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100 — Read a book set in the Middle East.
100 — Read a book set over 2000 years ago.
100 — Read a book written over 1000 years ago.
100 — Read a book about archeology or an archeologist.
100 — Read a book set in the desert.
100 — Read a book set in a temple.
50 — Watch a documentary on Göbekli Tepe such as Stone Age Temple Mystery from PBS.
50 — Study the night sky.
50 — Hunt for interesting stones.
50 — Plan a gathering for friends.
50 — Research three other major archeological sites in Turkey.
50 — Hike to a mountain top.
50 — Visit a place you consider sacred.
50 — Eat a food that Turkey is known for.

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100 — Read a book written over 500 years ago.
100 — Read a book set by the ocean.
100 — Read a book set in the British Isles.
100 — Read a book about a farmer or rancher.
100 — Read a book where the main character must abandon their home.
50 — Watch a documentary on Skara Brae such as Skara Brae: Orkney’s Neolithic Heart by Geographics.
50 — Research three other Neolithic sites in Scotland.
50 — Find the oldest thing in your community and estimate its age.
50 — Write about five things in your home that future archeologists might find interesting.
50 — Experiment with cooking oats, barley, or lentils.
50 — Go somewhere you can wriggle your toes in the sand.
50 — Eat a food that Scotland is known for.

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100 — Read a book written over 200 years ago.
100 — Read a book about time travel.
100 — Read a book set in Louisiana.
100 — Read a book by a Native American author.
100 — Read a book about a trader or merchant.
50 — Go fishing.
50 — Harvest and eat a wild edible plant.
50 — Attend a community event.
50 — Watch a documentary on Poverty Point such as Mystery Mounds at Poverty Point by Time Team.
50 — Research three other mound-building sites.
50 — Plan a Louisiana-themed pot luck.
50 — Identify five native plants in your community.
50 — Learn how to knap an arrowhead.
50 — Make a trade.

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50 — Visit the Teton Dam site.
50 — Wade in a river.
50 — Watch Darby O’Gill and the Little People.*
100 — Read a book on Idaho history.
100 — Read a book by an Idaho author.

*Film showed at the Manwaring Center to distract children while adults watched the flood go through town.

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50 — Document an act of service on America250 in Idaho Ambassadors’ Service Challenge.
50 — Attend a patriotic event.
50 — Read the Declaration of Independence.
50 — Read the Constitution and its amendments.
50 — Watch a film set during the Revolutionary War.
100 — Read a biography of a U.S. founder.

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Do you love writing?

Enter the Madison Library District’s short story writing contest and you could win a prize and be featured in our newsletter!

Our theme is “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” Based on the famous Dr. Seuss tale of facing life’s ups and downs, tell us a story of the places you’ll go, Fiction or Non-fiction are accepted.

The contest winner will be awarded a $100 gift card to Barnes and Noble. The winner will be announced Friday, July 26th and will be featured in our August newsletter.

Email submissions ONLY accepted. Must be 18 or older to enter.

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Drawn Together: Post-it-art creations!

Everyone will do a small piece and then discover what happens when we come together. Teens 12 and older are also welcome to participate!

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Calling all adventurers!

Calling all adventurers! Dive into a world of imagination, strategy, and camaraderie with our new Dungeons & Dragons program for adults. Whether you’re a seasoned Dungeon Master or a curious beginner, this is your chance to embark on epic quests, battle fearsome foes, and shape your own story in the world’s greatest tabletop role-playing game.

Led by an experienced Dungeon Master, each session will transport you to fantastical realms where the only limit is your creativity. New to D&D? No problem! We’ll provide pre-made characters and guidance to get you started on your journey. Come solo or with friends to forge alliances and make memories that will last a lifetime.

For Adults ages 18+ who are ready to embark on thrilling adventures, solve mysteries, and conquer dungeons.

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A get-together for crafters and makers!

Bring your crocheting, knitting, cross-stitching, lace-making, tatting, or whatever it is you like to do and spend some time with others who do it too! An informal evening of fun.

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Film director Wes Anderson has a distinctive style that many attempt to mimic. A recent book, Accidentally Wes Anderson, shares views of the best efforts by professional photographers. If all those pros are having such a good time making Wes Anderson fakes, we thought it might be fun for our patrons to do so as well.

Take a look at the style hints found in the adult section display case and take a photo that you think is "Accidentally Wes Anderson," and we'll display them during the month of November.

TO ENTER:

Email your photo to our programming team or leave it at the Circulation Desk by November 1.
Please include your name, library card number, and phone number.

The three photos judged to be closest to Anderson's style will receive a copy of the book.

