Ballston Reader
What's Happening at the Town of Ballston Community Library
Friday, October 16th, 2020
Story Time in the Park
Please join us for Story Time in Jenkins Park! We will gather under the pavilion on Thursdays at 10:30 AM (weather permitting) for stories, rhymes and songs. We will follow all CDC and NYS health guidelines. Please bring chairs or blankets to sit on and we will socially distance. Masks will be required when social distancing cannot be maintained.
This is a drop-in program intended for kids ages 2-5 accompanied by a caregiver, siblings are always welcome.
Ms Ruta Book Buzz Club
Join Miss Ruta on Zoom for a book club for students in grades 5 & 6. In October, we are discussing "Small Spaces," by Katherine Arden, followed by a fun craft. (Materials will be provided prior to the program.)
Kids Cooking via Zoom
Join Jodie Fitz online to practice your cooking skills and make a yummy treat. Ingredient lists and Zoom link will be emailed to participants prior to the event. To get in the Halloween spirit kids will be making Worm Infested Brownie Bites and Beetle Juice.
For Grades K - 2nd. Registration required.
http://tbcl.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=5936&backTo=Calendar&startDate=2020/10/01
3-5 Grade
http://tbcl.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=5937&backTo=Calendar&startDate=2020/10/01
Kids Cooking Fall Treat
Join Jodie Fitz online to practice your cooking skills and make a yummy treat. Ingredient lists and Zoom link will be emailed to participants prior to the event. We're making Cinnamon Apples and Dip Turned into a Turkey along with a Fall Smoothie.
For Grades K-5. Registration required.
http://tbcl.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=5935&backTo=Calendar&startDate=2020/11/01
Zoom Time with Ms. Jane
Mama's Movin'
This class is a 45 minute yoga class on Zoom for you and your 1-5 year old. No yoga experience is necessary, we will warm up the body and move through a vinyasa flow style class. Child participation is at their own interest level.
Song and story bring yoga postures to life to engage your child to move their body and stimulate the imagination.
~ This a friendly and open mommy/baby environment. Changing and nursing welcome at anytime.
~Siblings welcome.
~Please bring your yoga mat.
~Wear comfortable clothing,
*Registration required.
http://tbcl.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=5738&backTo=Calendar&startDate=2020/10/14
Spooky Reads for October
Hoopla Book Club Spotligh
The Fall 2020 Hoopla Book Club Spotlight is The Fixed Stars. From bestselling memoirist Molly Wizenberg, the title is a thoughtful and provocative story of changing identity, complex sexuality, and enduring family relationships.
The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
A servant and former slave are accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this astonishing historical thriller that moves from a Jamaican sugar plantation to the fetid streets of Georgian London--a remarkable literary debut with echoes of Alias Grace, The Underground Railroad, and The Paying Guests.
These women: a novel by Ivy Pochoda
In her masterful new novel, Ivy Pochoda creates a kaleidoscope of loss, power, and hope featuring five very different women whose lives are steeped in danger and anguish. They’re connected by one man and his deadly obsession, though not all of them know that yet.
The fixed stars : a memoir by Molly Wizenberg
At age 36, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it, but something inside her had changed irredeemably. Instead, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as logical as we’d like to believe.
Spooktober Reads
Somewhere in the Dark – RJ Jacobs
After a childhood marred by neglect, Jessie Duval's finally got it together. With an apartment in Nashville and a job with a catering company, she's thriving. But all that changes when Jessie works an event where celebrities will be in attendance--including the one person from her past she must avoid at all costs: singer Shelly James. Jessie doesn't hate Shelly. Quite the opposite. One summer, she followed Shelly's tour everywhere. Only, Shelly wasn't flattered; she was terrified.
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
After rocking the cosmos with her deathly debut, Tamsyn Muir continues the story of the penumbral Ninth House in Harrow the Ninth, a mind-twisting puzzle box of mystery, murder, magic, and mayhem. Nothing is as it seems in the halls of the Emperor, and the fate of the galaxy rests on one woman's shoulders.
Tombstone by Tom Clavin
The true story of the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the famous Battle at the OK Corral, by the New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City and Wild Bill.
On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, nine men clashed in what would be known as the most famous shootout in American frontier history. Thirty bullets were exchanged in thirty seconds, killing three men and wounding three others.
A Private Cathedral By James Lee Burke
After finding himself caught up in one of Louisiana’s oldest and bloodiest family rivalries, Detective Dave Robicheaux must battle the most terrifying adversary he has ever encountered: a time-traveling superhuman assassin.
The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime enemies in the New Iberia criminal underworld and show each other no mercy. Yet their youngest heirs, Johnny Shondell and Isolde Balangie, rock and roll-musician teenagers with magical voices, have fallen in love and run away.
The Shadows By Alex North
You knew a teenager like Charlie Crabtree. A dark imagination, a sinister smile--always on the outside of the group. Some part of you suspected he might be capable of doing something awful. Twenty-five years ago, Crabtree did just that, committing a murder so shocking that it’s attracted that strange kind of infamy that only exists on the darkest corners of the internet--and inspired more than one copycat.
18 Tiny Deaths by Bruce Goldfarb
The story of the Gilded Age Chicago heiress who revolutionized forensic death investigation. As the mother of forensic science, Frances Glessner Lee is the reason why homicide detectives are a thing. She is responsible for the popularity of forensic science in television shows and pop culture. Long overlooked in the history books, this extremely detailed and thoroughly researched biography will at long last tell the story of the life and contributions of this pioneering woman.
Camelot Rising: the Guinevere deception by Kiersten White
Princess Guinevere has come to Camelot to wed a stranger: the charismatic King Arthur. With magic clawing at the kingdom's borders, the great wizard Merlin conjured a solution--send in Guinevere to be Arthur's wife . . . and his protector from those who want to see the young king's idyllic city fail. The catch? Guinevere's real name--and her true identity--is a secret. She is a changeling, a girl who has given up everything to protect Camelot
Tigers, Not Daughters Hardcover by Samantha Mabry
The Torres sisters dream of escape. Escape from their needy and despotic widowed father, and from their San Antonio neighborhood, full of old San Antonio families and all the traditions and expectations that go along with them. In the summer after her senior year of high school, Ana, the oldest sister, falls to her death from her bedroom window. A year later, her three younger sisters, Jessica, Iridian, and Rosa, are still consumed by grief and haunted by their sister’s memory.
The Damned by Renée Ahdieh
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