Month: April 2023

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National Library Week: #ExplainABookPlotBadly

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Today we tried our hand at #ExplainABookPlotBadly. Can you guess the book based on the our terrible plot descriptions? Most of these books have also been adapted as movies. But beware, these blurbs may spoil the plot.

  1. Kids: Farmer stopped from culling his litter of pigs by a precocious spider.
  2. YA: Girl makes the president mad when she and her fake boyfriend try to eat poisonous berries on TV.
  3. Classic: Mother works hard to get her five daughters married and no one properly appreciates her.
  4. Mystery: Woman enacts elaborate scheme to frame her husband and then changes her mind.
  5. Classic Mystery: Terrible house party. Everyone dies.
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Share your guesses or your own badly explained book plot in the comments or on the blog for a chance to win a prize courtesy of the Pipestone Area Friends of the Library.

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National Library Week: Library of Things

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Which of the following can you check out at Meinders Community Library?

  1. Games
  2. Cake Pans
  3. Early Literacy Backpacks
  4. Puzzles
  5. None of the Above
  6. All of the Above

We’re hoping to expand our Library of Things in the near future. What kinds of items would you like to be able to check out from Meinders Community Library? Share your ideas in the comments or on the blog for a chance to win a prize courtesy of the Pipestone Area Friends of the Library.

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National Library Week: Guess the Librarian

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Can you match each recent read to the librarian? Is it Emily, Jody, Kim or Sally?

  • Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
  • A Murder in Time by Julie McElwain
  • When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sasha Lamb
  • Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah

Share your answers or your own favorite recent read in the comments or on the blog for a chance to win a prize courtesy of the Pipestone Area Friends of the Library.

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National Library Week: Name Our Dinos

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Our beloved bronze Deinonychus statue has lived at Meinders Community Library since the mid 1990s, but do these critters have names?

Share your name suggestions in the comments or on the blog for a chance to win a prize courtesy of the Pipestone Area Friends of the Library.

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National Library Week: Guess the Emoji Title

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Can you guess the book based on the emojis we used to represent the titles? Hint: All of these transformed titles come from Meinders March Madness books.

Share your answers or try to stump us with your own emoji title in the Facebook comments or with the blog contact form for a chance to win a prize courtesy of the Pipestone Area Friends of the Library.

  1. 💨💨💨💨
  2. 🌼🌑
  3. 🤫 🤕
  4. 👵🏻👵🏽🔪
  5. 💎👀
  6. ⛲️🤐
  7. 🦊🏞️
  8. ❤️🔬
  9. 😡🍯
  10. 🏃‍♀️ 🌹 🏃‍♀️

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Posted in Get Connected

National Library Week: There’s More to the Story

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It’s National Library Week! Check back throughout the week for fun, games, and chances to win prizes! Once again, donations from the Pipestone Area Friends of the Library have made it possible for us to do prize giveaways of books and gift cards. For more information on the Friends of the Library or to join, visit the PAFL tab on our website.

The American Library Association is inviting everyone to share their library stories on the I Love Libraries Facebook page or with #MyLibraryStory on Instagram or Twitter. Participants will be entered into a drawing for a $150 Visa gift card.

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Self-Guided Storytime Eggstravaganza

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If you’re entertaining little ones this weekend, stop by Meinders Community Library on Saturday, April 8th from 10am-2pm for Self-Guided Storytime. Our theme is Eggs and Things That Hatch and we’ll have a curated stack of books for you to read while you’re here, a list of suggested songs and activities (with egg shakers!), and a craft.

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The Skally Line

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The Skally Line is coming to Meinders Community Library! Join us on Tuesday, April 11th at 7:00pm for an evening of foot-stomping, old-time string band music. The Skally Line will bring stories of early Minnesota to life with original music full of rip-roaring energy and passion.

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And the Winner Is…

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It’s a tie! The Four Winds and It Ends With Us got the same number of votes, so both books are our Meinders March Madness Champions. Thank you to everyone who participated. We had so much fun seeing how all the matches turned out.

Congratulations to the gift card winners from last’s week drawing: Crystle Dougherty, Diane Scotting, and Sara Nelson! We will have gift cards available for you to choose from the next time you stop at Meinders Library.

We also drew for a grand prize from everyone who participated throughout the whole month. Since we had two books win, we picked two grand prize winners. Congratulations to Traci Nissen and Jessica Koprek! Stop by Meinders Library to pick up your prize.