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We like books; we like parks - and Minnesota is lucky to have both of them! Join our Goodreads book challenge: . We give you a link to each state park, a short fact, and a prompt for you to find a book. You find it, and read a book, and then tell us all about it. In this podcast, we give you a few suggestions for books to fit a prompt for each park. Try one of these books, or find one of your own to enjoy! Fort Ridgely State Park has a variety of historic sites to visit while you are here - and a horse camp! Enjoy a walking tour while you visit the park, or enjoy some armchair travels with a book that has a walking tour in the story.

We like books; we like parks - and Minnesota is lucky to have both of them! Join our Goodreads book challenge: . We give you a link to each state park, a short fact, and a prompt for you to find a book. You find it, and read a book, and then tell us all about it. In this podcast, we give you a few suggestions for books to fit a prompt for each park. Try one of these books, or find one of your own to enjoy!   The Minneopa State Park was established in 1905. There are bison in this park! You can drive around the Bison Drive to admire them. For this prompt, find a book with bison OR other animal conservation project.

We like books; we like parks - and Minnesota is lucky to have both of them! Join our Goodreads book challenge: . We give you a link to each state park, a short fact, and a prompt for you to find a book. You find it, and read a book, and then tell us all about it. In this podcast, we give you a few suggestions for books to fit a prompt for each park. Try one of these books, or find one of your own to enjoy! Interstate State Park was founded in 1895, and is a park that goes across the Wisconsin border with both states. You can read a book with cheese, to celebrate our neighbors to the East. Or read a book with a dual nature as a plot point, to celebrate the dual states of this park.  

We like books; we like parks - and Minnesota is lucky to have both of them! Join our Goodreads book challenge: . We give you a link to each state park, a short fact, and a prompt for you to find a book. You find it, and read a book, and then tell us all about it. In this podcast, we give you a few suggestions for books to fit a prompt for each park. Try one of these books, or find one of your own to enjoy!   The first state park in Minnesota is Itasca State Park. We are celebrating that distinction with a prompt to read the first book in a series. You can also use any other book with a plot involving "first" status.

Book Bites are quick looks at a book from our Guest Host readers. Try a new book this week! And this week our Guest Host is admiring the book , by Michael Pollan. "A unique and elegant blend of science, memoir, travel writing, history, and medicine, How to Change Your Mind is a triumph of participatory journalism. By turns dazzling and edifying, it is the gripping account of a journey to an exciting and unexpected new frontier in our understanding of the mind, the self, and our place in the world. The true subject of Pollan's "mental travelogue" is not just psychedelic drugs but also the eternal puzzle of human consciousness and how, in a world that offers us both suffering and joy, we can do our best to be fully present and find meaning in our lives." our newsletter, our social media, and our podcasts to stay up to date on all kinds of great stuff! We serve 300+ libraries of all types, and are always ready to talk about libraries and books.

Book Bites are quick looks at a book from our Guest Host readers. Try a new book this week! And this week our Guest Host is admiring the book , by Mariko Tamaki. "Reeling from her latest break up, Freddy's best friend, Doodle, introduces her to the Seek-Her, a mysterious medium, who leaves Freddy some cryptic parting words: break up with her. But Laura Dean keeps coming back, and as their relationship spirals further out of her control, Freddy has to wonder if it's really Laura Dean that's the problem. Maybe it's Freddy, who is rapidly losing her friends, including Doodle, who needs her now more than ever. " our newsletter, our social media, and our podcasts to stay up to date on all kinds of great stuff! We serve 300+ libraries of all types, and are always ready to talk about libraries and books.

Book Bites are quick looks at a book from our Guest Host readers. Try a new book this week! And this week our Guest Host is admiring the book , by Sarah Forbes. "In SEX IN THE MUSEUM, Sarah invites readers to travel from suburban garages where men and women build sex machines, to factories that make sex toys, to labyrinthine archives of erotica collectors. Escorting us in to the hidden world of sex, illuminating the never-talked-about communities and eccentricities of our sexual subcultures, and telling her own personal story of a decade at The Museum of Sex, Sarah asks readers to grapple with the same questions she did: when it comes to sex, what is good, bad, deviant, normal? Do such terms even apply? If everyone has sexual secrets, is it possible to really know another person and be known by them? And importantly, in our hyper-sexualized world, is it still possible to fall in love?" our newsletter, our social media, and our podcasts to stay up to date on all kinds of great stuff! We serve 300+ libraries o

