This season we are moving through the state of Minnesota, looking at an interesting fact about each county and giving you a book prompt from that fact. We will share six book suggestions to meet that prompt, to get you started on reading new books. You can also take that prompt and find any other book to meet the challenge!

Our full show notes page is here, with all the books we share today.

Today our prompt is inspired by Kanabec County! The libraries located in this county are part of our CMLE system – hooray! This county is located in east-central MN and includes the lovely town of Mora. The county name “Kanabec” came from the Ojibwe term ginebig, meaning “snake,” after the Snake River. To celebrate the word and the county, we suggest you read read a book with a reptile, and of course we have six book suggestions to help you get started.

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!