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This event is in the "Adults" group.
Library Branch: Offsite
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Learning, Performances/Presentations, Wellness
Event Description:
If you're a garlic lover and would like to grow like a pro, Paul Schmidt can give expert advice from his 25+ years of growing experience. Tips will include variety selection, fertilization, planting techniques, and the importance of mulch.  T...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Learning
Event Description:
Join diversity and equity leaders from Olmsted County and the City of Rochester in a healing circle which offers  a safe space to explore issues of cultural differences. The focus of this session will be history and government systems. W...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: 2nd Floor Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Clubs, Learning, Social Gathering
Event Description:
Join us each month to discuss a different nonfiction book. In September we'll be reading Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price. ...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Learning
Event Description:
Join City of Rochester staff and the League of Women Voters to learn more about the city sales tax extension that will be on the ballot this November. The City of Rochester is pursuing a renewal of the existing .5% sales tax. A Local Option Sales Tax...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Learning
Event Description:
According to The Nation's Report Card, in 2022, only 32% of 4th graders in Minnesota were reading at grade-level proficiency. Join us for a screening of The Right to Read film. The actions taken by an activist, a teacher, and two ...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Learning
Event Description:
Join Rochester Public Schools (RPS) Superintendent Dr. Kent Pekel to learn more about RPS’ upcoming 2023 Capital Projects Levy Referendum, “Technology for Transformation,” that will be on the ballot this November. Dr. Pekel will discuss the purpose a...
This event is in the "Adults" group.

Cover 2 Cover Book Club

7:00pm - 8:00pm
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: 2nd Floor Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Clubs, Learning, Social Gathering
Event Description:
Join us each month to discuss a popular book you'll want to read cover to cover. This month we'll be reading Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr To register please contact, Lynette Perry the groups host. lperry@rplmn.org or 507-328-2324 ...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: 2nd Floor Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Clubs, Learning, Social Gathering
Event Description:
Join us each month to discuss a different nonfiction book. In October we'll be reading Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America by Conor Dougherty.   ...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: Auditorium
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Learning
Event Description:
Join diversity and equity leaders from Olmsted County and the City of Rochester in a healing circle which offers  a safe space to explore issues of cultural differences. The focus of this session will be implicit bias. Implicit bias impa...
This event is in the "Adults" group.

Cover 2 Cover Book Club

7:00pm - 8:00pm
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: 2nd Floor Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Clubs, Learning, Social Gathering
Event Description:
Join us each month to discuss a popular book you'll want to read cover to cover. This month we'll be reading Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia To register please contact, Lynette Perry the groups host. lperry@rplmn.org or ...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: 2nd Floor Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Clubs, Learning, Social Gathering
Event Description:
Join us each month to discuss a different nonfiction book. In November we'll be reading Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library by Amanda Oliver. ...
This event is in the "Adults" group.

Cover 2 Cover Book Club

7:00pm - 8:00pm
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: 2nd Floor Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Clubs, Learning, Social Gathering
Event Description:
Join us each month to discuss a popular book you'll want to read cover to cover. This month we'll be reading My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite  To register please contact, Lynette Perry the groups host. lperry@rplmn.or...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: 2nd Floor Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Clubs, Learning, Social Gathering
Event Description:
Join us each month to discuss a different nonfiction book. In December we'll be reading A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit. ...
This event is in the "Adults" group.

Cover 2 Cover Book Club

7:00pm - 8:00pm
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: 2nd Floor Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Clubs, Learning, Social Gathering
Event Description:
Join us each month to discuss a popular book you'll want to read cover to cover. This month we'll be reading The Guncle by Steven Rowley To register please contact, Lynette Perry the groups host. lperry@rplmn.org or 507-328-2324 ...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: 2nd Floor Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Clubs, Learning, Social Gathering
Event Description:
Join us each month to discuss a different nonfiction book. In January we'll be reading Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson.   ...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: 2nd Floor Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Learning
Event Description:
Join diversity and equity leaders from Olmsted County and the City of Rochester in a healing circle which offers  a safe space to explore issues of cultural differences. The focus of this session will be allyship.  Allyship is showing up...
This event is in the "Adults" group.

Cover 2 Cover Book Club

7:00pm - 8:00pm
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: 2nd Floor Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Clubs, Learning, Social Gathering
Event Description:
Join us each month to discuss a popular book you'll want to read cover to cover. This month we'll be reading The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V. E. Schwab To register please contact, Lynette Perry the groups host. lperry@rplmn.org o...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: 2nd Floor Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Clubs, Learning, Social Gathering
Event Description:
Join us each month to discuss a different nonfiction book. In February we'll be reading The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier by April White. ...
This event is in the "Adults" group.

Cover 2 Cover Book Club

7:00pm - 8:00pm
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: 2nd Floor Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Clubs, Learning, Social Gathering
Event Description:
Join us each month to discuss a popular book you'll want to read cover to cover. This month we'll be reading Night Shift by Alex Finlay To register please contact, Lynette Perry the groups host. lperry@rplmn.org or 507-328-2324 ...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
Library Branch: Main Branch
Room: 2nd Floor Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Clubs, Learning, Social Gathering
Event Description:
Join us each month to discuss a different nonfiction book. In March we'll be reading Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly.   ...