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Imitate your favorite book cover, theme or character for our Book Cover Challenge! Submit your photos as a comment on our Facebook post or email them to us at cmichael@minlib.net and we’ll share them. A few intrepid staff members have taken up the challenge...

PEN America is the national branch of a worldwide organization that advocates for writers and freedom of expression.  With the advent of the coronavirus pandemic, PEN America has launched a series of podcasts in which writers talk about literature and our lives in a...

Are you missing the library’s great selection of cookbooks? Daily recipes getting boring when you can’t dine out? Fear not! The library’s Libby ebook service offers a fantastic variety of digital cookbooks available to you at the push of a button (our tap of...

by Andy Moore – Yes, it sounds like a dating app but it also describes some of the 33,000 ebooks currently available in Libby/Overdrive. You could go for acclaimed titles like My Brilliant Friend, The Underground Railroad, or Lincoln in the Bardo, but consider,...

by Andrew Loof What happens to vintage video games when the copyrights never get extended, the rights going to no one? They become abandonware. One might think it’s hard to come across such things, but fortunately there are resources on the web that cater...

Check out their videos online! The Foreign Policy Association has posted their content in order to continue Great Decisions discussions online, asking that we continue to “…debate, discuss, and decide. In a democracy, it takes an informed public to inform policy.” Great Decisions television...

Lose yourself in a book!  Check out the 3/23/20 New York Times article “Solace Between the Pages” (accessible through the NYT database on our Resources page).  The majority of the titles mentioned can be found as eBooks or Audiobooks on Libby/Overdrive and Hoopla! What’s...