In the library catalog...
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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 WHEN: Tuesday, June 12 TIME: 7 pm Selection: A Confederacy of Dunces Author: John Kennedy Toole Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, --selfish, domineering, deluded, tragic and larger than life-- is a noble crusader against a world of dunces. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. In magnificent revolt against the twentieth century, Ignatius propels his monstrous bulk among the flesh posts of the fallen city, documenting life on his Big Chief tablets as he goes, until his maroon-haired mother decrees that Ignatius must work.(Description from NoveList on wccls.org).
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Books & Brews WHEN: Thursday, June 14 TIME: 7 pm Location: Garden Home Growlers (inside Lamb's Thriftway) Selection: Future Home of the Living God Author: Louise Erdrich If you like books, beers, and good conversation, you’ll love this book club. In June, we'll discuss the NY Times Notable Book of 2017. “A chilling dystopian novel both provocative and prescient, Future Home of the Living God is a startlingly original work from one of our most acclaimed writers: a moving meditation on female agency, self-determination, biology, and natural rights that speaks to the troubling changes of our time.” (Harper Collins)
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Film Night Chico & Rita WHEN: Friday, June 15 TIME: 7 pm Director: Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal, Tono Errando Running Time: 94 minutes In celebration of the Summer Reading theme Libraries Rock! we are screening films with a focus on music. First up: Chico and Rita (NR, 94 min. 2010). In English and Spanish. “Cuba, 1948. Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and desire unite them as they chase their dreams and each other from Havana to New York to Paris, Hollywood and Las Vegas. With an original soundtrack by legendary Cuban pianist and five-time Grammy-winning composer Bebo Valdes, CHICO & RITA captures a defining moment in the evolution of history and jazz, and features the music of (and animated cameos by) Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Cole Porter, Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Herman, Tito Puente, Chano Pozo, and others.” (IMDB) GHCL film nights are funded by a grant from the Cultural Coalition of Washington County (CCWC).
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Nerd Night: Trivia for adults WHEN: Tuesday, June 5 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. Expect sets for current events and music.
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Crafternoon Tea! WHEN: Wednesday, June 6 & June 20 TIME: 2-4 pm
Bring your own handcraft project (knitting, crochet, needlepoint, macramé, rubber stamping, card making, drawing, 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, June 13 TIME: 6-8 pm Come play board games. We offer a new selection and variety every month. Feel free to bring games you'd like to play.
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Estate Planning Workshop WHEN: Tuesday, June 19 TIME: 6:30 pm With school letting out for the summer, it is time to review the vacation checklists and “to-do list” of things you have put off and need to take care of before your trip. For many of us, that list includes addressing some important legal to-do(s). Michelle-Shari Kruss, Attorney at Law, will be reviewing five things to prepare for your estate planning needs before you go on vacation.
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Art Night: Watercolor and Ink WHEN: Wednesday, June 27 TIME: 6:30-8 PM Artists of all abilities are invited to drop by the Annex to participate in an evening of art making alongside local creatives. This month, we’ll be creating watercolor and ink illustrations. Bring a photo or image for inspiration if you have something specific you’d like to paint. We’ll provide free art supplies, instruction, inspiration, and snacks.
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The presidents club : inside the world's most exclusive fraternity
by Nancy Gibbs
Traces the history of the presidential fraternity conceived by Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover during Eisenhower's inauguration, exploring the ways in which the nation's Presidents depended on, sabotaged and formed alliances that had world-changing impacts. Co-written by the co-author of The Preacher and the Presidents.
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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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Monstrous regiment : a novel of Discworld
by Terry Pratchett
Running the family inn despite dwindling resources while her brother is away at war, Polly cuts off her hair to join the army and notices that her fellow recruits seem to be hiding secrets of their own, in the latest entry in the best-selling Discworld series. Reprint.
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Good and cheap : eat well on $4/day
by Leanne Brown
A call-to-arms guide to ending hunger shares 120 recipes for satisfying, healthful meals on a daily budget equivalent to the amount of government food-stamp allowances, offering complementary information about economical cooking methods.
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Notables: GLBT Book Month
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Queer Threads : Crafting identity and community by John Chaich Showcases twenty-nine artists who are moving through the narrow space that is gay or straight, biological or social, craft and fine art and doing so explicitly through their work in fiber and textile. Loaded with gender connotations and power hierarchies, fiber-based handicrafts such as crochet, embroidery, knitting, macrame, quilting, and sewing provide a fitting platform for examining tastes, roles, and relationships socialized within and around gay and lesbian culture, as well as our reactions to the traditional home and cultures in which we were raised. This book evolves from an exhibition of the same name, that John Chaich curated in 2014 at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art in New York City, the first dedicated LGBTQ art museum in the world with a mission to exhibit and preserve LGBTQ art and foster the artists who create it. While other recent, high-profile fiber and textile exhibitions have featured several of the artists in Queer Threads, the Leslie-Lohman exhibition marked the first time these works were shown together to specifically examine the works queerness. To further examine how queerness informs each featured artist's work in fiber and textiles, or vice versa, this book features interviewers from the worlds of music, fashion, media, dance, museums, and scholarship who are makers and thinkers themselves, many members of the queer community if not powerful allies. The resulting dialogues are as fun, challenging, personal, and universal as the ideas in the works discussed.
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Marriage of a thousand lies
by SJ Sindu
A married man and woman in India who hide their gay orientations from their conservative families find their arrangement compromised when one of them returns home to care for a family member, only to reconnect with a beloved ex whose marriage to a heterosexual stranger has been arranged.
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An unkindness of ghosts
by Rivers Solomon
In the lowerdeck of the HSS Matlida, a space vessel run like the antebellum South, Aster, a dark-skinned sharecropper, faces harsh restrictions and punishments from brutal overseers, but the seeds of civil war hold the key to her freedom
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When I grow up I want to be a list of further possibilities
by Chen Chen
"In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family -- the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes -- all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all accountable, this collection fully embraces the loss, grief, and abundant joy that come with charting one's own path in identity, life, and love. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities. To be a season of laughter when my father sayshis coworker is like that, he can tell because the guy wears pink socks, see, you don't, so you can't, you can't be one of them. To be the one my parents raised me to be. A season from the stormiest planet. A very good feeling with a man. Every feeling, in pink shoes. Every step, hot pink."
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The black penguin by Andrew EvansA devout young boy in rural Ohio, Andrew Evans had his life mapped for him: baptism, mission, Brigham Young University, temple marriage, and children of his own. But as an awkward gay kid, bullied and bored, he escaped into the glossy pages of National Geographic and the wide promise of the world atlas. Eventually ejected from church and shunned by his family, Evans embarked on an ambitious overland journey halfway across the world. Riding public transportation, he crossed swamps, deserts, mountains, and jungles, slowly approaching his lifelong dream and ultimate goal: Antarctica. With each new mile came laughter, pain, unexpected friendship, true weirdness, unsettling realities, and some hair-raising moments that eventually led to a singular discovery on a remote beach at the bottom of the world.
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Local Scene: Margaret Malone
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People Like You by Margaret MaloneIn this marvelously funny, unsettling, subtle, and moving collection of stories, the characters exist in the thick of everyday experience absent of epiphanies. The people are caught off-guard or cast adrift by personal impulses even while wide awake to their own imperfections. Each voice will win readers over completely and break hearts with each confused and conflicted decision that is made. Every story is beautifully controlled and provocatively alive to its own truth. - from Amazon description.
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