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Grove Reads The Forest Grove City Library Newsletter January 2018 Wishing our community peace, health, and happiness in 2018!
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Mark Your Calendars - Event Highlights in January
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Thursdays, January 4 and 25, 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, January 10, 7:00pm Book Group The Yiddish policemen's union : a novel by Michael ChabonAn alternate historical work based on a premise that Alaska became the Jewish homeland after World War II finds detective Meyer Landsman investigating a heroin-addicted chess prodigy's murder, a case with ties to an extremist Orthodox sect. 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, January 11, 3:30pm Tween Program: Thursday, January 18, 3:30pm
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Saturday, January 20, 10:30am Time Out for TED Talks "A Black man goes undercover in the alt-right" with Theo E.J. Wilson.
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Tuesday, January 23 and Wednesday, January 24, 10:15am Teddy Bear Storytime and Parade Join retired children's librarian Ann Dondero for our longest running library tradition: the Teddy Bear Parade! Bring your favorite stuffed friend to march with you.
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Tuesday, January 30, 6:30pm Friends of the Library Cultural Series Event Owyhee River Journals with Bonnie Olin Take a vicarious journey into one of the most remote regions in the lower 48 states with writer Olin as she describes her explorations in the Owyhee Canyonlands of Nevada, Idaho and Oregon. Book signing after the program.
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Librarians share their Favorite Books Published in 2017
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King's Cage
by Victoria Aveyard
Mare Barrow is a prisoner, powerless without her lightning, tormented by her lethal mistakes. She lives at the mercy of a boy she once loved, a boy made of lies and betrayal. Now a king, Maven Calore continues weaving his dead mother's web in an attempt to maintain control over his country--and his prisoner.
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Dragons Love Tacos 2 : the Sequel
by Adam Rubin
A time-traveling sequel to the best-selling Dragons Love Tacos follows the advice of a panicked narrator who offers counsel about journeying into the past when the world runs out of the snack most loved by dragons (tacos) in order to resupply the planet.
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The Last Tudor
by Philippa Gregory
A latest historical novel by the best-selling author of The Other Boleyn Girl reimagines the lives of Lady Jane Grey and her two sisters, who respectively endure imprisonment, a secret marriage and marginalization under the suspicious eyes of Tudor queens Mary and Elizabeth.
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The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
Caught between her poor neighborhood and her fancy prep school, sixteen-year-old Starr Carter becomes the focus of intimidation and more after witnessing the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend, Khalil, by a police officer.
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Above the Timberline
by Gregory Manchess
A combination of 120 full-color illustrations and riveting text follows Wes Singleton, who, living on an Earth covered in snow, searches the frozen landscape for his father, a famed explorer who went missing after his expedition to find a lost city was sabotaged.
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Kachka : a return to Russian cooking
by Bonnie Frumkin Morales
Celebrated Portland chef Bonnie Frumkin Morales brings her acclaimed Portland restaurant Kachka into your home kitchen with a debut cookbook enlivening Russian cuisine with an emphasis on vibrant, locally sourced ingredients.
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Pandora
by Victoria Turnbull
Pandora the fox lives alone in a junk yard. She's depressed and has no contact with the outside world. Then, she rescues a blue bird. As she nurses him back to health, the bird collects seeds and trinkets for her. One day, the bird grows strong enough to fly away, but the garden seeds he brought begin to transform Pandora's landscape.
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Leonardo da Vinci
by Walter Isaacson
The best-selling author of Benjamin Franklin draws on da Vinci's remarkable notebooks as well as new discoveries about his life and work in a narrative portrait that connects the master's art to his science, demonstrating how da Vinci's genius was based on the skills and qualities of everyday people, from curiosity and observation to imagination and fantasy.
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Lincoln in the Bardo : a novel
by George Saunders
A long-awaited first novel by the National Book Award-nominated, New York Times best-selling author of Tenth of December traces a night of solitary mourning and reflection as experienced by the 16th President after the death of his 11-year-old son at the dawn of the Civil War.
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Manhattan Beach : a novel
by Jennifer Egan
Years after she is placed in the hands of a stranger vital to her family's survival, Anna takes a job at the Brooklyn Naval Yard during the war while meeting with the man who helped them and learning important truths about her father's disappearance. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad.
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I can't breathe : a killing on Bay Street
by Matt Taibbi
The best-selling author of The Divide presents an exploration into the roots and aftermath of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the police in 2014, sharing insights into the ensuing nationwide series of protests that reinforced the "Black Lives Matter" movement and transformed American politics.
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On a magical do-nothing day
by Béatrice Alemagna
Sent outside on a rainy day by a mom who tries to pry him away from his video games, a little boy is dismayed when his handheld game falls into the pond before encounters with giant snails, wet mushrooms and other elements awaken him to the sensory aspects of nature.
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How to make friends with a ghost
by Rebecca Green
Suggests ways to form a lasting friendship with a ghost, including welcoming it into the house, feeding it snacks, and entertaining it with jokes and dance parties.
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Pashmina
by Nidhi Chanani
When Priyanka finds a mysterious pashmina in her house, she is transported to an India which may or may not be real, and goes in search of the reason why her mother left her homeland and the father she has never met.
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Her right foot
by Dave Eggers
Presents facts about the Statue of Liberty, describing its creation in France, assembly in the United States in 1886, and the symbolism of its right foot which appears to be breaking free from chains.
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When the English fall : a novel
by David Williams
A tale told through the diary of an Amish farmer recounts his struggles to protect his family and way of life when a catastrophic solar storm decimates modern civilization, causing "English" outsiders to violently target the Amish for their resources.
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To die in spring
by Ralf Rothmann
The son of an alcoholic World War II veteran pieces together the story of his father's experiences as a young apprentice milker on a northern German farm who, along with his outspoken friend, was tricked into becoming an army volunteer and committing an unthinkable act. By the award-winning author of Fire Doesn't Burn.
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Nomadland : surviving America in the twenty-first century
by Jessica Bruder
An award-winning journalist sets out on the road to explore the new phenomenon of “workampers” who are migrant workers made up of transient older Americans who took to the road after discovering that their social security came up short and their mortgages were underwater.
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Storm in a teacup : the physics of everyday life
by Helen Czerski
Explanations of scientific principles as they can be observed in everyday examples, from the billowing cloud appearance of milk in hot drinks to how ducks keep their feet warm while walking on ice, reveal how they are linked to major challenges, including climate change and the energy crisis.
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Mrs. Fletcher : a novel
by Tom Perrotta
Struggling to adjust to her empty nest when her only child departs for college, a middle-aged divorcee receives an erotic message from a secret admirer and becomes obsessed with a fantasy porn site for women; while miles away at college, her son encounters challenges to his outmoded ideas of sex. By the best-selling author of Little Children.
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Strangers in their own land : anger and mourning on the American right
by Arlie Russell Hochschild
In Strangers in Their Own Land, renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country--a stronghold of the conservative right. Along the way she finds answers to one of the crucial questions of contemporary American politics: why do the people who would seemto benefit most from "liberal" government intervention abhor the very idea?
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