Book Bites are quick looks at a book from our Guest Host readers. Try a new book this week! And this week our Guest Host is admiring the book , by Sasha Chapin. "Sasha Chapin is a victim of chess. Like countless amateurs before him--Albert Einstein, Humphrey Bogart, Marcel Duchamp--the game has consumed his life and his mind. First captivated by it as a member of his high school chess club, his passion was rekindled during an accidental encounter with chess hustlers on the streets of Kathmandu. In its aftermath, he forgot how to care about anything else. He played at all hours, for weeks at a time. Like a spurned lover, he tried to move on, but he found the game more seductive the more he resisted it." our newsletter, our social media, and our podcasts to stay up to date on all kinds of great stuff! We serve 300+ libraries of all types, and are always ready to talk about libraries and books.

Welcome, everyone, to our final episode of Season Four of Reading With Libraries! Check out our full . We have books, resources, and beverages waiting there for you. It has been so great to read with you for these fifteen weeks – we just can’t bear for our book fun to end. So while we are on hiatus you will get a Book Bite each week. This is a quickie five-minute sharing of a book by one of our Guests. We have been producing these for a while now, so you can browse our entire . This week we are discussing a favorite topic: Minnesota books! We will look at book set in Minnesota, and books by Minnesota authors. This is always our season finale topic, because we know there are 10,000 lakes here and at least as many good stories! Who is joining us today? We are welcoming a new Guest Host to be our Minnesota book expert: Wendy Sykes, from the Great River Public Library system! This is our last episode of the season, but never fear: Tuesday we will start dropping quickie book podcast into this spot on a weekly basi

Hello! Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We’re so glad you could be here to enjoy our book group podcast. Check out our full ! This week we’re discussing narrative nonfiction. We are so glad to welcome back Leah from State Library Services! Become a full book group member on Patreon! to be part of the "inner circle" of this book group, and get access to behind-the-scenes info and photos. Support levels start at $1/month - and you get a postcard from Official Office Dog Lady Grey! More swag is available at higher levels of support; check it all out today. We love doing this, but podcasts aren't free to create; so thank you so much to our book group members who have joined us. We love having you as part of the team.

Hello! Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We’re so glad you could be here to enjoy our book group podcast. This week we’re especially glad to have your company, since the genre we are discussing is True Crime! Check out our f.We have links to all kinds of other resources, to help you to find books for yourself and for your patrons. We also give you links to the books we shared, so you can follow up yourself. And, of course, we have the links to the beverages we enjoyed here! (Beverages are a key part of any book group.) Become a full book group member on Patreon! to be part of the "inner circle" of this book group, and get access to behind-the-scenes info and photos. Support levels start at $1/month - and you get a postcard from Official Office Dog Lady Grey! More swag is available at higher levels of support; check it all out today. We love doing this, but podcasts aren't free to create; so thank you so much to our book group members who have joined us. We love having you as part of the tea

Hello! Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We’re so glad you could be here to enjoy our book group podcast. Check out our ! This week we’re discussing indigenous representation in literature and we are so excited to welcome Hannah Buckland to our show! Hannah is the State Library Program Specialist. Become a full book group member on Patreon! to be part of the "inner circle" of this book group, and get access to behind-the-scenes info and photos. Support levels start at $1/month - and you get a postcard from Official Office Dog Lady Grey! More swag is available at higher levels of support; check it all out today. We love doing this, but podcasts aren't free to create; so thank you so much to our book group members who have joined us. We love having you as part of the team.

Hello! Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We’re so glad you could be here to enjoy our book group podcast. Check out our full show notes page here, with links to the books we shared, more info about this genre, and of course - links to the beverages we were enjoying! This week we’re discussing biographies for kids! We’re excited to welcome back Guest Host librarian Kate! Join us for this fun topic, and explore all kind of interesting kid biographies. Become a full book group member on Patreon! to be part of the "inner circle" of this book group, and get access to behind-the-scenes info and photos. Support levels start at $1/month - and you get a postcard from Official Office Dog Lady Grey! More swag is available at higher levels of support; check it all out today. We love doing this, but podcasts aren't free to create; so thank you so much to our book group members who have joined us. We love having you as part of the team.

