In Select Locations Book Returns Are Now Open
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Book returns have opened at locations offering
curbside pickup
, these locations are Aitkin, Cambridge, Chisago Lakes, Hinckley, Mora, North Branch, Pine City, Princeton, Rush City, Sandstone & Wyoming.
The locations where book returns have
not re-opened
are Isle, McGregor & Milaca.
If your home library is not offering curbside and their book return is still closed, we invite you to use our services in
another location.
Please note:
For staff safety returned materials will be quarantined before they are checked-in. These materials will continue to show on your account, as checked out, for 5-7 business days. You will not be charged fines during this time. Due dates on all materials have been extended to June 1st, 2020.
*This deadline is subject to change but would only be pushed further out not moved up.
If you cannot return your materials by this deadline, for any reason, please contact us. We understand that this is a very difficult time and are more than happy to help our neighbors out.
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Because of Winn-Dixie is a classic tale that follows the story of ten-year-old India Opal Buloni who, one summer day, goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries and instead comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog, and this is where the story really begins. Because of Winn-Dixie is written for middle grade readers and older, and this story of friendship will delight readers of all ages.
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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: stories from the Harlem Renaissance
by Zora Neale Hurston
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
is an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African-American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, they include eight of Hurston’s "lost" Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting, satiric humor, as well as more serious tales reflective of the cultural currents of Hurston’s world. All are timeless classics that enrich our understanding and appreciation of this exceptional writer’s voice and her contributions to America’s literary traditions.
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Why We Can't Sleep
by Ada Calhoun
A generation-defining exploration of the new midlife crisis facing Gen X women and the unique circumstances that have brought them to this point,
Why We Can’t Sleep
is a lively successor to
Passages
by Gail Sheehy and
The Defining Decade
by Meg Jay.
In Why We Can’t Sleep
, Calhoun opens up the cultural and political contexts of Gen X’s predicament and offers solutions for how to pull oneself out of the abyss―and keep the next generation of women from falling in. The result is reassuring, empowering, and essential reading for all middle-aged women, and anyone who hopes to understand them.
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Based on the author's exhaustive research, the incredible true story of the Greely Expedition, one of the most harrowing adventures in the annals of polar exploration.
In July 1881, Lt. A.W. Greely and his crew of 24 scientists and explorers were bound for the last region unmarked on global maps. Their goal: Farthest North. What would follow was one of the most extraordinary and terrible voyages ever made.
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The K Team
by David Rosenfelt
From bestselling mystery author David Rosenfelt comes a new series – a spinoff of the much beloved Andy Carpenter mysteries – about a dynamic new investigative team featuring a determined former cop and his loyal German Shepherd.
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A Bad Day for Sunshine
by Darynda Jones
Del Sol, New Mexico is known for three things: its fry-an-egg-on-the-cement summers, strong cups of coffee―and, now, a nationwide manhunt? Del Sol native Sunshine Vicram has returned to town as the elected sheriff―thanks to her adorably meddlesome parents who nominated her―and she expects her biggest crime wave to involve an elderly flasher named Doug. But a teenage girl is missing, a kidnapper is on the loose, and all of this is reminding Sunshine why she left Del Sol in the first place. Add to that the trouble at her daughter’s new school, plus and a kidnapped prized rooster named Puff Daddy, and, well, the forecast looks anything but sunny.
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Have You Seen Me?
by Kate White
On a cold, rainy morning, finance journalist Ally Linden arrives soaked to the bone at her Manhattan office, only to find that she’s forgotten her keycard. When her boss shows, he’s shocked to see her—because, he explains, she hasn’t worked there in five years. Ally knows her name, but is having trouble coming up with much beyond that, though after a trip to the psychiatric ER, she begins to piece together important facts: she lives on the Upper West Side; she’s now a freelance journalist; she’s married to a terrific man named Hugh. More memories materialize and yet she still can’t recall anything about the previous two days. Diagnosed as having experienced a dissociative state, she starts to wonder if it may have been triggered by something she saw. Could she have witnessed an accident—or worse—had something happened to her?
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Chosen Ones
by Veronica Roth
Fifteen years ago, five ordinary teenagers were singled out by a prophecy to take down an impossibly powerful entity wreaking havoc across North America. He was known as the Dark One, and his weapon of choice—catastrophic events known as Drains—leveled cities and claimed thousands of lives. Chosen Ones, as the teens were known, gave everything they had to defeat him.
After the Dark One fell, the world went back to normal . . . for everyone but them. After all, what do you do when you’re the most famous people on Earth, your only education was in magical destruction, and your purpose in life is now fulfilled?
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Redhead by the Side of the Road
by Anne Tyler
Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a "girlfriend") tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son. These surprises, and the ways they throw Micah's meticulously organized life off-kilter, risk changing him forever. An intimate look into the heart and mind of a man who finds those around him just out of reach, and a funny, joyful, deeply compassionate story about seeing the world through new eyes,
Redhead by the Side of the Road
is a triumph, filled with Anne Tyler's signature wit and gimlet-eyed observation.
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- Library resources are accessible to you even when our library doors are closed. Read about 10 great resources you can use any time of the day from the comfort of your home.
- Are you growing a list of projects to keep you busy this summer? Could you use a gardening book for inspiration and expert advice? You don’t have to wait for our doors to open to get help for those summer projects. Join librarians Carolyn and Steve as they show you how Ebooks MN can come to your rescue.
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