10:00 AM - Tuesday -

This program will be available Tuesdays via YouTube at https://bit.ly/2Yaurca

Join community librarians for songs, rhymes, stories and fun!

Experts agree that talking, singing, reading, writing and playing with your young child will prepare them for learning how to read, and will teach them the six skills needed to read. A child who enters kindergarten with a strong vocabulary, a love of books, and a familiarity with playing with words, has a definite advantage. You can help those skills develop with story time!

For more information about early literacy and how to talk, read, rhyme, play and write with your child, visit: https://www.deschuteslibrary.org/kids/literacy

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12:00 PM - Tuesday -

Discuss The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson online via Zoom.

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About the Book: Part H Is for Hawk, part The Soul of an Octopus, The Book of Eels is both a meditation on the world's most elusive fish-the eel-and a reflection on the human condition. Remarkably little is known about the European eel.They remain a mystery. Drawing on a breadth of research about eels in literature, history, and modern marine biology, as well as his own experience fishing for eels with his father, Patrik Svensson crafts a mesmerizing portrait of an unusual, utterly misunderstood, and completely captivating animal. The result is a gripping and slippery narrative that will surprise and enchant.

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6:00 PM - Tuesday -

This is a live webinar. Register here for a link https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gaGYPNILRHOGvrpMpiYx5A

Explore the natural history of the desert tortoise of the American Southwest.

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Learn about the natural history of the desert tortoise, how it copes with the temperature extremes, frequent droughts, and harsh environments in the Mojave and western Sonoran deserts of the American Southwest. The long-lived tortoise has a complex social life with a dominance hierarchy (males), defense of use areas (males), and individual personalities. The historic and current threats to continued existence of the species are human activities. In the future, climate warming is likely to play an important role.

Dr. Kristin H. Berry has degrees from Stanford University (B.A.), University of California at Los Angeles (M.A.), and the University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D.). She grew up in the Mojave Desert where she enjoyed hunting lizards and tortoises near her home. Her early research was on chuckwalla lizards in the northwestern Mojave Desert, the topic of her dissertation UC Berkely. Following graduate school, she has conducted research and published on desert tortoises and other vertebrates in deserts, desert vegetation, and human impacts. She worked for the Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, for more than 20 years, and since 1997, as a Principal Investigator in the fields of wildlife biology and ecology at the U.S. Geological Survey.

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10:00 AM - Wednesday -

Make salt crystallized leaves with a few simple supplies.

Learn about saturation, evaporation, and crystallization in this easy science experiment. When you're done you'll have a leaf, frosted in crystallized salt.

You will need: a leaf or a construction paper cut out of a leaf, salt, water, a pot to heat up the water, and a bowl or dish to cool down the water. Construction paper leaves and salt will be available for pick up at your local library branch on September 25th.

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5:30 PM - Wednesday -

This event has been cancelled. This presentation will occur virtually on Sept 8 and you can find information here: https://www.deschuteslibrary.org/calendar/event/62318

Learn what it takes to hike a day, week, or month on the Oregon Desert Trail and get some dessert recommendations on the way.

Wearing a face covering is required at all in-person, indoor events.

Come learn more about what it takes to hike a day, week, or month on the Oregon Desert Trail and get some recommendations for an amazing milkshake, delicious pie, or other sweet treat. What does a remote and challenging long-distance desert route have to do with dessert? After experiencing a cotton candy colored morning sunrise surrounded by wildflowers the color of jelly beans and the honeyed serenade of a meadowlark, your sweet tooth will be satiated.

Renee joined Oregon Natural Desert Association (ONDA) in 2015 to further develop the Oregon Desert Trail. She is responsible for establishing the 750-mile Oregon Desert Trail, shaping its future, and inspiring others to get out and explore the high desert as much as possible. In addition, Renee leads ONDA's independent stewardship program and is working to educate and inspire others to experience our desert landscapes responsibly.

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7:00 PM - Wednesday -

A link to view this program will be available beginning Wednesday, September 22 at 7:00 p.m.

Discover the process behind Central Oregon’s favorite gelato.

Juli Labhart demonstrates the process of making dairy-free sorbetto & gelato inspired by the desert. She discusses balancing a recipe, calibrating for the sugar in fruit and how the attributes/qualities of specific ingredients can affect the freezing process.

Inspired and enlivened by a one year trip around the world, Jeff and Juli Labhart returned with a want to capture the flavors from the street stalls of Thailand, the spice fields of Zanzibar, the mountains of India, and other exotic locales into the creamy fresh goodness of gelato.

Every small batch of Bontà gelato is hand-crafted using only the best ingredients with many coming from the Oregon countryside. For it was their travels that made them realize that many of the world’s best ice cream ingredients can be found right here at home, also.

