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Lost in the Stacks February 2018
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February Happenings at the Library For Kids February 10, 1:30-3:30 PM Ages 2-10 with family. Drop-in. The Formosa Association of Student Cultural Ambassadors will be hosting performances and crafts for kids. Everyone is welcome! February 11, 1:00-2:00 PM Grades 1-5 with family. Lac Hong School will provide Traditional Vietnamese dance troops and crafts! February 12, 4:00-5:00 PM Ages 2-12 with family. Drop-in. Make valentines to give to the people you love! For Kids at Murray Scholls February 6, 6:30-7:30 PM Grades K-5 with family. Drop-in. Get your hands on our STEM toys! A variety of toys will be available to tinker with and explore. February 12, 2:00-3:00 PM Ages 2-6 with adult. Join us to test out fun science experiments! This month will focus on experimenting with color.. February 14, 6:00-7:00 PM Grades K-5 with family. Drop-in. Let your Emojis run wild! Celebrate this fun movie with crafts and activities. For Teens February 7, 5:00-6:00 PM Grades 6-12. Drop-in. Whether you're looking forward to Valentine's Day or not, eat chocolate and answer fun trivia about the history of chocolate and famous love! February 13, 4:30-5:30 PM Join us as we learn to embroider our own patches to attach to bags or jackets! No sewing experience required. Join us for a workshop all about scholarships, grants and work study programs that can help fund your dream college education. For Adults Classes run 2/1, 2/8, 2/15, 2/22, 3/1 and 3/8. A six-week educational series designed to help unpaid caregivers take care of themselves while caring for a relative or a friend with chronic illness. Registration Required; to register, call 503-846-3089. Brain Fitness ClassesFebruary 2, 2018, 10:30 AM-11:30 AM Classes run 1/5, 1/12, 1/19, 1/26, 2/2, and 2/9. Come get your brain loose and limber with fun brain training games and exercises in this series of six classes led by Certified Brain Fitness Trainer, Susan Carres. Registration required. Join other singers, musicians and music-lovers of all levels in a supportive and informal environment to share songs and music. We sing pop and folk songs from the 60s and 70s, with a few traditional numbers thrown in. If you have a favorite song you want to sing, please bring 20 photocopies with lyrics and chords to share. Have fun singing with others! All ages are welcome. Free and open to the public; no registration required. You are invited to join us on a journey through the African-American experience. The World Stage Theatre, under the direction of playwright Shalanda Sims, presents a montage of African-American figures and movements, past and present. In its twelfth season, this masterful production employs song, dance, imagery and spoken word. The performance will be followed by a conversation with the actors and the playwright. Free and open to the public; no registration required. Engage for Health teaches you how to effectively communicate with your healthcare provider. Through the tips and techniques shared, you will improve your ability to talk with your healthcare provider, know what questions to ask your healthcare provider each time you have an appointment and why these questions are important, and learn where to search online for easy-to-understand and factually correct health and medical information. This program is led by Michele Spatz, Interprofessional Education & Outreach Coordinator at Pacific University Libraries and a healthcare provider. Free and open to the public; no registration required. February 13, 2018, 6:30-8:00 PM Library staff highlight great picks for book clubs and book lovers… speed-dating style! Free and open to the public; no registration required. Do you whittle? Knit? Color? Scrapbook? Sketch? Join us for Bring Your Own Craft Night to work on these projects and more. We'll provide a place, time and some refreshments to get crafting done. You bring your craft and get to know your fellow crafters in the community! Free and open to the public; no registration required. February 18, 2018, 2:00-4:00 PM Presenting the documentary “Priced Out: 15 Years of Gentrification in Portland, Oregon,” an investigative and personal look at how skyrocketing housing prices are displacing Portland's black community and reshaping the entire city. The feature-length documentary explores the complexities and contradictions of gentrification and what neighborhood life means after the era of “the ghetto.” The film is a sequel to the 2002 documentary “Northeast Passage: The Inner City and the American Dream.” Following the screening, there will be a question-and-answer session with the filmmaker. Free and open to the public; no registration required. February 22, 2018, 7:00-8:30 PM Recent revelations about government surveillance, including Edward Snowden's leak of NSA documents, have renewed worldwide attention to questions around privacy. Why is privacy important? What are the uses of surveillance? What are the dangers? Independent scholar and writer Kristian Williams will lead participants in a conversation about the scope and consequences of government surveillance, as well as ethical and legal limits of surveillance practices. Free and open to the public; no registration required. Book Discussion Groups for AdultsBook Club at Murray Scholls Reading ListMeets the first Friday of each month at 10 AM at the Murray Scholls branch library Recommended Reads Reading ListMeets the fourth Tuesday of each month at 6:30 PM at the Beaverton Main Library
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The unexpected love story of Alfred Fiddleduckling
by Timothy Basil Ering
When Captain Alfred's boat is caught in an unexpected storm everything aboard the ship is flung to the far reaches of the sea except one little duckling and a fiddle that the the duckling embraces with all his heart
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Jaya and Rasa fall in love : A Love Story
by Sonia Patel
"In Hawaii, seventeen-year-old Jaya Mehta is a transgender outsider with depressive tendencies and the stunningly beautiful Rasa Santos thinks sex is her only power. Will their love transcend and pull them forward or will they remain stuck, separate, in the chaos of their pasts?"
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Water in May
by Ismee Williams
A pregnant teen in New York City faces an impossible decision and seeks to heal her fractured family when she discovers that her unborn baby has a severe heart defect. A first novel. 15,000 first printing.
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Sing, unburied, sing : a novel
by Jesmyn Ward
Living with his grandparents and toddler sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo navigates the challenges of his tormented mother's addictions and his grandmother's terminal cancer before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip of danger and hope. By the National Book Award-winning author of Salvage the Bones.
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We were eight years in power : an American tragedy
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
A compelling portrait of the historic Barack Obama era, combining new and annotated essays from the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me, includes the articles, "Fear of a Black President" and "The Case for Reparations" as well as two new pieces on the Obama administration and what is coming next.
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Obama : An Intimate Portrait: The Historic Presidency in Photographs
by Pete Souza
A visual biography of Barack Obama's historic presidency, captured in unprecedented detail by his White House photographer, includes images documenting the most consequential hours of the Obama administration as well as the 44th President's encounters with world leaders, cultural figures and family members. 250,000 first printing.
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