Events in February 2025
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Stretch & Flow Yoga Stretch & Flow Yoga
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February 4, 2025Yoga @ the library is back! Tuesdays at 9:00 a.m.
Join local instructor, Beth Huck, for this free weekly beginner-friendly Vinyasa yoga class.
The Vinyasa style of yoga strings poses together for a smooth flow so you can build your skills, increase flexibility and practice balance.
Doors open at 8:45 a.m.
One hour parking voucher available for Lionshead Parking StructureYou don’t need to reserve your spot, but it is always great to know
you’re coming! To RSVP or get more info call 970-479-2187 or
email kmcnally@vail.govVirtual Author Talk: How We Create Pandemics, From Our Bodies to Our Beliefs Virtual Author Talk: How We Create Pandemics, From Our Bodies to Our Beliefs
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February 4, 2025How We Create Pandemics, From Our Bodies to Our Beliefs with Smithsonian Curator Sabrina Sholts
Join us for this enlightening presentation with Smithsonian curator Sabrina Sholts as she talks about how the very fact of being human increases our pandemic risks—and gives us the power to save ourselves.
Register & submit questions for the author here: https://libraryc.org/vaillibrary/66645
Drawing on dozens of disciplines—from medicine, epidemiology, and microbiology to anthropology, sociology, ecology, and neuroscience—as well as a unique expertise in public education about emerging infectious diseases, biological anthropologist Sabrina Sholts identifies the human traits and tendencies that double as pandemic liabilities, from the anatomy that defines us to the misperceptions that divide us.
About the Author:
Sabrina Sholts is a biological anthropologist and Curator of Biological Anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). Her research explores intersections of human, animal, and environmental health in the past and present. She received her PhD in Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara and was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley in Integrative Biology and at Stockholm University in Biophysics and Biochemistry. Sholts has published widely in academic journals including American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Environmental Health Perspectives, JAMA, PNAS, Scientific Reports, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, and Nature Ecology & Evolution, and written for popular audiences in Scientific American and Smithsonian Magazine. She was named as a World Economic Forum Young Scientist in 2019. In addition, she was Lead Curator of the exhibition Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World at the NMNH (2018-2022) and a scientific advisor for the related exhibition Épidémies: Prendre soin du vivant at the musée des Confluences in Lyon, France (2024-2025).
Vail Public Library showcases a virtual author talk series each month featuring bestselling, award-winning, and highly acclaimed authors from around the world. The featured writers and thought leaders will cover a wide range of fiction and nonfiction genres.
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Stretch & Flow Yoga Stretch & Flow Yoga
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February 11, 2025Yoga @ the library is back! Tuesdays at 9:00 a.m.
Join local instructor, Beth Huck, for this free weekly beginner-friendly Vinyasa yoga class.
The Vinyasa style of yoga strings poses together for a smooth flow so you can build your skills, increase flexibility and practice balance.
Doors open at 8:45 a.m.
One hour parking voucher available for Lionshead Parking StructureYou don’t need to reserve your spot, but it is always great to know
you’re coming! To RSVP or get more info call 970-479-2187 or
email kmcnally@vail.govVirtual Author Talk: Dystopian Tropes from an Indigenous Perspective: In Conversation with Waubgeshig Rice Virtual Author Talk: Dystopian Tropes from an Indigenous Perspective: In Conversation with Waubgeshig Rice
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February 11, 2025You’re invited to a riveting conversation with bestselling author Waubgeshig Rice to chat about his newest book Moon of the Turning Leaves, the hotly anticipated sequel to the bestselling novel Moon of the Crusted Snow.
Moon of the Turning Leaves is Rice’s exhilarating return to the world first explored in the phenomenal breakout bestseller Moon of the Crusted Snow: a brooding story of survival, resilience, Indigenous identity, and rebirth.
Register & submit questions for the author here: https://libraryc.org/vaillibrary/67129
About the Author: Waubgeshig Rice is an author and journalist originally from Wasauksing First Nation. His books include the Independent Publishers Book Award-winning short story collection Midnight Sweatlodge and the national bestselling novel Moon of the Crusted Snow. Reporting for CBC News for the bulk of his journalism career, in 2014 he received the Anishinabek Nation’s Debwewin Citation for excellence in First Nation Storytelling, and from 2018 to 2020, he hosted Up North, CBC Radio’s afternoon show for northern Ontario.
Vail Public Library showcases a virtual author talk series each month featuring bestselling, award-winning, and highly acclaimed authors from around the world. The featured writers and thought leaders will cover a wide range of fiction and nonfiction genres.
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Virtual Books 'n Bites Virtual Books 'n Bites
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February 12, 2025Virtual Books 'n Bites
The library's book club meets each month for a fun and lively virtual book club experience!
