Wednesday, November 2nd, 6:30-8:00pm

Jordan Library

Do you have questions about Medicare? How does it work? When should I enroll? Learn the basics of the Medicare program and what you'll need to know to choose the best plan for you. Registration required.

Monday, November 7th, 2:00-3:30pm

Savage Library

Learn about the most recent changes in Medicare benefits and coverage, and how these changes may affect you. Registration required.

Mondays, 5:30-7:30pm

Prior Lake Library

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Thursdays, 5:30-7:30pm

Savage Library

Join us each week to learn and play games, help complete a puzzle, and/or enjoy some warm drinks! We will have a collection of games available and game play will be self-directed by participants. Savage Library participants will play in the large meeting room, and Prior Lake participants will play near the fire. Families, adults, teens, and kids of all ages are welcome to play!

Wednesdays, 1:00-2:00pm

Prior Lake Library

Designed for anyone who needs help using our app, website, or electronic resources, or who needs other help with technology. Call the Prior Lake Library at 952.447.3375 to register.

All library-facilitated book clubs are now meeting in-person at the library.

Second Wednesday, 7:00-8:00pm

Savage Library

November selection: A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

Fourth Tuesday, 6:00-7:15pm

Prior Lake Library

November selection: The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny

Date change: We will be meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 30th this month!

Savage Library

November selection: The Missing by Tim Gautreaux

Have your own book club? Find book club kits easily in the catalog by using the dark blue Category menu below the search bar, and choose "Book Club Kits".

The fall 2023 One Book | One Minnesota title is We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World, available in print and eBook from the library, and also from eBooks Minnesota.

In this collection, Indigenous writers and writers of color bear witness to one of the most unsettling years in the history of the United States. Essays and poems vividly reflect and comment on the traumas we endured in 2020, beginning with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, deepened by the blatant murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers and the uprisings that immersed our city into the epicenter of passionate, worldwide demands for justice.

There will be a panel discussion with the authors of the book on Wednesday, December 7th at 7:00pm. Registration is required for this webinar.

For information about the authors, a reading discussion guide and to register for the author panel, visit the One Book | One Minnesota website.

One Book | One Minnesota is a statewide book club that invites Minnesotans of all ages to read a common title and come together virtually to enjoy, reflect, and discuss.

All events listed below are presented by CareerForce. Some require advance registration.

Immigrant and Refugee Job and Resource Fair - Thursday, November 3rd, 1:00-4:00pm at the St. Paul CareerForce - The businesses attending were selected based on their support for languages spoken in their organization, good health care benefits, educational reimbursements for some companies, and their location on bus line. Several community organizations will also be there to help answer questions and direct participants to resources. Advance registration is required. Click on the link above for more information.

South of the River Manufacturing Hiring Event - Thursday, November 3rd, 2:00–4:00pm - Come meet with employers on-site (at the West St. Paul CareerForce) or virtually to learn more about their job openings.

Training Program Finder - Check out these training opportunities throughout the metro area that are available to eligible participants at no cost. November's schedule includes training for Comp TIA, Medical Office Administration, Commercial Driver's License Class B, and Digital Marketing to name a few.

This month's challenge is Space: the Final Frontier. Good luck!

The world is a big place filled with odd, beautiful and amazing things. Let's see what you know about it! The multiple choice challenge is timed, so the faster you respond, the more points you get! You have 3 weeks, until October 21st, to take the challenge.

We’ve built our trivia challenge in Kahoot!, but there’s no need for you to create an account. Just click the link, spin for a randomly-generated player name, and play!

For those of you who remember your "name" from the What in the World? challenge in October, here are the top 5 finishers.

All titles are available (or will soon be available) in print at the library, and/or in eBook and eAudiobook form on Libby.

Lake Superior Reads - recommended by Lisa P., Learning & Outreach Manager

This is the time of year when the autumn storms roll into the great lake, and these atmospheric reads will place you right in your favorite places on the shore and in the Arrowhead region.

Safe from the Sea by Peter Geye - Set against the powerful lakeshore landscape of northern Minnesota, Safe from the Sea is a heartfelt novel in which a son returns home to reconnect with his estranged and dying father thirty-five years after the tragic wreck of a Great Lakes ore boat that the father only partially survived and that has divided them emotionally ever since.

Vacationland by Sarah Stonich - In a series of interconnected stories that center on Nahedi, a run-down lodge in the Minnesota north woods, a tapestry of colorful characters contemplate the past, lamenting their struggles with love and mortality.

The Fate of Mercy Alban by Wendy Webb - Grace Alban has spent more than twenty years avoiding her childhood home, the stately Alban House on the shores of Lake Superior, for reasons she would rather forget. But when her mother's unexpected death brings Grace and her teenage daughter back, she finds more is haunting the halls and passageways of Alban House than her own personal demons.

The Long-Shining Waters by Danielle Sosin - Lake Superior, the north country, the great fresh-water expanse. Frigid. Lethal. Wildly beautiful. The Long-Shining Waters gives us three stories whose characters are separated by centuries and circumstance, yet connected across time by a shared geography.

The Lightkeeper’s Daughters by Jean Pendziwol - When her late father's diaries are discovered amid the ruins of an old shipwreck, Elizabeth, whose failing eyes have confined her to a senior home, explores the diaries and the mysteries of her past with the help of Morgan, a delinquent teenage performing community service. As the diaries reveal a complex web of secrets, Elizabeth and Morgan realize that their fates are connected to each other.