How a public library's summer game took over a Michigan city
by Neda Ulaby
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/04/nx-s1-5477533/public-library-summer-game-ann-arbor-michigan
How a public library's summer game took over a Michigan city
by Neda Ulaby
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/04/nx-s1-5477533/public-library-summer-game-ann-arbor-michigan
If I believed in a heaven it might be an empty library 😁
Which of course means the hum of old monitors is the choir of angels 😂
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Boston Public Library aims to increase access to a vast historic archive using AI
by Chloe Veltman
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/11/nx-s1-5471614/boston-public-library-harvard-ai
Postcard of the Boston Public Library (1908)
Public Librarians Partner with Internet Archive to Preserve Local Digital Heritage
by Anna Trammell via @internetarchive
Public libraries at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/19136
How Libraries Stand the Test of Time
The digital era builds upon millennia of librarianship as humans strive to preserve our cultural heritage.
By: Maria Papadouris
Libraries at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/10467
I mean, would it kill you to let Cathy tell you about her ferrets?
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Want to read my book for free? Ask your library to order it!
(It’s available via Ingram and Overdrive)
https://books2read.com/u/bo0RR1?store=overdrive&format=EBOOK
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/katherine-villyard/immortal-gifts/
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pals we went to the library today and they HAD my BOOK on their SHELVES
i know you can’t tell from the mask but i was legit beaming, this might’ve thrilled me more than spotting it in a bookstore
okay thanks
ps. I LOVE LIBRARIES
📚 Billion-Dollar Ransom by: James Patterson, Duane Swierczynski
Five members of a billionaire’s family. In different locations. All kidnapped at the same moment.
Two children taken from a private-school bus. A film producer and a movie star grabbed at a hideaway resort. A beautiful wife whisked off the stre...
https://bookblabla.com/book/billion-dollar-ransom
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📚 Exiles by: Mason Coile
The human crew sent to prepare the first colony on Mars arrives to find the new base half-destroyed and the three robots sent to set it up in disarray—the machines have formed alliances, chosen their own names, and picked up some disturbing beliefs. Each must be interrogated. But one of them is...
https://bookblabla.com/book/exiles
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📚 Beartown by: Fredrik Backman
By the lake in Beartown is an old ice rink, and in that ice rink Kevin, Amat, Benji, and the rest of the town’s junior ice hockey team are about to compete in the national semi-finals—and they actually have a shot at winning. All the hopes and dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage bo...
https://bookblabla.com/book/beartown
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📚 Planetfall by: Emma Newman
Renata Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi’s vision of a world far beyond Earth, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal the truth about our place in the cosmos, untainted by overpopulation, pollution, and war. Ren believed in that vision enough to give up everything to follow Su...
https://bookblabla.com/book/planetfall
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Access to education and information shouldn't be bound to income 🤔
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📚 Lights Out by: Navessa Allen
I want someone with a soul as black as night. Someone who would burn the world down for me and not lose a single minute of sleep over it.
Trauma nurse Aly Cappellucci doesn't need any more kinks. She likes the one she's landed on just fine. To her, nothing could top the masked men she follows online. ...
https://bookblabla.com/book/lights-out
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #romance #suspensefiction #humorous #blackhumor
📚 Artemis by: Andy Weir
Jasmine Bashara never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted to get rich.
Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to her hometown of Artemis, humanity’s first and only lunar colony. Just rich enough to move out of her coffin-sized apartment and eat something better than flavored algae. Rich eno...
https://bookblabla.com/book/artemis
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📚 Clown Town by: Mick Herron
Jackson Lamb and the bad spies of Slough House are caught in a deadly battle between MI5's secret past and its murky future in this gripping, hilarious, and heartbreaking thriller by Mick Herron, “the le Carré of the future” (BBC).
“Old spies grow ridiculous, River. Old spies aren’t...
https://bookblabla.com/book/clown-town
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📚 After Atlas by: Emma Newman
Gov-corp detective Carlos Moreno was only a baby when Atlas left Earth to seek truth among the stars. But in that moment, the course of Carlos’s entire life changed. Atlas is what took his mother away; what made his father lose hope; what led Alejandro Casales, leader of the religious cult known ...
https://bookblabla.com/book/after-atlas
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📚 The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by: Gabrielle Zevin
A. J. Fikry’s life is not at all what he expected it to be. He lives alone, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and now his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. But when a mysterious package appea...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-storied-life-of-a-j-fikry
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #familylife #generalfiction #literaryfiction #romance
📚 The Life Impossible by: Matt Haig
When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan.
Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for a...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-life-impossible
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Library appreciation post 😁
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📚 Leviathan Wakes by: James S. A. Corey
Jim Holden is an officer on an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew discover a derelict ship called the Scopuli, they suddenly find themselves in possession of a deadly secret. A secret that someone is willing to kill for, and...
https://bookblabla.com/book/leviathan-wakes
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📚 Yellowface by: Rebecca F. Kuang
Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena's a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks.
So when June witnesses Athena's death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she...
https://bookblabla.com/book/yellowface
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #literaryfiction #psychologicalfiction #thrillers #generalfiction
> Books on the Move: Bookmobiles, Mobile Libraries and More https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2025/09/books-on-the-move-bookmobiles-mobile-libraries-and-more/
Via #LibraryOfCongress. Locally our county public library does have a bookmobile.
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📚 What We Can Know by: Ian McEwan
2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife’s birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her, ‘A Corona for Vivien’. Much wine is drunk as the guests listen, and a delicious meal consumed. Little does anyone gathered around the cand...
https://bookblabla.com/book/what-we-can-know
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