In this magisterial biography, the winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer’s legacy has been ignored.
A stunning New York Times bestselling novel that intertwines the stories of an escaped slave in 1852 Virginia and an ambitious young lawyer in contemporary New York and asks: is it ever too late to right a wrong?
Join MOD Pizza in supporting ImagineIF Libraries by ordering takeout on February 4th. Why not make it a family pizza and movie night and stream something on Hoopla? Or check out a DVD from the library and pick it up curbside? However you slice it, it’s a great way to support ImagineIF Libraries.
20% of all proceeds will be donated to the libraries. Click here to RSVP and mention ImagineIF when ordering online or over the phone.
The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature: an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind.
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, spanning nearly a century of epochal change, from the Indian Wars to the Dust Bowl, Wilder’s dramatic life provides a unique perspective on American history and our national mythology of self-reliance. With fresh insights and new discoveries, Prairie Fires reveals the complex woman whose classic stories grip us to this day
From the New York Times-bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow, a “sharply stylish” (Boston Globe) book about a young woman in post-Depression era New York who suddenly finds herself thrust into high society—now with over one million readers worldwide.
*Book Club meets in the downstairs community room at ImagineIF, Kalispell
May book: Where the Crawdads Sing by Della Owens
The book is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder.
A one-day national fundraiser to benefit local public libraries. ImagineIF is participating with the aim of raising $20,000 for programs, facility improvements and supplies. Donors can enter to win experiential raffle prizes offered by generous local sponsors.
*Book Club meets in the downstairs community room at ImagineIF, Kalispell
April book: She Has Her Mother’s Laugh by Carl Zimmer
Science writer, Carl Zimmer, presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation to generation. Charles Darwin played a crucial part in turning heredity into a scientific question, and yet he failed spectacularly to answer it. With the birth of genetics in the early 1900’s people translated their old notion about heredity into a language of genes.
*Book club meets in the downstairs community room at ImagineIF, Kalispell
March book: Golden Child by Claire Adam
A deeply affecting debut novel set in Trinidad following the lives of Clyde, Joy and their 13-year old twin boys as they navigate impossible choices about scarcity, loyalty and love.
This free event continues on Saturday from 10am-2pm, showcasing the amazing work of all kinds of makers, people who embrace the do-it-yourself spirit and want to share their creations with an appreciative audience. Exhibits will be interactive and highlight the process of making things.
Area schools will bring middle and high school students to the event from 8:30am-3pm. Makers, manufacturers and technology companies will demonstrate what they do and offer hands-on activities to engage students. Exhibits and activities will highlight the innovation, problem solving and collaboration skills needed in the work place today.
*Book Club meets in the downstairs community room at ImagineIF, Kalispell
February book: The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
In the city of Bogota, Antonio Yammara reads an article that transports him back to when the war between Escobar’s Medell cartel and government forces played out violently in Colombia’s streets and in the skies above. Back then, Antonio witnessed a friend’s murder, an event that haunts him still. As he investigates, he discovers the many ways in which his own life and his friend’s family have been shaped by his country’s recent violent past.
Join us at Bias Brewing for a family-friendly block party to support ImagineIF Library Foundation. This fun fall event will feature a corn hole tournament and a dessert silent auction. Bring your friends to enjoy the fall weather, good drinks, scrumptious eats, and YOUR library!
Join us for a perfect evening on the lake at the Raven in Woods Bay on Wednesday, September 25th. A portion of all drinks sold will benefit the Campaign for a New Bigfork Library. You can’t beat the food or the view! A big thanks to Lisa Cloutier for helping realize a modern, 21st century facility in Bigfork.
Thousands of items will be for sale, with all proceeds benefiting ImagineIF Libraries. Donations are welcome year round! Take your donations to the log cabin in Lions Park across from Hilton Garden Inn. The cabin has a covered porch where you can place your donations. Please no magazines, text books, or encyclopedias.
The money raised from the sale helps pay for:
Homebound Service
The ImagineIF newsletter
Literacy Volunteers
“Book Page,” a monthly magazine
Children’s summer programs
Downloadable ebooks and audiobooks
Book sort from 10-11
Picnic from 11-12
All are welcome! Feel free to bring a dish to share.
Save the date for the always enjoyable summer atmosphere at Flathead Lake Brewing Co. Enjoy a variety of tap selections, wine, full bar and delicious menu, all in the name of ImagineIF! FLBC will donate $1 for every pint and $0.50 from every soda sold that evening to the Foundation.
