Lobby Pickup Available
Lobby pickup days are Monday – Thursday, 10 am – 4 pm.
Patrons must contact the library and let staff know which day items will be picked up.
For those who prefer curbside pickup, please call 218-666-2210.
Library staff will not be available for face-to-face conversations or in-person assistance during lobby pickup hours. This is to protect both staff and patrons.
If you need assistance, please call the library or email crystal.phillips@alslib.info.
Remember to wear your mask inside the building, maintain a six-foot distance from other people and limit your time in the lobby. One person in the lobby at a time.
Access to the building is limited to the lobby at this time.
Request Items
Visit www.alslib.info to search the regional online catalog and discover electronic resources including e-books, audio books and magazines.
Not sure what to order? Contact the library and staff will help.
Checkouts and Returns
Please use the outdoor book drop for returns.
All returned items are in quarantine for seven days before checked in.
Wi-Fi
Hotspots: A limited number of hotspots are available to check out. Patrons must have an Arrowhead Library System card, be at least 18 years old and live in the North Woods School boundaries to be on the hotspot wait list.
Wi-Fi available outside the library 24/7.
If you have questions, please contact the Cook Public Library at 218-666-2210
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Looking for a book to read? These are new to our shelves.
ADULT FICTION
The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
Hit List by Stuart Woods
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
From the Grave by David Housewright
When She Was Good by Michael Robotham
Outfox by Sandra Brown
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Third Sister by Sara Blaedel
The Goodbye Man by Jeffery Deaver
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
The Finders by Jeffrey B. Burton
Tidelands by Philippa Gregory
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
Careless Whiskers by Miranda James
How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang
A Private Cathedral by James Lee Burke
Learning to See by Elise Hooper
A Conspiracy of Bones by Kathy Reichs
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny
The Last Time I Saw You by Liv Constantine
The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
Funeral for a Friend by Brian Freeman
Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith
Trouble with Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson
Troubles in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand
Return to Virgin River by Robyn Carr
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
A Time for Mercy by John Grisham
Next to Last Stand by Craig Johnson
A Blessing to Cherish by Lauraine Snelling
With or Without You by Caroline Leavitt
The Woman Before Wallis by Bryn Turnbull
The Winter Sisters by Tim Westover
The Return by Nicholas Sparks
The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult
Royal by Danielle Steel
Jackie and Maria by Gill Paul
Coconut Layer Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke
ADULT NONFICTION
The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton
Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today by Rachel Vorona Cote
National Geographic Weather of North America by Jack Williams
The Detective in the Dooryard by Timothy Cotton
Too Much and Never Enough by Mary Trump
Begin Again by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
The Last Night on the Titanic: Unsinkable Drinking, Dining & Style by Veronica Hinke
Calling Bullshit by Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West
Why Did I Come Into This Room? by Joan Lunden
Sisters First by Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush
Good Vibes, Good Life by Vex King
Stranger in the Shogun's City by Amy Stanley
In Jerusalem: Three Generations of an Israeli Family and a Palestinian Family by Lis Harris
Robert's Rules of Order In Brief by Henry M. Robert III
Breaking Bread with the Dead by Alan Jacobs
Hollywood Park by Mikel Jollett
Killing Crazy Horse by Bill O'Reilly
Melania and Me by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
Rage by Bob Woodward
We Stay in Our Own Tree by Michelle Barry
Where the Law Ends by Andrew Weissmann
JUVENILE CHAPTER BOOKS
The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate
Orphan Eleven by Gennifer Choldenko
Meet Yasmin! by Saadia Faruqi
Becoming Brianna by Terri Libenson
Tyrannosaurus Wrecks by Stuart Gibbs
The Island of Dragons: The Twelfth Adventure in the Kingdom of Fantasy by Geronimo Stilton
Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So Best Friend Forever by Rachel Renee Russell
JUVENILE NON-FICTION
Ancient Aztecs by Emily Rose Oachs
Horror in Minnesota by Jennifer Wendt
Clownfish by Lindsay Shaffer
Garfield's Tongue Twisters by Mark Acey and Scott Nickel
Curious About Cats by M.K. Osborne
Curious About Rabbits by Jill Sherman
Curious About Birds by Jill Sherman
Duck-Billed Dinosaurs by Mark Weakland
Harriet Tubman by Christine Platt
Ana & Andrew: The New Baby by Christine Platt
Octopuses by Lindsay Shaffer
Marie Curie and Radioactivity by Jordi Bayarri
Pandas by Valerie Bodden
President by Kirsten Chang
Something Happened in Our Town by Marianne Celano
PRESCHOOL-EARLY READERS
Dancing Hands by Margarita Engle
Jack Blasts Off! by Mac Barnett
Fry Bread by Kevin Noble Mailard
In A Jar by Deborah Marcero
The Boy with Big, Big Feelings by Britney Winn Lee
Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o
The Ugly Doodles by Valeria Wicker
Professor Whiskerton Presents Steampunk ABC by Lisa Falkenstern
Wake Up, Crabby! by Jonathan Fenske
Sea Sheep by Eric Seltzer
Honey by David Ezra Stein
A Dog with Nice Ears by Lauren Child
Possum and the Summer Storm by Anne Hunter
The Hugely-Wugely Spider by Ethan T. Berlin
A Trip to the Top of the Volcano by Frank Viva
What's Cooking Moo Moo? by Tim Miller
Friends Stick Together by Hannah E. Harrison
This is Black Panther adapted by Alexandra West
Ice, Ice, Puggy adapted by Sara Miller
Thumper and the Egg adapted by Brooke Vitale
Big Rigs by Wendy Strobel Dieker
Squids by Mari C. Schuh
Manatees by Mari C. Schuh
Call 218-666-2210 or email crystal.phillips@alslib.info to request and arrange curbside pickup.