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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Big thanks to Tiny Reparations Books for sharing "Double Happiness" by Heather Eng with the Lakengren Little Free Library! #lfl #booksky @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

Caught between a relentless tech job, her adoring fiancé, and an unexpected new flame, Mei must learn what it means to choose herself.

When Mei Li runs into Alexandre Brodeur at a family function, there’s no denying their chemistry. It turns out Alexandre, whose brother is married to Mei’s younger sister, is back in New York rebuilding his life after two decades toiling away in academic research. Somehow, Alexandre’s different from the young scientist Mei met years ago. His intelligent eyes and quiet air of mystery have a magnetic effect, drawing her in like never before.

But Mei’s carefully constructed life has no room for Alexandre. She’s engaged to Joey, a fellow Queens native who keeps her grounded as she pulls eighty-hour weeks at Livin, the tech world’s hottest startup. After a childhood marked by financial and emotional turmoil, Mei finally has the stability she’s always craved.

In Mei’s brief moments away from her crushing workload, Alexandre is an uncomfortably enticing presence. It doesn’t take long for their thoughtful conversations and his electric gaze to get under her skin, leaving Mei to wonder what she really wants in work, life, and love.

With her wedding date fast approaching, Mei has to make an impossible choice between two very different men. And after she does, she still must figure out what it truly means to have it all.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

JUST RELEASED and in the Little Free Library: Those Who Are Gone by Laurie R. King "Raquel Lang breaks rules for the truth. This time, the truth may break her." Thanks, Bantam Books! #lfl #booksky @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

Cold-case detective Raquel Laing faces new threats and long-buried secrets in this gripping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series.

SFPD Homicide Inspector Raquel Laing had what might politely be termed a “difficult childhood,” until she was taken in by a loving family at the age of nine. She still lives with her adoptive sister, Dee, an online investigator for organizations all over the world.

Trouble arrives with an all-too-common case for Inspector Laing: the homicide of a drug dealer in a deserted corner of San Francisco. But the everyday rapidly spirals into complications—just as a simple search into the family’s ancestry is throwing Dee into her own world of turmoil.

Raquel’s case blows up far too close to home, thanks in part to the illicit shortcuts she took in the investigation, and while her unique skills are too valuable for the SFPD to suspend her entirely, she is removed from Homicide and put onto the Cold Case Unit.

On the one hand, Cold Case lets her work with her friend and mentor, Al Hawkin. On the other, it leaves her free to look at some disturbing facts about her past—and at the devastating news that Dee has uncovered in her own search for the truth.

Cold cases heat up, the distant past intrudes, and two sisters begin to suspect that they are tied together in ways they never imagined—ways that threaten attention from a powerful and vicious international cartel.

Because the truth is, those who are gone . . . have never truly left.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In honor of Dolly Parton and her commitment to sharing the wonder of reading, the children's books in the Little Free Library have been refreshed. If your kids through age five aren't yet receiving a FREE book each month through her Imagination Library, sign up here: imaginationlibrary.com

A photograph of the shelves of the Lakengren Little Free Library, featuring a face-out copy of the Little Golden Book biography of Dolly Parton for children.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

So excited to have received a copy of this book that's on everyone's TBR list-- "The Good Parts" by @evannnormandin.bsky.social! Thanks to @grandcentralpub.bsky.social! @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social #lfl #booksky (Book Club Guide link in ALT text.)

An epic, unforgettable love story about a woman who takes a memory-erasing pill and the man she once loved who returns as a stranger, hoping to make her fall for him all over again―for fans of "One Day" and "In Five Years."

She erased their past. He’s rewriting their future.

When Landon receives a letter from Rose―the woman he once planned forever with―he learns their love story is over. She’s undergone a radical memory-erasing treatment, leaving behind her grief, her past... and him. But Landon can't bear to lose the love of his life. If she fell for him once, couldn’t she fall for him again?

Now living in Edinburgh, Rose's world is a blank canvas, and she's dating someone new. When Landon reenters her life as a stranger, they become fast friends, their lives entwining once more. But what Rose doesn’t know is that this new friend carries the weight of everything they once shared: their firsts, their marriage, and the heartbreak they barely survived. And when she starts exhibiting strange symptoms, it becomes clear their history isn’t gone―it’s just buried. And remembering could come at a devastating cost.

