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La Crosse Public Library Main

608-789-7100
800 Main Street
La Crosse, WI 54601
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La Crosse Public Library North

608-789-7102
1552 Kane Street
La Crosse, WI 54603
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La Crosse Public Library South

608-789-7103
1307 16th Street South
La Crosse, WI 54601
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May
29

Closed- Memorial Day

All Day
Branch: La Crosse Public Library Main, La Crosse Public Library North, La Crosse Public Library South, Outreach

Closed- Memorial Day

All Day
La Crosse Public Library Main, La Crosse Public Library North, La Crosse Public Library South, Outreach
May
30

Closed- Memorial Day

All Day
Branch: La Crosse Public Library Main, La Crosse Public Library North, La Crosse Public Library South, Outreach

Closed- Memorial Day

All Day
La Crosse Public Library Main, La Crosse Public Library North, La Crosse Public Library South, Outreach
May
31

Chair Fitness at the Community Connections Center

10:00am - 11:00am
Age Group: Adult

Chair Fitness at the Community Connections Center

10:00am - 11:00am
May 31, 2022
La Crosse Public Library Main
Age Groups: Adult
Program Type: Class
Description
This program is instructor lead with up-beat music involved....
Jun
1

Little Movers Storytime

10:30am - 11:00am
Age Group: Preschool

Little Movers Storytime

10:30am - 11:00am
Jun 1, 2022
La Crosse Public Library Main
Main Hall
Age Groups: Preschool
Program Type: Storytime
Description
Best for children ages 10-23 months and their caregivers....
Jun
1

Bouncing Babies Storytime

12:00pm - 1:00pm
Age Group: Preschool

Bouncing Babies Storytime

12:00pm - 1:00pm
Jun 1, 2022
La Crosse Public Library Main
Main Hall
Age Groups: Preschool
Program Type: Storytime
Description
Best for children ages 0-9 months and their caregivers....
Jun
2

Chair Fitness

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Age Group: Adult
Registration

Chair Fitness

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Jun 2, 2022
La Crosse Public Library Main
Main Hall
Age Groups: Adult
Program Type: Class
Description
This program is instructor lead with up-beat music involved. ...
Jun
3

Fairy Tale Walks

9:00am - 10:00am
Age Group: All Ages

Fairy Tale Walks

9:00am - 10:00am
Jun 3, 2022
Outreach
Age Groups: All Ages
Program Type: Youth
Description
Meet us each Friday at the Marsh Trail at Myrick Park to hear a classic fairy tale as we enjoy the hike around the beautiful marsh.  Best for children of all ages....
Jun
4

Saturday Storytime

10:30am - 11:00am
Age Group: All Ages

Saturday Storytime

10:30am - 11:00am
Jun 4, 2022
La Crosse Public Library Main
Main Hall
Age Groups: All Ages
Program Type: Storytime
Description
Best for all ages of children and their caregivers....
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Celebrate Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month

  • Disability Visibility

    Disability Visibility

    Alice Wong

    ONE OF THE PROGRESSIVE'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people.

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  • Light From Uncommon Stars

    Light From Uncommon Stars

    Ryka Aoki

    Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka Aoki's Light From Uncommon Stars, a defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts. Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six. When Katrina Nguyen, a young transgender runaway, catches Shizuka's ear with her wild talent, Shizuka can almost feel the curse lifting.

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  • What My Bones Know

    What My Bones Know

    Stephanie Foo

    "A searing memoir of reckoning and healing from an acclaimed journalist and former This American Life producer investigating the little-understood science behind Complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life. By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as a radio producer at This American Life and had won an Emmy. But behind her office door she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk.

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  • Violets

    Violets

    Kyung-sook Shin

    In this novel by Man Asian Literary Prize winner Kyung-Sook Shin, a neglected young woman experiences the violence and isolation of contemporary Korean society. Set amidst the frenzied modernization of late-twentieth-century South Korea, Violets is the story of San--a protagonist so unsure, ostracized, and odd by society's ruthless standards that she barely registers as stumbling through life. Following a violent childhood rejection, San is set upon a troubling path of stifled desire and isolation. One hazy summer in 1990s Seoul, she finds work at a flower shop.

