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Albert Lea Public Library Newsletter September 2026 |
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Upcoming Library Closures The Albert Lea Public Library will be closed on Sunday, Sept. 6 and Monday, Sept. 7 for the Labor Day holiday. View all upcoming closures on our calendar. |
Friends of the Library Annual Meeting The Friends of the Albert Lea Public Library will hold their annual meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 6 p.m. in the City Council Chambers. There will be a short business meeting and an author talk by Priscilla Paton. Everyone is welcome to attend; active Friends members are able to participate and vote in the business meeting. |
Nighttime Storytime Tuesday, Sept. 1, 6:30 p.m. Children's Library |
T(w)een Programming: Spirit Tees Thursday, Sept. 3, 4 p.m. Fiction Library Registration required |
Family Event: Make a Birdhouse Sunday, Sept. 13, 2 p.m. Children's Library |
Book Bedazzling Drop In for Adults Tuesday, Sept. 29, 4:30 to 8 p.m. Fiction Library |
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The Stuffie Stand
by Maddie Frost
Moose loves stuffies so much, he makes them himself. He's even turned his sewing shed into a shop, where he sells them to everyone in the neighborhood. They're cute and tasteful, with just the right amount of SQUISH Everyone loves them, including Mabel, a neighborhood girl who also makes stuffies. Yet Mabel's stuffies are SO over the top--bedazzled, with hats, shoes, scarves, crowns. Truth be told, Moose is not a fan. But when his orders start to multiply and he can't keep up with the demand, Moose must do something very hard: ask for help...from Mabel.
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The Door in Penrose Forest
by Sean David Robinson
A man returns to his strange hometown twenty years after his mother climbed a staircase in the wilderness and disappeared in this speculative mystery where We Used to Live Here meets The Midnight Library. As a boy, Nico once accompanied his mother on a research trip to investigate a stalled migration of monarch butterflies. One night, upon hearing her sneak out of their rented cabin, he followed her to a clearing in the forest where a famed mansion once stood. Paralyzed with fear, he watched his mother climb a staircase and vanish, along with the stairs and the strange glowing door at its peak. No one believed his story, and as he grew older, he too stopped believing it was real. As an adult, Nico returns to his hometown to care for his ailing father. But something strange is happening to the town. There are unexplained power fluctuations, people are going missing, and, reportedly, phantoms are roaming the woods. When Nico finds his mother's field journal from the week she disappeared, including her account of the vanishing staircase, he begins to pick apart the mystery. All the tangled strings trail back to the same starting point: the Gilded Age family whose mansion burned down under mysterious circumstances in those very same woods where his mother vanished.
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In Deep Water: A True Story of Sharks, Survival, and Courage
by Michael J. Tougias
The terrifying true story of a fight for survival for 28 hours in shark-infested waters. October, 8, 2022. Three friends are fishing for red snapper when their boat, tied to an oil rig, begins taking on water and sinks 15 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico. Suddenly, the three men find themselves in a struggle for their lives. Their vessel succumbs to the building seas so quickly that the fisherman are unable send out a radio Mayday call, and their cell phones have no reception. They only have time to don their life jackets and hold onto a cooler as they are swept further out to sea. They vow to stay together no matter what and must make several life or death decisions. Suffering from hypothermia and severe stings from giant jelly fish, the men desperately try to stay afloat as they realize there are circling sharks below. In Deep Water is an hour by hour account of a desperate and determined struggle for survival, as well as the Coast Guard's all-out effort to find the missing men.
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Albert Lea Public Library
211 E Clark St.
Albert Lea, Minnesota 56007
(507) 377-4350alplonline.org |
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