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Emily Ruskovich, Idaho Friday, April 30, 6:00-7:00pm Meet author Emily Ruskovich in a live virtual event! Discuss the 2019 Dublin International Literary award-winning book, Idaho. Idaho is said to contain the "strains of a literary thriller... transformed into a lyrical meditation on memory, loss, and grief in the American West" (Kirkus Reviews). Brought to you by the Idaho Humanities Council in partnership with the Coeur d'Alene Public Library, Community Library Network, the Well-Read Moose bookstore, and Northern Pacific Railroad Depot Museum.
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The Deep Dark by Gregg OlsenThe author of Abandoned Prayers provides an eye-opening account of the deadly fire that devastated the Sunshine Mine in Kellogg, Idaho, in May 1972, a disaster that claimed more than ninety lives, and the dramatic rescue of two miners who survived more than a week underground, in a study of a community wracked by an unimaginable tragedy. North Idaho Reads 2019 pick.
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Educated by Tara WestoverTraces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn an acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond.
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All Over Creation by Ruth L. OzekiReturning home to the Idaho potato farm she had fled twenty-five years earlier, Japanese-American Yumi Fuller struggles with her father's terminal illness, her mother's Alzheimer's, her former best friend, and a former lover who once offended the town. By the author of My Year of Meats.
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ABC's of Bike Maintenance
Saturday, May 1, 5:00-7:00pm Learn about the ABC's of bicycle maintenance (that's Air, Brakes, and Chain) with Terry Brinton of NIC's Outdoor Pursuits! This virtual event breaks maintenance down into understandable terms so you'll feel self-sufficient when minor bike issues arise.
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