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August 2017
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Volume 7, Issue 8
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Read & Ride Day @ the Minnesota State Fair
Join in free family fun with your public library at the Minnesota State Fair on Wednesday, Aug. 30, from 9 am to 5 pm.
Read and Ride Day is the Minnesota State Fair discount day for library users. Simply bring your library card and show it at the gate for discounted Fair admission. Public library card holders receive the following discounted admission ticket price when they purchase a ticket at the gate and present a valid library card. (One discount per card.)
 * Adults (13-64): $12
* Seniors (65+): $9
* Kids (5-12): $9
* Children (Under 5): Free
Read & Ride Day events are located in Dan Patch Park, across from the Grandstand on the west end. Stop by the park and say hello to East Central Regional Library staff working at the Fair offering free family activities for everyone. For a map of the fairgrounds visit readrideday.org or click here.
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 New copiers, new capabilities for public use
East Central Regional Library is excited to offer new Ricoh copiers at all 14 branch locations. On these machines, patrons can now:
- Scan to email
- Print from any mobile device
- Scan to flash drive
And patrons appear to be on board with the change, as evident by one young man in North Branch who was excited to learn that scanning documents to his email account was a free service now available at the library. After he finished his scanning he told staff the library saved him $17 in fees that he would have been charged elsewhere.
In McGregor, another patron said he's been impressed at how much easier it is for folks to print, scan, email documents, and use their phone to email through the machine.
For more information or help with these new services, please contact your local ECRL branch.
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Staff Recommendation:
Eyes on Target: Inside Stories from the Brotherhood of the U.S. Navy SEALs
(Print, Nonfiction)
I highly recommend this book by Scott McEwen and Richard Miniter. It is hard to put down as I learned about the origin, evolution and current status of the world's most lethal human fighting force, the Navy SEALs. Miniter is an investigative journalist with multiple best sellers, and McEwen co-wrote "American Sniper" (Chris Kyle).
Through multitudes of interviews and painstaking research, the authors do a masterful job of chronicling the history of the SEALs and many of their most incredible missions, some successful and others not. Of special interest is a careful chronology of events leading up to and during the September 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.
- Donna Larson, Branch Librarian, Rush City Public Library
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Upcoming Legacy Programming
(Events funded with money from Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund)
Check out the following events, and don't forget about all the other activities going on throughout ECRL. Simply check the
Events Calendar on our website,
ECRL Facebook page or follow us on Twitter
@ecrlib.
Inside the Library at Downton Abbey
 Thursday, Sept. 7, 6:30 pm
Milaca Community Library
Learn about the library at Highclere Castle, or Downton Abbey, as it is known to the legion of followers of the PBS series. Insights into life on English country estates and the treasures collected that filled country house libraries are the focus of this presentation. Presented by Tim Johnson, curator of Special Collections & Rare Books/Sherlock Holmes Collections housed at the University of Minnesota.
Beatrice Ojakangas author visit
Tuesday, Sept. 12, 6:30 pm
Pine City Public Library
Celebrated cook Beatrice Ojakangas will discuss her newest book,
Homemade, a memoir-cum-cookbook chock-full of recipes, anecdotes, and a kind humor that bring to life the Finnish culture of northern Minnesota as well as the wider culinary world.
Homemade delivers the savory and the sweet in equal measures and casts a warm light on a rich slice of the country's cooking heritage.
 Pirates: Predators of the Seas
Tuesday, Sept. 19, 6:30-8:30 pm
National "Talk Like a Pirate Day"
North Branch Area Library
Historical reenactor Arn Kind presents his Pirates: Predators of the Seas program. What was it really like to be a pirate? Arn will separate the myths from the facts about piracy, from ancient times to modern day pirates. He will passionately cover what life aboard a ship is really like, what the dangers were, and why people chose to live the pirate life.
ECRL Reads
Join us for the first ever ECRL Reads program featuring the book,
Ice-Out by MN author Mary Casanova.
