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Athol Library News January 2023
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Happy New Year! We are wishing happiness and good health to all our members in this new year! Thank you sharing your time with us. You make the Athol Library a better place.
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The Athol Library will be closed Monday, January 16 in recognition of Martin Luther King Day.
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We're Reading 📚 Bethany-The Only Pirate at the Party by Lindsey Stirling (Bio) Crystal - Been too busy to read Grace - The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (Gothic Fiction)Gwen - Treasured Grace by Tracie Petersen (Historical Fiction) Janet-Death by Smoothie by Laura Levine (Cozy Mystery) Jill - The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont (Hist Fic & Mystery) Tiffany-Tempting Destiny by Amelia Hutchins (Fantasy, Romance)
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Preschool Storytime Preschool Storytime – Wednesdays 11:00 am (note new time) Begins Wednesday, January 11. Playtime, stories, and music aimed for kids 3-5.
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Stealth Imagination Explorers Tuesdays 3:30pm - January 3, 10, 17, 24, and 31. 1st Tuesday of the month Chess, Last Tuesday of month LEGO
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Libratory – Art Exploration Monday, January 23, 1:00 pm
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Teen Time January 11, 3:30pm - Hang out, do some art, listen to music, have some fun!!
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Family STEAM Saturday, January 28, 12:00 pm Take part in learning Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics!
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Chef Kyle Cooks Winter Soups! Saturday January 14, 1:00pm Chef Kyle is back with another warm winter soup recipe! This month is Gnocchi - Italian dumplings made with flour, eggs, and potatoes. Please RSVP by calling the Athol Library at 208-683-2979 or sign up at the Athol Library front desk.
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National Bird Day National Bird Day is observed every year on January 5. This holiday raises awareness about the fact that birds are an endangered species in the United States. Click here to learn more.
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National Science Fiction Day Science fiction fans around the world celebrate January 2 as Science Fiction Day. It celebrates science fiction writer Isaac Asimov's official birthday. Celebrate this day by reading your favorite science fiction authors, watch science fiction movies and hold science fiction themed parties. Also, encourage young readers in your life to pick up a science fiction book or short story to read.
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Neuromancer
by William Gibson
Case, a burned out computer whiz, is asked to steal a security code that is locked in the most heavily guarded databank in the solar system
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The wrinkle in time quartet / : A Wrinkle in Time / A Wind in the Door / A Swiftly Tilting Planet / Many Waters
by Madeleine L'Engle
This first volume gathers Wrinkle with three books that chronicle the continuing adventures of Meg and her siblings. In A Wind in the Door, Meg and Calvin descend into the microverse to save Charles Wallace from the Echthroi, evil beings who are trying to unname existence. When a madman threatens nuclear war in A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Charles Wallace must save the future by traveling into the past. And in Many Waters, Sandy and Dennys, Meg's twin brothers, are accidentally transported back to the time of Noah's ark
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Frankenstein or, the modern prometheus / : Or, the Modern Prometheus
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The story of Victor Frankenstein and the monster he created has held readers spellbound since it was first published more than two centuries ago. On the surface, it is a novel of tense and steadily mounting dread. On a more profound level, it illuminatesthe triumph and tragedy of the human condition in its portrayal of a scientist who oversteps the bounds of conscience, and of a creature tortured by the solitude of a world in which he does not belong. A novel of almost hallucinatory intensity, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein represents one of the most striking flowerings of the Romantic imagination. It is a classic work of horror that blurs the line between man and monster
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Parable of the sower
by Octavia E Butler
"In 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others' pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages."
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Do androids dream of electric sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
A new trade paper edition of the science fiction classic, first published in 1968, captures the strange world of twenty-first-century Earth, a devastated planet in which incredibly realistic androids, banned from Earth, fight back against their potential destroyers. Reprint.
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H.G. Wells the time machine
by Dobbs
Shares the story of a scientist who invents a time machine and uses it to travel to the year 802,701 A.D., where he discovers the childlike Eloi and the hideous underground Morlocks
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