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Stillwater Public Library Newsletter
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Book of the Little Axe
by Lauren Francis-Sharma
Quietly but purposefully rebelling against the life others expect of her in late-18th-century Trinidad, Rosa loses her family's farm when her homeland transitions to British rule, before her half-Crow son finds his coming-of-age challenged by decades-old secrets.
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Hamnet : A Novel of the Plague
by Maggie O'Farrell
A short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet and the years leading up to the production of his great play. A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a hypnotic recreation of the story that inspired one of the greatest masterpieces of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down.
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Journal of a Prairie Year
by Paul Gruchow
A lifelong resident of southwestern Minnesota and northwestern Iowa, Paul Gruchow celebrated the few scattered patches of prairie land that remain in a region once dominated by grasslands. Gruchow recorded his thoughts, observations, and experiences in each season on the prairie, eventually compiling them into this moving chronicle of a sometimes harsh but always stunning landscape.
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We invite your feedback on the use of the library's event wing. Your input will help us better understand community interests and preferences regarding use of the space, which includes the Margaret Rivers meeting rooms, a conference room, a gallery, and the rooftop Johnson Terrace. Please take a minute to complete our 8-question survey. Share your thoughts today!
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