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Please join us for our May 14th Zoom reading featuring Linda Rodriguez and Mary Troy.

To attend, please register for the reading at https://squoom.com/z/rfz210514, and you will be provided with the information needed to join the reading.

Linda Rodriguez's 12th book, The Fish That Got Away: The Sixth Guppy Anthology, is about to be published. Her 11th book was Fishy Business: The Fifth Guppy Anthology (edited). Dark Sister: Poems was her 10th book and a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award. Plotting the Character-Driven Novel, based on her popular workshop, and The World Is One Place: Native American Poets Visit the Middle East, an anthology she co-edited, were published in 2017. Every Family Doubt, her fourth mystery in the award-winning series featuring Cherokee detective, Skeet Bannion, and Revising the Character-Driven Novel will be published in 2021. Her short story, "The Good Neighbor," published in Kansas City Noir, has been optioned for film.

Mary Troy is the author of five books of fiction—three collections of short stories and two novels: Swimming on Hwy N, Beauties, Cookie Lily, The Alibi Café and other stories, and Joe Baker Is Dead. Her stories and essays have been published widely. She has won the USA Book Award for literary fiction, the Devil's Kitchen Reading Award, and a Nelson Algren Award. Her sixth book of new and selected stories will be published in 2021. Mary directed the UMSL MFA program and served as editor of Natural Bridge, a journal of contemporary literature, for ten years. She has won the University of Missouri system leadership award and the Missouri Governor's award for excellence in teaching. (caracabe)… (mehr)

Are you sick of only playing magic the gathering using online formats? Do you miss being able to play over the table with your friends? If your answer to either of these questions is "yes" this event is for you! Come and join us for an epic booster draft tournament, keep the cards you draft, and if you win you'll receive free booster packs!

Open to ages 12-18

This booster draft will be held outside on our patio, which we have erected a tent over. All participants will be required to sanitize their hands, and will be kept properly distanced.

Masks will be required.

We will be providing food, which must be consumed outside the play area.

If you have any further questions, please contact our Teen Librarian. (ccatalfo)… (mehr)

MicroAgility is a business transformation agency specialized in strategy implementation. MicroAgility is your trusted partner, who understands your business and who can make judgments in your best interest while executing your digital strategies to achieve measurable results. MicroAgility is able to provide you with diversified solutions and operational excellence.

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After comprehensive research and understanding of our client’s business we offer practical solutions to meet needs of our clients in the most efficient way which offers greater maintainability and extensibility.

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We recruit, deploy, and manage teams of hands-on business transformation consultants who are exceptionally focused on driving results and helping you to achieve your business goals. We begin with cross referencing digital strategic initiatives with organizational business objectives and a focus on the desired results which increases the chance of success significantly.

During the last decade, Clients have become far more sophisticated about how they operate. Our position is unique within the market, providing a top tier consulting capability and expertise to our clients without the top tier agenda, which makes them choose us for the implementation of their business transformation projects due to our extensive experience, deep subject matter expertise, and our ability as an organization to implement their strategies. Our proven experience in digital strategy executions management has seen us build a client base that includes some of North Americ’s leading organizations in the industries we serve. (jameswilliams01)… (mehr)

Mr. Mike continues his reading of the Encyclopedia Brown Mysteries in order with the tenth and final mystery in the second book: Encyclopedia Brown Boy Detective and The Case of the Secret Pitch. Today's mystery is The Case of the Stomach Puncher. Next week Mr. Mike will start the third book in the series: Encyclopedia Brown Finds the Clues.

The solution should be posted in the comments shortly after the video loads. (lampbane)… (mehr)

Please join us for our April 9th Zoom reading featuring Lisa Rose Bradford, Xánath Caraza and Steve Bradbury.

To attend, please register for the reading at https://tinyurl.com/rfz210409, and you will be provided with the information needed to join the reading.

Lisa Rose Bradford is a poet, translator, songwriter, and rancher. She teaches Comparative Literature at the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina. Recipient of the National Translation Award, she published her fifth bilingual collection of Juan Gelman's poetry, Today/Hoy, and is presently working on a sixth, In Foreign Rain. Her latest work as translator and editor, along with Curtis Bauer and Jesse Lee Kercheval, Voz feroz: An Anthology of Argentine and Uruguayan Women Poets will soon be published by University of New Mexico Press.

Xánath Caraza writes for La Bloga, Seattle Escribe, SLC, and Monolito. For the 2018 International Latino Book Awards, she received First Place for Lágrima roja and Sin preámbulos/Without Preamble for "Best Book of Poetry in Spanish" and "Best Book Bilingual Poetry." Syllables of Wind received the 2015 International Book Award for Poetry. She is the author of fifteen poetry collections and two short story collections. Caraza has been translated into English, Italian, Romanian, and Greek, and partially translated into Nahuatl, Portuguese, Hindi, and Turkish.

Steve Bradbury is an artist and writer who lived in Taiwan many years and translates the work of contemporary Chinese poets. His most recent book-length publication, a translation of Amang's Raised by Wolves: poems and conversations (Deep Vellum/Phoneme Media, 2020), has been nominated for the PEN Translation Award. (caracabe)… (mehr)