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Sun, Dec. 7, 3-4PM Start the season with joyous holiday music performed by the Roaring Fork Youth Orchestra. You will have an opportunity to sing along to familiar songs and carols accompanied by a full orchestra! Comienza la temporada con jubilosos sonidos de fiesta, interpretados por Roaring Fork Youth Orchestra. ¡Tendrás la oportunidad de cantar villancicos y otros temas conocidos en compañía de una orquesta completa! |
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Thurs, Dec. 11, 4-5PM Designed exclusively for the daring and curious, Banned Book Club is a safe and inclusive space for readers to explore literature that has challenged norms, defied censorship, and sparked important conversations throughout history. This month's book is Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher. You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play. Diseñado exclusivamente para seres audaces y curiosos, el Club de Libros Prohibidos es un espacio seguro e incluyente para que quienes participen puedan explorar la literatura que ha desafiado las normas, provocado la censura, y dado luz a conversaciones importantes a lo largo de la historia. La lectura de este mes se titula “Thirteen Reasons Why” (Por trece razones), escrito por Jay Asher. No puedes detener el futuro. No puedes retroceder en el pasado. La única manera de conocer el secreto… es presionar el botón de “play”. |
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Wed, Dec. 17, 5:30-6:30PM This month's Book Talk features novel, There There by Tommy Orange. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize. Join us to discuss themes, questions, and what resonated with you during a discussion facilitated by Mary Fox. La Conversación Literaria de este mes presenta la novela “There There” (Ni aquí ni allí), escrita por Tommy Orange. La maravillosa y demoledora novela de Tommy Orange sigue a doce personajes de comunidades indígenas norteamericanas, todos en camino al Gran Powwow de Oakland, y todos vinculados entre sí en maneras que tal vez no han descubierto aún. Acompáñanos a discutir los temas presentados, a hacer y responder a las preguntas que surjan, y a comentar lo que ha resonado contigo en una discusión facilitada por Mary Fox. |
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Christmas We will be closing early at 3PM on Wednesday, December 24 and will be closed on Thursday, December 25. New Years We will be closing early at 5PM on Wednesday, December 31 and will be closed on Thursday, January 1. Have safe and happy holidays! |
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Nash Falls
by David Baldacci
When Walter Nash is recruited by the FBI to help bring down a global crime network his life is turned completely upside down in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci. Nash is an intelligent man, tough but fair-minded. He has a wife and a daughter and a very high-level position at Sybaritic Investments, where his innate skills and dogged tenacity have carried him to the top of the pyramid in his business career. Despite never going on grand adventures, and always working too many hours, he has a happy and upscale life with his family. However, following his estranged Vietnam-veteran father's funeral, Nash is unexpectedly approached by the FBI in the middle of the night. They have an important request: become their inside man to expose an enterprise that is laundering large sums of money through Sybaritic. At the top of this illegal operation is Victoria Steers, an international criminal mastermind that the FBI has been trying to bring down for years. Nash has little choice but to accept the FBI's demands and try to bring Steers and her partners to justice. But when Steers discovers that Nash is working with the FBI, she turns the tables on him in a way he never could have contemplated. And that forces Nash to take the ultimate step both to survive and to take his revenge: He must become the exact opposite of who he has always been. And even that may not be enough.
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Cursed Daughters
by Oyinkan Braithwaite
When Ebun gives birth to her daughter, Eniiyi, on the day they bury her cousin Monife, there is no denying the startling resemblance between the child and the dead woman. So begins the belief, fostered and fanned by the entire family, that Eniiyi is the actual reincarnation of Monife, fated to follow in her footsteps in all ways, including that tragic end. There is also the matter of the family curse: No man will call your house his home. And if they try, they will not have peace... which has been handed down from generation to generation, breaking hearts and causing three generations of abandoned Falodun women to live under the same roof. When Eniiyi falls in love with the handsome boy she saves from drowning, she can no longer run from her family's history. As several women in her family have done before, she ill-advisedly seeks answers in older, darker spiritual corners of Lagos, demanding solutions. Is she destined to live out the habitual story of love and heartbreak? Or can she break the pattern once and for all, not only avoiding the spiral that led Monife to her lonely death, but liberating herself from all the family secrets and unspoken traumas that have dogged her steps since before she could remember?
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Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
by Margaret Atwood
How does one of the greatest storytellers of our time write her own life? The long-awaited memoir from the author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, one of our most lauded and influential cultural figures.' Every writer is at least two beings: the one who lives, and the one who writes. Though everything written must have passed through their minds, or mind, they are not the same.' Raised by ruggedly independent, scientifically minded parents - entomologist father, dietician mother - Atwood spent most of each year in the wild forest of northern Quebec. This childhood was unfettered and nomadic, sometimes isolated (on her eighth birthday: 'It sounds forlorn. It was forlorn. It gets more forlorn.'), but also thrilling and beautiful. From this unconventional start, Atwood unfolds the story of her life, linking seminal moments to the books that have shaped our literary landscape, from the cruel year that spawned Cat's Eye to the Orwellian 1980s Berlin where she wrote The Handmaid's Tale. In pages bursting with bohemian gatherings, her magical life with the wildly charismatic writer Graeme Gibson and major political turning points, we meet poets, bears, Hollywood actors and larger-than-life characters straight from the pages of an Atwood novel. As we travel with her along the course of her life, more and more is revealed about her writing, the connections between real life and art - and the workings of one of our greatest imaginations.
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A Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore
by Matthew Davis
A comprehensive narrative history of Mt. Rushmore, written in light of recent political controversies, and a timely retrospective for the monument's 100th anniversary in 2025 Well, most people want to come to a national park and leave with that warm, fuzzy feeling with an ice cream cone. Rushmore can't do that if you do it the right way. If you do it the right way people are going to be leaving pissed. Gerard Baker, the first Native American superintendent of Mt. Rushmore, shared those words with author Matthew Davis. From the tragic history of Wounded Knee and the horrors of Indian Boarding Schools, to the Land Back movement of today, Davis traces the Native American story of Mt. Rushmore alongside the narrative of the growing territory and state of South Dakota, and the economic and political forces that shaped the reasons for the Memorial's creation. A Biography of A Mountain combines history with reportage, bringing the complicated and nuanced story of Mt. Rushmore to life, from the land's origins as sacred tribal ground; to the expansion of the American West; to the larger-than-life personality of Gutzon Borglum, the artist who carved the presidential faces into the mountain; and up to the politicized present-day conflict over the site and its future. Exploring issues related to how we memorialize American history, Davis tells an imperative story for our time.
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Basalt Regional Library
14 Midland Ave | Basalt CO | 970-927-4311 | basaltlibrary.org
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