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Written By: Brainerd Dispatch | × St. Francis Music Center presents outdoor concert LITTLE FALLS After a year of canceling concerts and recitals, the St. Francis Music Center is presenting an outdoor spring concert on the grounds of Linden Hill Historic Estate in Little Falls. This free, outdoor concert is scheduled from 6-8 p.m. May 19. In case of rain, the concert will be moved to May 26. This concert will feature several ensembles from the Music Center. St. Francis Preparatory Orchestra, under the direction of Melissa Von Itter, will perform familiar tunes. The St. Francis Concert Orchestra, directed by Olivia Munson, will play “Linus and Lucy,” “Alexander’s Rag Time Band” and two other pieces. ....
What’s on the shelf at Lake Regions Public Library Celeste Etrelt DEVILS LAKE - In the news: The Lake Region Public Library will be reading I Am Malala for their February read with book discussion on March 3 via Zoom. Please see library staff for books and details. Also new book displays honoring Black History Month, All You Need is Love and a Good Book, and Love Gone Wrong. A Simple Murder by Linda Castillo (Adult Fiction). Together for the first time in print, A Simple Murder features six original short stories starring whip-smart chief of police, Kate Burkholder. While on vacation with her partner John Tomasetti in LONG LOST, Kate discovers that the old house where they re staying is haunted by a girl who disappeared decades before.An abandoned baby is discovered on the Amish bishop s front porch in A HIDDEN SECRET, and Kate is called in to investigate. ....
Blood Red Road meets “The Snow Queen” in this winter-bound Western YA novel following 16-year-old Jorie Harrow, who scavenges dead men outside the Gold Rush town of Shadow Springs, where spring hasn’t come for a generation. Sunny-Side Up by Jacky Davis, illus. by Fiona Woodcock. Greenwillow, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-06-257307-0. This picture book offers a realistic take on how much emotional stamina can be required to make it through a day gone wrong when the protagonist’s mother leaves for the day. Paris by Phone by Pamela Druckerman, illus. by Benjamin Chaud. Putnam, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-399-16506-1. Having shown adults the ways of French parenting in 2014’s ....
Camille Durbonne gambled everything she had to keep herself and her sister safe. But as the people of Paris starve and mobs riot, safety may no longer be possible… Not when Camille lives for the rebellion. In the pamphlets she prints, she tells the stories of girls living at society’s margins. But as her writings captivate the public, she begins to suspect a dark magic she can’t control lies at the heart of her success. Then Louis XVI declares magic a crime and all magicians traitors to France. As bonfires incinerate enchanted books and special police prowl the city, the time for magic and those who work it is running out. In this new Paris where allegiances shift and violence erupts, the answers Camille seeks set her on a perilous path, one that may cost her the boy she loves even her life. If she can discover who she truly is before vengeful forces unmask her, she may still win this deadly game of revolution. ....