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Join us on Thursday, November 13th at 1:00 pm for a presentation on the Changes to Medicare in 2026 presented by Minnesota Aging Pathways. Similar to the presentation on Fraud and Scams please call the library at 218-283-8051, or stop by to register for this presentation. No limits on the number attending, but the presenter would like to know how many are coming so she can have enough copies of the information.
The next reading challenge is to read a book set in the 1940’s. This one is easy if you like books about WWII, fiction or non-fiction. If you’d like to read titles without a focus on the war then you will need to work a little harder, but we’ve rounded up some non-WWII fiction that are set in the 1940’s.
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940’s while City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert is set in New York City in 1940. The Gown by Jennifer Robson is set in England postwar while The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott is about 2 secretaries for the CIA assigned the job of a lifetime, they are to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the Soviet Union for publication.
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, for which he won a Pulitzer, is about Willy Loman, the salesman at the end of his career facing a dismal future and crushing disappointments from his past while Sarah Waters in The Little Stranger explores postwar life in rural England and a family haunted by a sinister past.
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan explores life in rural Appalachia of the 1940’s while The Stolen Marriage by Diane Chamberlain is set in Hickory, North Carolina after the war with secrets, betrayals, prejudice and forgiveness, loveless marriage and a polio outbreak combine to create a beautiful novel. Anthony Marra presents Maria Lagana in Mercury Pictures Presents running for her life from Mussolini’s Italy to Hollywood, California trying to outrun her past and make a new future for herself.
If you’d prefer some short stories check out Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Stories. The title story is set in 1940’s New York. And if you’d prefer a juvenile novel that definitely read Bat 6 by Virginia Euwer Wolff for a riveting story of postwar game of softball between rival teams that explores what happens when the enemy is no longer the enemy.
Remember, read whatever you want, just read. Encourage everyone to read and make regular use of your library. Let us know what books you want to see on our shelves. We love ordering requested books. But we also love having what you want already on our shelves.
The library will be closed on Tuesday, November 11th in observance of Veterans’ Day. Regular hours will be observed the remainder of the week. Regular hours are Monday – Wednesday 10 am – 8 pm. Thursday and Friday 10 am – 6 pm and Saturday 10 am – 3 pm.