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Athol Library News January 2018
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Add these fun events to your to your January calendar! ABC Garden Group - Thursday, January 4, 6:30-8:30pm Gentle Yoga - Wed's, January 3, 10, 17, 24, & 31 -11-12:00 am Chess Club - Thursdays, January 11 and 25, 4:30-5:30 pm Book Club - Wed, January 17, 4:00 pm Creative Crafts & Cookies - Wed, January 24, 4:30 pm Tech Help - Wednesdays, 2-4:00pm Storytime and IT Club - Tuesdays, 10:30am and 3:30pm
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We will be closed Monday, January 1 for New Years Day And
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We will be closed Monday, January 15 for Martin Luther King Day
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Chess Club Thursdays, January 11 and 25, 4:30-5:45 pm Do you want to learn the game of chess? Need some practice and want to hone your skills? Come into our chess club taught by local Steven Gregg. Welcome to all ages and experience levels.
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Mary E. Hanks, Indie Publishing Workshop Saturday, January 13th, 12:30-3:30 p.m Join us as Mary Hanks talks on the overview of Indie Publishing, including marketing, social media, formatting for paperback, formatting for Kindle, writer's encouragement, and Q & A.
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Tech Help! Wednesdays 2 pm - 4 pm Get a new tablet for Christmas? Need help with one you already have? Stop by anytime between 2 - 4 and we'll help you get started.
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ABC Garden Group Thursday, January 4, 6:30-8:30pm Citizen Science or Ask Your Lilac When Spring Will Come! Join the ABC Garden Group for another year of gardening fellowship as we explore the wonderful world of plants! This month the group will be learning how we can use natural events like bud swell on your lilac bush to determine whether or not spring has sprung. Refreshments provided.
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Gentle Yoga with Isabel Wednesdays, January 3, 10, 17, 24, & 31 at 11:00 am Come experience the calming practice of yoga. It helps your body and your mind unwind and relax. Welcome to all ages and experience levels. Just bring your yoga mat.
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Creative Crafts and CookiesWednesday, January 24, 4:30 pm - 6 pm Come in and make a spa kit for that special someone for Valentine's Day. Make a box and fill it with sugar scrub, foot soak, and bath salts that will delight. Registration required. Cookies provided!!
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Little Renaissance Kids! Tuesdays, 10:30-11:30 am; Geared to ages 3-6 Little Renaissance Kids- we’ll read stories together, and spend time exploring weekly topics like the ones listed below! January 9 - Math & Science January 16 - Art January 23 - Play January 30 - Around the World
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It Club! Tuesdays, 3:30-4:30pm Looking for an after school program that does “It” all from science and technology to art and adventures from some of your favorite books? Programs are geared to grades K-6. January 9 - (Check with the Library staff about programs for January) January 16 - January 23 - January 30 -
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Endurance : a year in space, a lifetime of discovery
by Scott Kelly
A memoir by the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station shares candid reminiscences of his voyage, his colorful formative years and the off-planet journeys that shaped his early career.
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Predator : the secret origins of the drone revolution by Richard Whittle"The creation of the first weapon in history that can stalk and kill an enemy on the other side of the globe was far more than clever engineering. As Richard Whittle shows in Predator, it was the most profound development in military and aerospace technology since the intercontinental ballistic missile. Once considered fragile toys, drones were long thought to be of limited utility. The Predator itself was resisted at nearly every turn by the military establishment, but a few iconoclasts refused to see this new technology smothered at birth. The remarkable cast of characters responsible for developing the Predator includes a former Israeli inventor who turned his Los Angeles garage into a drone laboratory, two billionaire brothers marketing a futuristic weapon that would combat Communism, a pair of fighter pilots willing to buck their white-scarf fraternity, a cunning Pentagon operator nicknamed "Snake," and a secretive Air Force organization known as Big Safari. When an Air Force team unleashed the first lethal drone strikes in 2001 for the CIA, the military's view of drones changed nearly overnight. Based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews, Predator is a groundbreaking, dramatic account of the creation of a revolutionary weapon that forever changed the way we wage war."
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Grunt : the curious science of humans at war
by Mary Roach
Explores the science of keeping humans healthy and focused in the extreme environments of war, drawing on interviews with doctors, uniform designers, trainers and weapons testers to illuminate how soldiers are conditioned to survive traumas ranging from heat and panic to exhaustion and noise. Reprint. A New York Times best-seller.
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