Library Calendar

Events in February 2025

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January 26, 2025
January 27, 2025
January 28, 2025(2 events)

Stretch & Flow Yoga


January 28, 2025

 

Yoga @ the library is back!  Tuesdays at 9:00 a.m.

Yoga Pose in front of Sun

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 Structure

You 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 

Virtual Author Talk: An Inside Look at Working with a Literary Agent


January 28, 2025

 

Register & submit questions for the author here: https://libraryc.org/vaillibrary/65517

You’re writing a book (or thinking about it), but what happens next?

Join us for an inside look into working with an agent and the beginning stages of the publishing process with Seth Fishman, Vice President and Literary Agent at The Gernert Company.

In this presentation, Fishman will deep dive into what happens after you’ve signed with a literary agent. He will cover many topics, including but not limited to:

  • What agents are and are not looking for,
  • How to submit your work to an agent and when,
  • What to expect after you've both said "yes!" to working together,
  • What you can look forward to as you ready your work with an eye towards submitting to publishers, including the revision process and so much more.

About the Author: Head of the Los Angeles office, Seth is a Vice President and agent at The Gernert Company, which he joined in 2010 after beginning his career as an agent at Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. Born in Midland, Texas, he graduated from Princeton University and earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. His interests are wide-ranging, but in particular he's looking for the new voice, the original idea, the entirely breathtaking creative angle in both fiction and nonfiction. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and children, and is the author of the award-winning picture book, A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars, along with Power Up and The Ocean In Your Bathtub, as well as two YA books.

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.

 

January 29, 2025
January 30, 2025
January 31, 2025
February 1, 2025
February 2, 2025
February 3, 2025
February 4, 2025(2 events)

Stretch & Flow Yoga


February 4, 2025

 

Yoga @ the library is back!  Tuesdays at 9:00 a.m.

Yoga Pose in front of Sun

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 Structure

You 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 

Virtual Author Talk: How We Create Pandemics, From Our Bodies to Our Beliefs


February 4, 2025

 

How 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 AnthropologyEnvironmental Health PerspectivesJAMA, PNAS, Scientific ReportsProceedings 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.

February 5, 2025
February 6, 2025
February 7, 2025
February 8, 2025
February 9, 2025
February 10, 2025
February 11, 2025(2 events)

Stretch & Flow Yoga


February 11, 2025

 

Yoga @ the library is back!  Tuesdays at 9:00 a.m.

Yoga Pose in front of Sun

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 Structure

You 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 

Virtual Author Talk: Dystopian Tropes from an Indigenous Perspective: In Conversation with Waubgeshig Rice


February 11, 2025

 

You’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.

February 12, 2025(1 event)

Virtual Books 'n Bites


February 12, 2025

 

Virtual 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. 

February 13, 2025
February 14, 2025(1 event)

Skiing Book Club


February 14, 2025

Vail 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. 

February 15, 2025
February 16, 2025
February 17, 2025
February 18, 2025(2 events)

Stretch & Flow Yoga


February 18, 2025

 

Yoga @ the library is back!  Tuesdays at 9:00 a.m.

Yoga Pose in front of Sun

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 Structure

You 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 

Virtual Author Talk: I Am Nobody’s Slave: An Author Talk with Lee Hawkins


February 18, 2025

 

I 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.

February 19, 2025
February 20, 2025
February 21, 2025
February 22, 2025
February 23, 2025
February 24, 2025
February 25, 2025(1 event)

Stretch & Flow Yoga


February 25, 2025

 

Yoga @ the library is back!  Tuesdays at 9:00 a.m.

Yoga Pose in front of Sun

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 Structure

You 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 

February 26, 2025
February 27, 2025
February 28, 2025
March 1, 2025