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No longer resigned to lounging on the couch on Sundays for every football game ever, no longer for painting or yardwork or staring at that weight bench in your basement you keep intending to use. What?...
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Let me tell you something about the people you’ll work with in a bookstore: there will be a lot of them. A bookstore is a retail store and working retail is not for the faint of heart. You need a...
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There’s something addicting about Matthew Hughes’ “The Damned Busters”, the first book in his ‘To Hell and Back‘ series featuring insurance actuary Chesney Arnstruther. After accidentally summoning a...
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Looking for something else entirely, I went down the rabbit hole of my external hard drive and came across this Photoshop sketch I'd done for a story I was trying to figure out.
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Born August 15, 1771, Sir Walter Scott played a significant part in rehabilitating the public perception of the Scottish Highlands and its culture.
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Finally, the inspirational book of life advice we all really need to survive the dumpster fire our world has become!
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Listening to “Long Way Down”, a short novel in verse that excels in its haunting exploration of a cycle of violence....
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‘Give a Good Read Week’ runs through September 22! Which book are you going to share?
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From William Wells Brown to Phillis Wheatley and Jupiter Hammon—meet the first African American authors in reverse. If you follow @gasstation_b on Instagram you may have seen a quote recently from...
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Despite handling thousands of copies of the ’Divergent’ series I never got around to reading it. Now Veronica Roth has a new collection of futuristic short stories. But is an audiobook the best way to...
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Our library card stickers are the perfect way to decorate anything from notebooks to laptops....
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Inclusivity in children's literature for one community comes down to a pastor and the county library board as the decision to ban a book about a prince and a knight falling in love is pushed back.
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Yesterday I was reminded of this quote by Poul Anderson, and the image I made to accompany it....
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Since “Dark Matter” is the first thing I’ve read from Blake Crouch I’m not sure if he’s super pretentious or if his characters are all so astoundingly in love with themselves and their own brilliance,...
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