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Athol Library News August 2019
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π Four Weeks Left of Summer Reading πΈ The more you read, the more Book Bucks you can earn to spend at the Universe of Stories Book Buck Store. Whether you read books or magazines, someone reads to you, or you listen to an audiobookβit all counts!
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π πππππ π Adults - Summer Reading is for you, too! Pick up a stamp card and read whatever books you want! Every book gets a stamp; six stamps gets you entered in for the monthly prize drawing. It's easy π
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Kids! It's the End of Summer Party!Thursday, August 1st, 10:30 to Noon Tri Library (Athol, Spirit Lake & Rathdrum) Stub Meyer Park in Rathdrum. Hot dogs and lemonade with Cecil the Magician.
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Charlie the Noise Guy! Saturday, August 3rd, 10:30am Come see Charlie the Noise Guy at the Athol Park stage. If you like to make noise, you will love Charlie!
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Athol Daze! Saturday, August 10th, 9:30-11am Hair Chalking! Tattoos! Book Walk! The Bookmobile will be in the Parade!
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3D Printer Demonstration Wednesday, August 7, 3:00-4:30pm Athol Library will have a 3D Printer here for much of August. Come in August 7th and learn about this fascinating techology. Emerging Technology Librarian Nick Madsen will explain 3D printing, and you'll learn how you can create a print of your own!
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Barbequing with Dave Hart Wednesday, August 14, 4:00-5:30 Discover the secrets to barbecuing chicken on any grill with hands-on experience and great tips from Pit Master Dave Hart. You get to sample the results π
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Tuesday, August 6th, 10:30am Itβs time to say goodbye to all our friends! This is the last summer preschool storytime (we'll start again in September). Geared to ages 2-5 π
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Book Bucks Store! Tuesday, August 20, 10-11:00am Spend your Book Bucks at our Universe of Stories Book Buck Store. It's time to reward yourself π
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Nailed It! Friday, August 2nd, 4-5:30pm Teens compete in teams to try to replicate the Cupcake Bakerβs beautiful and intricate creation. The winning team will get prizes! Will this event be a piece of cake or will it come crumbling down?
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Teen Silent Auction! Wednesday, August 15th, 4-5:30pm Grab a friend and bring your Book Bucks to the Universe of Stories Teen Silent Auction. Enjoy a dessert buffet and bid on fun prizes, including gift cards, collectibles, school supplies and treats.
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A land more kind than home
by Wiley Cash
Jess Hall, growing up deep in the heart of an unassuming mountain town that believes in protecting its own, is plunged into an adulthood for which he is not prepared when his autistic older brother, Stump, sneaks a look at something he isn't supposed to, which has catastrophic repercussions. 100,000 first printing.
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What the Craft! We're taking a break for the Summer. Check back for more innovative and fun crafts beginning in September π
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Tech help Most of us here are skilled with computers and technology. Stop by to get assistance with your computer and technological questions. We can help make it easier for you π
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Autumn light : season of fire and farewells
by Pico Iyer
"From one of our most astute observers of human nature, a far-reaching exploration of Japanese history and culture and a moving meditation on impermanence, mortality, and grief. For years, Pico Iyer has split his time between California and Nara, Japan, where he and his Japanese wife Hiroko have a small home. But when his father-in-law dies suddenly, calling him back to Japan earlier than expected, Iyer begins to grapple with the question we all have to live with: how to hold onto the things we love, even though we know that we and they are dying. In a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honoring the dead, this question is more urgent than anywhere else. Iyer leads us through the year following his father-in-law's death, introducing us to thepeople who populate his days: his ailing mother-in-law, who often forgets that her husband has died; his absent brother-in-law, who severed ties with his family years ago but to whom Hiroko still writes letters; and the men and women in his ping pong club, who, many years his senior, traverse their autumn years in different ways. And as the maple leaves begin to redden and the heat begins to soften, Iyer offers us a singular view of Japan, in the season that reminds us to take nothing for granted"
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Rough magic : riding the world's loneliest horse race
by Lara Prior-Palmer
The author describes her experience participating in and winning, as the youngest and first-ever female, the Mongol Derby which pits riders against each other while racing a series of twenty-five wild ponies across 1,000 miles of Mongolian grasslands.
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The sun is a compass : a 4,000-mile journey into the Alaskan wilds
by Caroline Van Hemert
Documents the biologist adventurer's treks in the vast wilderness region spanning the Pacific rainforest through the Alaskan Arctic, where her husband and she tested their physical boundaries while making profound natural-world connections and discoveries about animal survival. 35,000 first printing.
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Notes from a small island [electronic resource]
by Bill Bryson
Before returning to America after spending twenty years in Britain, the author decided to tour his second home and presents a look at England's quirks and its endearing qualities
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The Sex Lives of Cannibals : Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
by J. Maarten Troost
A perpetual student discusses her trip to the remote South Pacific after an unsuccessful series of temp jobs, a place where she anticipated a romantic island paradise vacation but instead experienced humorous misadventures and a host of environmental challenges. Original.
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An Embarrassment of Mangoes : A Caribbean Interlude
by Ann Vanderhoof
Describes how the author and her husband, two fortysomething professionals, quit their stressful careers, rented out their house, and embarked on a two-year voyage around the Caribbean aboard a forty-two-foot sailboat called Receta and details the colorful landscapes, characters, food, and experiences they encountered along the way.
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August is the month known for heat and sun, swimming and vacation and lots of summer fun. Even if you're home just dreaming of the beach, may all your summer wishes be well within your reach. π½πππ¦πΊπ»ππ β΅
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