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How about we get a few chuckles from the emergency room? Dr. Ashely Alker takes a light-“hearted” look at how we die in “99 Ways to Die: And How to Avoid Them”. It’s actually a fun read with a very personal origin story. Ashely’s mom was diagnosed with a serious illness and the family couldn’t keep up with the medical jargon. She went into medicine to help translate what doctors were telling telling them about her mom. Sadly, her mother died before she became a full-on doctor. And, Minnesotans are still coping with the immigration trauma, and many are doing that with a children’s book series written in the 1940s. The Betsy-Tacy books are a series of stories by Maud Hart Lovelace. They follow two young girls as they, among other things, welcome their new immigrant neighbors in the early 20th century. Columnist Aaron Brown talks with Steve about some very old books that are fueling a newfound passion.