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SUMMARY:BOOK SALE | NOVEMBER 7TH
DESCRIPTION:FRIENDS OF THE CHENEY LIBRARY BOOK SALE\n\n\n\nVisit us at the Cheney Library for our November sale to load up your book shelves. \n\n\n\nYou’ll find gently used items such as books for all ages in all genres\, music CDs\, audiobooks on CD\, and DVDs. We’d love for you to come\, browse our fantastic selection\, and help raise funds for our local community. \n\n\n\nAll proceeds from the sale of our books go toward funding local community events such as hosting local authors\, book club\, reading programs\, crafting events for youth at the Cheney Library\, and many more. \n\n\n\nThis event is open to ALL. Registration is not required. \n\n\n\nWe look forward to seeing you there! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nQ & A: \n\n\n\nWhat forms of payment do you accept? \n\n\n\nCash and personal checks.  \n\n\n\nWe are not able to accept credit cards\, debit cards\, or any type of cash apps such as ApplePay\, GooglePay\, PayPal\, CashApp\, Venmo\, Zelle\, etc. \n\n\n\nHow much are the books at the book sale? \n\n\n\nThe primary purpose of our book sale is to get books in the hands of those who shop our sales. Therefore\, we don’t sell the books on a price-per-book* basis. Please donate what you are able to. Your donation helps us raise funds toward library programs held throughout the year. \n\n\n\nDo you provide bags at the book sale? \n\n\n\nNo\, we do not. Please be sure to bring your own bags\, sacks\, or boxes to load up with your book purchases. \n\n\n\n*With the exception of the items displayed in our Specialty Book Nook at our book sale. Items in this section will be on a price-per-book basis and will be marked clearly with price tags. These books are rare\, antique\, and/or specialty books. You can view this selection of books prior to the event on our website and can also be purchased anytime.
URL:https://friendsofthecheneylibrary.com/event/book-sale-november-7th-2/
LOCATION:Cheney Library\, 610 1st Street\, Cheney\, WA\, 99004\, United States
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SUMMARY:BOOK CLUB | NOVEMBER 24TH
DESCRIPTION:FRIENDS OF THE CHENEY LIBRARY BOOK CLUB\n\n\n\nNovember Book Pick: Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk \n\n\n\nAuthor: Kathleen Rooney \n\n\n\nWhen: Tuesday\, November 24th at 6:30 pm \n\n\n\nWhere: Library Community Room at the Cheney Library \n\n\n\nThis event is open to all. Registration is not required. Please join us in discussing this month’s book pick. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook Description by SCLD: \n\n\n\nInspired by Margaret Fishback\, poet and Macy’s ad-writing phenom of the 1930s\, Rooney imagines an extraordinary walk through the streets of New York City on the last night of 1984\, one that triggers a flood of memories for fictional ad woman Lillian Boxfish. The octogenarian muses on the changing urban landscape as she stops at favorite haunts: an intimate neighborhood bar that’s just installed a TV\, a restaurant where she’s dined every New Year’s Eve that’s about to change owners\, the famed Delmonico’s\, where she ended her marriage. Further stops include a changing lower Manhattan landscape where she meets a haunted Vietnam veteran and engages him in a “best last-line contest\, ” a detour to a hospital emergency room with a frightened woman about to have her first baby\, and a party where she’s both scorned and adored by a new generation of artists\, followed by a hilarious encounter with three muggers. Meanwhile\, Lillian carefully recounts her celebrated career in advertising\, her adored husband and son\, and her emotional breakdown. Elegantly written\, Rooney creates a glorious paean to a distant literary life and time-and an unabashed celebration of human connections that bridge the past and future. \n\n\n\nSource: SCLD website
URL:https://friendsofthecheneylibrary.com/event/book-club-november-24th/
LOCATION:Cheney Library\, 610 1st Street\, Cheney\, WA\, 99004\, United States
CATEGORIES:BOOK CLUB
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270126T183000
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SUMMARY:BOOK CLUB | JANUARY 26TH
