(Growth by Carly Garzon Vargas) January through March the Redmond Library is exhibiting photography by Cory O’Neill and David Millenheft. Carly Garzon Vargas will be displaying her paper cut art in the Silent Reading Room and the display case will feature fused glass art by Laurel Werhane. Cory O’Neill’s work as a guide for an…
Deschutes Public Library Foundation reveals the book at annual public celebration in Bend Deschutes Public Library is pleased to announce Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon as the 2019 “A Novel Idea…Read Together” selection. The book, written by best-selling author Robert Kurson,…
#6 Harry and Lola Adventures Book Released to Support Three Rivers Humane Society The legendary leader Gandhi once said, “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” Jerilee Drynan and her husband run Three Rivers Humane Society in Madras. They believe that Central Oregon’s…
(Photo courtesy of Deschutes Public Library) Deschutes Public Library Foundation to Reveal the 2019 A Novel Idea Selection at Annual Free Community Celebration Saturday, December 1 at 6pm at the Downtown Bend Library, 601 NW Wall Street, Bend From the rivers and forests of Oregon in David James Duncan’s The River Why to the tumultuous…
The Ultimate Guide to Mastering 100 Essential Outdoor and Fishing Knots While children turn to technology, the age-old and practical skill of knot-tying is clearly still a popular one! John Sherry, one of the world’s leading knot-tying educators, has sold over 1,000,000 copies of his Pro-Knot cards: sets of waterproof, plastic, quick-reference cards you can…
(Photo courtesy of Aracdia Publishing) The idyllic community of Sunriver sits at the crossroads of Central Oregon. The region was inhabited as early as 11,500 years ago by native tribes. The first non-native explorers filtered through the area in the early 19th century, and homesteaders began farming the region in the late 1800s. During World…
Each of us is born into this world as a perfect little angel. Sometimes – because of hard luck, adverse circumstance, quirks of fate, and our own reckless decisions – the perfect little angel falls down. Fall Down Angel is a contemporary novel based on the true-life adventures of two runaways who work their way…
Four bestselling authors will make their way to Central Oregon for the seventh season of the Deschutes Public Library Foundation’s popular Author! Author! literary series: Maria Semple, Sarah Vowell, Colum McCann and Richard Russo. With a collective 30 books between the four of them, this author line-up promises to deliver a rich variety of experience…
Author talk serves as a fundraiser for women’s scholarships Whether fishing, spear-fishing, free-diving, scuba diving, body surfing or board surfing, author Terry Cross has been on, in or near the water most of his life. He worked two seasons on the Cat as a commercial abalone diver and helped put himself through nursing school teaching…
Bend resident, Brian Dunning, author of Conspiracy Theories: Declassified, will read from his newest book Sunday, August 5 at 3pm at Roundabout Books, 900 NW Mt. Washington Dr., Suite 110 in Bend. What’s fact? What’s fiction? With conspiracy theories, it’s hard to get to the truth. Conspiracies, published by Adam’s Media, an imprint of Simon…