Told in alternating timelines―his from the present, hers from the past―The Good Parts is an achingly poignant story about the people we become across a lifetime, and the beauty of finding our way with what remains.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Del Rey Books and @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social have gifted our LFL a copy of "Weavingshaw" by Heba Al-Wasity, a "darkly romantic and completely absorbing" slow-burn gothic fantasy. @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social #LFL #booksky

Leena didn’t believe in monsters until she saw Weavingshaw.

The Saint of Silence trades coins for every sordid divulgence uttered to him: the darker the secret, the higher the price.

Leena has a secret, one that has haunted her since she was seventeen—she can see the dead. When her brother falls ill, she knows she must seek the Saint to afford a remedy.

But Leena’s secret is more valuable than she could have imagined. To save her brother, she will make a deal to find the ghost the Saint has been searching for.

All paths lead to Weavingshaw, a cursed estate on the moors. As Leena grows closer to the Saint and is plunged into his world of danger, deceit, and desire, she learns that he is hiding his own secrets—ones with the power to destroy them all.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🚨 EARLY RELEASE BOOK ALERT! 🚨 "A gritty cold-case detective story." Thanks to @celadonbooks.bsky.social read "Heather" by Caitlin Mullen a week before it's released to the public! @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social #booksky Link to map of LFL locations with copies in ALT text.

“If you enjoyed Mare of Easttown, you’ll love Heather. A gritty cold-case detective story, vividly and insightfully written. Not just a story of murder, it’s a thought-provoking and moving meditation on mothers and daughters and the long-reaching consequences of the choices we make.” ―Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient and The Fury

A small-town detective reopens an unsolved case, sending shock waves across generations of women in this gripping new mystery from the Edgar Award–winning author of Please See Us.

1990. In the myth-riddled woods of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, sixteen-year-old Annabelle Riley's twin sister, Sabrina, has been having an affair with a mysterious older man, and Annabelle is determined to uncover what's going on. Then, inexplicably, both sisters disappear.

In this same town years later, newly instated police chief Callie Hauser makes an arrest that unexpectedly resurrects details from a heartbreaking cold case. As she digs deeper, the past and the present collide, challenging everything Callie believes about right and wrong, who she is, and the town she's always called home.

A propulsive mystery as incisive as it is forgiving, Heather bears a visceral reminder that the truth of a woman's life is often complicated and unknowable―to those on the outside, and sometimes even to herself.

If you're not near our LFL, check out where a copy may be available near you:

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A photograph featuring a hardcover copy of "Heather" by Caitlin Mullen in the Lakengren Little Free Library.

If you're not near our LFL, check out where a copy may be available near you:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/viewer?mid=1HyOcAeQJdeVPoA_UpOf2ab4jpTxptwc&ll=36.11348108343431%2C-114.30635605&z=4

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

DOUBLE TROUBLE! Another Catherine Steadman book, "The Family Game," is available in the LFL thanks to Ballantine and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social! @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social #lfl #booksky

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Kick off the start of Summer Reading with this "utter white-knuckle ride" by Catherine Steadman, "Look in the Mirror." With thanks to Ballantine and @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social for sharing it with us! @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social #LFL #booksky

Nina, still grieving from the loss of her father, discovers that she has inherited property in the British Virgin Islands—a vacation home she had no idea existed, until now. The house is extraordinary: state-of-the-art, all glass and marble. How did her sensible father come into enough money for this? Why did he keep it from her? And what else was he hiding?

Maria, once an ambitious medical student, is a nanny for the super-rich. The money’s better, and so are the destinations where her work takes her. Just one more gig, and she’ll be set. Finally, she’ll be secure. But when her wards never show, Maria begins to make herself at home, spending her days luxuriating by the pool and in the sauna. There’s just one rule: Don’t go in the basement. That room is off-limits. But her curiosity might just get the better of her. And soon, she’ll wish her only worry was not getting paid.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Preeminent scholar @esglaude.bsky.social analyzes the celebration of American mythos and our refusal to confront our troubled past and our troubling present, in "America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries," gifted by @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social and @crownpublishing.bsky.social.

