Albert Lea Public Library Newsletter 
February 2026
 
 
Blind Date with a Book
 
Love is in the air at the Albert Lea Public Library!
Stop by the 3rd floor Fiction Library during the month of February and choose a book
to fall in love with this season based only on intriguing hints about the plot.


NEWS
         
Closed for President's Day 
 
The Albert Lea Public Library will be closed on Sunday, Feb. 15 and Monday, Feb. 16 for President's Day.
 
View all upcoming closures on our calendar.
Adult Winter Reading Program 
 
There's still a month left to stop by the library and pick up your reading log for Hot Reads for Cold Nights! No signup required. Read or listen to five books to earn a prize and an entry into the grand prize drawing.



UPCOMING EVENTS
B.Y.O. Lunch and Learn:
Spring Migration Bird Watching 
 Thursday, Feb. 12, Noon
City Council Chambers
 
Learn more about B.Y.O. Lunch and Learn.
 
Family Event: Windup Dinosaurs
 Sunday, Feb. 8, 2 p.m.
Children's Library
 
Learn more about February's Family Event.
 
Tween & Teen Hangout
Tuesday, Feb. 10, and Feb. 24
3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Computer Lab
 
Learn more about Tween & Teen Hangout.
Bad Art Night 
Thursday, Feb. 26, 4 p.m.
Registration Required
   
Learn more about the Bad Art Night.
 
For a full listing of our events, check out our online calendar.
 
STAFF PICKS
Looking for your next read?
Check out some of our recent favorites!
 
Bog Queen by Anna North
Bog Queen
by Anna North

In the gorgeous new novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Outlawed, a strangely well-preserved Iron Age body turns up in an English bog, and the American forensic anthropologist on the case is thrust into an absorbing, complex mystery.
Fireworks by Matthew Burgess
Fireworks
by Matthew Burgess

POP! As a hot day sizzles into evening, everyone on stoops and sidewalks looks skyward on this special summer night--the Fourth of July! Words and art blossom into flowers of fire across the sky, making this a perfect read for firework enthusiasts in cities and suburbs everywhere. POP! POP!--
Is a River Alive? by Robert MacFarlane
Is a River Alive?
by Robert MacFarlane

Hailed in the New York Times as “a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler,” Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Is a River Alive? is a joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an ancient, urgent idea: that rivers are living beings who should be recognized as such in imagination and law. Powered by dazzling prose and lit throughout by other minds and voices, Is a River Alive? will open hearts, challenge perspectives, and remind us that our fate flows with that of rivers—and always has.

Albert Lea Public Library
211 E Clark St.
Albert Lea, Minnesota 56007
(507) 377-4350

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