We meet on the second Wednesday of the month via Zoom.
Email Kim at KMcNally@vail.gov for an invitation to the monthly Books ‘n’ Bites.Join us this month when we will discuss the book
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult.Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life--living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher--was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she and her mom relocate to Adams, New Hampshire, for her final year of high school, they both hope it will be a fresh start. And for just a short while, these new beginnings are exactly what Olivia and Lily need. Their paths cross when Asher falls for the new girl in school, and Lily can't help but fall for him, too. With Ash, she feels happy for the first time. Yet at times, she wonders if she can she trust him completely . . . Then one day, Olivia receives a phone call: Lily is dead, and Asher is being questioned by the police. Olivia is adamant that her son is innocent. But she would be lying if she didn't acknowledge the flashes of his father's temper in him, and as the case against him unfolds, she realizes he's hidden more than he's shared with her.
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Skiing Book Club Skiing Book Club
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February 14, 2025Vail Public Library’s Skiing Book Club takes readers to the slopes for an active book club.
Meet at the top of Eagle Bahn Gondola, by the water fountain near Bistro 14, to talk books and ski!
Attendees must have their own ski pass. The library will not be providing lift tickets.
RSVP required by email to Jo at JNorris@vail.gov
Join us this month when we will discuss the book
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult.Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life--living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher--was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she and her mom relocate to Adams, New Hampshire, for her final year of high school, they both hope it will be a fresh start. And for just a short while, these new beginnings are exactly what Olivia and Lily need. Their paths cross when Asher falls for the new girl in school, and Lily can't help but fall for him, too. With Ash, she feels happy for the first time. Yet at times, she wonders if she can she trust him completely . . . Then one day, Olivia receives a phone call: Lily is dead, and Asher is being questioned by the police. Olivia is adamant that her son is innocent. But she would be lying if she didn't acknowledge the flashes of his father's temper in him, and as the case against him unfolds, she realizes he's hidden more than he's shared with her.
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Stretch & Flow Yoga Stretch & Flow Yoga
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February 18, 2025Yoga @ the library is back! Tuesdays at 9:00 a.m.
Join local instructor, Beth Huck, for this free weekly beginner-friendly Vinyasa yoga class.
The Vinyasa style of yoga strings poses together for a smooth flow so you can build your skills, increase flexibility and practice balance.
Doors open at 8:45 a.m.
One hour parking voucher available for Lionshead Parking StructureYou don’t need to reserve your spot, but it is always great to know
you’re coming! To RSVP or get more info call 970-479-2187 or
email kmcnally@vail.govVirtual Author Talk: I Am Nobody’s Slave: An Author Talk with Lee Hawkins Virtual Author Talk: I Am Nobody’s Slave: An Author Talk with Lee Hawkins
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February 18, 2025I Am Nobody’s Slave: An Author Talk with Pulitzer Prize Finalist Lee Hawkins
We welcome you to our conversation with journalist and author Lee Hawkins as he talks to us about the examination of his family’s legacy of post-enslavement trauma and resilience in this riveting memoir, I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free.
Hawkins explores the role of racism-triggered childhood trauma and chronic stress in shortening his ancestors' lives, using genetic testing, reporting, and historical data to craft a moving family portrait. This book shows how genealogical research can educate and heal Americans of all races, revealing through their story the story of America—a journey of struggle, resilience, and the heavy cost of ultimate success.
Register & submit questions here: https://libraryc.org/vaillibrary/67613
About the Author: LEE HAWKINS was a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist as a lead reporter on a series about the Tulsa Massacre of 1921 at the Wall Street Journal, where he worked for nineteen years. He has received several fellowships, including The Carter Center’s Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism, the Alicia Patterson Foundation Journalism Fellowship, the O’Brien Fellowship for Public Service Journalism, the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism National Fellowship for reporting on child well-being. Hawkins is a five-time winner of the National Association of Black Journalists’ “Salute to Excellence” Award. He is the creator and host of the podcast “What Happened in Alabama?” and lives in the New York City area.
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Stretch & Flow Yoga Stretch & Flow Yoga
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February 25, 2025Yoga @ the library is back! Tuesdays at 9:00 a.m.
Join local instructor, Beth Huck, for this free weekly beginner-friendly Vinyasa yoga class.
The Vinyasa style of yoga strings poses together for a smooth flow so you can build your skills, increase flexibility and practice balance.
Doors open at 8:45 a.m.
One hour parking voucher available for Lionshead Parking StructureYou don’t need to reserve your spot, but it is always great to know
you’re coming! To RSVP or get more info call 970-479-2187 or
email kmcnally@vail.gov