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  • Rise

    Rise

    Jeff Yang, Phil Yu, Philip Wang

    Cultural critic Jeff Yang, blogger Phil Yu of Angry Asian Man, and Wong Fu Productions' Philip Wang team up (with iconic guests ) for a graphic romp through the ups and downs of how, over the past three decades, Asian Americans went from quiet and invisible to incredibly relevant and irresistibly cool The first generation of U.S.-born Asian Americans raised after 1965's Hart-Cellar Act passed would have found it difficult to imagine that sushi and boba would one day be beloved by all, that a Korean boy band named BTS would be the biggest musical act in the world, that one of the biggest mov

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  • What Is Asian-Black Solidarity?

    What Is Asian-Black Solidarity?

    Virginia Loh-Hagan

    Students will learn about Asian-Black solidarity and discover how the cooperation can help dismantle harmful racism in America. This series explores the issues specific to the AAPI community in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. Series is written by Virginia Loh-Hagan, a prolific author, advocate, and director of the San Diego State University Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Resource Center.

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  • Kaikeyi

    Kaikeyi

    Vaishnavi Patel

    "Patel''s mesmerizing debut shines a brilliant light on the vilified queen from [the Indian epic] the Ramayana....This easily earns its place on shelves alongside Madeline Miller''s Circe." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) "I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions--much good it did me." So begins Kaikeyi''s story.

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  • Speak, Okinawa

    Speak, Okinawa

    Elizabeth Miki Brina

    A "hauntingly beautiful memoir about family and identity" (NPR) and a young woman's journey to understanding her complicated parents--her mother an Okinawan war bride, her father a Vietnam veteran--and her own, fraught cultural heritage. Elizabeth's mother was working as a nightclub hostess on U.S.-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband. The language barrier and power imbalance that defined their early relationship followed them to the predominantly white, upstate New York suburb where they moved to raise their only daughter.

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  • O Beautiful

    O Beautiful

    Jung Yun

    From the critically-acclaimed author of Shelter, an unflinching portrayal of a woman trying to come to terms with the ghosts of her past and the tortured realities of a deeply divided America Elinor Hanson, a forty-something former model, is struggling to reinvent herself as a freelance writer when she receives an unexpected assignment. Her mentor from grad school offers her a chance to write for a prestigious magazine about the Bakken oil boom in North Dakota.

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  • Time Is a Mother

    Time Is a Mother

    Ocean Vuong

    The highly anticipated collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good part In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother’s death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it.

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Staff Picks

  • A Tale for the Time Being

    A Tale for the Time Being

    Ruth L. Ozeki

    A novelist on a remote island in the Pacific is linked to a bullied and depressed Tokyo teenager after discovering a Hello Kitty lunchbox that washed ashore in this new novel from the award-wining, best-selling author of My Year of Meats.

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  • The Body Keeps the Score

    The Body Keeps the Score

    Bessel A. Van der Kolk

    An expert on traumatic stress outlines an approach to healing, explaining how traumatic stress affects brain processes and how to use innovative treatments to reactivate the mind's abilities to trust, engage others, and experience pleasure--

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  • The Nineties

    The Nineties

    Chuck Klosterman

    From the New York Times bestselling author of But What if We’re Wrong, a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about the sin of trying too hard, during the greatest shift in human consciousness of any decade in American history. It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader.

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  • Small World

    Small World

    Jonathan Evison

    Jonathan Evison’s Small World is an epic novel for now. Set against such iconic backdrops as the California gold rush, the development of the transcontinental railroad, and a speeding train of modern-day strangers forced together by fate, it is a grand entertainment that asks big questions. The characters of Small World connect in the most intriguing and meaningful ways, winning, breaking, and winning our hearts again.

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  • The Story of China

    The Story of China

    Michael Wood

    A single volume history of China, offering a look into the past of the global superpower and its significance today. Michael Wood has travelled the length and breadth of China, the world’s oldest civilization and longest lasting state, to tell a thrilling story of intense drama, fabulous creativity, and deep humanity that stretches back thousands of years. After a century and a half of foreign invasion, civil war, and revolution, China has once again returned to center stage as a global superpower and the world’s second largest economy. But how did it become so dominant?

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  • The Accomplice

    The Accomplice

    Lisa Lutz

    Everyone has the same questions about best friends Owen and Luna: What binds them together so tightly? Why weren't they ever a couple? And why do people around them keep turning up dead? In this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Passenger, every answer raises a new, more chilling question. "Masterfully plotted, The Accomplice is both a keep-you-guessing mystery and a keenly and tenderly observed character study."--Attica Locke, author of Bluebird, Bluebird and Heaven, My Home Owen Mann is charming, privileged, and chronically dissatisfied.

