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Annual Citywide Reading Event
Austin, Minnesota

 
  

 
 
 
 
 
2010 Selection to Feature Krueger's Thunder Bay

Minnesota author William Kent Krueger's Thunder Bay has been chosen for the Austin Page Turner's 2010 citywide reading event. Mr. Krueger will appear at the Austin Public Library on Thursday, April 22, 2010. Thunder Bay is the seventh book in his mystery series featuring Cork O'Connor, former Minnesota sheriff and a man of mixed heritage—part Irish and part Ojibwe. Click here to reserve your library copy of Thunder Bay. For more information about William Kent Krueger, visit his website. Additional events for Thunder Bay will be announced in the upcoming months.

About the Austin Page Turners
The Austin Page Turners was formed in 2001 by then Austin, Minnesota, Mayor Bonnie Rietz. The initial planning committee consisted of community members who enjoyed reading and discussing books. Patterned after similar citywide reading programs in Seattle and Chicago, the committee decided to focus on choosing a Minnesota author’s work that would have broad appeal and bring the community together for a great discussion. Each year the featured author comes to Austin for a series of activities culminating with a community presentation in the evening. The overwhelming popularity of the program is seen by the large number of book groups and individuals who read the book that is chosen for the annual event and who attend the various activities planned around the book. All events are free unless otherwise indicated.

Past Selections

2002 A Place Where the Sea Remembers by Sandra Benitez
2003 The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
2004 Haunted Ground by Erin Hart
2005 The St. Paul Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald edited by Patricia Hampl
2006 Daughter of China by Larry Engelmann and Meihong Xu
2007 The novels of Lorna Landvik
2008 Sweet Land: New and Selected Stories by Will Weaver
2009 The novels of Leif Enger

Planning Committee
Peggy Benzkofer, Co-Chair, Volunteer
Milly Burroughs, Volunteer
Ann Bundy, Volunteer
Jane Carlson, Austin High School
Cheryl Corey, Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau
Terry Dilley, Emeritus Faculty, Riverland Community College
Gayle Heimer, Austin Public Library
Jim Herrick, Volunteer
Sharon Hyland, Faculty, Riverland Community College

Kate Jordal, Volunteer
Wendy Larson, Austin High School
Marilyn Muchow, Volunteer
Marianne Potter, President/CEO, KSMQ

Bonnie Rietz, Co-Chair, Volunteer
Bob Vilt, Volunteer


 

 
Past Selections
A Place Where the Sea Remembers
The Things They Carried
2002 2003
Haunted Ground The St. Paul Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
2004 2005
Daughter of China Lorna Landvik
2006 2007
Sweet Land: New and Selected Stories Leif Enger
2008 2009

Updated February 2010