his sentencing, Davy escapes from his cell and the Lands set out in search of him. Their search is at once a heroic quest, a tragedy, a love story, and a haunting meditation on the possibility of magic in the everyday world. Our April book group will have a different format, because we're hosting author Ruth Wariner (The Sound of Gravel). Copies will be available beginning March 14.
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Nerd Night: Trivia for Adults WHEN: Tuesday, March 7 at 6:30 pm Come test your knowledge - solo or in a team – and find out who knows the most. Last month we had a heated competition! Come join the fun. Sets vary each month. Generally 5 sets of questions consisting of current events, music and other random topics. Prize(s) for team/individual(s) who gets the most and the least correct answers.
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Garden Home Board Game Night WHEN: Weds., March 8 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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Free Film Night WHEN: Fri., March 17 at 7:30 pm Doors open at 7 pm. Film: Arrival (2016) Director: Dennis Villeneuve Language: English, No subtitles Running Time: 116 minutes When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team--lead by expert linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams)--are brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers--and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.
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Altera Vita: Tabletop Roleplaying WHEN: Sun., March 26 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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My library bookshelf was last featured in 2014. Here's a selection of my most recent memorable reads.
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Boo : a novel
by Neil Smith
A misfit victim of a school shooter lands in an afterlife exclusively for 13-year-olds, where he finds unexpected happiness and friendship with a boy who appears to be another victim of the same shooter. By the author of Bang Crunch. Original.
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"Live from Cape Canaveral" : Covering The Space Race, From Sputnik to Today
by Jay Barbree
A veteran space correspondent traces America's space history throughout the past fifty years, in an account that shares anecdotal portraits of astronauts and the author's fellow journalists while revealing how the space program and its press coverage have evolved. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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No acute distress : Poems
by Jennifer Richter
"A collection of prose poems and lineated poems that chronicle everyday frustrations, confusions, and joys connected mainly with motherhood and illness"
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Hunger makes me a modern girl : a memoir
by Carrie Brownstein
The guitarist and vocalist of feminist punk trio Sleater-Kinney presents a candid and deeply personal assessment of life in the rock-and-roll industry that reveals her struggles with rock's double standards and her codevelopment of the comedy Portlandia. Reprint.
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