Libby Becomes our Go-to App for eBooks and eAudiobooks The digital platform Boundless will be going away at the end of November 2025, due to the closure of its parent company. While we are sad to see it go, we are moving those titles over to Libby, our other eBook and eAudiobook service. Rest assured, we will continue to add fresh eBook and eAudiobook titles to Libby each month. Many of the new titles will be exclusive to members of The Community Library, which shortens waiting times. … [Read more...] about Digital Happenings: Boundless is Going Away
Review of Books about Spiders, Bugs, and Insects
Gold Mine Housewares Supervisor Jessica Nava recommends: "The Tarantula Scientist" by Sy Montgomery Is there really such a thing as a tarantula scientist? Yes, there is! Follow spider scientist Sam Marshall on an adventure into French Guiana’s steamy rainforest in search of thee fantastic eight-legged wonders. Marshall takes us into the field and shows us how he finds and collects specimens. He studies these spiders in the wild, but he is also an educator. He is a professor at Hiram … [Read more...] about Review of Books about Spiders, Bugs, and Insects
Cashmere at Gold Mine Consign
Thursday, November 20, 202510:00am-5:30 p.m. Cashmere: Sweaters, scarves, gloves, socks, women’s, men’s. Need we say more? Yes! There’s more. Designer cashmere comes to Gold Mine Consign—curated especially for this new annual event. Proceeds from the Gold Mine stores help support books, literacy, and programs at The Community Library. Gold Mine Consign is located on Walnut Avenue in Ketchum. Doors open at 10am. View/download our Seasonal Sales Schedule here. See … [Read more...] about Cashmere at Gold Mine Consign
Twenty-one steps
Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by Jeff Gottesfeld Keeping vigil at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery are the sentinel guards, whose every step, every turn, honors and remembers America's fallen. They protect fellow soldiers who have made the ultimate sacrifice, making sure they are never alone. To stand there–with absolute precision, in every type of weather, at every moment of the day, one in a line uninterrupted since midnight July 2, 1937–is the … [Read more...] about Twenty-one steps
On Desperate Ground
The Marines at the Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle by Hampton Sides On October 15, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of UN troops in Korea, convinced President Harry Truman that the Communist forces of Kim Il-sung would be utterly defeated by Thanksgiving. The Chinese, he said with near certainty, would not intervene in the war. As he was speaking, 300,000 Red Chinese soldiers began secretly crossing the Manchurian border. Led by some 20,000 men of the First … [Read more...] about On Desperate Ground
81 Days Below Zero
The Incredible Survival Story of a World War II Pilot in Alaska's Frozen Wilderness by Brian Murphy "A riveting . . . saga of survival against formidable odds" ( Washington Post ) about the survivor of a World War II plane crash in Alaska's Yukon territory. Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a routine flight to test their hastily retrofitted B-twenty-four Liberator in harsh winter conditions. The mission ended in a crash that … [Read more...] about 81 Days Below Zero
