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AI Theft; Russia Destroys 10 M Ukrainian Books; Florida Moves Toward Statewide School Book Bans; Georgia District Bans Toni Morrison Novel (opens the original)
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Two Balms and One Alert: Into the Wood Chipper by Nicholas Enrich (opens the original)
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Hello Friends,This is our week to talk about books. (Audio included.) I feel I have so many books I’d like to discuss after reading people’s comments on Theo of Golden. For now, I’ll mention a few ‘feel good’ books that I enjoyed and then focus on Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower's Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID by Nicholas Enrich.<div class=
Library E-book Fight; The Librarians Wins an Emmy; Censorship News (opens the original)
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<img alt="A graphic from PEN America on public library censorship. It includes book censorship (challenges, displays, shelving mandates, prejudicial labeling, silencing story times and author events. Political Pressure: politicizing governance, funding threats. Personal A
The Fallen by Louise Brangan; The Real Story Behind the Magdalene Laundries (opens the original)
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Hello Friends,I’d like to discuss some books at length. Don’t forget you can choose to listen to the audio (located above).I read Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These (Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize , Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, The Irish Times Best Book of the 21st Century) and wanted to learn more about the Magdalene Laundries of Ireland.<h2 style="text-alig
Tributes to Dolly’s Literacy Advocacy; Russia Destroying Ukrainian Books (opens the original)
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<img alt="A cartoon of a man and a child looking into the night sky where the stars spell “Dolly.” The child says, “I’ve never seen stars like those before.” The adult says, “They’re rhinestones.”" class="sizing-normal" heig
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