Book Bites are quick looks at a book from our Guest Host readers. Try a new book this week!

Here is our newest book, recorded live at Great River library’s Comic Con event: Crank, by Ellen Hopkins “Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high-school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, she meets a boy who introduces her to crank. At first she finds it freeing, but soon Kristina’s personality disappears inside the drug. What began as a wild, ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul, and her life.”

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Book Bites are quick looks at a book from our Guest Host readers. Try a new book this week!

Today’s book is The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

“Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach. Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing, and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby—young, handsome, and fabulously rich—always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.”

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Welcome to Happiness in Libraries! Each month we are looking at a few stories about happy things that happen in libraries, or happy things that libraries contribute to their communities.

We are in the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange. We are a multitype library system, and that means we are here to help all 300+ of our members. They are school libraries, public, academic, and special libraries. So they all serve different communities, and overlapping groups of people.

Libraries are great organizations, and can be so important to the communities they serve. Those communities can be an entire city or town that a public library serves, the teachers and students in schools, the patients, nurses, and doctors in hospitals, or whoever else the library community is serving. 

In these little bonus podcasts, we want to highlight some of the interesting and positive things a few libraries are doing! If you have some great things to share, send them to us at admin@cmle.org. 

Thanks so much for joining us this week. It’s so great to have this time to spend together to enjoy the work libraries are doing all over the place! We hope you are inspired to take a few moments today to enjoy your library, and the work going on around you.

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