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.

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.