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Thurs, Mar. 5, 4-6PM Basalt, we have a problem, over. The Library's Space Shuttle is leaving for its maiden voyage to the stars, but something's gone haywire with the system and the crew is trapped! If you think you have what it takes to solve the escape room shuttle puzzle, then come with a small group and try your hand at this interstellar experience! This is a teen focused program, but all ages are welcome! Registration is required.Basalt, tenemos un problema, cambio. El Transbordador Espacial de la Biblioteca se prepara para su viaje inaugural hacia las estrellas, pero algunos cables del sistema se han cruzado ¡y la tripulación se encuentra atrapada! Si tú crees que cuentas con lo necesario para resolver el acertijo de esta sala de escape, ¡entonces ven con un grupo pequeño de personas e intenten resolverlo en colaboración durante esta experiencia interestelar! Este programa ha sido diseñado para adolescentes, ¡pero damos la bienvenida a personas de todas las edades! Se requiere inscripción previa. |
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The Red Winter
by Cameron Sullivan
A LibraryReads pick An Indie next pick DELUXE EDITION--the hardcover edition of The Red Winter features beautiful red sprayed edges A devastating love story. A bewitching twist on history. A blood-drenched hunt for purpose, power, and redemption. In 1785, Professor Sebastian Grave receives the news he fears most: the terrible Beast of G vaudan has returned, and the French countryside runs red in its wake. Sebastian knows the Beast. A monster-slayer with centuries of experience, he joined the hunt for the creature twenty years ago and watched it slaughter its way through a long and bloody winter. Even with the help of his indwelling demon, Sarmodel - who takes payment in living hearts - it nearly cost him his life to bring the monster down. Now, two decades later, Sebastian has been recalled to the hunt by Antoine Avenel d'Ocerne, an estranged lover who shares a dark history with the Beast and a terrible secret with Sebastian. Drawn by both the chance to finish the Beast for good and the promise of a reconciliation with Antoine, Sebastian cannot refuse. But G vaudan is not as he remembers it, and Sebastian's unfinished business is everywhere he looks. Years of misery have driven the people to desperation, and France teeters on the edge of revolution. Sebastian's arcane activities - not to mention his demonic counterpart - have also attracted the inquisitorial eye of the French clergy. And the Beast is poised to close his jaws around them all and plunge the continent into war. Debut author Cameron Sullivan tears the heart out of history with this darkly entertaining retelling of the hunt for the Beast of G vaudan. Lifting the veil on the hidden world behind our own, it reimagines the story of Europe, from Imperial Rome to Saint Jehanne d'Arc, the madness of Gilles de Rais and the first flickers of the French Revolution.
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Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People's Politician
by Dan Chiasson
The early days and inexorable rise of the young Bernie Sanders, the one-of-a-kind visionary who changed American politics forever, told by a son of the People's Republic of Burlington, Vermont The more I read of Dan Chiasson's book, the more moved I was by how absolutely unwavering Bernie's message has been across the many decades of his career. --Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home, on creating the cover art for Bernie for Burlington A fascinating portrait. --Ian Frazier, author of Paradise Bronx In this symphonic origin story of an era-defining politician, Dan Chiasson, a Burlington native who had a ringside seat to Bernie Sanders's development, reconstructs the rise of an American icon. With in-depth reporting and remarkable remembered scenes, Chiasson tracks a faint political signal that traveled from the Vermont communes, hardluck neighborhoods, traditional businesses, and county fairs to the town meetings and ballot boxes of his home state, and finally to Washington, D.C., to transform our national political landscape. Sanders, insisting on a socialist platform that hasn't changed to this day, defied a corrupt Democratic machine to find his coalition among Burlington's often feuding communities: the conservative French-Canadian Catholics whose grandparents and great-grandparents--including Chiasson's own--had worked in the mills; the puppeteers, hippies, and NYC transplants who'd moved to Vermont to find land and authenticity; the anti-nukers, activist nuns, baseball fans, developers, cops, and small businessmen like Ben and Jerry, who became Ben & Jerry's right there in town. Bernie captivated them all, running on the slogan Burlington Is Not for Sale to become the modern era's first socialist mayor, one who got the streets plowed but also boasted a foreign policy and a bullhorn to speak directly to Ronald Reagan. In the tradition of J. Anthony Lukas's Common Ground, this people's epic shows us an American city transformed one diner coffee and one neighborhood door-knock at a time, even as the analog era wanes and a new digital politics appears on the horizon. Full of Sanders himself, reflecting and raging, hitting his themes, Bernie for Burlington is a mesmerizing portrait of a politician, a place, and a movement that would change America.
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The Swan's Daughter: A Possibly Doomed Love Story
by Roshani Chokshi
Eighteen-year-old Prince Arris hopes to escape the cursed fate of his predecessors, each of whom dies shortly after marriage, so he strikes a deal with Demelza, a seventeen-year-old veritas swan maiden who can separate truth from lies.
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Busy Vehicles: Dino Rescue: Pull the Tab to Transform Dinosaurs Into Emergency Vehicles!
by Danielle McLean
Children ages 2-5 can watch dinosaurs transform into emergency vehicles in this mash-up novelty book. A dino tumbles from a treewith a gigantic crash.They need an ambulance right now . . .to help them in a flash. Through magical sliding transformations, see a Corythosaurus become an ambulance, a Pterosaur become a rescue airplane, a Plesiosaur become a rescue boat, and more. This mash-up book is perfect for fans ages 2-5 who love dinosaurs and things that go!
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