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Bourke’s Bookshelf: Wine and Words author Marcie Rendon

This week's featured author is Marcie Rendon, who will appear at Wine and Words in July.

Local

Biologist Paul Radomski to kick off library’s Brown Bag Lunch series

Radomski will discuss his nonfiction book, "Walleye: A Beautiful Fish of the Dark."

May 28, 2023 02:57 PM

Local

Battle of the Books begins in Brainerd

The Battle of the Books is a summer reading program for kids in third through seventh grades.

May 28, 2023 06:57 AM

Arts and Entertainment

Bourke's Bookshelf: Wine and Words author Sarah Pekkanen

This week's featured author is Sarah Pekkanen, who will speak at this year's Friends of the Brainerd Public Library's Wine and Words event in July.

May 24, 2023 03:57 PM

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Frank Weber releases ‘The Haunted House of Hillman’ Sunday in Nisswa

Weber will speak on the writing of true crime, forensic work and his newest book.

May 24, 2023 02:57 PM

By Dispatch staff report

Minnesota

In new book, Keith Ellison goes behind the scenes of Derek Chauvin prosecution

He wrote the book, he said, as a guide for the next police brutality case.

May 24, 2023 07:18 AM

By Rochelle Olson / Star Tribune

Arts and Entertainment

Bourke’s Bookshelf: ‘Reflections from a north woods lake’

This week's featured read is "Campfire in the Basement" by Baxter writer Darrell Pedersen.

May 17, 2023 02:57 PM

By Theresa Bourke

Arts and Entertainment

Bourke’s Bookshelf: ‘Home is where you feel like yourself’

This week's featured read is "The House in the Cerulean Sea" by TJ Klune.

May 10, 2023 04:57 PM

By Theresa Bourke

Arts and Entertainment

Bourke’s Bookshelf: ‘Things you just can’t run away from’

This week's feature read is "The Life We Bury" by Allen Eskens.

May 03, 2023 06:45 AM

By Theresa Bourke

Local

Book bonanza benefits library friends

Photos from the Friends of the Brainerd Public Library book sale at the Westgate Mall. The sale continues Thursday, April 27, and Friday.

April 27, 2023 06:57 AM

By Kelly Humphrey

Local

A labor of love: Brainerd mom publishes book on motherhood

Laura Radniecki's book, "Dear Mama: 100 Letters of Encouragement for the Milestones of Motherhood," was published in March.

April 26, 2023 05:57 PM

By Theresa Bourke

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Bourke’s Bookshelf: ‘We clung to books and to our friends’

This week’s featured read is “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows.

April 26, 2023 03:57 PM

By Theresa Bourke

Arts and Entertainment

Author to visit Douglas County Library

The Thursday, April 27 event will cover self-publishing

April 24, 2023 08:17 AM

By Echo Press staff report