Meinders Community Library

We have our Final Four! The Four Winds, the Historical Fiction champion, will face off against The Silent Patient, the winner of the Mystery & Thriller bracket. And for our second match we have Murder on the Red River, the surprise victor of the Minnesota Authors bracket, versus It Ends With Us, the General Fiction & Romance champ. Vote to help your favorites to advance to the championship round on Friday!

Once you’ve finished voting on the blog, enter your name and email address for a chance to win a prize. Winners will be selected weekly. Thank you to the Pipestone Area Friends of the Library for providing all the local gift cards!

Our last round of Elite Eight voting is General Fiction and Romance with People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry versus It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover. Which book should go to the Final Four?

Congratulations to the gift card winners from last’s week drawing: Deb Smith, Priscilla Smidt, and Samantha Davis! We will have gift cards available for you to choose from the next time you stop at Meinders Library. Keep voting for your favorites to be entered into this week’s gift card drawing.

Once you’ve finished voting on the blog, enter your name and email address for a chance to win a prize. Winners will be selected weekly. Thank you to the Pipestone Area Friends of the Library for providing all the local gift cards!

Join us at Meinders Community Library next Saturday, April 1^st at 10:30am for Wildlife Detectives with Blue Mound State Park Naturalist Tiffany Muellner. We’ll learn how to investigate the signs animals leave behind in nature and use these clues to figure out which animals are in the area. This program is free, open to all, and great for elementary-aged kids.

Our final two Minnesota Authors go head-to-head today. Will The Stolen Hours by Allen Eskins or Murder on the Red River by Marcie R. Rendon make it to the Final Four?

Once you’ve finished voting on the blog, enter your name and email address for a chance to win a prize. Winners will be selected weekly. Thank you to the Pipestone Area Friends of the Library for providing all the local gift cards!

	Match	Red Alliance						Blue Alliance						Scores
Qualifications
	Quals 3	7479		3298		4418		3648		159		7737		Fri 10:18 AM*
	Quals 12	9068		3807		3298		2036		4068		1332		Fri 11:36 AM*
	Quals 17	2945		1303		2036		7737		1138		3298		Fri 12:16 PM*
	Quals 24	5763		1332		3298		4293		3200		2240		Fri 2:00 PM*
	Quals 35	1303		159		3807		3298		1011		2261		Fri 3:17 PM*
	Quals 43	8334		3298		7243		5493		4593		4944		Fri 4:30 PM*
	Quals 48	8334		4550		2341		3298		4293		4944		Fri 5:05 PM*
	Quals 53	3729		4068		3298		1011		2341		7485		Fri 5:40 PM*
	Quals 59	3298		2240		2945		3729		7243		4293		Fri 6:22 PM*
	Quals 65	5493		4388		2996		7485		3298		1619		Sat 10:28 AM*
	Quals 79	6920		5763		1410		1977		3298		1303		Sat 12:06 PM*
	Quals 85	3374		2240		4550		3298		3648		1410		Sat 12:48 PM*

Today we have our final two titles in the Mystery and Thriller category: Killers of Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn versus The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. Which book should make it to the Final Four?

Once you’ve finished voting on the blog, enter your name and email address for a chance to win a prize. Winners will be selected weekly. Thank you to the Pipestone Area Friends of the Library for providing all the local gift cards!

We have our Elite Eight! Today’s match is our final two Historical Fiction contenders, The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah versus Eternal by Lisa Scottoline.

Congratulations to the gift card winners from our third week: Delores Perkins, Julie Popma, and Linda Schulze! We will have gift cards available for you to choose from the next time you stop at Meinders Library. Keep voting for your favorites to be entered into this week’s gift card drawing.

Once you’ve finished voting on the blog, enter your name and email address for a chance to win a prize. Winners will be selected weekly. Thank you to the Pipestone Area Friends of the Library for providing all the local gift cards!

Here are the final two matches in our Sweet Sixteen. Keep voting for your favorites to be entered into our weekly gift card drawing!

Today’s Matches

• Minnesota Authors: Murder on the Red River by Marcie R. Rendon versus The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
• General Fiction & Romance: It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey versus It Ends With Us by Coleen Hoover

Once you’ve finished voting on the blog, enter your name and email address for a chance to win a prize. Winners will be selected weekly. Thank you to the Pipestone Area Friends of the Library for providing all the local gift cards!