Celebrated public intellectual Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. presents a groundbreaking analysis of the vicious cycles of American history and the country’s enduring refusal to face its true nature—especially at the moments when national anniversaries steer us back toward the mythology meant to disguise the truth.

America, U.S.A., deliberately formulated and beautifully written, details a heart-wrenching exploration of America’s legacy. It is a magnificently complex combination of lessons and voices—from W.E.B. DuBois and John Dos Passos to Herman Melville and Martin Luther King, Jr.—that, together, paint a sprawling and honest tableau of the United States, its complicated past, and ever more tenuous future. Glaude’s is a powerful voice of conscience in our tumultuous world. He pulls no punches, calling on us to interrogate our conceptions of innocence and freedom and the stories we tell ourselves about our past and present.

Centered around the major celebrations of America’s milestone birthdays across 250 years of history, the book offers a riveting look at the battles over who has a stake in writing the American story. Devastatingly candid, profoundly moving, and deeply reflective, America, U.S.A. is a shining meditation on how we must reckon with a grim past in order to strive for the better angels of our future.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Who wants to be lucky enough to get to read "The Intrigue" by @silviamg.bsky.social two months before it's available for to the public? Thanks to Del Rey and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social, there's an Advance Reader Copy in our Little Free Library!

Handsome con artist Ulises has long charmed lonely women via letters in order to steal their money, but money is hard to come by in 1940s Mexico. Ulises knows his looks won’t last forever, and he’s desperate to get his hands on a real fortune.

He thinks he’s found it when he captivates his newest correspondent, Perla, the owner of a small-town boardinghouse in picturesque Veracruz. But when he meets her, he finds something he didn’t expect. The woman has a niece, Inés, who is as observant as she is desperate to escape her aunt’s household.

When Inés discovers Ulises’s true intentions, she wants in on the scheme. They’ll convince her aunt that Ulises is a great catch, Perla will marry him, and her money will vanish. Easy, fast, and clean. But Perla is not the desperate, silly spinster Ulises imagines. She harbors secrets. And although Ulises does not believe in true romance, Inés is more alluring than he bargained for. Suddenly, a simple plan may become perilously complicated.

Venture into the streets of a small town where a patina of convention and good manners conceals a cauldron of avarice and lust.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

This gift to our LFL from @picadorbooks.bsky.social feels especially significant given the SCOTUS rulings this week-- "The Enigma of Clarence Thomas" by Corey Robin. #lfl #booksky @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

“One of the marvels of Robin’s razor-sharp book is how carefully he marshals his evidence.... It isn’t every day that reading about ideas can be both so gratifying and unsettling.” – The New York Times

Most people can tell you two things about Clarence Thomas: Anita Hill accused him of sexual harassment, and he almost never speaks from the bench. Here are some things they don’t know: Thomas is a black nationalist. In college he memorized the speeches of Malcolm X. He believes white people are incurably racist.

In the first examination of its kind, Corey Robin– one of the foremost analysts of the right (The Reactionary Mind) – delves deeply into both Thomas’s biography and his jurisprudence, masterfully reading his Supreme Court opinions against the backdrop of his autobiographical and political writings and speeches. The hidden source of Thomas’s conservative views, Robin shows, is a profound skepticism that racism can be overcome. Thomas is convinced that any government action on behalf of African-Americans will be tainted by racism; the most African-Americans can hope for is that white people will get out of their way.

There’s a reason, Robin concludes, why liberals often complain that Thomas doesn’t speak but seldom pay attention when he does. Were they to listen, they’d hear a racial pessimism that often sounds similar to their own. Cutting across the ideological spectrum, this unacknowledged consensus about the impossibility of progress is key to understanding today’s political stalemate.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Thanks to @henryholtbooks.bsky.social you can read "Enormous Wings" by Laurie Frankel before its official release! The premise is equal parts bonkers and timely; read the description in the alt text. #booksky @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author Laurie Frankel, an exuberant and timely new novel

At seventy-seven, Pepper Mills is too old to be a stranger in a strange land. She didn’t choose the Vista View Retirement Community of Austin, Texas―that would be her three grown children―but when she grudgingly moves in, she not only makes new friends, she falls in love. Then the exhaustion, vomiting, and confusion start. She fears it’s cancer, dementia, a stroke. But a raft of tests later, the news is even more shocking: She’s pregnant.

