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Community Read Webinar

Meet the Illustrator: Liz ZunonThursday, October 57:00 p.m. on ZoomJoin us for an exciting webinar with the illustrator of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Liz Zunon. Drawing and painting have always been among the most important things to  Zunon. She was born in Albany, NY and grew up in the Ivory Coast, West Africa. […]

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Community Read – Columbia County

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is a true story of a young boy who helped a village in Malawi facing extreme drought by constructing a windmill to generate electricity and pump water after seeing an example in a book in his local library. He taught himself the science and engineering behind the device and […]

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Book Club

All adult readers are welcome to join the Valatie Free Library Book Club which meets the 2nd Monday of the month at 6:00 p.m. At each meeting we will discuss the selected book and choose a book that we would like to read for the next month.  October’s title is Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult […]

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