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It’s autumn in MLS Land and that means it is time for another system-wide tour highlighting the rich cultural musical traditions of our global brethren. Throughout the month of October we celebrated folk musical contributions of the Gaelic variety with the Roots of Celtic Music tour. For the month of November we have set our global coordinates eastward to provide the community with an entertaining and edifying showcase of traditional Russian folk music with Moscow Nights. You will find a number of resources available in the Metropolitan Library System to help you explore the passion and beauty of Russian music. Hope to see you at Moscow Nights!

The arrival of autumn means it's almost time to pull out the cellophane-paned Collegeville costume boxes before entering the glide path toward the holidays. If your pups are frisky and their ears are chilly to the touch, it's a clear signal that the fall TV season is also here. We get it, you've got a new episode of one show or another five nights a week. But that still leaves you with 20 or so hours a day to read. We've got some great recommendations to fill the space between shows so you can read what you're watching!

The leaves are starting to fall, the nights are getting longer, pumpkin spice can be found in abundance, and kids are getting ready for Halloween. And most of all it’s that time of the year when ghostly love is in the air. Vampires and werewolves are staring longingly at one another under the full moon, zombies chase the brains of their true loves, and the ghosts haunt their old flames. I think you know where I’m going with this. It’s time for a good old fashioned paranormal romance!

“The sun never sets on the British Empire,” a phrase that evokes the vastness and strength of a nation that, at its peak, ruled 25% of the world’s land surface including large areas of North America, Australia, Africa and Asia. Librarian Gloria Melchor presents the best of British literature, history and culture on the pages of Rule, Britannia! Join her this time for the end of the British Raj and the beginning of Indian independence.