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Garden Homefront e-news October 2019
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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, October 8 SPECIAL TIME for October meeting only: 12:30-2 PM Selection: Burial Rites by Hannah Kent Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tâoti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. But as Agnes's death looms, the farmer's wife and their daughters learn there is another side to the sensational story they've heard.
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Film Night: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night DATE: Friday, October 18 TIME: 6-8 pm A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014, rated R*, 104 minutes), an Iranian vampire-western-noir-horror film by director Ana Lily Amirpour. Film night attendees are welcome to bring their own takeout or snacks. The library will provide light refreshments (popcorn, candy, and coffee).
*This film is not rated in the U.S., however its average international certification is equivalent to an R rating.
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Nerd Night: Trivia for Adults DATE: Tuesday, October 1 TIME: 6:30-8:30 pm On the first Tuesday of every month, come test your knowledge - solo or in a team – and find out who knows the most. Five varying sets of trivia, including current events and music. Prizes for most and least points at the end of the night.
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Crafternoon Tea! DATE: Wednesday, October 2 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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Sustainability & Repair Fair DATE: Friday, October 4 TIME: 5-7:30 pm
Open to all ages. Our biggest sustainability fair ever with 27 exhibitors - 7 of whom are brand new. Exhibitors include: Briar Patch Herbs, Imperfect Fruit, Happy Baby Food, Indow Windows, Metro Happy Homes, National Wildlife Federation – Garden for Wildlife, PBOT Safe Routes to Schools Portland Fruit Tree Project, Tualatin Soil & Water Conservation District, SOLVE Victory Seed Company, Washington County Bicycle Transportation Coalition, Winterbloom, Xerces Society, and more. A Repair Fair is a free, volunteer-driven event where people with repair skills help fix broken items such as and pants, a blenders, mixers, coffee makers, vacuums, bikes and more. ( Please no gas-powered equipment, TVs or microwaves.) Limit of 2 items per person; register at http://repairfair.org/.
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Board Game Night DATE: Wednesday, October 9 TIME: 6-9 pm New selection and variety of board games provided each month. Participants are also invited to bring their own games to share.
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Reduce your Waste DATE: Tuesday, October 15 TIME: 7-8 pm For every can of garbage (or "trash") placed at the curb, the equivalent of 70 cans of waste are generated upstream in the production of the materials we throw away. All of that has an impact on the climate. Learn ways to reduce your waste from Master Recycler Betty Shelley.
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Ukulele Party DATE: Saturday, October 19 TIME: 11 am-12 pm Ukulele Party: It's like a ukulele jam, but partier. With Aaron Canwell of Portland kindie (kid+indie) band "Micah and Me!" Garden Home Library's Ukulele Parties are open to all ages and excellent for beginners. Just bring yourself; we'll provide 25 ukuleles.
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Crafternoon Tea! DATE: Wednesday, October 16 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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Garden Gnomes du Plume: A Writer's Group DATE: Tuesday, October 22 TIME: 6:30-8:30 pm Looking to join a writers' group? Try ours and see if it’s a good fit for you. Our small group (limited to 15 people) meets monthly on the 4th Tuesday of each month (except December). The group is led by group members. In September the topic is character. The agenda and a writing prompt will be emailed one week before the meeting. RSVP is required.
If you are interested in attending or learning more, please email Heather or call 503-245-9932.
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Skull & Raven CollageDATE: Wednesday, October 23 TIME: 6:00 – 8:00 pm Drop in and make a delightfully scary masterpiece. We'll provide all the art supplies you'll need to create a personalized collage featuring the silhouette of a skull or raven. Advanced and beginner artists are welcome. All ages. Art supplies are provided by the Library.
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Burnt Offerings by Robert MarascoBen and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment, so when they get the chance to rent a mansion in upstate New York for the entire season for only $900, it's an offer that's too good to refuse. There's only one catch: behind a strange and intricately carved door in a distant wing of the house lives elderly Mrs. Allardyce, and the Rolfes will be responsible for preparing her meals. But Mrs. Allardyce never seems to emerge from her room, and it soon becomes clear that something weird and terrifying is happening in the house. As the suspense builds towards a revelation of what really lies behind that locked door, the Rolfes will discover that their cheap vacation rental comes at a terrible cost . . . The basis for a classic 1976 film adaptation and an acknowledged influence on Stephen King's The Shining, Burnt Offerings is one of the most original and scariest haunted house novels ever written. This edition, the first in decades, features a new introduction by award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones.
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Final girls : a novel
by Riley Sager
Emerging a lone survivor of a serial killer's massacre a decade earlier, a former college student struggles to ignore traumatic memories and move on as one of a group of other survivors who look to her for answers when one of them is found dead in a suspicious suicide.
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It : a novel
by Stephen King
They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they were grown-up men and women who had gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them could withstand the force that drew them back to Derry, Maine to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name
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Holding Smoke
by Elle Cosimano
Serving time for two murders, one he did not commit and one that was an accident, Smoke Conlan, a youth with an ability to travel outside of his body, nearly succumbs to despair before meeting a tough, resourceful girl who sees his true inner self and resolves to help clear his name. 50,000 first printing.