DESCRIPTION:FRIENDS OF THE CHENEY LIBRARY BOOK CLUB\n\n\n\nJanuary Book Pick: Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch \n\n\n\nAuthor: Rivka Galchen \n\n\n\nWhen: Tuesday\, January 26th at 6:30 pm \n\n\n\nWhere: Library Community Room at the Cheney Library \n\n\n\nThis event is open to all. Registration is not required. Please join us in discussing this month’s book pick. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook Description by SCLD: \n\n\n\nThe story begins in 1618\, in the German duchy of Württemberg. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years’ War has begun\, and fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the small town of Leonberg\, Katharina Kepler is accused of being a witch. \n\n\n\nKatharina is an illiterate widow\, known by her neighbors for her herbal remedies and the success of her children\, including her eldest\, Johannes\, who is the Imperial Mathematician and renowned author of the laws of planetary motion. It’s enough to make anyone jealous\, and Katharina has done herself no favors by being out and about and in everyone’s business. \n\n\n\nSo when the deranged and insipid Ursula Reinbold (or as Katharina calls her\, the Werewolf) accuses Katharina of offering her a bitter\, witchy drink that has made her ill\, Katharina is in trouble. Her scientist son must turn his attention from the music of the spheres to the job of defending his mother. Facing the threat of financial ruin\, torture\, and even execution\, Katharina tells her side of the story to her friend and next-door neighbor Simon\, a reclusive widower imperiled by his own secrets. \n\n\n\nDrawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination\, sly humor\, and intellectual fire for which Rivka Galchen is known\, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch will both provoke and entertain. The story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear is a tale for our time. Galchen’s bold new novel touchingly illuminates a society and a family undone by superstition\, the state\, and the mortal convulsions of history. \n\n\n\nSource: SCLD website
URL:https://friendsofthecheneylibrary.com/event/book-club-january-26th/
LOCATION:Cheney Library\, 610 1st Street\, Cheney\, WA\, 99004\, United States
CATEGORIES:BOOK CLUB
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SUMMARY:BOOK CLUB | FEBRUARY 23RD
DESCRIPTION:FRIENDS OF THE CHENEY LIBRARY BOOK CLUB\n\n\n\nFebruary Book Pick: Empire of the Summer Moon \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAuthor: S.C. Gwynne \n\n\n\nWhen: Tuesday\, February 23rd at 6:30 pm \n\n\n\nWhere: Library Community Room at the Cheney Library \n\n\n\nThis event is open to all. Registration is not required. Please join us in discussing this month’s book pick. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook Description by SCLD: \n\n\n\nEmpire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches\, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah\, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches. \n\n\n\nAlthough readers may be more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux\, it was in fact the legendary fighting ability of the Comanches that determined when the American West opened up. Comanche boys became adept bareback riders by age six; full Comanche braves were considered the best horsemen who ever rode. They were so masterful at war and so skillful with their arrows and lances that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana. White settlers arriving in Texas from the eastern United States were surprised to find the frontier being rolled backward by Comanches incensed by the invasion of their tribal lands. \n\n\n\nThe war with the Comanches lasted four decades\, in effect holding up the development of the new American nation. Gwynne’s exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism\, the Civil War\, the destruction of the buffalo herds\, and the arrival of the railroads\, and the amazing story of Cynthia Ann Parker and her son Quanah–a historical feast for anyone interested in how the United States came into being. \n\n\n\nHailed by critics\, S. C. Gwynne’s account of these events is meticulously researched\, intellectually provocative\, and\, above all\, thrillingly told. Empire of the Summer Moon announces him as a major new writer of American history. \n\n\n\nSource: SCLD website
URL:https://friendsofthecheneylibrary.com/event/book-club-february-23rd/
LOCATION:Cheney Library\, 610 1st Street\, Cheney\, WA\, 99004\, United States
CATEGORIES:BOOK CLUB
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SUMMARY:BOOK CLUB | MARCH 23RD
