You're invited to the Friends of the Cambridge Library Annual Meeting. All are welcome! There will be refreshments and the first 50 people will get a gift bag, so don't be late!

The doors open at 5:30pm and the meeting will run from 6:00-6:30pm. We will get a year to date update on how the Friends have impacted the library, and plans for the future!

After the Friends of the Cambridge Public Library update, we will enjoy a book presentation by bestselling, award-winning, local author, Allen Eskens!  He will be presenting his latest book, Saving Emma.

Allen Eskens is the bestselling author of The Life We Bury, The Guise of Another, The Heavens May Fall, The Deep Dark Descending, The Shadows We Hide, Nothing More Dangerous, The Stolen Hours, and Forsaken Country. He is the recipient of the Barry Award, Minnesota Book Award, Rosebud Award (Left Coast Crime), and Silver Falchion Award and has been a finalist for the Edgar® Award, Thriller Award, and Anthony Award. His books have been translated into 26 languages.

Allen has a journalism degree from the University of Minnesota and a law degree from Hamline University. After law school, he studied creative writing in the M.F.A. program at Minnesota State University-Mankato, as well as the Loft Literary Center and the Iowa Summer Writer’s Festival. Allen grew up on the hills of central Missouri. He now lives with his wife, Joely, in greater Minnesota where he recently retired after practicing criminal law for 25 years.

Allen is represented by Amy Cloughley of Kimberley Cameron and Associates Literary Agency.

Scout and Morgan Books will be onsite for book purchases!

Event will be held in the Great Northern Room at the Cambridge Public Library.