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Come to the library for bite-sized cinematic gems that open a window to the world! This heartfelt program consists of films that take you on a journey across the landscapes of the heart, places we call home, and our common humanity. The event is FREE and open to the public. Films are appropriate for all ages with Spanish-language and no-dialogue films included, so make it a family event! Popcorn and drinks will be provided. ¡Ven a la biblioteca a disfrutar de joyas cinematográficas cortitas que abrirán para ti una ventana al mundo! Este emotivo programa consiste de cintas que te llevarán en un recorrido a través de los paisajes del corazón, los sitios a los que llamamos “hogar”, y la humanidad que nos une. Este evento es GRATUITO y está abierto al público. Los cortos son apropiados para personas de todas las edades, e incluyen algunas cintas habladas en español y otras sin diálogos. ¡Es un evento para toda la familia! Ofreceremos palomitas de maíz y bebidas. |
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We are excited to inaugurate our music workshop series with a Songwriting session led by Jan Garret and JD Martin! This workshop is made possible by funding from the Basalt Public Arts Commission and the Town of Basalt. - July 7 & Aug. 4: These sessions will focus on the mechanics of songwriting. Jan & JD will guide participants through exercises designed to build songwriting skills and spark creativity.
- July 21 & Aug. 18: These sessions gives participants the chance to perform their songs and receive feedback from Jan & JD. Feedback spots are limited to 10 participants, but the event remains open to anyone that shows up to observe. To receive feedback, please register online in advance or sign up on a first-come, first-served basis at the event, as space permits.
¡Estamos emocionados de inaugurar nuestra serie de talleres musicales con una sesión de composición musical dirigida por Jan Garret y JD Martin! Este taller se ha hecho posible gracias al financiamiento de Basalt Public Arts Commission y de la Municipalidad de Basalt. - 7 de Julio y 4 de Agosto: Estas sesiones se enfocará en los métodos de composición musical. Jan y JD guiarán a las personas participantes a través de ejercicios diseñados para desarrollar aptitudes de composición musical y despertar la creatividad.
- 21 de Julio y 18 de Agosto: Estas sesiones les otorga a las personas participantes la oportunidad de presentar sus canciones y recibir comentarios y sugerencias por parte de Jan & JD. Los espacios se encuentran limitados a 10 participantes para recibir sugerencias, pero el evento permanecerá abierto para cualquier persona que desee asistir para observar el evento. Para recibir asesoría, deberás inscribirte en línea previamente, o inscribirte el día del evento — sólo toma en cuenta que los espacios serán otorgados de acuerdo con el orden de llegada, y siempre y cuando se encuentren disponibles.
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Grab some popcorn and settle in! Join us for a fun movie night at the library featuring a newer film you won’t want to miss. Enjoy the big screen, cozy vibes, and a great story—no tickets required. Bring friends, bring family, or just bring yourself and relax while we take care of the movie magic. Popcorn and light refreshments will be provided while supplies last. Seating is first-come, first-served. This month's movie: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie ¡Toma unas palomitas de maíz y acomódate bien! Acompáñanos para una divertida noche de película en la biblioteca, presentando una cinta de estreno que no querrás perderte. Disfruta de la pantalla grande, la energía acogedora y una gran historia — sin necesidad de boletos de entrada. Trae a tus amistades, familiares, o ven sin acompañantes… y relájate mientras nos encargamos de crear magia a través de la pantalla. Tendremos palomitas de maíz y refrigerios ligeros (hasta agotar existencias). Los asientos estarán disponibles de acuerdo con el orden de llegada. La película de este mes: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie |
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Join us for an unforgettable live recording of the acclaimed literary podcast First Draft, hosted by Mitzi Rapkin, as she sits down with acclaimed author and artist Rachel Eliza Griffiths in conversation about her new book, The Flower Bearers: A Memoir. This live podcast event offers a rare opportunity to hear directly from a celebrated literary voice in thoughtful conversation, followed by audience questions. Free copies of The Flower Bearers: A Memoir will be available while supplies last, live interpretation will be provided, and all are invited to stay for a reception following the program. Acompáñanos durante una inolvidable grabación en vivo del aclamado podcast literario First Draft, presentado por Mitzi Rapkin, en el que se sentará frente a la renombrada autora y artista Rachel Eliza Griffiths en una conversación sobre su nuevo libro: “The Flower Bearers: A Memoir” (Los portadores de flores: Una autobiografía). Este evento para la grabación del podcast en vivo ofrece una rara oportunidad de escuchar directamente a una celebrada voz literaria en una conversación profunda, seguida de preguntas por parte de la audiencia. Ejemplares gratuitos de “The Flower Bearers: A Memoir” (Los portadores de flores: Una autobiografía) estarán disponibles hasta agotar existencias. Se ofrecerá una interpretación al español en tiempo real. Todas las personas que asistan están invitadas a quedarse para una recepción al terminar el programa. |
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July 3rd & 4th
We will be closed on Friday, July 3rd and Saturday, July 4th for Independence Day. We will reopen at 12PM on Sunday, July 5th. Have a safe and happy holiday!
