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Athol Library News July 2019
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We will be closed on Thursday, July 4, to celebrate Independence Day.
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Your Story is Important! We are all about stories this summer and weβd love to help you share yours. We have an app through StoryCorps that makes it easy! You can reserve iPads and mics at our Athol Library. Come in and record a story that your family will trasue foreever. We'll help you do it.
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π Summer Reading 2019 πΈ Reading together is fun and will create life-long memories for the whole family. Keep track of the books youβve read with our easy-to-use online platform, in a notebook, on our reading log, or however you choose! The more you read, the more Book Bucks you can earn to spend at the Universe of Stories Book Buck Store. Whether you read books or magazines, someone reads to you, or you listen to an audiobookβit all counts!
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Library Network Takes Part in Mini Maker Faire The Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earthβor at least the greatest in North Idahoβwill unfold on the North Idaho College campus on Saturday, July 13, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Headed up by Gizmo-CDA, Community Library Network staff will be on hand to introduce folks to the Maker Movement.
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Live Music with Jesse Warburton Thursday July 18th, 4:30-6:00 Jesse Warburton, AKA Brother Music will perform a creative blend of blues and gospel music. Enjoy light refreshments while listening to Jesseβs unique poetic sound.
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Harry Potter Party Saturday, July 27th, 11:00am -1:00pm Held at the Athol Community Center Celebrate the magic of Hogwarts with themed activites, games, prizes, and more! *Muggles welcome.
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Tuesdays, July 2, 9, 16, 23, & 30, 10:30am Does your little one like stars, exploring, and adventure? Join us for Space Explorers story time where we explore all things space. Stories, puppets, dancing, crafts, and hands-on fun. Geared to ages 2-5 π
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Tweens Makers Club Wednesday, July 17, 4:30-6:00pm Join us for Makers Club, a space where tweens can work on projects through sharingtheir ideas and knowledge.
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Youth Marimba Wednesday, July 10, 10-11am Held at the bandstand in Athol City Park Enjoy the music of Zimbabwe with local youth. Dancing is encouraged! Bring a chair or blanket for this high energy outdoor concert.
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GO GO Gadget Thursdays, July 11, 18, & 25, 10:30am Join us and build, create, and explore space, robots, technology, art, and more. Geared to grades K-5
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Tween NERF Battle Thursday, July 25, 6:00-7:30pm *At the Athol Community Center* Bring your NERF gun or borrow one of ours as ou prepare to voyage through SPACE: the Final Frontier. Bring a friend or two, for even more fun!
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Paint and Sip Wednesday, July 10, 4:30-6:00pm Join us for a fun afternoon of friends, fun, soda, juice and PAINTING at the Library
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π πππππ π Adults - Summer Reading is for you, too! Pick up a stamp card and read whatever books you want! Every book gets a stamp; six stamps gets you entered in for the monthly prize drawing. It's easy π
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Wintering : Library Edition
by Peter Geye
The Eide family finds themselves changed forever after their elderly, demented patriarch runs into the wilderness of northern Minnesota in an attempt to reenact a similar adventure decades earlier
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What the Craft! We're taking a break for the Summer. Check back for more innovative and fun crafts beginning in September π
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Tech help Most of us here are skilled with computers and technology. Stop by to get assistance with your computer and technological questions. We can help make it easier for you π
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Down from the mountain : the life and death of a grizzly bear
by Bryce Andrews
The award-winning conservationist and author of Badluck Way documents the story of an endangered grizzly and how her struggles to raise her cubs in the face of climate change and shrinking wildlands reflect changing human values. 25,000 first printing
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Why you like it : the science and culture of musical taste
by Nolan Gasser
The chief architect of the Pandora Radio song-recommendation engine presents a groundbreaking examination of how the body and mind affect music tastes, discussing how the brain processes music and what qualities trigger such human responses as humming and dancing. Illustrations.
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Sprout lands : tending the endless gift of trees
by William Bryant Logan
A practicing arborist discusses how people once used trees as an endless and self-renewing source of food and building materials, and presents practical knowledge about how we can again learn to tend to them in this way.
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The human swarm : how our societies arise, thrive, and fall
by Mark W Moffett
Traces the epic story of how humans evolved from intimate chimp communities into a world-dominating species, sharing multidisciplinary insights into the origins of complex human civilizations and what is required to sustain them
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Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World by M.R. O'ConnorWhat it is: a multidisciplinary examination of wayfinding, which includes spatial orientation, navigation, perception, and culturally specific practices of interacting with one's environment.
What else it is: a thought-provoking book that frames maps, compasses, and other navigation technologies as tools of European imperialism.
Read it for: the author's interactions with experts in traditional navigation from the Arctic, Australia, and the South Pacific. |
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Infinite powers : how calculus reveals the secrets of the universe
by Steven H. Strogatz
The preeminent math personality and author of The Joy of X presents an engaging explanation of calculus that demonstrates its simplicity and essential role in explaining the universe and enabling life-improving technologies. 40,000 first printing. Tour
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. SapolskyWhat it is: an interdisciplinary study of human behavior by neurobiologist and primatologist Robert Sapolsky.
What it does: Behave explores human behavior by taking a single (re)action and examining what's going on in the brain and body in the seconds, minutes, hours, days, and even years before it occurs.
Don't miss: the author's top ten strategies for reducing violence in our species.
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Human errors : a panorama of our glitches, from pointless bones to broken genes
by Nathan H. Lents
A lighthearted, illuminating tour of the physical imperfections that make us human seeks to explain the human body's counter-intuitive tendency to fall ill, break down and generate superfluous parts, exploring human evolutionary history as a virtual litany of errors and compromises that reveal how human intelligence has proven adept at maneuvering around the body's design flaws. 30,000 first printing.
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ππThere are lots of emotions that go with the fourth of Julyπ¦π Dan Harmon
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Did You Know? Going to iTunes or Amazon for music? Before you buy, you might want to check out Freegal first. You might just save some money. Found at FreegalMusic, the Freegal collection gives library members access to 15 million songs from 40,000 labels, from classics to the newly-released. All you need is a library card. Whatβs more, the downloads are permanent (five per week) and can be transferred to other devices. Streaming, three hours per week, is available too. The Freegal app was updated last year with a sleek new look and allows you to create playlists, put songs on a wish list, and more.
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