The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Timesbestseller Area 51
No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history about the organization, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to paint a picture of DARPA, or "the Pentagon's brain," from its Cold War inception in 1958 to the present.
This is the book on DARPA--a compelling narrative about this clandestine intersection of science and the American military and the often frightening results.
-Goodreads
Our invite-only donor appreciation event will be hosted at the beautiful Bibler Gardens. We’ll share food and drink, and spend time thanking our most generous donors for the support they’ve so loyally provided ImagineIF Libraries throughout the years.
A bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the middle class. With a little luck, her beautiful daughter, Annawadi’s “most-everything girl,” might become its first female college graduate.
Join us at our 10th annual Loud @ the Library celebration! Enjoy delicious small bites by Oso, dance to live music by Zino and the Bel Aires, sip beer by Bias Brewing and wine from local merchants. This is your chance to win the best raffle baskets in town and bid on vintage card catalogs, Little Free Libraries and more. Ticket sales and funds raised go to support library programming, materials and facilities.
You can purchase tickets online here or from any Foundation board member.
The Monk of Mokha is the exhilarating true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana’a by civil war.
Mokhtar Alkhanshali is twenty-four and working as a doorman when he discovers the astonishing history of coffee and Yemen’s central place in it. He leaves San Francisco and travels deep into his ancestral homeland to tour terraced farms high in the country’s rugged mountains and meet beleagured but determined farmers. But when war engulfs the country and Saudi bombs rain down, Mokhtar has to find a way out of Yemen without sacrificing his dreams or abandoning his people. "
-Goodreads
Making Montana, a FREE two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity, and resourcefulness returns to the Flathead County Fairgrounds Expo Building.
Saturday’s Kalispell Mini Maker Faire:
On Saturday, February 16th the Kalispell Mini Maker Faire will showcase the amazing work of all kinds of makers, people who embrace the do-it-yourself spirit and want to share their creations with an appreciative audience. Exhibits will be interactive and highlight the process of making things.
For more information or to register as a Manufacturer or Maker, go to: kalispell.makerfaire.com/expo
Making Montana, a FREE two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity, and resourcefulness returns to the Flathead County Fairgrounds Expo Building.
Friday’s Manufacturing Technology Expo:
On Friday, February 15th manufacturers and technology companies will demonstrate what they do, and offer hands-on activities. Exhibits and activities will highlight the innovation, problem-solving, and collaboration skills needed in manufacturing today
For more information or to register as a Manufacturer or Maker, go to: kalispell.makerfaire.com/expo
Grant by Ron Chernow
“Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefeller, Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of America's most complicated generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant.
Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, fond of drinking to excess; or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War; or as a credulous and hapless president whose tenure came to symbolize the worst excesses of the Gilded Age. These stereotypes don't come close to capturing adequately his spirit and the sheer magnitude of his monumental accomplishments. A biographer at the height of his powers, Chernow has produced a portrait of Grant that is a masterpiece, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency. “
-Goodreads
Help the Friends of the Library prepare for their annual book sale by sorting donated books. Meet on the covered porch of the cabin located in Lion’s Park across from the Hilton Garden Inn in Kalispell, and dress warmly.
If donating books, please keep these guidelines in mind:
NO old textbooks,
NO encyclopedia sets
NO hardback fiction without a dust jacket
NO magazines
Nothing that is torn, damaged, moldy or smells like cigarette smoke.
Our loyal friends at Backslope Brewing in Columbia Falls are hosting ImagineIF Library Foundation for their Community Benefit Night in January. Be sure to join the fun while enjoying their tasty brews and inspired menu - all for a good cause! Visit their website for more details.
Join Charlotte Housel, our Executive Director, and Connie Behe, our Library Director for Ladies’ Night at Three Rivers Bank. As our host, Three Rivers will provide drinks, hors d’oeuvres and networking. Learn all about ImagineIF and our mission, what we’re up to next, and how you can help!
RSVP by October 19 to Three Rivers Bank at 755-4271 or sbailey@3riversbank.com
Women Who Wine Flathead (WWWF) and The Brews Brothers will present 22 local nonprofits with grants totaling $27,000!
Join them for an evening of celebrating nonprofits and the good work they all do - especially
ImagineIF Library Foundation!
The evening includes: dinner, live music, live auction, wine pull and raffles. New this year are the spinning wheel and beer bingo!
To purchase tickets, please call Flathead Community Foundation at 406-756-9047 or email admin@flatheadcommunityfoundation.org.