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August 3rd & 4th
We will be closed Monday, August 3rd and Tuesday, August 4th. Our IT vendor and consortium leader, Marmot, is moving their servers which will cause major service interruptions. With most of our services not functional on these two days, the customer service experience we would be able to provide you would not be up to the level we love to provide. Because of this we have made the difficult decision to be closed. We will reopen on Wednesday, August 5th at 10AM. |
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Road Trip
by Mary Kay Andrews
New from the beloved New York Times bestselling author of Summers at the Saint and Hello, Summer. Pack your bags for a summer journey shaped by family secrets, long-buried history, and charming men with Irish accents. Maeve and Therese Dunigan haven't spoken in years. Raised under the same roof in Savannah, the two sisters could not be more opposite--Maeve the rule follower, Therese the unapologetic rebel. But when their mother's death pulls them back together, they inherit more than just grief: a mysterious painting that may be worth millions...if it's real. Determined to uncover the truth--and desperately in need of the money--the sisters set out on a journey to Ireland, tracing their family's roots and the origins of the portrait. What begins as a search for answers soon becomes something deeper--a reckoning with the past, as they uncover secrets that span generations and reshape everything they thought they knew about their family. With tensions simmering, the two hit the road and find themselves on twisty lanes, in colorful villages, at local pubs, and with handsome men whose gift of the gab is surpassed only by their charm. Can Maeve and Therese actually survive the journey without killing each other? Join Mary Kay Andrews on a road trip that will entertain you for miles.
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The Fine Art of Lying
by Alexandra Andrews
NATIONAL BESTSELLER This book feels like a secret I'm not supposed to share . . . but it's too good not to. Set in New York's art world, full of lies, money, and very messy choices, our May Pick is The Fine Art of Lying by Alexandra Andrews. --Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club May '26 Pick) Alexandra Andrews is monied Manhattan's very own Agatha Christie.--Ada Calhoun From the critically acclaimed author of Who is Maud Dixon? comes a riveting new novel about a young wife and mother thrust into a world of wealth and privilege, whose rash mistake sets off a domino effect of murder and betrayal. In the beginning, there was art. It was Clare Bast's love of art that saved her from a bleak, predictable life in upstate New York, and drew her to the cultured world of Manhattan's Upper East Side where she met Jed, her doting, affluent husband. Despite her best efforts--including a half-finished PhD, abandoned when her daughter Sadie was born--Clare secretly can't help but feel like an imposter in Jed's one-percent, Park-Avenue life. When the well-connected wife of Jed's new boss introduces her to influential friends--a curator here, a gallerist there, an aficionado abroad--Clare feels an essential part of herself coming alive again. And when she discovers that an important work painted by the subject of her unfinished dissertation is hanging in the brownstone of a seductively attractive dealer, she believes fate is leading her where she belongs . . . until she finds herself at the scene of a gruesome murder and a stolen masterpiece. Caught in the perfectly wrong place at the perfectly wrong time, every clue the investigation uncovers points back to her. Suddenly, Clare is trapped inside a dark and treacherous art world filled with unscrupulous dealers and international criminals. What, exactly, has she gotten herself into . . . and how is she going to get herself, and her family, out?