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  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

    Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

    Lori Gottlieb

    "From a New York Timesbest-selling writer, psychotherapist, and advice columnist, a brilliant and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world--where her patients are in crisis (and so is she)"--

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  • Can't Hurt Me

    Can't Hurt Me

    David Goggins

    For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare -- poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes.

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  • Malice

    Malice

    Heather Walter

    A princess isn’t supposed to fall for an evil sorceress. But in this “bewitching and fascinating” (Tamora Pierce) retelling of “Sleeping Beauty,” true love is more than a simple fairy tale. “Walter’s spellbinding debut is for all the queer girls and women who’ve been told to keep their gifts hidden and for those yearning to defy gravity.”—O: The Oprah Magazine Once upon a time, there was a wicked fairy who, in an act of vengeance, cursed a line of princesses to die. A curse that could only be broken by true love’s kiss. You’ve heard this before, haven’t you? The handsome prince.

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  • Bowie's Bookshelf

    Bowie's Bookshelf

    John O'Connell

    Named one of Entertainment Weekly’s 12 biggest music memoirs this fall. “An artful and wildly enthralling path for Bowie fans in particular and book lovers in general.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “The only art I’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from.” ―David Bowie Three years before David Bowie died, he shared a list of 100 books that changed his life. His choices span fiction and nonfiction, literary and irreverent, and include timeless classics alongside eyebrow-raising obscurities.

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  • I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf

    I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf

    Grant Snider

    A look at the culture and fanaticism of book lovers, from beloved New York Times illustrator Grant Snider It's no secret, but we are judged by our bookshelves. We learn to read at an early age, and as we grow older we shed our beloved books for new ones. But some of us surround ourselves with books. We collect them, decorate with them, are inspired by them, and treat our books as sacred objects.

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  • The Last Flight

    The Last Flight

    Julie Clark

    "Fans of Lisa Jewell and Liv Constantine will love The Last Flight, a novel focusing on two women who meet in an airport, both alone, both scared, and both urgently needing an escape from their lives. Claire Cook has a husband whose temper burns as bright as his promising political career, and she has worked for months on a plan to get out. A chance meeting in an airport bar brings her together with a stranger equally as desperate. Together they hatch a plan to switch tickets - Claire taking Eva's flight to Oakland, and Eva traveling to Puerto Rico as Claire.

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  • Last Night at the Telegraph Club

    Last Night at the Telegraph Club

    Malinda Lo

    With the threat of deportation looming over her father--in spite of his hard-won citizenship and disavowal of Communism--seventeen-year-old American-born Chinese Lily Hu pursues a relationship with her Caucasian classmate Kath. Includes author's note.

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  • All About Love

    All About Love

    bell hooks

    A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces. “The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love.

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  • Falling

    Falling

    T. J. Newman

    Thirty minutes before a flight to New York, the family of the pilot is kidnapped and in order for them to live, all 143 passengers onboard must die in the first novel by a former flight attendant.

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  • Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

    Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

    Elle Cosimano

    Edgar-Award nominee Elle Cosimano’s adult debut Finlay Donovan Is Killing It is the first in a witty, fast-paced mystery series, following struggling suspense novelist and single mom Finlay Donovan, whose fiction treads dangerously close to the truth as she becomes tangled in real-life murder investigations...

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  • A Carnival of Snackery

    A Carnival of Snackery

    David Sedaris

    Picking up where his previous volume of diaries, Theft by Finding, left off, David Sedaris chronicles the years 2003-2020.

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  • Cloud Cuckoo Land

    Cloud Cuckoo Land

    Anthony Doerr

    A "novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world who find resilience, hope, and story ... [They] are trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport, Idaho, today, and on a spaceship bound for a distant exoplanet decades from now, an ancient text provides solace and the most profound human connection to characters in peril"--

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  • Crying in H Mart

    Crying in H Mart

    Michelle Zauner

    NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - A Best Book of 2021: Entertainment Weekly, Good Morning America, Wall Street Journal, and more From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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  • Razorblade Tears

    Razorblade Tears

    S. A. Cosby

    *INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* “Provocative, violent — beautiful and moving, too.” —Washington Post “Superb...Cuts right to the heart of the most important questions of our times.” —Michael Connelly “A tour de force – poignant, action-packed, and profound.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance. Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid.

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