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Following a complaint from a citizen, Wake County Public Library system, which covers the Raleigh, North Carolina, metro area — the most populous county in the...

WINTER We moved from Brooklyn to Iowa City in mid-2020, so it was my first winter in the Midwest, and the coldest temperatures I have ever...

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Notes on reading as a spiritual practice: It is how I plug into something larger than myself, in a realm of pure mind where abstract squiggles...

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A few years ago, I found myself a bit tipsy at the National Book Award ceremony. It was my first—and so far, only—time there. The experience...

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As a high school librarian, I’m always trying to put books into the hands of students that reflect their lives and backgrounds. Tweens and teens will...