'education'

Art for Adults with Disabilities: Fri, May 10, 2024
Adults with disabilities and their helpers, drop in between 10 am and 12 pm to make art with artist Brenda Baumer!

You Are an Artist

Learn skills, find your style, and build your brand!
Aurelia Durand

Call Number: J NF ART DURAND

Aurélia Durand shares her path from art school to internationally recognized artist, and how you can start your creative journey. Each chapter explores a different area of creativity and brand building, from developing your creative vision and creating a portfolio of work to using social media to your advantage and how to build a sustainable business. If you’ve ever wanted to know how to find your style and build your brand but didn’t know who to ask, Aurélia’s got you covered.

TinkerLab Art Starts

 52 projects for open-ended exploration
Rachelle Doorley

Call Number: 745.5083 Doorley

Get inspired with hands-on creative prompts for children ages 3-8 featuring simple materials you can find at home from an experienced art teacher. Open-ended art prompts that give children opportunities to think creatively rather than follow directions are essential to raising learners who are comfortable with the unknown and eager to tackle it with problem-solving skills, self-efficacy, and critical thinking.

Drawing is for Everyone

Simple lessons to make your creative practice a daily habit
Kateri Ewing

Call Number: 741.2 Ewing

Artist Kateri Ewing guides you through a series of simple creative drawing projects using a soulful, meditative, and reflective process. Whether you’re drawing for the first time or are an experienced artist, you’ll discover and deepen your creative potential through these exercises, because everyone can make art. Each lesson includes two art pieces, one to keep and then a smaller one, such as a postcard or mini painting, to share or send out into the world to spread their color, creativity, and joy in new places.

C.R.A.F.T.

Creating Really Awesome Free Things: 100 seriously fun, super-easy projects for kids
Jamie Dorobek

Call Number: 745.5 Dorobek

Prepare for a day of family fun! With 100 easy and practical crafts, this book is a go-to resource for developing your child's creativity, imagination, and fine motor skills. Each project, designed with common household items, comes with step-by-step instructions to keep kids entertained, engaged, and learning all day long. You and your children will enjoy creating unique crafts like Egg Carton Flowers, Key Wind Chime, Ring Toss, and Lion Mask—hours of playtime fun with the entire family!

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Check out new arrivals in our catalog: Books | Audiobooks | DVDs | Videogames | Library of Things | Libby

3/18/2024

Our March Book Club pick is Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.  Check it out and then join us on March 26th at 6 pm to discuss.

Bright Kids Who Couldn't Care Less

How to Rekindle Your Child's Motivation
by Ellen Braaten, PhD

Call Number: 153.153 BRAATEN

If you're wondering how your bright, motivated little kid became such an unmotivated adolescent, you're not alone. Fortunately, help is at hand! In this compassionate guide, psychologist and learning expert Ellen Braaten explains that kids who have lost the will to do anything (other than play video games) need more than simple encouragement or the “right” school, teacher, or coach to get back on track.

What Storm, What Thunder

by Myriam J.A. Chancy

Call Number: CHANCY

This book is a singular, stunning record, a reckoning of the heartbreaking trauma of disaster, and?at the same time?an unforgettable testimony to the tenacity of the human spirit.

Beyond Sex Ed

by Diane Yancey and Tabitha Moriarty

Call Number: 616.951 YANCEY

This detailed guide explains the transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options for common STIs such as chlamydia, HIV and AIDS, and herpes. It also outlines risk reduction practices to avoid contracting or spreading STIs and provides strategies for people living with chronic infections.

You'd Be Home Now

by Kathleen Glasgow

Call Number: Young Adult GLASGOW

A journey of one sister, one brother, one family, to finally recognize and love each other for who they are, not who they are supposed to be, this book is Kathleen Glasgow's glorious and heartbreaking story about the opioid crisis, and how it touches all of us.

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11/13/2023

Our November Book Club pick is The Half Moon by Mary Beth Keane. Check it out and then join us on Tuesday, November 28 at 6 pm to discuss.

The Teachers

A year inside America's most vulnerable, important profession
by Alexandra Robbins

Call Number: 371.100973 ROBBINS

Alexandra Robbins goes behind the scenes to tell the true, sometimes shocking, always inspirational stories of three teachers as they navigate a year in the classroom.

12 Months to Live

by James Patterson and Mike Lupica

Call Number: Mystery PATTERSON Jane Smith v.1

Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century. Actually, her charmless client might’ve committed several murders. She’s also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt. But Jane doesn’t have much time. She’s just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months. Unless she’s murdered before her expiration date.

The Wager

A tale of shipwreck, mutiny, and murder
by David Grann

Call Number: 910.9164 GRANN // also in CD audio

On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. But then ... six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story.

Tooth and Claw

by Kurt Busiek

Call Number: Graphic Novel BUSIEK Autumnlands v.1

When a secret conclave of wizards brings a legendary hero back from the forgotten past to save their dying world, they get a hero unlike anything they expected, and trigger a crisis none of them may survive.

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