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Community Library Network District Newsletter
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Library Lovers December to Remember My List for creating a December to Remember. - Cozy Reading | When the weather is wet and cold, I love a cozy chair, warm blanket, my dogs at my feet and a cozy mystery or holiday novel. What a great excuse to stop by the public library today!
- Feel Good Movies | Having just watched Home Alone and a Hallmark holiday romance movie (or two), it feels good to be distracted. My personal, perennial feel good must be White Christmas with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and Rosemary Clooney. Oh, the melodies, dancing, and lifelong memories I made with my grandmother around this film.
- Game Nights – Puzzles | Yahtzee and Pinochle are what my family falls back to as our holiday downtime favorites. A family game night is a great way to relax and rewind. Be sure to check out CLN’s library of things, the library allows members to borrow puzzles and games! Take home an evening’s adventure – it’s free!
- Holiday Recipes | While my family likes to try new recipes, I always make a lemon butter cookie cheesecake. If you don’t know, library’s offer the best cookbook collections in town. Our family cheesecake recipe comes from a 1950’s Betty Crocker cookbook. It is the best!
- Let it Snow! | Bundle up and head outside. After the cheesecake, a little movement is a good thing!
- Holiday Crafting | After my family decorates with greenery and lights, we love to build a gingerbread house. Edible Art! I prefer simple crafts, so I love going to library programs this time of year. The library offers so many great new holiday crafting ideas.
~Alexa Eccles Community Library Network Director
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Gift Wrapping Party Do you need a place to wrap gifts away from prying eyes? Or perhaps just a space to enjoy some gift-wrapping festivities? Looking for tips and tricks? Join us for a gift-wrapping party! You bring your own wrapping paper and gifts. We’ll provide the space, warm drinks, ambiance, tape, and scissors. Monday, December 4th 5:00-6:30 pm | Pinehurst
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Yoga Join Liz at the Hayden Library as she leads a series of Yoga programs, each designed to help you relax and increase your health literacy. Every Sunday, 12:30-1:30 pm | Hayden
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Holiday Crafternoon Make candy cane earrings, a soy wax jar candle, and character ornaments!
Just visit the Spirit Lake Library between 1 & 4 PM during our open house and we'll help you learn some fun DIY (Do-It-Yourself) projects. Saturday, December 9th, 1:00-4:00 pm | Spirit Lake
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Knit Along Join our “Knitter’s Social Hour” every Monday to socialize, work on your projects and help one another (if needed)! We work to inspire and help each other as well as create our individual projects. Every Monday, 1:00 - 3:00 pm | Rathdrum
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Cricut Club Fuel your imagination and learn how to use a Cricut machine! Learn how to create greeting cards, custom stickers, vinyl decals, and much more! Tuesday, December 19th 10:00 - 1:00 pm | Post Falls
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Wonka Release Party In celebration of the new Wonka movie, we will be making custom candy bars, candy necklaces, and playing candy-themed games. Open to tweens and teens ages 10-14. Monday, December 11th, 3:00pm | Pinehurst Friday, December 15th, 12:00pm | Post Falls 2:30pm | Spirit Lake Saturday, December 16th, 12:00pm | Athol Friday, December 22nd, 3:00pm | Hayden
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Polar Express Storytime All aboard the Storytime Express! Come in your pajamas for a polar express themed story time with lots of train-themed stories. For ages 3-5. Tuesday, December 19th, 10:30am | Post Falls
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Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh Party The Pigeon you know and love is back to celebrate the holidays with you. Join us for games, music, crafts, and photo ops. For ages 3-8. Wednesday, December 20, 10:30am | Hayden
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Holiday Cookie Decorating Teens and tweens are invited to join us for an afternoon of decorating holiday cookies Bring your friends and enjoy an opportunity to be creative, celebrate the holidays, and make something delicious! Tuesday, December 12, 3:30 pm | Athol (For ages 11-17) Friday, December 15, 3:00pm | Hayden (For ages 11-17) Wednesday, December 20, 4:00pm | Post Falls (For all ages)
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Kid Craft Market Friday, December 22, 12:30-2:00pm, Post Falls Kids can swap and trade handmade works of art, gifts and more at this market for kids. In place of money, participants will receive tickets. They can trade their tickets for other kids' items or for small prizes at the library table. A great way to practice public speaking and business skills! For registration and Market Friday, December 22, 12:30-2:00pm | Post Falls
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Wreck the halls : a novel
by Tessa Bailey
Stepping out of her comfort zone with her former best friend Beat Dawkins to convince their mothers to perform one last concert on Christmas Eve, Melody Gallard, the daughter of music royalty, discovers a decades-old scandal threatens to wreck everything—the reunion, their relationships with their mothers and their newfound love.
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Three holidays and a wedding
by Uzma Jalaluddin
Strangers and seatmates Maryam and Anna, confessing their deepest hopes and fears to one another during severe turbulence, find themselves, after an emergency landing, snowbound in a picture-perfect town where Christmas magic and newfound love make these unlikely friends realize there's no place they'd rather be for the holidays. Original.
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The kingdom of sweets : a novel of The Nutcracker
by Erika Johansen
"Light and dark-this is the destiny placed upon Natasha and Clara, the birthright bestowed by their godfather, the mysterious sorcerer Drosselmeyer. Clara, the favorite, grows into beauty and ease, while Natasha is cursed to live in her sister's shadow. But one fateful Christmas Eve, Natasha gets her chance at revenge. For Drosselmeyer has brought the Nutcracker, an enchanted present that offers entry into a deceptively beautiful world: the Kingdom of Sweets. In this land of snow and sugar, Natasha is presented with a power far greater than Drosselmeyer: the Sugar Plum Fairy, who is also full of gifts . . . and dreadful bargains. As Natasha uncovers the dark destiny laid before her birth, she must reckon with powers both earthly and magical, and decide to which world she truly belongs"
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The Christmas guest : a novella
by Peter Swanson
When a last-minute invitation from fellow student Emma Chapman brings her to Starvewood Hall for the holidays, Ashley Smith, an American art student in London, discovers this seemingly charming English village's grim history when a local girl is brutally murdered and Emma's brother is linked to the crime.
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