We are the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange, a multitype system serving all types of libraries.

This season we are suggesting books you might enjoy for our Goodreads group: Armchair Travel to Minnesota State Parks. We give you a prompt connected to each state park, and you find a book to fulfill the challenge. You can use one of our suggestions, and you should feel free to read any book!

Lake Maria is the closest park to our HQ in St Cloud – and we’ve even had a member event camping there! It was opened in 1963.

This park houses the endangered Blandings Turtle, and there is a great statue honoring this turtle near the Visitor’s Center. Celebrate their conservation efforts by reading a book with a turtle on the cover or in the plot.

We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all – including a nice book – Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!