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Oct. 3 (4:30-5:30pm) Fall Wooden Nov. 15 (4:30-5:30pm) Christmas Signs Cards for Soldiers Want something unique to decorate your Give back this season by house? Design and paint your own creating Christmas cards to send to the wooden sign during this free workshop. brave servicemen and servicewomen in Upcoming Events Registration is required. the armed forces.

Nov. 7 (4:30-5:30pm) Christmas Gift in Weekly Programs September a Jar Library Card Signup Month If you’re stumped about what to give your Toddler Time (Tuesdays, 10:30am) Sept. 20 Book Adoption Day loved ones for Christmas, join us as we Story Time (Wednesdays, 10:30am) make meal-in-a-jar gifts. Registration is Baby & Me (Thursdays, 10:30am) Sept. 22-28 Banned Books required. Week Technology Training Sept. 26 Play Doh Day Children & Teens Need computer or tablet help? The October Sept. 26 (4:00-5:00pm) Play Doh Day library offers one-on-one technology Oct. 3 Fall Wooden Signs Love Play Doh? So do we! It’s sure to be training, as well as Tech Tuesdays an hour of moldable, squishable fun! sessions on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of (Adult Craft) each month, from 3:30pm-4:30pm. Oct. 8-14 Teen Read Week Oct. 17 (4:30-5:30pm) Slime Lab Please call 936.327.4252 to sign up for Oct 17 Slime Lab Learn about and explore several different any of our tech training opportunities. Oct. 20-26 Friends of types of slime and then make your own. Libraries Week Tech Tuesdays Oct. 31 Book or Treat Oct. 31 (4:00-5:30pm) Book or Treat September—iOS & iPad Help Join us for a safe, cool way to celebrate October—Windows 10 Help

Halloween. Grab your costumes and November—Android Help November goodie bags! Indoor trick-or-treating, Picture Book Month games, and free books (while supplies For a complete listing of upcoming Nov. 7 Christmas Gift in a Jar last). events visit www.livingstonlibrary.net. (Adult Craft) Nov. 15 Book Sale Nov. 15 Christmas Cards for Soldiers

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Shelf Space Reader’s Corner If you liked MaddAddam, try...

Kindred - Octavia Butler (GRA YA FIC BUT) Livingston Municipal L i b rary - William Golding (FIC GOL c.2)

707 N. Tyler Avenue Life after life - Kate Atkinson (CD FIC ATK & e-book) Livingston, TX 77351 936.327.4252 Station eleven - Emily St. John Mandel (CD FIC MAN) [email protected] More than this - Patrick Ness (YA FIC NES)

Hours Brave new world - Aldous Huxley (FIC HUX & e-book) Sunday - Closed Mon - Fri : 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Saturday : 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.

The library will be closed on From Page to Screen the following days: DVD FIC HAT The hate u give Aug. 31 - Sept. 2 (Angie Thomas) (Labor Day) DVD FIC IFB If Beale Street DVD FIC TWE The 12th man could talk (James Baldwin) DVD FIC TOK To kill a mocking- (Astrid Karlsen Scott &Tore Haug) Nov. 9 - Nov. 11 bird (Harper Lee) DVD FIC CHA Charlie and the DVD FIC BOY Boy erased (Veteran’s Day) chocolate factory (Roald Dahl) DVD FIC ANN Annihilation (Jeff (Garrard Conley) VanderMeer) Nov. 28 - Nov. 30 DVD FIC COL The color purple DVD FIC LIT The little witch (Thanksgiving) (Alice Walker) DVD FIC WOM The woman in (Otfried Preussler) white (Wilkie Collins)

Friends of the Library Author Spotlight: Book Adoptions Speculative Fiction/Poetry (Adapted from wikipedia.org)

You might find it difficult to find a resume cal activism, spec- Sept. 20, 2019 10am - 2pm longer than Margaret Atwood’s: poet, novel- ulative and sci- ist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, teacher, ence fiction, as Nov. 15, 2019 10am - 2pm environmental activist. well as animal rights. Perhaps best known for her dystopian novel, Choose from our selection of The handmaid’s tale (adapted into a Hulu Her many awards series in 2017, which has been renewed for and honors include fiction and nonfiction books, a third season), Canadian-born Atwood re- the Man Booker calls writing plays and poetry at the age of Prize (2000), the DVDs, and audiobooks, and six. Her father’s career as an entomologist Order of Canada, allowed Atwood to spend her childhood ex- the order of Ona- make a donation. The Friends ploring the woods of Quebec; she did not tario, and the Pen attend school fulltime until she was 12 years Center USA Life- Book Adoptions support old. time Achievement Award. Livingston Municipal Library’s Atwood’s first book of poetry was published in 1961, and her first novel, The edible wom- Her latest novel, , a sequel to collection development and an was published in 1969. To date Atwood the handmaid’s tale, is scheduled for release has published 17 collections of poetry, 16 in September 2019. Atwood currently lives in programming. novels, 10 non-fiction books, eight short Toronto with her partner, Graeme Gibson. story collections, eight children’s books, and one graphic novel. To learn more about Margaret Atwood, please visit margaretatwood.ca. Find us anywhere! Key themes present in Atwood’s works in- clude the Canadian identity, feminism, politi- www.livingstonlibrary.net