Washoe County Library System

It's Lake Wobegon as you've imagined it: a tightly knit community that sometimes draws you home and sometimes gives you wings to fly away.

The chronicle of another chapter in the life and times of the residents of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota. Lake Wobegon is having a boom year thanks to millenial entrepreneurship, meanwhile, the author flies in to give eulogies at the funerals of five classmates.

A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer, the effect of which is episodic loss of social inhibition. Mayor Alice, Father Wilmer, Pastor Liz, the Bunsens and Krebsbachs, formerly taciturn elders, burst into political rants, inappropriate confessions, and rhapsodic proclamations, while their teenagers watch in amazement. Meanwhile, a wealthy outsider...

Proposing a trip to Rome in the guise of performing an act of charity while secretly hoping to seduce her distant husband, Margie is dismayed by her husband's unwillingness and the enthusiasm of several fellow passengers, who share with Margie stories from their own pasts.

The news from Lake Wobegon. Bus children ; Growing up with the Flambeaus ; My cousin Kate ; June ; Gospel birds ; Pontoon boat ; What have we learned so far? ; Chickens ; The death of Byron ; Truckstop ; Faith -- Iconic pajamas. Henry ; Little house on the desert ; Billy the Kid ; Lonesome Shorty ; The Babe ; 1951 ; Little Becky ; Casey at the bat ; Marooned ; Mother's day -- Guys I have known. Earl Grey ; Don Giovanni ; Taking a meeting with Mr....