As word gets out, everyone wants a piece of her: the press and paparazzi, activists and medical researchers, belly-rubbers and rubber-neckers all descending on Vista View while Pepper struggles to determine her next move. Soon she has some hard decisions to make―and some she’s not allowed to make.

Enormous Wings is an urgent novel about female agency and bodily autonomy, morality and mortality. It’s about what happens when you don’t get to choose anymore. It’s about motherhood and family, sex and love and friendship, and how those bedrocks―even so late in the day―can still change, and then change everything.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Nelson Books and @harpercollins.bsky.social shared this important book with our LFL, "When You Love Someone in Recovery" by Caroline Biedler. It has a 5.0 rating on Amazon and Goodreads. Thank you to Devin Duke at Nelson for supporting the LFL community! #booksky @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

Author, speaker, and addiction recovery expert Caroline Beidler offers friends and family members the gift of being able to understand the recovery lifestyle--a way of life that goes beyond anonymous meetings in church basements and fosters a sense of well-being, healthy coping strategies, discovering new passions, and nurturing a deep personal faith.

Many of us know someone who is in addiction recovery, but few of us really understand what that means. What does this healing journey actually look like? How can we best support someone going through it? We find ourselves worrying that we'll say or do the wrong thing, and we may feel hopeless or confused when our loved one continues to struggle with substance use.

As someone who has personal experience living in sustained recovery, and now professionally helps those starting the journey, Caroline Beidler offers a compassionate guide for understanding addiction and the recovery lifestyle. As she shares personal and honest stories as well as professional insights from her work as an addiction recovery expert, she will walk you through the four pillars of recovery--hope, wellness, community, and service--and answer questions such as:

What does it mean to be in recovery?

How can I support my loved one on this journey--body, mind, and soul?

How do I set healthy boundaries and show compassion?

What stereotypes or misconceptions do I need to let go of?

When You Love Someone in Recovery is a call to both action and compassion and includes reflection exercises, real-life stories from people thriving in recovery, and powerful evidence-based research on the body and brain. You will come away with renewed hope and energy for walking alongside your loved ones in recovery, ready to watch God bring lasting healing to the most broken places.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

A big thanks to Cardinal, @grandcentralpub.bsky.social, and @hachettelibrary.bsky.social for sharing "The Golden Boy" by Patricia Finn with our Little Free Library! "Hilarious and heartbreaking." -Richard Russo #booksky #lfl @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

An unexpected letter sends a man and his wife into their pasts—and offers them both a shot at redemption.

After an involuntary retirement from his high-flying Hollywood career, Stafford Hopkins has retreated to a luxury estate on Maui, along with his wife Agnes, both grimly resigned to life in a paradise where neither feels fully at home.

Stafford is ready to retreat into himself, too, when a letter arrives with shocking news. Stafford has been named guardian of four children he didn’t know existed: the grandchildren of his late childhood friend, Bobby Shepherd, whose ghost Stafford can no longer ignore.

Returning to both the hardscrabble farming town and the dark secret he’d tried to forget for decades, Stafford is forced to confront his past in order to rebuild his future—and to redirect the fates of his family and the four young people suddenly in his care.

Slyly funny and deeply moving, The Golden Boy is a captivating debut about love, mercy, and second chances.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Who says ghosts are bad luck? Our LFL has been lucky enough to get a copy of "The Great Wherever" by @shanders.bsky.social, a novel of family secrets and busybody ghosts, three months before its official release! Thanks, @henryholtbooks.bsky.social! @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social #booksky #lfl

The dead are relentless gossips, or at least these dead are.

An impulsive and heartbroken woman inherits her father’s share of a Tennessee farm that is rich in family secrets and occupied with busybody ghosts in this sweeping family portrait.

At thirty-two, Aubrey Lamb is stumbling through adulthood. An underpaid gig worker in Washington, DC, she’s grieving the end of a serious relationship and the recent loss of her father. When Aubrey learns she has inherited his stake in a sizable Tennessee farm she sees an opportunity to get out of the city―and to erase a mounting pile of debt.

