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Grove Reads The Forest Grove City Library Newsletter May 2018 |
Mark Your Calendars - Event Highlights in May |
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| Tuesday, May 15, 6:30pm Oregon Coast Shipwreck Discoveries A Friends of the Library Cultural Program Join Chris Dewey of the Maritime Archaeological Society as he shares investigations and discoveries of lost ships, including the Beeswax Wreck Project, one of the most popular mysteries of the Oregon Coast! Chris will discuss the tools and techniques used to discover and investigate the famous and less-known shipwrecks and their wreck sites. |
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Thursdays, May 3 and 31, 3:30pm
After School Art Club Join us the first and last Thursday of each month to learn about artists and create great works of art! Best for ages 7-11. |
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Wednesday, May 9, 7:00pmBook Group Hostage : a Novel by Elie WieselThe acclaimed Nobel laureate presents an impassioned new novel about the legacy of the Holocaust and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, tracing the experiences of an innocent Jewish writer from Brooklyn who endures a nightmarish abduction by Arab and Italian captors by sharing poignant stories from the time he spent hiding from the Nazis. Book Group meets the second Wednesday of each month at 7pm. New members are always welcome! |
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Escape Room!
Can you solve the clues and break out of the Rogers Room? Teen Program: Thursday, May 10, 3:30pm Tween Program: Thursday, May 17, 3:30pm |
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Mothers Day May 13th is Mother's Day - whether your child has just arrived, is all grown up, or covered in fur and barking for a biscuit, we celebrate you! |
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The Ladies of Managua by Eleni N GageA grandmother, mother and daughter from a Nicaraguan family reunite during a beloved patriarch's funeral and confront painful secrets and losses in order to repair their severed bonds to their country and each other.
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The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana MathisTraces the story of Great Migration-era mother Hattie Shepherd, who in spite of poverty and a dysfunctional husband uses love and Southern remedies to raise nine children and prepare them for the realities of a harsh world.
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The Color of Water : a Black Man's Tribute to his White Mother by James McBrideA young African-American man describes growing up in an all-black Brooklyn housing project, one of twelve children of a white mother and black father, and discusses his mother's contributions to his life and coming to terms with his confusion over his own identity.
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Are You My Mother? : A Comic Drama by Alison BechdelA graphic novel follow-up to Fun Home depicts the author's mother as a voracious reader, music lover and passionate amateur actress who quietly suffers as the wife of a closeted gay artist and withdraws from her young daughter.
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Life on the Refrigerator Door
by Alice Kuipers
Told through a series of notes, the story of fifteen-year-old Claire and her single mother follows their correspondence during busy times in their respective lives, in a tale marked by Claire's school interactions, her mother's job, and a momentous change that redefines their relationship.
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Fingerprints of You by Kristen-Paige MadoniaAfter spending her life moving from place to place with her single mother, pregnant seventeen-year-old Lemon takes a bus to San Francisco to seek the father she never knew, as well as truths about her mother and herself.
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How to Save a Life by Sara ZarrIsolating herself after the death of her father, Jill wonders if she will be able to love a new baby that her mother wants to adopt, while Mandy, the daughter of a woman who never wanted to have children, makes a wrenching choice in the face of an unplanned pregnancy. By the National Book Award finalist author of Story of a Girl.
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Ramona and Her Mother
by Beverly Cleary
Now that her father has a job, seven-year-old Ramona hopes that her mother will stop working, so that she won't have to stay with Howie's grandmother after school while her mom is away, and that her parents won't be so tired and irritable.
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Son
by Lois Lowry
Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
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Finding freedom
by Connie Rose Porter
Addy Walker's family is planning a dangerous escape from slavery during the summer of 1864. But before they can leave, the most terrible thing Addy can imagine happens--her Poppa and her brother, Sam, are sold! Addy and her Momma decide they must head out on their own. Although the road to freedom is difficult, Addy's new life brings new friends, school, and even the opportunity to help others. But when will her family be reunited?
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Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlanWhen their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.
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Love You Forever by Robert N. MunschAs her son grows up from little boy to adult man, a mother secretly rocks him each night as he sleeps.
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Mama's Belly by Kate HosfordA little girl expresses curiosity and excitement for the coming birth of her baby sister while her parents tenderly reassure her of love's ability to expand with their growing family.
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Mama, Do You Love Me? by Barbara M JoosseA child living in the Arctic learns that a mother's love is unconditional.
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Someday
by Alison McGhee
An inspirational tale captures a mother's wondrous wishes for her child's happiness to discover everything beautiful and grand that life has to offer!
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