Play and Learn: Sign-Language with Babies
2025-11-12 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-11-19 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Denver) | BVPL Temporary Location, 27900 CR 319, Buena Vista, CO, 81211, United States
While children play, adults practice common signs for communication and songs with babies.

Free Play
2025-11-12 11:00 - 12:00
Play games, explore a variety of toys, or snuggle up with a new book.

Watercolor Clouds
2025-11-13 13:00 - 15:00 | BVPL Temporary Location, 27900 CR 319, Buena Vista, CO, 81211, United States
Use watercolor to capture the soft edges and various changing shapes of clouds. Explore creating loose cloud shapes and shadows and how light and perspective create dramatic skies. Registration required. Limit 12.

Science Fiction Book Club: The Echo Wife
2025-11-13 17:00 - 18:00 | BVPL Temporary Location, 27900 CR 319, Buena Vista, CO, 81211, United States
Explore the different subgenres of Science Fiction as penned by authors with very different approaches. Read ahead and then meet with others for discussion.
The Echo Wife (Sarah Gailey) November 13
Wanderers (Chuck Wendig) December 11

Virtual Author Talk: The Search for Truth and the Persistence of Love Across Time with Novelist Amanda Peters
2025-11-13 17:00 - 18:00
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Join us in an online conversation with acclaimed writer Amanda Peters as we discuss her instant bestselling novel, The Berry Pickers, as well as her tender short fiction collection, Waiting for the Long Night Moon: Stories.
Influenced by Peters’ own Mi’kmaq heritage, The Berry Pickers is a riveting exploration of family, grief, and the bonds we share.
July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister’s disappearance for years to come.
In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren’t telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret.
The Berry Pickers is an intimate portrait of race, love, and loneliness–and the power of forgiveness. Register now to take part in the discussion!

About the Author: Amanda Peters is a mixed-race woman of Mi’kmaq and European ancestry, born and raised in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. Her short fiction and non-fiction have been published in The Antigonish Review, Grain Magazine, The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Dalhousie Review, and Filling Station Magazine.
Amanda’s first novel, The Berry Pickers, was a finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize in Canada, and won the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction in the US. The Berry Pickers won the Dartmouth Book Award and the Crime Writers of Canada First Crime Novel Award, and has been translated into sixteen languages around the world. Her most recent book of short fiction, Waiting for the Long Night Moon, was published August, 2024, to critical acclaim.

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Story Time
2025-11-14 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-11-21 10:00 - 11:00 | BVPL Temporary Location, 27900 CR 319, Buena Vista, CO, 81211, United States
Share a love of books with story time, music, and art followed by free-play. Ages: 0-6

Free Play
2025-11-14 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-11-17 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-11-19 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-11-21 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-11-24 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-12-01 11:00 - 12:00 | BVPL Temporary Location, 27900 CR 319, Buena Vista, CO, 81211, United States

Dance Fitness for Kids
2025-11-15 13:00 - 14:00 | BVPL Temporary Location, 27900 CR 319, Buena Vista, CO, 81211, United States
Move and dance like Zumba to fun music. Wear comfy workout gear. *Caretakers may observe or participate, but must be readily available nearby. Ages 6-10.

Tunes for Tots
2025-11-17 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-11-24 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-12-01 10:00 - 11:00 | BVPL Temporary Location, 27900 CR 319, Buena Vista, CO, 81211, United States
Preschoolers, parents, and caregivers learn a delightful variety of songs. Rhythm, matching pitch, and call and response are all part of the fun. Discover music as part of early literacy!

Align & Flow Yoga
2025-11-17 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-24 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-12-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Community Center, 715 E Main St, Buena Vista, 81211, United States
Find strength, stillness, and peace in this all-level yoga class.

Teen Makers Club
2025-11-17 16:00 - 17:00 | BVPL Temporary Location, 27900 CR 319, Buena Vista, CO, 81211, United States
Meet with other teens to design and create something new. Share your ideas for the Library’s future maker space.

