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Garden Homefront e-news August 2017
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End of Summer Reading Party (for all ages) WHEN: Sat., Aug. 19 from 10-2 pm Location: the North lot and field of the THPRD Garden Home Rec Center The whole family is invited to join us for a blowout celebration of Summer Reading! Turn in logs, enjoy games and crafts, and more.
Coincides with the THPRD Garden Home Recreation Center's Mini-Market with local and handmade venders.
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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., Aug. 4 @ 7 pm Come meet people, try a beer or two, and talk about the book High Rise by J.G. Ballard. When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on enemy floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven byprimal urges, re-create a world ruled by the laws of the jungle. No copies currently available in library.
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Tuesday Night Nourishment Book Group WHEN: Tuesday, Aug. 8 @ 7 pm Road trip, old-school style! Though the Oregon Trail fell out of favor with travelers after the transcontinental railroad was finished in 1869, it's still possible to travel the trail from Missouri to Oregon (though some parts are now paved roads). Over 100 years after the last known crossing, journalist Rinker Buck, his brother, and his brother's Jack Russell terrier set out in a covered wagon pulled by mules. Along with riveting details about their four-month, 2,000-mile trip (Terrible thunderstorms! Broken wagon wheels! Helpful strangers!), Buck describes the rich history of the trail and the pioneers who made the journey before him. Funny and touching, this book should especially please those interested in American history. Check in library for availability.
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Film Night: Black & White Film Night WHEN: Fri. Aug. 18 at 7 p.m. Director: Noah Baumbach Rated: R. Running Time: 86 minutes August and September we'll be screening black & white films. In August we're screening Frances Ha (2012). Frances (Greta Gerwig) goes from apartment to apartment in Brooklyn as she looks for a job and a stable partner.
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Garden Home Board Game Night WHEN: Weds., Aug. 9 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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NEW Program! Crafternoon Tea!
WHEN: Weds., Aug. 16, 2-3 pm
A new regular event! This group will meet every third Wednesday of the month, from 2:00 - 3:00 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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Free Swap Meet
WHEN: Sat., Aug. 26, 10 am - noon
Our end of summer free swap is the perfect time to get rid of unwanted items and get school clothes for the kiddos. Clean out your closets, attics, basements and more! Bring good unwanted items (mostly small) to this FREE Swap. Put out the items you no longer want and then you can shop.
Accepted items: clothing (adults and childrens), household items, small appliances & electronics, books, jewelry, small furniture, games, holiday decor, and other small items.
Anything that is not taken at the end of the night will be donated to groups that give the items away.
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Altera Vita: Tabletop Roleplaying WHEN: Sun., Aug. 27 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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The problem with forever
by Jennifer L Armentrout
Diligently practicing silence to shield herself from the traumas of her past, Mallory is forced to enroll in public school after years of homeschooling with loving adoptive parents, a challenge that is complicated by her reunion with Rider Stark, the friend and protector from her early childhood who is also grappling with lingering scars from the past. Simultaneous eBook. 150,000 first printing.
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No mistress of mine
by Laura Lee Guhrke
When an unexpected inheritance brings Lola Valentine back to London, she discovers the passion between her and Lord Denys Somerton is as hot as ever. Original.
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Repressed : a deadly secrets novel
by Elisabeth Naughton
"Hidden Falls is exactly as Samantha Parker left it--small, insular, and prone to gossip. Eighteen years have passed since she witnessed her brother's murder, but she's still the talk of the town. Until a handsome child psychologist with haunting memories of his own arrives. Dr. Ethan McClane isn't exactly a newcomer. If it weren't for his latest case, he'd never set foot back in Hidden Falls. Thankfully, no one seems to recognize him as the troubled teen from years past. Not even Sam, the delightfully sharp and sexy high school chemistry teacher he can't stop thinking about. When Sam and Ethan work together to help one of her students, sparks ignite. But Sam's hazy memories of a long-ago night concern Ethan, and unlocking the repressed images reveals a dark connection between them. As the horrors of the past finally come to light, their relationship isn't the only thing in danger. A killer will strike again to keep an ugly secret hidden. This time no one will be safe."--Page 4 of cover
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The pages of the mind
by Jeffe Kennedy
"Magic has broken free over the Twelve Kingdoms. The population is beset by shapeshifters and portents, landscapes that migrate, uncanny allies who are not quite human, and enemies eager to take advantage of the chaos. Dafne Mailloux is no adventurer--she's a librarian. But the High Queen trusts Dafne's ability with languages, her way of winnowing the useful facts from a dusty scroll, and even more important, the subtlety and guile that three decades under the thumb of a tyrant taught her. Dafne never thought to need those skills again. But she accepts her duty. Until her journey drops her into the arms of a barbarian king. He speaks no tongue she knows but that of power, yet he recognizes his captive as a valuable pawn. Dafne must submit to a wedding ofalliance, becoming a prisoner-queen in a court she does not understand. If she is to save herself and her country, she will have to learn to read the heart of a wild stranger. And there are more secrets written there than even Dafne could suspect."--Page[4] of cover
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The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein
Through the eyes of Miss Toklas, Gertrude Stein reviews both of their lives before their meeting and during their years of companionship
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Humboldt : Life on America's Marijuana Frontier
by Emily Brady
"Explores a closed-off, secretive community in Northern California that has existed for decades on money made from cultivating and selling marijuana and discusses the potential affect that legalization may have on the region's master growers and the current black market prices. 25,000 first printing."
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The Wild Table : Seasonal Foraged Food and Recipes
by Connie Green
A volume of seasonally organized recipes by the founder of Wine Forest Wild Mushrooms and a former executive chef for Robert Mondavi Winery provides foraging instructions for wild ingredients and step-by-step cooking techniques for such dishes as Bacon-Wrapped Duck Stuffed Morels and Mulberry Ice Cream.
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White House call girl : the real Watergate story
by Phil Stanford
Revives a theory about the Watergate scandal that the break-in was connected to the operation of a prostitution ring run by Heidi Rikan, an ex-stripper who worked for the mob in Washington, D.C
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