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discover life's possibilities | August |
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... The Next Chapter In Our Library's Story |
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Anthony Morris
-Assistant Director -Regretful blabtale -Blashy Tea Sipper |
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Thanks to generous partnerships with other organizations on the island, we've been able to add several kinds of passes for library checkout! Come pick up an Art Museum, History Museum, Whale Museum, or Discovery pass (for the state parks) for your next outing. The museum passes come in sets of two (so that you can bring a friend) and all passes checkout for a period of 1 week. Coming very soon will be passes to the Community Theatre! |
ADULT Book Group KitsHosting a book club? Come browse our book club kits! These titles have multiple copies available, so that everyone in your group can check out their own copy! |
TEEN & YOUTH Book Group Registration is now open for our Youth Book Groups! To get started, sign up online, then drop by the library to pick up your complimentary copy of the monthly book! |
YOUTH Preschool Splash N' Read August 24th, 1-4pm Ages 0-5 Join us at The Rec in Friday Harbor for our Splash N' Read Pool Party to celebrate all the fun we have had this summer. Drop in anytime between 1:00 and 4:00 PM to enjoy waterproof books, water games, and more! |
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San Juan County Fair Join the Library at the San Juan County Fair! This year's fair theme is "A Century of Growing: 100 Years at Home". The Fair and the Library have been growing together on San Juan Island for more than a century. Here's to the next 100 years! |
Local Author Talks: Jennifer Jewell Thursday, August 22, 7pm Jennifer Jewell will explore the philosophy of Cultivating Place, her national award winning-public radio program and international podcast, based on the belief that gardens/gardeners are powerful agents and spaces for potentially positive change in our world, helping to address challenges as wide ranging as climate change, habitat loss, cultural polarization, and individual and communal health and being. |
Tech Café Tuesdays between 10:00AM-12:00PM. Stop into Tech Café to get tech help with smartphones, computers, tablets, hardware, apps, and more. Our tech help is designed to empower you to use your technology and troubleshoot minor problems with one-on-one assistance from a volunteer. No need to register, you can drop in! |
Heaven on the Half Shell: Washington State’s Oyster Odyssey Wednesday, September 11th, 7pm Get to know the Pacific Northwest’s most beloved bivalve: the oyster. In this talk, author David George Gordon discusses three species— the Olympia, Eastern, and Pacific oysters— along with the people who have cultivated these delicacies for many generations. |
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by Dan L. Flores Examines the natural and urban factors that have caused the spread of coyote wildlife through the eastern regions of America, tracing the species' longtime negative connotations in spite of their capacity for living harmoniously with humans. |
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by Aimee Bender Discovering in childhood a supernatural ability to taste the emotions of others in their cooking, Rose Edelstein grows up to regard food as a curse when it reveals everyone's secret realities. |
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In a bitter divorce settlement from her billionaire husband, Rupert Mannion, Rebecca Welton becomes the new owner of British football club AFC Richmond. Her first order of business is to fire the team's current manager and replace him with an idealistic all-American football coach, Theodore 'Ted' Lasso. Ted and his friend, assistant coach Beard, cross the pond to take up the management of the team's 'long, albeit modest' history. Richmond is about to change the way they're doing things, and from now on, that way is the Lasso way. |
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Discover Life's Possibilities
1010 Guard St
Friday Harbor, Washington 98250
(360) 378-2798www.sjlib.org |
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