Jeff grew up in the dairy community of Tillamook, Oregon and at a young age understood that the reason the milk and cream tasted so good here in the Northwest was all of the tall, green grass the cows munched on all year long. Juli was raised in the berry community of Lynden, Washington where, in her younger years, she worked the berry fields. She still wonders why she was never fired, because it seemed more berries went into her mouth than the bucket.

Upon their return from their travels, they trained under two different Italian gelato masters. From their studies they developed their own homemade ice cream recipes and the result is a denser, flavorful ice cream with less fat than traditional American ice cream.

It was from this inspiration and the want to support local growers, the community, and the environment that Bontà was born.
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10:00 AM - Thursday -

Interactive storytime with songs, rhymes, and movement.
This video will premiere live on Facebook at 10:00 a.m.; visit www.facebook.com/deschuteslibrary to tune in."

Early literacy skills to get your child ready to learn to read are the focus of these storytimes. You and your child will hear great stories while also becoming more familiar with letter sounds, rhyming, vocabulary, and print. Fun for everyone with opportunities to sing, join in on movement rhymes.

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12:00 PM - Thursday -

Discuss The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson online via Zoom.

Join us online by copy and pasting the following link: https://zoom.us/j/91489244881

About the Book: Part H Is for Hawk, part The Soul of an Octopus, The Book of Eels is both a meditation on the world's most elusive fish-the eel-and a reflection on the human condition. Remarkably little is known about the European eel. They remain a mystery. Drawing on a breadth of research about eels in literature, history, and modern marine biology, as well as his own experience fishing for eels with his father, Patrik Svensson crafts a mesmerizing portrait of an unusual, utterly misunderstood, and completely captivating animal. The result is a gripping and slippery narrative that will surprise and enchant.

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12:00 PM - Friday -

Read and Discuss "Interior Chinatown" by Charles Yu.

Click the link above or join at https://zoom.us/j/93316346029 or with Meeting ID 933 1634 6029

"Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He's merely Generic Asian man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but he is always relegated to a prop. Yet every day he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He's a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy--the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. At least that's what he has been told, time and time again. Except by one person, his mother. Who says to him: Be more"

Book club kit copies are available at the Downtown Bend Customer Service Desk. First-come, first-serve.
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All Day - Saturday -

Kids' fall crafts at all library locations while supplies last. Designed for ages 6-11 years old.

Learn about saturation, evaporation, and crystallization. Create a lovely salt crystal leaf that you can hang in a window as we look forward to the frosty days of fall.

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10:00 AM - Tuesday -

This program will be available Tuesdays via YouTube at https://bit.ly/2Yaurca

Join community librarians for songs, rhymes, stories and fun!

Experts agree that talking, singing, reading, writing and playing with your young child will prepare them for learning how to read, and will teach them the six skills needed to read. A child who enters kindergarten with a strong vocabulary, a love of books, and a familiarity with playing with words, has a definite advantage. You can help those skills develop with story time!

For more information about early literacy and how to talk, read, rhyme, play and write with your child, visit: https://www.deschuteslibrary.org/kids/literacy

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4:00 PM - Tuesday -

A link to view this program online will be available here beginning Tuesday, September 28 at 4:00 pm.

Look at photos and hear tales from an urban explorer capturing a few of the many ghost towns in Oregon.

According to some historians, Oregon has the most ghost towns of any state at about 200 sites. Since some of those former communities are described as "remnants," I think it would be pretty difficult if not impossible to visit them all. But as an urban explorer, I am certainly trying. About 50% of the hobby is photography, so in this program, I will be sharing some of my favorite shots as well as a little info about the locations, without actually giving the locations. That's because the other 50% of the hobby is gatekeeping. Not with the express goal of keeping people from exploring all together, but just to keep the numbers down to people who actually want to put in the literal footwork of finding these "bandos". Too many people = "No Trespassing" signs, and we're not fans of those. So if you don't want to drive aimlessly for hours in the hopes of spotting something you read about in a private group on Facebook but would still like to peek into an abandoned homestead from the 1860's, join me.

Ash Knotts started her career in B&E (breaking and entering) at the tender age of 16, when her dad helped her break into a cemetery at midnight in the pursuit of a local secret society. From there, she pursued abandoned farmsteads in her native Ohio and, eventually, entire ghost towns when she relocated to Oregon. Ash was asked by Fonthill Media to write a novella/photography book about her experiences exploring ghost towns in 2019. With an excuse to travel and a lot of creative license, she penned Abandoned Oregon: Ghost Towns of the Painted Hills and Beyond. She currently lives in Portland, Or, where she divides her time between restoring vintage furniture and clothes, building terrariums, writing scripts for horror movies with friends, and exploring the wild west with her elderly dog, Sooki.

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5:30 PM - Wednesday -

Discuss My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff. Join via Zoom.
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