Programs for Adults
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Reading Challenge
Now -July 7
Our Reading Challenge isn't just for kids - we want everyone to uncover the magic of literature! As is tradition, we are offering a Literary Bingo for our older patrons to play. Read to create a line or black out the board for a chance to win some excellent prizes, such as a $50 gas card or $50 Sweet & Savory Sisters gift card.
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Beginner Yoga
Wednesdays, 9:45am
Interesting in starting a yoga practice? Join us in our weekly Beginner Yoga Class where we focus on breathe and strength while working on balance and flexibility. We flow through a simple vinyasa sequence that is accessible for those new to yoga. Yoga supplies available to those without.
Registration is appreciated but not required.
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ESOL Meetup
Saturdays, 10:00am
Are you or someone you know interested in sharpening their English-speaking skills? Every week, volunteer native English speakers are available to help out. Learn in a group or individual setting. Registration is appreciated, but not required.
Still seeking additional volunteers.
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FOL Used Book Sale
Tuesdays, 10-5pm
Our Friends the the Library used book store is open every Tuesday, from 10am to 5pm. Here, you will find hardbacks, paperbacks, DVDs, magazines, puzzles and more. All softly used and in good condition. Nothing over $5.00. All proceeds are used to help fund library programs and materials.
Programs for Youth
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Reading Challenge
Now - July 7
Help prevent the "summer slide" through this fun Reading Challenge. We challenge children up to 11 years old to read for ten (10) minutes at a time, five levels adding up to total of 200 minutes. Completing each level earns children a small prize and a chance to win some stellar grand prizes, too.
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Absolute Science
Mon, June 20, 10:30am
Experience science in an interactive and funny way with the team from Absolute Science.
Attendees will experience items disappearing in clear liquids with refraction oil and see the power of a Van De Graaff generator, but no show is complete without foam, lots of foam with a fantastic foam experiment where the children are the stars!
Arts & Crafts: Kindness Cards
Thurs, June 22, 10:30am
In the spirit of creating community and spreading love, join us in an hour of card making.
We will have all the supplies on hand for children to create and design their own greeting card. Share a few kind words or pleasantries with a loved one, a dear acquaintance, a stranger or even yourself. All that matters is that children are having fun and spreading joy!
Intended for ages 4 - 11.
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Programs for Young Adults
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Summer Reading Challenge
Now - July 7
This summer, we are offering tweens and young adults a basic challenge: To read ten (10) books in five (5) weeks. Using a Book Punch Card, each card filled up earns the reader a ticket toward winning of the grand prize of their choice. And, of course, the month of June is packed full of events and activities, too.
Movie Friday
Fri, June 23, 3:30pm
Stop in for an afternoon movie and just hang out. The summer brings the heat and we have A/C, so chill out with your friends or make new ones.
Intended for ages 12 – 17.
PROGRAMS AT OUR BRANCH LIBRARIES
Boston Library -
Food Safety with UGA
Tues, June 20, 2:00pm
UGA Extension agent, Olivia Tumlin, with the Family and Consumer Sciences Department will be teaching attendees the best practices in food preparation and storage. Learn to identify how to “clean, separate, cook and chill” food stuffs while cooking and proper food storage to prevent spoiling. Intended as a family program; all ages welcome.
Absolute Science
Weds, June 21, 11:00am
Experience science in an interactive and funny way with the team from Absolute Science. Attendees will experience items disappearing in clear liquids with refraction oil and see the power of a Van De Graaff generator, but no show is complete without foam, lots of foam with a fantastic foam experiment where the children are the stars!
Coolidge Library -
Youth Arts & Crafts: Paint-by-Numbers, Diamond Edition
Tues, June 20, 2:30pm
Intended for ages 5 -17.
Absolute Science
Weds, June 21, 4:00pm
Experience science in an interactive and funny way with the team from Absolute Science. Attendees will experience items disappearing in clear liquids with refraction oil and see the power of a Van De Graaff generator, but no show is complete without foam, lots of foam with a fantastic foam experiment where the children are the stars!
Meigs Library -
Absolute Science
Tues, June 20, 2:00pm
Experience science in an interactive and funny way with the team from Absolute Science. Attendees will experience items disappearing in clear liquids with refraction oil and see the power of a Van De Graaff generator, but no show is complete without foam, lots of foam with a fantastic foam experiment where the children are the stars!
Ochlocknee Library -
Absolute Science
Tues, June 20, 4:00pm
Experience science in an interactive and funny way with the team from Absolute Science. Attendees will experience items disappearing in clear liquids with refraction oil and see the power of a Van De Graaff generator, but no show is complete without foam, lots of foam with a fantastic foam experiment where the children are the stars!
Teen Crafting: Scrapbooking Session
Thurs, June 22, 2:00pm
Intended for ages 12 - 17.
Pavo Library -
Absolute Science
Weds, June 21, 2:00pm
Experience science in an interactive and funny way with the team from Absolute Science. Attendees will experience items disappearing in clear liquids with refraction oil and see the power of a Van De Graaff generator, but no show is complete without foam, lots of foam with a fantastic foam experiment where the children are the stars!
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Book recommendations
To help you in your Bingo Challenge: Books with an author's note.
Maggie O'Farrell Hamnet
Drawing on Maggie O'Farrell's long-term fascination with the little-known story behind Shakespeare's most enigmatic play, Hamnet is a luminous portrait of a marriage, at its heart the loss of a beloved child.
Warwickshire in the 1580s. Agnes is a woman as feared as she is sought after for her unusual gifts. She settles with her husband in Henley street, Stratford, and has three children: a daughter, Susanna, and then twins, Hamnet and Judith. The boy, Hamnet, dies in 1596, aged eleven. Four years or so later, the husband writes a play called Hamlet.
Hamnet breathes full-blooded life into the story of a loss usually consigned to literary footnotes, and provides an unforgettable vindication of Agnes, a woman intriguingly absent from history.
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Patrick Radden Keefe Empire of Pain
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis.
This is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d’Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. Empire of Pain chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability. The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama—baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful.
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Jon Krakauer Into the Wild
In April, 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, a party of moose hunters found his decomposed body.
Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw away the maps. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild.
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Sara Collins The Confessions of Frannie Langton
All of London is abuzz with the scandalous case of Frannie Langton, accused of the brutal double murder of her employers, renowned scientist George Benham and his eccentric French wife, Marguerite. Crowds pack the courtroom, eagerly following every twist, while the newspapers print lurid theories about the killings and the mysterious woman being held in the Old Bailey.
The testimonies against Frannie are damning. She is a seductress, a witch, a master manipulator, a *****.
But Frannie claims she cannot recall what happened that fateful evening, even if remembering could save her life. She doesn’t know how she came to be covered in the victims’ blood. But she does have a tale to tell: a story of her childhood on a Jamaican plantation, her apprenticeship under a debauched scientist who stretched all bounds of ethics, and the events that brought her into the Benhams’ London home—and into a passionate and forbidden relationship.
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