Hello! Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We’re so glad you could be here to enjoy our book group podcast. You can get of our ! Check it out for links to all kinds of useful resources, and links to the beverages we enjoyed today. We are the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange, and we support libraries of all types: schools, publics, academics, and special libraries and archives. Letting kids choose their own reading materials can be an important way to increase literacy and encourage a love of reading! This week our Guest Hosts are Charlotte, Liam, and Theo, along with their mom Molly. They range in age from about two years old to about eight years old, and they all have very enthusiastic opinions about the books they like to read and the ones they brought to share with us! Become a full book group member on Patreon! to be part of the "inner circle" of this book group, and get access to behind-the-scenes info and photos. Support levels start at $1/month - and you get a postcard from Officia

Welcome back to the show. We are so glad you are here, joining us for the book group discussion! This week we look at not only a genre, but a whole aspect of the publishing industry: Zines! Check out our ! Get links to all kinds of resources for finding zines and zine material, get links to the beverages we shared, and to some of the books we shared. Who is joining us this week?  Our returning Guest Host is Violet Fox, who works with OCLC on their Dewey Team, helping to improve cataloging standards for libraries. Listen to episode 501 of our sister podcast, Linking Our Libraries, to hear Violet talk about ! We usually stop there with information about our Guest Host, but Violet has a lot of interesting qualifications to chat with us about zines. She has been a part of a group of librarians from across the U.S. and Canada to organize the . It’s on the exhibit hall floor during the ALA Annual conference. She has helped to organize the , a gathering for library workers and zinesters to explore the intersection

Hello! Thank you for joining us on Reading With Libraries! We’re so glad you could be here to enjoy our book group podcast. Check out our full . We have links to all the books we discussed, to the beverages we enjoyed, and to the other resources you can use to find material about this genre! Become a full book group member on Patreon! to be part of the "inner circle" of this book group, and get access to behind-the-scenes info and photos. Support levels start at $1/month - and you get a postcard from Official Office Dog Lady Grey! More swag is available at higher levels of support; check it all out today. We love doing this, but podcasts aren't free to create; so thank you so much to our book group members who have joined us. We love having you as part of the team.

Welcome back to the show. We are so glad you are here, joining us for the book group discussion! You can find our show notes page , where you can find background info on more resources for this genre, links to the books we shared, and of course links to the beverages we enjoyed! (Note: this week the beverages require some engineering skills!! Have fun with them.) Who is joining us this week? Our Guest Host is Jason Menth, the STEM Integrationist & CLR Coach from Talahi Community School. (Spoiler note: subscribe to Linking Our Libraries next season, so you can hear more about Jason’s work in the library!) We spend a lot of time in this podcast talking about fiction genres, and there are fiction books talking about Engineering. But of course we like nonfiction books, we know your patrons are interested in them, and we’ve talked about several different genres. So we’re happy to look at this genre, that is just filled with books! Become a full book group member on Patreon! to be part of the "inner circle" of

Welcome back to the show. We are so glad you are here, joining us for the book group discussion!. Our full shown notes page, with links to information on the genre, with links to the books we share, and links to the beverages we enjoyed, is found . This is a genre filled with all kinds of interesting books. Some are sad, some are scary, some are uplifting. We are not being pejorative about these families by grouping them into this week’s genre – we approach all these books with admiration for the lessons learned and the adventures we can share. Not everyone involved in an organization labeled as a cult is damaged by it, but the more exciting stories tend to be the ones made into books. And the line between “religion” and “cult” can be very fine, and may depend on the perspective of the person telling their own story. We suggest all of the books we are sharing today, to read yourself or to recommend to people who want suggestions on interesting or unusual family stories! Become a full book group member on Patr

Welcome to Happiness in Libraries bonus episode! Each month we are looking at a few stories about happy things that happen in libraries, or happy things that libraries contribute to their communities. You can get links to all of the stories we shared on our . And if you have happy library stories of your own, send them to us! We are at and would like to hear from you.

Welcome back to the show. We are so glad you are here, joining us for the book group discussion. This week we look at books on natural disasters. Who is joining us this week? Our returning Guest Host is Ariel Kirst from the Great River Library System. Natural disasters in books are kind of contradictory. On the one hand, it’s scary and potentially sad to read about terrible things happening. And on the other hand – it’s exciting and can be very inspirational to hear about the ways people banded together and overcame the disasters facing them. When disaster happen around us, or the world feels like a huge dumpster fire of disaster, it can be comforting to read books about people who have had the worst happen – and have made it through. We can learn lessons, we can take comfort in their survival, we can be inspired by their struggle. And if some days you are having a lousy life experience, and just want to check in on people who are having an even worse day – well, we’ve got suggestions for you! Become a full b