This behind-the-scenes, up-close-and-personal account relates how a handful of Minnesota rock bands erupted out of a small Midwest market and made it big, covering Augie Garcia and Bobby Vee to The Trashmen and the Castaways. Through interviews with many of the key musicians, combined with extensive research and a phenomenal cache of rare photographs, Everybody’s Heard…
Read MoreWe’re pleased to announce the finalists in all eight categories for the 28th Annual Minnesota Book Awards, chosen on Saturday, January 30, by 24 judges from around the state.
Read MoreFrom the Pioneer Press, by Maja Beckstrom, January 29, 2016 Peter Pearson can sell almost anyone on the library. He speaks with affability, an ease born of more than 20 years’ practice and the conviction that what he’s selling is worth every $1 million donation. Here’s the pitch that opened checkbooks to help fund recent…
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Faith Sullivan returns to kick off the 22nd annual Fireside series with a reading from her new novel, Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse, which celebrates the strength and resourcefulness of independent women, the importance of community, and the transformative power of reading. Nell Stillman’s road is not easy. When her boorish husband dies soon after they move…
Read MoreJim Sitter, advocate for literary nonprofit organizations and founding executive director of the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, announced as the winner of the 2016 Kay Sexton Award.
Read MoreSaint Paul Public Library has received two new sources of funding to support the digitization of select materials held in the library’s Saint Paul Collection. The library received a Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage grant in the amount of $85,035 through the Minnesota Historical Society for the “Digitizing Saint Paul City Directories” project. The library…
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