Virtual Author Talk: Unlock the Secret Language of Connection with Supercommunicator Charles Duhigg
2025-11-18 12:00 - 13:00
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Get yourself primed for the holiday season and join us for an online conversation you won’t want to miss! Charles Duhigg, author of the bestselling books The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better, presents the ultimate guide on how to communicate and connect with anyone at work, home, and in life in his latest work, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection.
In this groundbreaking book, Duhigg unravels the secrets of the supercommunicators to reveal the art – and the science – of successful communication. He unpicks the different types of everyday conversation and pinpoints why some go smoothly while others swiftly fall apart. He reveals the conversational questions and gambits that bring people together. And he shows how even the most tricky of encounters can be turned around. In the process, he shows why a CIA operative was able to win over a reluctant spy, how a member of a jury got his fellow jurors to view an open-and-shut case differently, and what a doctor found they needed to do to engage with a vaccine skeptic.
Above all, he reveals the techniques we can all master to successfully connect with others, however tricky the circumstances. Packed with fascinating case studies and drawing on cutting-edge research, this book will change the way you think about what you say, and how you say it.
Register now to take part in the online discussion, learn how to enhance your everyday conversations, and add a new title to the holiday wishlist!
About the Author: Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist and the author of Supercommunicators, The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better. A graduate of Harvard Business School and Yale University, he is a winner of the National Academies of Sciences, National Journalism, and George Polk awards. He writes for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, and was the founding host of the Slate podcast How To! with Charles Duhigg.

The views expressed by presenters are their own and their appearance in a program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by Buena Vista Public Library.

Clay Ornaments
2025-11-18 13:00 - 14:00
Create unique ornaments using clay marbling techniques, then embellish with paint and ribbon. Registration required. Limit 12.

Library Closing at 4:00 p.m.
2025-11-26

Library Closed- Thanksgiving Day
2025-11-27

Library Closed- Day after Thanksgiving
2025-11-28

Virtual Author Talk: Scheming Wives and High-Stakes Hilarity with Author Sue Hincenbergs
2025-12-02 12:00 - 13:00
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Buckle up for a wild ride and join us as we sit down for an online chat with debut author Sue Hincenbergs to discuss her novel The Retirement Plan, in which murder is the name of the game. When the only thing standing between three best friends and a sunny beachfront retirement condo are their husbands, what ensues is a diabolical plan to collect on their spouses’ life insurance policies.
After thirty years of friendship, Pam dreams of her perfect retirement with Nancy, Shalisa, Marlene, and their husbands—until their husbands pool their funds for an investment that goes terribly wrong, and their dreams of beachfront condos and a sunny, carefree retirement vanish. The golden years are looking as dreary as their marriages.
But when one husband dies in a freak accident, the other three women are shocked to see his widow rebound with a huge life insurance payout and a new life in Florida. In the aftermath, the women discover that their husbands have identical, seven-figure life insurance policies. A new dream forms, and this time, it involves a hitman. Meanwhile, their husbands have a secret retirement plan of their own.
You won’t want to miss this darkly humorous debut by Sue Hincenbergs, filled with both laugh-out-loud and genuinely tense moments as our headstrong wives pursue their dream retirement at all costs. Register today to take part in the fun!
About the Author: Sue Hincenbergs is a former television producer who has worked on multiple award-winning programs ranging from sitcoms to lifestyle. She oversaw the content on two national daily shows, including Canada’s longest running morning show before turning her talents to live music specials, and eventually to writing. Sue lives in Toronto with her (very much alive) husband, her scruffy, middle-aged rescue dog Kramer, and the rooms full of the stuff her three sons left behind when they moved out.

The views expressed by presenters are their own and their appearance in a program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by Buena Vista Public Library.

Paint Pour Ornaments
2025-12-04 13:00 - 14:00 | BVPL Temporary Location, 27900 CR 319, Buena Vista, CO, 81211, United States
Use a paint pouring technique to create swirls and abstract designs in glass ornaments. Registration required. Limit 12.

Destination Storytime: Sky View Tents
2025-12-05 10:00 - 11:00 | Sky View Tents, 109 Cottonwood Ave., Buena Vista, CO, 81211, United States
Cozy up to wilderness story time, followed by nature crafts and a vision of the stars through a Sky View Tent.
