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What's Happening at the Town of Ballston Community Library
Friday, October 25th, 2019
International Game Day
There are 3 different sessions, check the calendar to see them!
Momma's Moving Yoga
Mama's Movin'
This class is a 45 minute yoga class where you are welcome to bring 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, or they can socialize and play with new friends. It is a true free for all.
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.
Mondays at 9:30am - October 21st through November 25th
*Registration required, please note you are registering for a 5 week session. Attendance each week is encouraged but not required. Please register the child, not the adult for the program.
Essential Oils - Oil Basics
Join us while we review the Top 10 essential oils and discuss how we can put them to use during the winter months. Also, come check out all of the new doTERRA products just launched in September!
*Registration Required
Monday, October 28th - 7:00pmCheck Out These Books!
All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg
"When we meet Victor Tuchman, the patriarch of New Orleans-based novelist Jami Attenberg’s All This Could Be Yours, he’s as good as dead. Which is just as well, since everyone agrees Victor is a monster. Now he languishes in comatose purgatory while the whole family is called home. Well, not home exactly, but to Victor and his wife Barbra’s condo in New Orleans, where they’ve lived for about a year. Nobody is sure why they left Connecticut, but it probably had something to do with Victor’s criminal activity. Not that anyone knows what that activity is—except maybe Barbra.
One family member has questions. Alex, their daughter who lives in Chicago, is a tough-minded, recently divorced attorney who gave up on a relationship with her parents years ago. But news that Victor is near death stirs in Alex a primal excitement. In a rare show of optimism, Alex has convinced herself that once her father is dead, her mother will spill the tea on the Tuchmans’ secret history." - Excerpt from Book Page Book Review article
The Body by Bill Bryson
"Bill Bryson can take any topic and spool it into the most entertaining thing you’ve ever read. He tackles diverse subjects, from hiking the Appalachian Trail (A Walk in the Woods) to, well—everything (A Short History of Nearly Everything).
In his latest book, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Bryson divides the body’s various parts and processes into 23 chapters, with subject headings such as “The Heart and Blood,” “The Guts” and “Nerves and Pain.” Each relatively short chapter is chock-full of clear, in-depth explanations of the body and its components, focusing just the right amount of facts and attention on each area to keep the reader riveted and eager to dive into the next topic. " - Excerpt from Book Page Book Review article
Running with Sherman by Christopher McDougall
"“Look, the most humane thing might be to put him down now.” That was the hoof expert’s verdict after one look at the traumatized, mistreated donkey Christopher McDougall and his family had just taken in. The donkey, which they named Sherman, had been rescued from a hoarder’s farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Since relocating from the city, McDougall and his wife, Mika, had tried their hands at keeping chickens, a stray cat and a phone-book-munching goat named Lawrence. But an ailing donkey was a whole different story. And what a story Sherman turned out to be." - Excerpt from Book Page Book Review article
Town of Ballston Community Library
Email: web.toblibrary@gmail.com
Website: toblibrary.sals.edu
Location: 2 Lawmar Lane, Burnt Hills, NY, United States
Phone: 5183998174
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