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How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University
by Theo Baker
The instant New York Times bestseller A rigorous, self-assured, propulsive, at times terrifying portrait of a dweebocracy that 'sets the agenda for the planet' . . . in the tradition of Michael Lewis's Wall Street chronicle Liar's Poker. --The New York Times. If Baker's portrait of Stanford could be its own movie (The Internship crossed with The Skulls), his gripping account of how a tip turned into a history-making investigation has the makings of All the President's Men. --The San Francisco Chronicle. Poignant, maddening, and genuinely hilarious, How to Rule the World is to be devoured--and fast, before Stanford buys up and sets fire to every copy. (Talk about a burn book ) --Mark Leibovich. From Theo Baker, winner of the George Polk Award for his investigation that brought down Stanford's president, comes a revelatory and gripping account of Silicon Valley hubris. Slush funds. Shell companies. Yacht parties. This is life for Silicon Valley's favored teenagers. Seventeen-year-old Theo Baker showed up for freshman year at Stanford University as a tech-obsessed coder. It seemed like paradise. There were Rodin sculptures next to nuclear laboratories and inventors lounging with Olympians. But Baker soon discovered a culture that embraced corner-cutting, that vested infinite excess and access in the hands of kids with few safeguards to catch bad behavior. Stanford, he realized, was less a school than a business. Its annual budget was nearly twice that of Harvard or Yale and higher than those of 116 countries. The product? Students. Especially those special few identified as the next trillion-dollar startup founders. For them, there were secret societies, pre-idea funding offers, and social calls from billionaires, all with the expectation that these geniuses would soon join the ruling elite. At the helm of this business was Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a superstar neuroscientist and wealthy biotech executive. But when Baker joined the student newspaper and started poking around the Stanford president's record, he discovered never-reported allegations of research misconduct in studies published across two decades bearing Tessier-Lavigne's name. Only one month into college and thousands of miles from home, Baker began receiving anonymous letters, going on stakeouts, and tracking down confidential sources. High-powered lawyers and public relations teams were hired to attack his reporting. Stanford opened an investigation into its own leader. And by the end of the year, Tessier-Lavigne was out as president. This is the incredible journey of a reluctant teenage reporter who uncovered a story that shook the scientific world and became front-page news across the country. It is also an unprecedented inside view of the students learning to rule the world--and what they're learning from those who already do. How to Rule the World is a shocking, hilarious, and moving debut, showcasing Silicon Valley's training ground as never before.
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View from the East Wing: A Memoir
by Jill Biden
A novelist once wrote, There are stories one must tell, and years when one must tell them. Jill Biden's time to discuss her four years in the White House is now. Jill Biden became First Lady at a complicated moment in US history, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and in the shadow of the January 6 insurrection. These were the circumstances under which she set up office in the East Wing, where she hit the ground running. Throughout her husband's presidency, Jill remained a tireless advocate for her causes, including women's health, military families, vaccine awareness, cancer initiatives, and education. She made history as the first-ever First Lady to hold an outside job while her husband was in office, continuing to work as a professor at a nearby community college. Yet all the while, she saw herself as an ordinary woman living an extraordinary life. In View from the East Wing, Jill shares her White House experiences for the first time, in her own words. She reflects on the Biden presidency and its impact on her family. She brings you behind the scenes, from Camp David to Air Force One, from grading papers in the Rose Garden to witnessing the abrupt end of her husband's bid for reelection. This is the story of a woman dedicated to her roles as a wife, mother, grandmother, teacher--and First Lady of the United States.
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Basalt Regional Library
14 Midland Ave | Basalt CO | 970-927-4311 | basaltlibrary.org
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