Blaine County Library

The movie today will be The Bucket List at 1:00 p.m. It is rated PG-13 and runs for 1 hour and 39 minutes. Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be served.

The next Free People Reading Freely book club will be Monday February 11th at 7:00 p.m. We are continuing to read banned books, but we are branching out beyond the top ten of 2017. Library Staff has put together a list of banned books available for participants to choose from. Discussions will be centered around DICE , a clever acronym to guide reader response driven discussions. While reading your book selection, you will be looking for something: Disturbing, Interesting, Confusing, or Enlightening. Stop in and select a book!

We have a couple of non-fiction books ready for checkout this week. "The Library Book" by Susan Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world, from their humble beginnings as a metropolitan charitable initiative to their current status as a cornerstone of national identity; brings each department of the library to vivid life through on-the-ground reporting; studies arson and attempts to burn a copy of a book herself; reflects on her own experiences in libraries; and reexamines the case of Harry Peak, the blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the LAPL more than thirty years ago. "Maid" by Stephanie Land explores the underbelly of upper-middle class America and the reality of what it's like to be in service to them. "I'd become a nameless ghost," Stephanie writes about her relationship with her clients, many of whom do not know her from any other cleaner, but who she learns plenty about. As she begins to discover more about her clients' lives-their sadness and love, too-she begins to find hope in her own path. Her compassionate, unflinching writing as a journalist gives voice to the "servant" worker, and those pursuing the American Dream from below the poverty line. Maid is Stephanie's story, but it's not her alone. It is an inspiring testament to the strength, determination, and ultimate triumph of the human spirit. Land lives in Missoula.

The Old Man and the Gun and The Hate U Give are two movies available this week.

Story Time is Tuesday mornings at 10:30 a.m. Middle School Hangout is Tuesday afternoons from 3:30 to 4:30 and is open to kids in grades 6 to 8. Wednesdays we show a movie at 1:00 p.m. and Thursdays is LEGO Club for kids in grades K through 6. The next Middle School Hangout movie will be February 12 starting at 3:30pm. Kids will be watching the movie The Incredibles 2, which runs for 1 hour and 58 minutes.

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