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Six Bridges Book Festival.

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Main Library services move to "Mini Main" at Roberts Library beginning September 1.

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New at CALS! Pick up your holds in our book lockers

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2022 Annual Report

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Six Bridges Book Festival: Workshops

Food Fun at Six Bridges Book Festival

If your favorite books are cookbooks, then we have the events for you. On Saturday, Sept. 30, get in the kitchen with Stacey Mei Yan FongSusan Gravely, and Sandra A. Gutierrez for their cooking workshops,

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Six Bridges Book Festival: Chris Cillizza

Power Players: Sports, Politics, and the American Presidency tells all the great stories of presidents and the sports they played, loved, and spectated. While every modern president has used sports to relate to Joe Q. Public, Power Players turns the lens around to examine how sports have shaped our presidents and made for some amazing moments in White House history.

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Six Bridges Book Festival: Christian Cooper

Equal parts memoir, travelogue, and primer on the art of birding, Better Living through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World tells the story of Christian Cooper’s extraordinary life leading up to the now-infamous incident in Central Park and shows how a life spent looking up at the birds prepared him,

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Six Bridges Book Festival: Maureen Corrigan on Banned Books

For more than twenty years, Maureen Corrigan has been the book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air. She is also a columnist for the Washington Post as well as the Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism at Georgetown University, where her courses are very popular and her lectures have been described as “brilliant,” “hilarious,” “passionate,” and “eloquent.” She is the author of Leave Me Alone,

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10th Annual Banned Books Writing Contest

Construct a short narrative that illustrates true, supportive friendship, where one character is daring to achieve something despite a very large obstacle. The story should feature or mention at least three characters. Please do not indicate or specify how the story illustrates friendship, it should be evident. This should be one episode of what could possibly be a larger story. Entries will be judged on flow, originality, and strength of character/character voice. Humor is appreciated.
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European Travel Tips and Tools with Guidebook Author Rick Steves

Join guidebook author and TV host Rick Steves as he shares the latest in smart European travel. In this entertaining, information-packed slideshow lecture, Rick will teach you the secrets of safe, smart, inexpensive travel — low on stress and high on fun. You’ll learn how to travel smoothly and affordably by planning an efficient itinerary, eating and sleeping well, avoiding crowds, packing smartly, and more.
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Your CALS Card gets you more all September long

Here at CALS, we have long said that your library card is the most valuable card in your wallet. You get access to virtually unlimited books, audiobooks, streaming music, movies and TV shows, you can borrow things like binoculars, fishing poles, tools, and telescopes, plus there’s access to endless events and programs and every bit of it comes in at the low,

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Even more to love with hoopla!

Borrow up to seven items per month instantly with hoopla. CALS patrons can use this digital streaming service to access movies, TV shows, and graphic novels. Titles can be streamed immediately or downloaded to phones or tablets for offline enjoyment later. Watch on your phone, tablet, computer or even a smart TV.

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CALS – Off The Shelf – September 2023

Off the Shelf” features new releases in both physical and digital media, exhibitions, and highlight larger system- wide programs. We hope this publication serves our patrons by providing current news about our collection– the foundation of all great libraries. A full schedule of events can still be found at cals.org/events-classes.

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