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#BannedBooksWeek is here! Our Honorary Chair, the inimitable @levarburton, is ready to take action - are you? Join us in supporting library workers, educators, authors, and readers everywhere on Let Freedom Read Day, October 7! #LetFreedomRead
bannedbooksweek.org/let-free…
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Take a break, Dad. Grab your favorite book, kick back and let your imagination run wild. 📚✨ Happy #FathersDay 🎉
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My cartoon for yesterday’s @GuardianBooks / @GdnSaturday
P.S. you can order my books of cartoons here: tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
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Can’t function without a cup of joe? ☕️ Ever looked at a cheese rind and wondered ‘can I eat this?’ 🧀 Is ‘curry’ a catch-all term for a complex cuisine? 🍛
Explore the rich history of much-loved food and drink in our ‘Philosophy of…’ series: bit.ly/3myhAQ5
ALT A green book cover with text reading ‘The Philosophy of Coffee’ and a large illustration of a cafetière
ALT An inside double spread of two pages from ‘The Philosophy of Curry’ with drawings of curry leaves and text.
ALT A double page spread of pages from ‘The Philosophy of Cheese’ showing the history of Cheshire and drawings of various cheeses to the right.
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Although the OverDrive app will be discontinued on May 1, the ability to borrow free ebooks, audiobooks and magazines from your library lives on with Libby, OverDrive's newer reading app. Visit the link to learn more about making the upgrade to Libby.
bit.ly/418oOsO
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A record number of book bans are expected this year.
Here’s how some activists are finding creative ways to make banned books available anyway. n.pr/3Zp9MNK
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First Folio of William Shakespeare, complete work digitized, more: bit.ly/2Vszx28
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Unpronounceable Polish words: happiness #poland #polish #polishlanguage #language #languagelover buff.ly/3CaFAej
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russians are throwing away Ukrainian books from the Pryazovskyi state university in Mariupol. Some are dumped right from the window. russia is systemically destroying all things Ukraine in the occupied towns. Great russian culture is erazing our identity
Photo: P.Andryushchenko
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Can you make long reading sessions more convenient? 📚 Yes, just make sure to get a relevant #handsfree accessory buff.ly/3VBg0sh
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A marbled paper design with a vintage label – a part of a new #vntg composition notebook series #vintage #retro #compositionnotebook #designinspiration buff.ly/3CaFAej
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States #OTD in 1885. It is a classic of American realism both for this portrayal and for Twain’s depiction of the pre-Civil War South, especially through his use of dialect. via @E_Briannica
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On the I Ching as a Writing Guide via @lithub lithub.com/on-the-i-ching-as…
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#Thrillers help you establish core beliefs and values on essential topics, such as trust or self-defense #infographic buff.ly/3h5Wi9x
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"The Last of Mohicans" by James Fenimore Cooper was first published #OTD in 1826 by Carey & Lea, of Philadelphia. It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy. It was preceded by The Pioneers (1823) and followed by The Pioneers (1823).
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![James Fenimore Cooper, Michał Elwiro Andriolli [illustrator] - "Historical Stories of American Pioneer Life" As Told in the Famous Leatherstocking Tales.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FoHcRlIWYAAToaL.jpg?name=orig)
ALT James Fenimore Cooper, Michał Elwiro Andriolli [illustrator] - "Historical Stories of American Pioneer Life" As Told in the Famous Leatherstocking Tales.
