PJ Tracy’s Monkeewrench series has become a must-read around the world. Now you can meet the Minnesota author who continues to write about this coveted thriller at upcoming appearances in Cambridge (May 15) and Milaca (May 22). The author was well received during her first visit held earlier this month at the Pine City branch.
PJ Tracy was the pseudonym of mother-daughter writing duo P.J. and Traci Lambrecht, winners of the Anthony, Barry, Gumshoe and Minnesota Book Awards. Their eight novels, Monkeewrench, Live Bait, Dead Run, Snow Blind, Shoot to Thrill, Off the Grid, The Sixth Idea and Nothing Stays Buried have become national and international bestsellers.
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The culminating event of the 1st ECRL Reads program is quickly approaching. Our ECRL Reads author Mary Casanova will be visiting four East Central Regional Library branches during November to discuss her book, Ice-Out. For the last 8 weeks community members throughout our six counties have come together through the reading and discussion of Ice-Out and by attending multiple programs on Prohibition, the Model T, jazz music, F. Scott Fitzgerald and more topics based on the 1920s era from the book.
Mary Casanova is an award-winning Minnesota author. Many of her books stem from her life on the Minnesota-Canadian border; yet some of her stories have taken her as far away as France, Norway, and Belize for research. Casanova grew up in a family of 10 children in St. Paul, Minnesota. In a bustling camp-like atmosphere, Casanova found that writing became her voice. “Words are my paintbrush,” she explains, “my way of exploring the world around me.”
Ice-Out is the story about 19-year-old Owen Jensen who has big dreams growing up in tiny Ranier, Minnesota, near the Canadian border. But in the lawless Prohibition era of the 1920s, few paths are open to young men in his town, other than farming, fishing and bootlegging. Inspired by real events in early 1920s Minnesota, it is a story of young romance against terrible odds and true grit on the border between license and responsibility, rich and poor, and right and wrong.
Casanova will be at the following ECRL branches:
- Aitkin Public Library on Monday, November 13 at 6:30 pm
- Princeton Area Library on Tuesday, November 14 at 6:30 pm
- Wyoming Area Library on Wednesday, November 15 at 6:30 pm
- Pine City Public Library on Thursday, November 16 at 6:30 pm.
Books will be available for sale by the author and Scout and Morgan Books from Cambridge.
The ECRL Reads program and Mary Casanova’s visit is funded with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Join us for this free program and listen as Mary talks about how events from her own family became an integral part of the Ice-Out story and why historical fiction plays an important part in literature.
Due to family illness, Beatrice Ojakangas had to cancel her program scheduled at the Pine City Public Library on Tuesday, September 12 at 6:30 pm. It will be rescheduled.
Kids ages 5-11 can learn how to create a castle pop-out book with the Minnesota Center for Book Arts at 10 a.m. Thursday, July 20 at the Pine City Public Library. Participants must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Registration is required; space is limited! Stop by the library or call 320-629-6403 and ask for the Pine City Public Library to register. This project is funded with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and presented by the East Central Regional Library.
