Thank you for joining us on the 8th season of our book group and Reader’s advisory podcast! 

Our organization is the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange, and we work with all types of libraries. Schools, public, academic, history centers, and more! We are here to support you and to bring you new knowledge to inform your library work. 

This season we continue to explore a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons and share more information with your library community. 

And this week we are focusing on romance novels written by BIPOC authors! We love to see the increase of romance books published by authors who are Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color. And we’re excited to share all our suggestions!

You can find all the links we share today on our show notes page – to all the

Special thanks to CMLE Podcast Correspondent and Literary Romance Expert Ariel Kirst for helping us learn about this genre!