Community members through
out our six counties, 14 branches and 8 outreach stops will come together by the reading and discussion of the same book.
For information about the ECRL Reads including book discussions, events and programs from jazz musicians to Prohibition re-enactors to author visits and more, visit our
events calendar anytime starting August 28.
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For employment opportunities at East Central Regional Library, v
isit our
Jobs
page.
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New ECRL
Overdrive Titles
Adult eBook Titles
*Alice Network by Kate Quinn
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Barely Legal by Stuart Woods
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The Bookshop at Water's End by Patti Callahan Henry
*Once Gone by Blake Pierce
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Slightly South of Simple by Kristy Woodson Harvey
Adult eAudio Titles
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Any Dream Will Do by Debbie Macomber
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Crime Scene by Jonathan Kellerman
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Deep Freeze by John Sandford
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Exposed by Lisa Scottoline
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The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter
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Forthcoming
Adult Fiction Books
*All That Makes Life Bright by Josi Kilpack
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The Doll Funeral by Kate Hamer
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Here Comes the Bride by Hope Ramsay
*Insidious Intent by Val McDermid
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Life of Lies by Sharon Sala
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Forthcoming
Adult
Non-Fiction Books
(Search for any of these titles in the ECRL catalog)
*But Seriously by John McEnroe
*Chronicles of a Liquid Society by Umberto Eco
*Dare Not Linger by Nelson Mandela
*Red Famine by Anne Applebaum
*Unqualified by Anna Faris
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Forthcoming
Juvenile
Fiction Books
(Search for any of these titles in the ECRL catalog)
*The Adventurer's Guide to Dragons and Why They Keep Biting Me by Wade Albert White
*The Beginning by M.J. Thomas
*Belinda the Unbeatable by Lee Nordling
*The Marvelwood Magicians by Diane Zahler
*Slider by Pete Hautman
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Forthcoming
Juvenile
Non-Fiction Books
(Search for any of these titles in the ECRL catalog)
*A Bear's Life by Ian McAllister
*Beauty and the Beak by Deborah Lee Rose
*The Football Fanbook by Gary Gramling
*Runny Babbit Returns by Shel Silverstein
*What Makes a Monster? by Jess Keating
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Forthcoming
Books on CD
(Search for any of these titles in the ECRL catalog)
*The Amish Christmas Candle by Kelly Long
*Blue Ridge Sunrise by Denise Hunter
*Hidden Currents by Christine Feehan
*The Last Tudor by Philippa Gregory
*You're Gonna Love Me by Robin Lee Hatcher
Juvenile/Teen
*All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater
*A Big Day for Baseball by Mary Pope Osborne
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The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman
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Laugh Out Loud by James Patterson
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The Wizards of Once by Cressida Cowell
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(Search for any of these
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After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again) by Dan Santat
*Caps For Sale and the Mindful Monkeys
by Esphyr Slobodkina
*Duck and Hippo: Lost and Found by Jonathan London
*Herbert's First Halloween by Cynthia Rylant
*Trucks Galore by Peter Stein
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New Music CDs
Top 40
*Rainbow - Kesha
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Kaleidoscope - Coldplay
*The
Afterlove - James Blunt
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Wouldn't It Be Great - Loretta Lynn
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Happy Endings - Old Dominion
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(Search for any of these
*Norman: the Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
(
Richard Gere)
*Running Wild (
Jason Lewis, Sharon Stone)
*Karen Kingsbury's A Time to Dance (
Jennie Garth, Corbin Bernsen)
*Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
*Savage Grace (Julianne Moore, Eddie Redmayne)
Juvenile
*Super Wings: It Takes Teamwork
*Five Fables
*Jumanji: The Complete Animated Series
*Monster Island
*Barbie: 10-Movie Classic Princess Collection
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ECRL's Mission
To strengthen communities by connecting people with resources, spaces, and educational experiences that enrich and empower their lives.
*East Central Regional Library is funded by the counties of Aitkin, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs and Pine. ECRL also receives state and federal funds.
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