Free blood pressure check!

As part of Heart Healthy month, sponsored by Fairview Red Wing and the YMCA, you can get a free blood pressure check & heart health tips today at the Red Wing Public Library. Stop on by!

Winter Saturday Family Story Time

Please come join us this Saturday, February 18, at 9:30am for the fourth of our special Winter Saturday Family Story Times. Library staff will present a special themed story time including stories, songs, rhymes and a take home craft. This week's theme is Fowl Play! Older siblings welcome and no registration required.

Rafa by Rafael Nadal

From Kirkus Reviews: "Elite tennis star Nadal serves up a smashing account of his life on and off the court. Tenacious. Driven. Obsessed. This is how the sports world has come to know Nadal, the Mallorcan phenom who at age 24 became the youngest man ever to complete a career Grand Slam in the Open Era. What's revealed here, however, is a much more complex figure prone to all sorts of anxieties, and a man who simply would not be the athlete he is today if not for the constant love and support of his extended family. The titanic showdown between Nadal and Federer at Wimbledon in 2008 is played out shot-for-shot over several engrossing chapters. Throughout, the alternating point of view and over-the-shoulder accounts provide readers with a stunning invitation into the mind of one of the greatest tennis players ever. A winning endeavor packed with intelligence and excitement. "

The Magic Room: A Story About the Love We Wish for Our Daughters

Jeffrey Zaslow, author of The Girls From Ames and co-author of The Last Lecture, was killed in a car accident on February 10. He was driving to a show to promote his latest book, The Magic Room: A Story About the Love We Wish for Our Daughters. Publishers Weekly called the book "[a] tender, intimate study of the changing nature of wedlock [that] traces the many generations of devoted customers at a Michigan bridal shop. The Detroit-based author, now a columnist at the Wall Street Journal, with three daughters of his own, elicits personal stories from worthy brides-to-be captured at the store, such as the Baptist-raised local daughter who along with her three sisters swore "a vow of purity" until marriage; the 40-year-old marrying for the first time; and the young lady maimed in a car crash whose fiance stood by her." The touching stories are made even more poignant by the untimely death of the author.

Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens

From the Barnes & Noble Review: "A reviewer in the UK's Telegraph described Christopher Hitchens as an "essayist, polemicist, self-styled contrarian, Bush-supporting apostate, smoker, drinker." To Joseph Heller, he is a remarkable commentator: "He jousts with fraudulence of every stripe and always wins." But perhaps Christopher Buckley portrayed him most succinctly: "the greatest living essayist in the English language." All those sides emerge unapologetically in this new collection of essays, Hitchens' first since 2004. Feisty and free-ranging; brilliant skepticism."