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What's Happening at the Town of Ballston Community Library
Friday, August 9th, 2019
Summer Reading 2019
We're in the home stretch! Don't forget to log your minutes online, or at the Library! Redemption of prizes will end at 8pm on August 14th.
Summer Reading is in full swing! Click on the banner below to enroll, or update your information if you enrolled last year. If you need assistance, please stop in, or call the Library at 518-399-8174.
Memoir Writing with Mary Sanders Shartle
Memoir Writing with Mary Sanders Shartle.
*Registration Required
Thursdays, 10:30am-12:30pm 6 weeks starting August 22nd
(You register once for the 6 week session)
*Memoir Writing courtesy of The Baum Fund through the Friends of the Library
Chapter Chat Book Club
August's book is Class Mom by Laurie Gelman
Parent/Child Hair Do Class
Did you miss the Daddy Do hair Class? Are you a mom looking for some hair tricks for your kids? Are you a grandparent that watches your grandkids frequently and need help doing their hair? Bring a child with you to this class and get some tips, and spend some quality time!
Learn some tricks and tips for doing your child's hair! For any caregiver and child. Please register the name of the adult participating.
*Registration Required
Wednesday, August 14th - 6:00pm
**Presented by Bella Nani Spa**
Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
"Kira Jane Buxton’s hilariously philosophical and formidable first novel, Hollow Kingdom, tackles humankind’s most existential questions.
Narrated by a foulmouthed, Cheetos-loving pet crow named S.T., the story starts in Seattle, Washington, where a terrible virus has turned all humans into zombies. When S.T.’s owner, Big Jim, succumbs to the virus’ effects, S.T. leaves the only home he has known to find some answers and possibly a cure. What he learns, however, is gut-wrenching. The human race as he knew it has ceased to exist, destroyed by their own addiction to technology. What now roams the earth are not humans but rather highly mutated and heinous creatures whose only purpose is to destroy." - Excerpt from Book Page Book Review article
The Turn of the key by Ruth Ware
"Ruth Ware’s homage to The Turn of the Screw is filled with all of the best gothic elements: an unreliable narrator, an isolated setting, creepy children and a house that functions as its own menacing character. Part epistolary novel, part psychological thriller, The Turn of the Key is compulsively readable and will keep readers guessing until the very last page.
Rowan Caine worries that the live-in nanny job she’s secured may be a little too good to be true. The pay is outstanding, the residence is a beautiful estate in the Scottish Highlands, and the parents want her to start right now. Almost immediately her fears are validated. Her charges, 8-year-old Maddie and 5-year-old Ellie, are fractious and have already burned through several caregivers. The home, Heatherbrae House, is a “smart home,” where every convenience is controlled by an app named “Happy” and every room except the bathrooms are monitored by security cameras. Left alone with two mutinous charges and a house that can be controlled remotely is enough to stretch Rowan to her last nerve." - Excerpt from Book Page Book Review article
Chances Are by Richard Russo
"When you’re 66, like the three longtime buddies in Richard Russo’s latest novel, you’ve got lots of events to look back on. One of the most devastating events in the lives of these three men is the driving force of Chances Are . . .—a surprising work that is as much a mystery as a meditation on secrets and friendship.
The friendship began at Minerva, a Connecticut college, in the late 1960s, a time when nervous young men wondered whether their draft number would draw a tour of duty in Vietnam. The three college buddies, all of them on scholarship, met when they were hired to sling hash at dinners for Theta house, the least rebellious sorority on campus: Lincoln as server because he was the most handsome, Teddy as cook’s helper, Mickey as dishwasher." - Excerpt from Book Page Book Review article
Calling all artists & collectors!
Town of Ballston Community Library
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Website: toblibrary.sals.edu
Location: 2 Lawmar Lane, Burnt Hills, NY, United States
Phone: 5183998174
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