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"Do you know that book… it's blue?"
Introducing Talpa Search, a whole new way to search for books by cover color, cover details, plot, setting, characters, and more! talpasearch.com
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Today is the birthday of Irish poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats, one of the great figures of 20th-century literature. His personal library, currently housed at the National Library of Ireland, has been cataloged on LibraryThing as part of our Legacy Libraries project.
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Which books do you have in common with Yeats? Have you read his work?librarything.com/profile/Wil…
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"Can one rash decision prove the difference between a life well lived and a life destroyed?"
Enter to win a copy of @JohnBoyne's "The Weight of Angels" from @HenryHolt
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Jun 12
It's Friday. What are you reading?
#FridayReads
ALT "it's Friday / What are you reading? / #Fridayreads" Background is a a misty coastline
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Jun 12
This week, LibraryThing staff are reading:
Abby: Livonia Chow Mein by Abigail Savitch-Lew
Lucy: Edge by Koji Suzuki
Kate: Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
Zeph: The Place Where They Buried Your Heart by Christina Henry
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Jun 8
Today is the birthday of Robert Morris, one of the first African-Americans to become an attorney. Morris was active in the Abolitionist cause, and led the first legal challenge to school segregation, in 1848 Boston.
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Jun 8
Morris' library is one of only two extant, antebellum, African American-owned libraries known to exist. The other belonged to Frederick Douglas. Come explore Morris' library, which has been cataloged as part of our Legacy Libraries program. librarything.com/profile/Rob…
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Jun 8
"Can you guess which ocean animal has three hearts? Or which one has no heart?"
Enter to win a copy of Kizzi Roberts' "Ocean Animals" from @LearnSparkEdPub and find out!
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Jun 7
How tall is YOUR book stack? If you piled all of the tomes in your library into one massive stack, would it be as tall as the Eiffel Tower? What about the Empire State Building, the Burj Khalifa, or New Hampshire's Mt Washington?
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Jun 7
"Offers a remarkably original and entertaining work of autofiction that is essential reading for those interested in the Jewish experience in Latin America."
Enter to win a copy of Jacques Fux's "Antitherapies" from University of New Mexico Press
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LibraryThing retweeted
The "Ask About This" button in TinyCat is a great option if you want to be more available to your patrons!
It's a simple contact form; and you can customize the button to say anything, like “Questions?” or “Need an Account?”
#books #libraries
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Jun 7
"A classic but contemporary tale for 3-to-7-year-olds featuring a hilariously grumpy seafarer and her trusty dog sidekick who get swallowed by a whale."
Enter to win a copy of Casey Lyall & @KathrynDurst's "Whale, That Was Unexpected" from @TundraBooks
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Jun 6
Today is the birthday of beloved Russian poet, playwright and novelist #AlexanderPushkin. Explore his library, cataloged by our members as part of our Legacy Libraries project.
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Jun 6
"In the insulated Hasidic community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, tradition and cultural norms are as sacred as religion..."
Enter to win a copy of Talya Jankovits' / @talya_jankovits "The Very Unremarkable Life of Mrs. Etty Bloom" from @RunWildBooks
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