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1 One Weird Trick--Jewelers Hate This! - Signal Boost [1] Posted by: Margo Ellis on Friday, February 5th, 2016 [2] If you've come for the bunch of moldering skeletons you normally find here, you'll soon be disappointed! This month's Signal Boost is all happy fluffy girlie things! *twirl* [3] Origami Furniture: Decorate the Perfect Doll s House with 25 Stylish Projects [3] by Duy Nguyen Page 1 of 5

Who has time? my friend wanted to know. Who. Has. Time? But the way I feel about it, when something is this adorable? You make time. This book is full of great stuff.

2 Who has time? my friend wanted to know. Who. Has. Time? But the way I feel about it, when something is this adorable? You make time. This book is full of great stuff. You can fold yourself an entire office! A teeny tiny office chair, a squee little gooseneck lamp, a mini desk and a micro computer, baby bookcases just tell the boss you re working from home that day. Or you can make a wee refrigerator with doors that really open and some itty bitty barstools to place in front of it. Set a couple of dolls on the barstools with forks in their hands and let them eat cake right out of the refrigerator. Make tiny telephones so the dolls in the kitchen can talk to their friends over in the little bathtub you ve made. There s even a teensy toilet you can fold! Imagine making twenty tiny toilets and secretly leaving them on your coworkers desks or your neighbors porches. Pro tip: experiment with paper size until your creations are the proper scale for your Star Wars action figures and you can put Poe and Finn in all sorts of cute domestic situations! [4] Gems & Crystals from One of the World s Great Collections [4] by George E. Harlow Ohhhh, my gosh. These are exquisite pictures! Gorgeous. Everything is so pretty and sparkly. Big honking gemstones, carved rock crystal, carnelian vases, chalcedony, jade, turquoise, pearls Books like this make me want to get a bunch of rock polishing equipment and just fill my house with shiny things! Page 2 of 5

My favorite section begins, The most surprising thing anyone ever found in a Russian Easter egg was a death threat. If that doesn t grab you, I don t know what will!

3 [5] Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World [5] by Aja Raden Why do we covet these beautiful things, anyway? What makes one rock worth so much while another, objectively prettier rock is garbage? This fun, witty book explains how eight different jewels shaped history and brought out the crazy in people. My favorite section begins, The most surprising thing anyone ever found in a Russian Easter egg was a death threat. If that doesn t grab you, I don t know what will! Other chapters include The Beads that Bought Manhattan and The Necklace that Started the French Revolution. There are even pictures, so you can say That necklace? Really? Pshaw. [6] Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine [6] by Diane Williams The cover is marvelous; I must read this book! Forty short stories in only 131 pages? Delightful. I ll read it on the train. But how can I go on the train when just this morning my best (but not my favorite) teacup lost its handle? Is this a divorce metaphor or am I just having a bad hair day? Clarinda would have known, but she drowned ages ago, the same day I was accepted to the fencing clinic where I never should have worn the goldenrod cardigan. Page 3 of 5

4 That s kind of what it was like reading this book. I loved several of the stories, although I m not 100% sure quite what I read, or what any of it means. Still, I enjoyed it enough to gobble it all up in one sitting, and the cover really is awesome! Do check it out. [7] The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, vol. 1: Squirrel Power [7] by Ryan North and Erica Henderson The chance to try new comics without spending any money is one of my favorite things about our library. There s nothing so disappointing as buying a comic book that I heard was so great, only to find that the female characters are badly written and the artwork is just an excuse to ogle overly flexible women in spandex. That being said, Squirrel Girl is amazing! She s just about to start college, she and her friends are funny and smart, and oh yeah BY the way she has a big fluffy tail! And the proportional strength, speed and abilities of a squirrel! And she fights injustice and punches evildoers! And then she borrows a suit from Iron Man and goes off to the moon! Can she stop Galactus, Devourer of Worlds? Better read the book and find out! It s fast-paced fun for everyone. If you like this one, stay tuned because Squirrel Girl 2 will arrive on library shelves soon! Looking for more good female-friendly comics? We have lots! I recommend Lumberjanes [8] (age 10 or so and up), Bitch Planet [9] (adult), The Wicked + the Divine [10] (adult), and Sex Criminals [11] (even adultier adult). Audience: All Ages [12] Library: All Libraries [13] Tags: Books [14] Movies [15] Music [16] Readers' Advisory [17] Blog Category: Article Source URL: Page 4 of 5

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25 minutes 10 minutes 15 SOCIAL: Providing time for fun interaction. 25 : Communicating God s truth in engaging ways. Opener Game Worship Story Closer 10 WORSHIP: Inviting people to respond to God. Chasing