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Mary : the summoning
by Hillary Monahan
Teens Jess, Shauna, Kitty, and Anna follow all the rules, but when their summoning circle is broken the vengeful spirit of Bloody Mary slips through, and as the girls struggle to escape Mary's wrath, loyalties are questioned, friendships torn apart, and lives changed forever
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The Pet sematary /The 1989 movie adaptation of Stephen King's novel. After tragedy strikes, a grieving father discovers an ancient burial ground behind his home with the power to raise the dead.
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Hellraiser
An old family home holds untold horrors for Larry Cotton and his wife, Julia. Horrors are fueled by the fugitive spirit of Larry's brother, Frank. Slowly, the old family home begins to swallow the Cottons.
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Halloween
On October 31, 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers brutally stabs his sister Judith to death with a kitchen knife at their home in Haddonfield, Illinois. He is sent to Smith's Grove-Warren County Sanitarium and placed under the care of psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasance). Loomis suspects that there is more to Myers than meets the eye and plans to have him committed indefinitely, despite the fact that Michael seems docile and does not speak a word. At the age of 21, Myers escapes from Smith's Grove while being transferred, and returns to Haddonfield with Loomis in pursuit. While Loomis tries to convince authorities of the boy's evil nature, Meyers goes on a murderous rampage while he stalks and terrorizes a young woman who caught his attention.
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Ring /
A journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone one week to the day after they view it.
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Silence of the lambs /A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
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Anno Dracula, 1976-1991 : Johnny Alucard
by Kim Newman
A long-anticipated new installment in the award-winning series imagines a world where Dracula survives his encounters with Dr. John Seward and enslaves Victorian England, emerging decades later in 1980s America to sink his fangs into such rich and famous targets as Andy Warhol, Orson Welles and Francis Ford Coppola.
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A prayer for the dying : a novel
by Stewart O'Nan
A compelling tale that builds in a steady subtle climb to horror chronicles the strange arrival of a deadly epidemic in a post-Civil War Wisconsin town, as sheriff Jacob Hansen tries to maintain order. 22,500 first printing. Tour.
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Declare
by Tim Powers
A coded message proves the catalyst for Professor Andrew Hale's return to the world of espionage as he struggles to prevent the Soviets from obtaining remnants of the biblical Ark. By the author of Last Call. 30,000 first printing.
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A winter haunting
by Dan Simmons
Returning to the small Illinois town of his childhood to pick up the pieces of his shattered life, and regain his confidence as a writer, Professor Dale Stewart leases an empty farmhouse of a long-dead friend, who had been murdered in the summer of 1960, but instead of finding peace and quiet, he finds that the house is haunted.
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Dark harvest
by Norman Partridge
On Halloween in 1963, teenager Pete McCormick, dreaming of escaping a dead-end future in his small hometown, gets his chance to take part in the annual rite in which gangs of teenage boys await the opportunity to take on the local monster known as the October Boy, but Pete is unaware of the truth behind the local ritual and the price he must pay to escape. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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The terror : a novel
by Dan Simmons
Captain Crozier must find a way for his crew to survive the deadly attacks of a mysterious and insatiable sea monster that is stalking the men trapped in the Arctic ice, in a novel loosely based on the mid-nineteenth-century Arctic expedition originally led by Sir John Franklin. 75,000 first printing.
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Local Scene: Leila del Duca
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Afar
by Leila Del Duca
In a post-industrial desert wasteland, fifteen-year-old Boetema develops the ability to astral project to other planets. On her own planet, with her parents gone, she and her thirteen-year-old brother, Inotu, must cross a dangerous desert to flee a cyborg bodyguard
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Shutter
by Joe Keatinge
"Kate Kristopher was a globally renowned explorer on an Earth far more fantastive than our own. Then she wasn't. Ten years later, a family secret shatters the quiet life she built, forcing her back into the role of adventurer in a world that's both marvelous...and frightening." --p [4] of cover of Vol. 1.
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Shutter : Way of the World Volume two, Way of the world
by Joe Keatinge
Marvel Knights Hulk and Glory writer Joe Keatinge teams up with artist extraordinaire Leila del Duca for her Image Comics debut in an all-new ongoing series combining the urban fantasy of Fables and the globe-spanning adventure of Y The Last Man. Kate Kristopher, once the most famous explorer of an Earth far more fantastic than the one we know, is forced to return to the adventurous life she left behind when a family secret threatens to destroy everything she spent her life protecting. In Volume 2, Kate crosses the Earth to unlock a family mystery taking her far beyond her own reality. Collects Shutter 7-12.
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Shutter : Quo Vadis Volume 3, Quo vadis
by Joe Keatinge
Rescued by a mysterious masked person after being trapped in an alternate Venice by the Red Queen, Kate Kristopher learns that her rescuer is her twin
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The wicked + the divine : Commercial Suicide Vol. 3, Commercial suicide
by Kieron Gillen
"After the detonation of FANDEMONIUM the gods-as-pop-stars of THE WICKED + THE DIVINE try living in the long dark shadow. Team WicDiv are joined by a stellar cast of guest artists to put the spotlight on each of the gods. The multiple Eisner Award nominated series continues in the only way it knows how: darker, weirder, faster. Don't worry. It's going to be okay"--Publisher's website
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Sleepless
by Sarah Vaughn
"Lady 'Poppy' Pyppenia is guarded by the Sleepless Knight Cyrenic but becomes endangered when an assassin threatens her life in the new king's reign. As Poppy and Cyrenic try to discover who wants her dead, they must navigate the dangerous waters of lifeat court and of their growing feelings for one another"
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