DESCRIPTION:FRIENDS OF THE CHENEY LIBRARY BOOK CLUB\n\n\n\nMarch Book Pick: Small Things Like These \n\n\n\nAuthor: Claire Keegan \n\n\n\nWhen: Tuesday\, March 23rd at 6:30 pm \n\n\n\nWhere: Library Community Room at the Cheney Library \n\n\n\nThis event is open to all. Registration is not required. Please join us in discussing this month’s book pick. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook Description by SCLD: \n\n\n\nSmall Things Like These is award-winning author Claire Keegan’s landmark new novel\, a tale of one man’s courage and a remarkable portrait of love and family. \n\n\n\nIt is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas\, Bill Furlong\, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning\, while delivering an order to the local convent\, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. \n\n\n\nAn international bestseller\, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope\, quiet heroism\, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers. \n\n\n\nSource: SCLD website
URL:https://friendsofthecheneylibrary.com/event/book-club-march-23rd/
LOCATION:Cheney Library\, 610 1st Street\, Cheney\, WA\, 99004\, United States
CATEGORIES:BOOK CLUB
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SUMMARY:BOOK CLUB | APRIL 27TH
DESCRIPTION:FRIENDS OF THE CHENEY LIBRARY BOOK CLUB\n\n\n\nApril Book Pick: North of Ordinary \n\n\n\nAuthor: Sue Aikens \n\n\n\nWhen: Tuesday\, April 27th at 6:30 pm \n\n\n\nWhere: Library Community Room at the Cheney Library \n\n\n\nThis event is open to all. Registration is not required. Please join us in discussing this month’s book pick. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook Description by SCLD: \n\n\n\nWhen the wild strips everything away\, what’s left is who you are. \n\n\n\nIn the raw\, untamed wilds of Alaska–where the wind howls\, predators hunt\, and the sun disappears for months–only a rare few figure out how to survive. Sue Aikens\, the breakout star of National Geographic’s long-running TV show Life Below Zero\, is one of them. At her remote outpost 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle\, she weathers more than just brutal winters and hungry bears. Sue battles isolation\, injury\, and the ghosts of a turbulent past\, forging a life in a place most people wouldn’t last a day. \n\n\n\nLeft to fend for herself as a child\, Sue’s fight to survive began long before she ever set foot in Alaska. In North of Ordinary\, she tells the unforgettable story of abandonment\, grit\, and fierce independence–from navigating deadly storms and surviving a horrific bear attack to learning how to build a life\, a home\, and a sense of self where most would see only desolation. With her trademark wit\, fearless honesty\, and an indomitable spirit\, Sue proves that the toughest terrain isn’t always on the map. It’s the one we conquer inside. \n\n\n\nUnflinching and inspiring\, North of Ordinary is a memoir of resilience\, reinvention\, and the extraordinary power of choosing your own way through the world. \n\n\n\nSource: SCLD website
URL:https://friendsofthecheneylibrary.com/event/book-club-april-27th/
LOCATION:Cheney Library\, 610 1st Street\, Cheney\, WA\, 99004\, United States
CATEGORIES:BOOK CLUB
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SUMMARY:BOOK CLUB | MAY 25TH
DESCRIPTION:FRIENDS OF THE CHENEY LIBRARY BOOK CLUB\n\n\n\nMay Book Pick: The Writer: A San Juan Islands Mystery \n\n\n\nAuthor: D.W. Ulsterman \n\n\n\nWhen: Tuesday\, May 25th at 6:30 pm \n\n\n\nWhere: Library Community Room at the Cheney Library \n\n\n\nThis event is open to all. Registration is not required. Please join us in discussing this month’s book pick. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook Description by SCLD: \n\n\n\nCollege journalist Adele Plank has been granted a rare interview with one-time bestselling author\, Decklan Stone. He is a man largely withdrawn from the world following the tragic death of his young wife twenty-seven years earlier. Adele ventures to the writer’s remote\, private-island home in the beautiful San Juan Islands\, and there begins a journey of dangerous discovery that will have her scrambling to unravel a mystery far more shocking and deadly than she could have ever imagined. \n\n\n\nSource: SCLD website
URL:https://friendsofthecheneylibrary.com/event/book-club-may-25th/
LOCATION:Cheney Library\, 610 1st Street\, Cheney\, WA\, 99004\, United States
CATEGORIES:BOOK CLUB
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