In this Issue

• Ernest Hemingway Seminar

• Adult Summer Reads ends with drawing!

• Book Grab with Pizza for Kids & Teens

• This Week at the Library

• Upcoming Program Highlights

• Staff Title Review: First Gen

• Teen Book Beat: A Time to Dance

• Ask a Librarian

See our full calendar here.

Spanish Lunchtime Language

Tuesday, September 3

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Idaho Room

Did you know? The Community Library is privately funded, so anyone, from anywhere in the world can come in and get a free library card. We have over 157,000 titles

in our collection, in print and digital, for

all ages. That includes films, television shows, music, online news and

information, and well, books!

Support libraries this September (and always) by taking a selfie with your library card and posting on social media. And if you don't have one, now is the perfect time!

Tag us on your social posts, will you?

Paws to Read with Wynslow

Wednesday, September 4

2:30 -3:30 p.m.

Children's Library

Brown Bag Poetry

Thursday, September 5

11:30 -12:30 p.m.

Learning Commons

Programs and Communications Intern Juan Reyes recommends First Gen: A Memoir by Alejandra Campoverdi.

First Gen: A Memoir is truly a gift. As a child of Mexican immigrants, to find a book that somehow encapsulates the aspects of what it means to be first-generation has been both eye-opening and reassuring.

Her book illustrates her truthful and raw story of what it takes to achieve the “American Dream”, depicting moments of struggles, sacrifices, and even victories in the quest that she and her family experienced.

Campoverdi shares her experiences, both as a young child and an adult, and how they helped her navigate the world as a First-Generation American, breaking down the intertwined, multifaceted, and intricate aspects of what she perceives as composing the term “First-Generation”.

While highly respected and celebrated for her undeniably amazing achievements, First Gen does not attempt to flaunt her achievements; instead she presents a transparent, honest, and emotional narrative of how difficult it was to achieve the American Dream...

Read Juan's entire review here.

Find more staff book recommendations here.

Hi, my name is Sarah. I am sixteen years old and an avid reader; it is one of my favorite things to do. Inspired by all the amazing stories built by simple letters, I aspire to be an author and, meanwhile, nurture the love to write. For my Book Beat review I read A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman.

As a dancer, I know the feeling of the steady drum of music that nudges my feet to move, my body to sway, my soul to dance. And after reading the book, you can know it too.

Veda is a classical dancer in India, and she lives and breathes her movement. It is the thing that makes sense to her, her purpose in life.

So what happens when, after winning a Bharatanatyam competition and knowing her career has only just begun, a car accident steals her lower leg, and, apparently, her dreams?

Padma Venkatraman knows that dance is more than the body you were born in; that if it lights your soul on fire, nothing will stop you...

Read Sarah's entire book review here.

See all Book Beat Reviews here.