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RetroKID (Grades 6-12)

4:00pm Monday, December 4

Do you miss fingerpainting? Show & Tell? and other activities you did when you were a KID?

This is a throwback program to have fun with activities you might have done when you were in Kindergarten!

Bring your favorite item to share at Show & Tell, get ready to get messy and fingerpaint again and other activities.

For kids in grades 6-12. No Registration required. While supplies last.

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The Making of a Holiday Classic ~ It's a Wonderful Life

6:00pm Monday, December 4

Did you know the gym-turned-swimming pool in It’s a Wonderful Life was real? That the movie did ho-hum business at the box office? Have fun exploring the movie’s creation including how the script evolved, how the cast was chosen, and the technical challenges that were overcome. Enjoy rare photographs taken behind-the-scenes and find out what happened to the cast.

Join Leslie Goddard from Illinois. Don’t miss this festive Online presentation.

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Monthly Movie Matinee: It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

1:00pm Tuesday, December 5

2 hours 10 minutes

An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.

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STEAM LAB (Grades 3-5)

4:00pm Thursday, December 7

Join us for a STEAM program all about magnetism! 

Designed for children in grades 3-5

Registration is required. A waitlist is available in lieu of walk-ins.

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Check Out Our New Books

The Couple in the Photo

Helen Cooper

Fodor's New York City 2024

Florida

Stephen Keeling

Things We Left Behind

Lucy Score

The Summer of Songbirds

Kristy Woodson Harvey

The Invisible Hour

Alice Hoffman

Angels of the Resistance

Noelle Salazar

Indigo Isle

T. I. Lowe

Under the Magnolias

T. I. Lowe

Rick Steves Budapest

Rick Steves

Alex Cross Must Die

James Patterson

Failure is Not Not an Option

Patrick Hinds

The Edge

David Baldacci

Great Falls, MT

Reggie Watts

George Harrison

Philip Norman

The Manor House

Gilly Macmillan

Resurrection Walk

Michael Connelly

Dirty Thirty

Janet Evanovich

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