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Enter this baking competition to fight for your right to read during Banned Books Week. Bake a sweet treat that highlights a Banned Book. Not sure what a Banned Book is and/or which books are "banned"? Check out this resource from the American Library Association to get started: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10
All registrants receive a cake decorating kit and choice of rectangle or circle cake board. You will receive an email when you are able to pick up your…
The Virtual Summer Reading Finale for kids and teens is on August 8th starting at 11AM on Facebook at @handleyregional. The live program will feature a celebration of this year’s participants including top readers and number of books read.
So far, over 650 kids and teens have participated in the program with 7,996 books read by pre-readers and nearly 6,000 hours of reading by older readers and teens. Prizes, including book bundles, will be awarded and winners will be…
Play chess to learn or strengthen your skills of the game.
Players of all ages and strengths are welcome to come and play.
We gather each week to play casual and blitz chess games.
Chess at Bowman Library is a student volunteer-run program.
Chess sets and space are provided. Free!
Sponsored by the Teen Advisory Board at Bowman Library; affiliated with the Stephens City Chess Club and the Shenandoah Valley Chess Club.
Chess Champs come and play!
Play chess to learn or strengthen your skills of the game.
Players of all ages and strengths are welcome to come and play.
We gather every week on Saturday mornings to play casual chess games.
Chess at Bowman Library is a volunteer-run program.
Chess sets and space are provided. Instructors are present when their schedule permits.
Sponsored and affiliated with the Stephens City Chess Club and the Shenandoah Valley Chess Club.
Join us for Brown Bag with Books. Our August discussion is on The Fourth Child by Jessica Winter.
We always have an interesting and fun discussion. All welcome!
To check out the book, click here.
To check out the audiobook, click here.
Book summary: Book-smart, devoutly Catholic, and painfully unsure of herself, Jane becomes pregnant in high school; by her early twenties, she is raising three children in the suburbs of western New York State. In the fall of 1991, as…
Chess Champs come and play!
Play chess to learn or strengthen your skills of the game.
Players of all ages and strengths are welcome to come and play.
We gather every week on Saturday mornings to play casual chess games.
Chess at Bowman Library is a volunteer-run program.
Chess sets and space are provided. Instructors are present when their schedule permits.
Sponsored and affiliated with the Stephens City Chess Club and the Shenandoah Valley Chess Club.
Play chess to learn or strengthen your skills of the game.
Players of all ages and strengths are welcome to come and play.
We gather every other week to play casual and blitz chess games.
Chess at Bowman Library is a volunteer-run program.
Chess sets and space are provided. Free!
Please register to attend this event.
Sponsored and affiliated with the Stephens City Chess Club and the Shenandoah Valley Chess Club.
Poetry is a great example of Aristotle’s concept that “The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts.” Individual words have their meanings but when they are strung together using cadence and rhyme to form a poem, the “whole” is definitely greater. Poems connect the head to the heart, ideas to emotions, and our senses to places. If you have a book of poems, this is a great time to pull it off the shelf. If not, like most everything, you can find poems online.
The American Poetry Society has a…
Volunteers will be on hand to collect your gently used books (in good, clean condition), DVDs, music CDs, audiobooks on CD and electronic games in the Bowman Library parking lot. We wish we could accept every book that is donated, but we simply don't have the space! Many books we receive cannot be sold and it takes time and energy to deal with these donations. The Friends of HRLS is run on volunteer power, so please go through your donations before bringing them to us and discard items…
Volunteers will be on hand to collect your gently used books (in good, clean condition), DVDs, music CDs, audiobooks on CD and electronic games in the Bowman Library parking lot. We wish we could accept every book that is donated, but we simply don't have the space! Many books we receive cannot be sold and it takes time and energy to deal with these donations. The Friends of HRLS is run on volunteer power, so please go through your donations before bringing them to us and discard items…