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Nonfiction:

• Dinner With King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations by Sam Kean
• Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble by Marilyn Johnson
• Digging Up Britain: Ten Discoveries, a Million Years of History by Mike Pitts
• Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts by Robert Mazza
• Bog Bodies Uncovered: Solving Europe’s Ancient Mystery by Miranda Aldhouse-Green
• The Grave Robber: The Biggest Stolen Artifacts Case in FBI History and the Bureau’s Quest to Set Things Right by Tim Carpenter
• Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins by Lee Berger & John Hawks

Biography:

• Come, Tell Me How You Live: An Archaeological Memoir by Agatha Christie Mallowan

Fiction:

• The Museum Detective by Maha Khan Phillips
• Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters

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Nonfiction:

• Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined by Stephen Fry

Biography:

• Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman

Fiction:

• The Lost Daughter of Sparta by Felicia Day
• I, Claudius by Robert Graves
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
• Cleopatra’s Daughter by Michelle Moran
• The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great by Steven Pressfield
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough
• The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• River God by Wilbur A. Smith

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Nonfiction:

• The Quran
• The Epic of Gilgamesh
• The Analects of Confucius by Confucius
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• The Confessions of St. Augustine by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo
• Lysistrata by Aristophanes, or any Greek play
• Beowulf
• Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

Biography:

• Alfred the Great: Asser’s Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources by Asser & King Alfred

Fiction:

• The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

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Nonfiction:

• Chronicles of the Crusades by Jean de Joinville
• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Song of Roland
• The Mabinogion
• The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám
• The Travels by Marco Polo
• Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
• The Alexiad by Anna Komnene
• Anything by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, John Webster, or Thomas Kyd

Adult Exploration Kit:

• A History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth

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Nonfiction:

• Common Sense by Thomas Paine
• Paradise Lost by John Milton
• She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
• The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay
• The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne by John Donne

Fiction:

• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
• Candide by Voltaire
• Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
• Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
• Persuasion by Jane Austen

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Adult Nonfiction:

• Tara Westover (Preston)
• Patrick F. McManus (Sandpoint)
• Ezra Pound (Hailey)

Adult Fiction:

• Sian Ann Bessey (Southeast Idaho)
• Anthony Doerr (Boise)
• Marilynne Robinson (Sandpoint)
• Brenda Stanley (Eastern Idaho)
• Vardis Fisher (Annis, Hagerman)
• Ernest Hemingway (Ketchum)
• Emily Ruskovich (Idaho Panhandle)

Teen Fiction:

• Cynthia Hand (Ririe)

Tween Fiction:

• Carol Ryrie Brink (Moscow)
• Jessica Day George (Sugar City)
• Wilson Rawls (Idaho Falls)

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Nonfiction:

• Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death by Laura Cumming
• The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan
• Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World’s Greatest Art Forger by Tony Tetro

Fiction:

• My Friends by Fredrick Backman
• The Heron’s Cry by Ann Cleeves
• The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Novel of Michelangelo by Irving Stone
• Lust for Life: A Novel of Vincent Van Gogh by Irving Stone
• The Blue Hour by Paul Hawkins
• The Swan Thieves by by Elizabeth Kostova
• Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear
• Free Fall by William Golding

Tween Fiction:

• Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff

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Nonfiction:

• My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
• Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined by Stephen Fry

Fiction:

• The Moon-Spinners by Mary Stewart
• The Greek Treasure: A Biographical Novel of Henry and Sophia Schliemannn by Irving Stone
• The Mediterranean Caper by Clive Cussler
• Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C. S. Lewis
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• Wedding Night by Sophie Kinsella
• Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
• Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy
• Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz

Adult Graphic Novel:

• Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe

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Nonfiction:

• Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
• Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel
• Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King

Fiction:

• Tartufo by Kira Jane Buxton
• Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
• Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
• A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
• The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim
• My Italian Bulldozer by Alexander McCall Smith
• The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable

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Fiction:

• The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
• Shutter by Ramona Emerson
• The Blessing Way by Tony HIllerman
• Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
• Spider Woman’s Daughter by Anne HIllerman
• The Night Flowers by Sara Herchenroether
• Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
• Beyond the Desert Sands by Tracie Peterson
• Desert Heat by J. A. Jance
• Blind Descent by Nevada Barr
• Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfa Anaya

Young Adult Fiction:

• Holes by Louis Sacher

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Nonfiction:

• I’ll Start Again Monday: Break the Cycle of Unhealthy Eating Habits with Lasting Spiritual Satisfaction by Lysa Terkeurst
• A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
• Arthur Ashe: A Life by Raymond Arsenault
• The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 by Joseph J. Ellis

Fiction:

• Disco for the Departed by Colin Cotterill
• The Bartender’s Tale by Ivan Doig
• The Party Crasher by Sophie Kinsella
• The Apartment by Danielle Steel
• Carte Blanche: 007: The New James Bond Novel by Jeffery Deaver
• Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter by Michael Reaves
• Smart Move by Melanie Jacobsen

Adult Graphic Novel:

• The Cartoon History of the Universe by Larry Gonick

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Nonfiction:

• Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time by Mark Adams

Fiction:

• 7 Deadly Wonders by Matthew Reilly
• Beneath a Marble Sky: A Novel of the Taj Mahal by John Shors
• Armageddon: The Cosmic Battle of the Ages by Tim LaHaye
• The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters

Young Adult Fiction:

• Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

Tween Fiction:

• The Tomb of Shadows by Peter Lerangis
• The Curse of the King by Peter Lerangis

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• Everybody Matters: My Life Giving Voice by Mary Robinson
• Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography by Benazir Bhutto
• Long walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
• The Dalai Lama: An Extraordinary Life by Alexander Norman
• Suffering into Joy: What Mother Teresa Teaches About True Joy by Eileen Egan
• Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World 1914-1948 by Guha Ramachandra
• The Autobiography of Martin Luther King
• Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet by Thich Nhat Hanh
• God is Young: A Conversation with Thomas Leoncini by Pope Francis
• Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery by Eric Metaxas
• Eleanor (Eleanor Roosevelt) by David Michaelis
• What Is at Stake Now: My Appeal for Peace and Freedom by Mikhail Gorbachev