TaleSpinners Storytime meets at 10:30 a.m. this coming Monday, March 3. Preschool-aged children and their caregivers are invited to attend this 30-minute activity for ages 7 and under. This week is a Ranger Read-Along. We hope to see you and your little one there.
Happy Lamb Knitting Club meets on Tuesday, March 4, at 5 p.m. Knitters and crocheters of all skill levels are welcome to attend. Share some tips or learn something new.
Looking into March, there will be a Lego Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on March 15. Stop in and build with Legos or bring in your own project. Talk everything Legos with other participants and show off your Lego creations. Who doesn’t love playing with Legos?
This time of year, we are all thinking about the garden and there is no better place to plan than the library. Stop in to see all the great gardening idea books, learn about permaculture and lasagna gardening and so much more.
While you are in the library, take a look at the Alger County Seed Library and get a few packets of seed for yourself. There will even be a seed swap on Saturday, March 22, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the library meeting room. Bring some of your seed and swap with others, or add it to the seed library. Get a free packet of sunflowers for participating.
New book
This week’s new book is “Picks and Shovels” by Cory Doctorow. Here is the publisher’s synopsis: The year is 1986. The city is San Francisco. Here, Martin Hench will invent the forensic accountant — what a bounty hunter is to people, he is to money — but for now he’s an MIT drop-out odd-jobbing his way around the Bay Area.
When Marty finds himself hired by Silicon Valley PC startup Fidelity to investigate a group of disgruntled ex-employees who founded a competitor startup, he quickly realizes he’s on the wrong side. Marty ditches the greasy old guys running Fidelity Computing without a second thought, utterly infatuated with the electric atmosphere of Computing Freedom. Located in the heart of the Mission, this group of young women found themselves exhausted by the predatory business practices of Fidelity Computing and set out to beat them at their own game, making better computers and driving Fidelity Computing out of business.
But this optimistic startup, fueled by young love and California style burritos, has no idea the depth of the evil they’re seeking to unroot or the risks they run.
In this company-eat-company city, Martin and his friends will be lucky to escape with their lives.
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When Marty finds himself hired by Silicon Valley PC startup Fidelity to investigate a group of disgruntled ex-employees, he quickly realizes he’s on the wrong side.
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