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What's Happening at the Town of Ballston Community Library
Friday, January 11th 2019
Don't forget to pick up your Winter Reading Challenge card at the Library today!
Special Education 101
Are you confused by the "alphabet soup" of Special Education? Do you wish you were more informed about the CSE process? This program will focus on demystifying the world of Special Education in public schools so that you can better advocate for, and support, your child.
Adult Coloring at the Library: Make Your Own Bookmark!
Thursday, January 31st - 10:30am
Butts & Guts with Girl Fight Fitness
A 60-minute workout specifically designed to tone up the trouble areas that all women deal with -- the butt and the gut! We’ll spend 50 minutes targeting the lower body and abs with a combination of strength and cardio intervals, and then add 10 minutes of self defense training at the end (no contact).
2 Dates! - Please register for each date individually.
**All levels are welcome. Please bring a mat to use for the floor exercises in the workout.
Wednesday, January 9th - 7:30pmWednesday, January 16th - 7:30pm
An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
"“Often the most effective psychological studies are rooted in deception. For example, a subject can be led to believe he or she is being evaluated for one behavior when, in fact, the psychologist has engineered this decoy to measure something else entirely.”
So explains Dr. Lydia Shields, the beautiful, deeply disturbed therapist who hooks an unsuspecting woman into a study with a sinister ulterior motive.
Jessica Farris is her unwitting subject. Jess is barely eking out an existence as a New York City makeup artist, sending as much money as she can back to Philadelphia for her parents and disabled younger sister. After an abusive experience with a former employer, Jess has closed herself off from meaningful relationships, instead seeking one-night encounters with men she meets in bars. She sneaks into Dr. Shields’ study to make some extra cash, not knowing she will become a pawn in a twisted marital game that’s already wrecked lives." - Excerpt from book Page Book Review article
New Iberia Blues by James Lee Burke
BookPage Top Pick in Whodunit, January 2019
"James Lee Burke is one of a small handful of elite suspense writers whose work transcends the genre, making the leap into capital-L Literature. You don’t have to get past the opening paragraph of The New Iberia Blues to see his mastery of the craft: “Desmond Cormier’s success story was an improbable one, even among the many self-congratulatory rags-to-riches tales we tell ourselves in the ongoing saga of our green republic, one that is forever changing yet forever the same, a saga that also includes the graves of Shiloh and cinders from aboriginal villages.” First-person narrator Dave Robicheaux is on hand and in fine fettle. Fans have watched Robicheaux age in real time, battling his demons, losing one wife, then another and another, raising the refugee girl he rescued from a submerged airplane when she was a small child and skating close to the edge (and sometimes over the edge) of the law." - Excerpt from Book Page Book Review article
Scrublands by Chris Hammer
"In Chris Hammer’s explosive thriller, Scrublands, a mass shooting committed by a preacher, around whom rumors of child sexual abuse swirl, and the discovery of two murdered backpackers a year later add up to an enthralling mystery for reporter Martin Scarsden.
Amid the blistering heat of the Australian outback, Martin’s initial assignment is to write about how the community of Riversend has endured the year following preacher Byron Swift’s five-person killing spree on the front steps of his church. But as soon as Martin begins asking questions, he soon realizes that previous reports about Byron’s motive—that he was a pedophile—were wrong." - Excerpt from Book Page Book Review article
Calling all artists & collectors!
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
Facebook: facebook.com/toblibrary