Wood Lake Nature Center Book Club: Listening Point
2025-12-08 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Richfield Community Center, 7000 Nicollet Ave, Richfield, Richfield, MN, 55423, United States
Join other adults to discuss some wonderful environmental and outdoor recreation-based books. Refreshments will be provided. All books available at local libraries or may be available for loan through the nature center. Note: This event takes place at the Richfield Community Center due to construction at Wood Lake. $5/session; free for members.
This month: “Listening Point,” by Sigurd Olson. Poetic meditations about Olson’s cabin and his life there, now available in paperback for the first time. Many people have a special place where they go to experience nature. Perhaps it is a cabin, or a campsite, or a favorite hiking trail. For Sigurd Olson it was a bare glaciated spit of rock in the magnificent Quetico-Superior country of northern Minnesota. He called it his Listening Point, and it is at the center of his book of the same name.
Listening Point is Olson’s second book, with over 40,000 copies sold in hardcover. Strikingly illustrated with drawings by Francis Lee Jaques, this book tells the story of Olson’s Listening Point, from his first night sleeping there under the stars to the eventual building of a cabin. “From this one place I would explore the entire north and all life, including my own,” he writes. “For me it would be a listening-post from which I might even hear the music of the spheres.”
Through deeply personal stories, Olson brings life in the woods alive. He traces the history of a fallen leaf, explains the power of a canoe paddle cutting through the water, and the magic of listening to the rain pour on his tent flaps.

Augsburg Park Library: Family Storytime
2025-12-11 10:15 - 10:45, 2025-12-18 10:15 - 10:45 | Augsburg Park Library, 7100 Nicollet Avenue, Richfield, MN, 55423
For children ages birth to 5 and their caregivers. Talk, sing, read, write, and play together. Share books, stories, rhymes, music, and movement. Free; siblings welcome.

Mall of America: Carl Radke Book Event
2026-01-21 17:00 - 19:00 | Mall of America
Calling all Bravo Fans! Bravo Summer House star Carl Radke will be appearing at the Mall of America for a special book event, giving readers a look into his unfiltered journey of recovery, resilience and transformation through his new memoir Cake Eater. In this candid memoir, Carl opens up about a side of his life few have seen. With unfiltered honesty, he takes readers through the highs and lows, from career shifts and family dynamics to finding peace in his recovery. His story shows that fun and authenticity aren’t only compatible with sobriety; they can thrive because of it.

This is a ticketed event; purchase tickets here.

Augsburg Park Library: Stories Together with Read-a-Story Theater
2026-02-26 10:15 - 10:45 | Augsburg Park Library, 7100 Nicollet Avenue, Richfield, MN, 55423
For families. Join us for a lively performance of children’s stories by the Richfield Read-a-Story Theater group. Free!

Wood Lake Book Club: Two Trees Make a Forest
2026-03-02 18:30 - 20:00 | Richfield Community Center, 7000 Nicollet Ave, Richfield, Richfield, MN, 55423, United States
Join other adults to discuss some wonderful environmental and outdoor recreation-based books. This month: Two Trees Make a Forest by Jessica J. Lee. A chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. Lee to her ancestral homeland, Taiwan. There, she seeks his story while growing closer to the land he knew.
Refreshments provided; books are available at local libraries or may be available for loan through the Interpretive center. $5/person; free for members. Held this month at the Richfield Community Center.

Wood Lake Book Club: My Garden
2026-04-06 18:30 - 20:00 | Richfield Community Center, 7000 Nicollet Ave, Richfield, Richfield, MN, 55423, United States
Join other adults to discuss some wonderful environmental and outdoor recreation-based books. Refreshments provided. Books are available at local libraries. $5 per person; free for Wood Lake members. Held at the Community Center during construction.
This month: My Garden (Book) by Jamaica Kincaid. One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves. Jamaica Kincaid’s first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In My Garden (Book) she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid’s affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer but cannot bring herself to love winter, for it hides the garden. She adores the rhododendron Jane Grant, and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily. The sources of her inspiration — seed catalogues, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, gardens like Monet’s at Giverny — are subjected to intense scrutiny. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where she grew up. My Garden (Book) is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the persons who tend them.

Book Club
2026-06-10 18:30 - 19:30 | Augsburg Park Library, 7100 Nicollet Avenue, Richfield, MN, 55423
Join our discussion of new and interesting fiction and nonfiction titles. The group meets the second Wednesday every month at 6:30 p.m. Lending copies in large and regular print are available at the service desk. This month: The Art Thief, by Michael Finkel.

Connect and Play
2026-06-25 10:00 - 11:00, 2026-07-23 10:00 - 11:00 | Augsburg Park Library, 7100 Nicollet Avenue, Richfield, MN, 55423
For children of all ages and their caregivers. Connect with your child during this drop-in program exploring early literacy activities.

Book Club
2026-07-08 18:30 - 19:30 | Augsburg Park Library, 7100 Nicollet Avenue, Richfield, MN, 55423
Join our discussion of new and interesting fiction and nonfiction titles. The group meets the second Wednesday every month at 6:30 p.m. Lending copies in large and regular print are available at the service desk. This month: Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy.