Watching her arrival with great interest are four ghosts―Aubrey’s ancestors, who’ve staked their own claims to the farm and who never hesitate to pass judgment on the mistakes made by the living, whether romantic, financial, or sartorial. As Aubrey reconnects with her living family, another story unfolds in parallel: the history of the land, beginning with its purchase by Thomas, Aubrey’s great-grandfather and one of the first Black landowners in his community. Though Thomas hopes to give his children a homestead on which they could flourish, the land proves to be a burdensome inheritance. Over the years, it turns the Lambs against one another, culminating in a catastrophic tragedy that splinters the family and echoes through the decades.

Now, as the clock ticks on a potential sale of the farm, the ghosts fear expulsion from the home they’ve made, and Aubrey must weigh the hopes and burdens of her forebears with the very real needs of her future.

An expansive family saga told with a wry and distinctly modern voice, The Great Wherever is at once grand and intimate; it explores the ways we learn to define ourselves through and against our families, how we carry on after loss, and how the past lives on in all of us.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Following the Artemis II moon mission liftoff, this novel, "Celestial Lights" by Cecile Pin, gifted from @henryholtbooks.bsky.social, is a timely read. @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social #booksky #lfl

A beautiful, heartbreaking novel about ambition, love, and space from the award-winning author of Wandering Souls

January 28, 1986: Soon after launch, the Challenger shuttle falls out of the sky and into the sea. At the same time, Oliver Ines is born. Celestial Lights is his story.

Ollie spends his childhood in an English village where his bedroom is covered in glow-in-the-dark wallpaper bearing the planets and stars. Decades later, he has become one of the most renowned astronauts of his time. When an enterprising billionaire taps him to lead a landmark mission to the distant moon Europa, Ollie makes a choice that will send his whole world spinning.

As the mission advances deeper into unchartered territory, Ollie finds himself retreating into the past: his university days in London and years in the navy, relationships found and lost, becoming a husband and father. But will the world he remembers still be waiting for him ten years later when he returns?

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Spring Break is the perfect time to practice for Summer Beach Reading! Thanks to Dell and Penguin Random House for the gift of "Holding the Reins" by Paisley Hope! @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social #booksky

In this steamy cowboy romance, a woman returns to her family’s ranch after a broken engagement and finds herself falling for her brother’s best friend—the first novel in the Silver Pines Ranch series.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Stand-up comedy fans! Henry Holt has gifted us a copy of "Spellbound" Phil Hanley's memoir about overcoming dyslexia to become a comedian. You can get your hands on it before it's officially released on March 18! #booksky #LFL @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social @henryholtbooks.bsky.social

Comedian and severe dyslexic Phil Hanley reveals his unlikely path to success in a story that is equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking.

When Phil Hanley was in first grade, he realized something that would forever set him apart from his peers: he couldn’t read. His teachers were ill-equipped to assist him, and he slipped through the school’s cracks, year by year falling further and further behind his friends. Finally, he was diagnosed with dyslexia, a learning disability that would shape the rest of his life.

Unable to pursue college or a traditional job, Phil was thrust into a life defined by unconventional twists, including a stint as a runway model in Europe. Eventually, he found himself on a stage with a microphone, a spotlight, and five minutes of jokes. Unlike so many previous pursuits, stand-up felt right to Phil, and he soon discovered that the more he worked at it, the more he got out of it―a realization that, he compellingly argues, saved his life. Spellbound is a story of humor and also of struggle and heartbreak, of constantly living in a world that sees things differently than you do, and of triumph over adversity.

Phil shows us that dyslexia can be a huge challenge, but it doesn’t spell certain condemnation (and neither can he). Just the opposite: dyslexia has been more than a blessing in his life―it’s been his North Star.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

"The Age of Calamities" by Senaa Ahmad was gifted to our LFL by @henryholtbooks.bsky.social . . . but you'll have to wait a few days to get your hands on it, as I claimed first right of refusal. (It's so good!) @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social #lfl #booksky

In this bold debut collection, Senaa Ahmad pushes the boundaries of history and its figures, sending the reader on a thrilling ride. In “Let’s Play Dead,” Henry VIII wants Anne Boleyn gone, but there’s a tiny problem―she keeps coming back to life no matter what he does. “Choose Your Own Apocalypse” hurls readers back to 1945, where they assume the role of a technician for the Manhattan Project, confronted with labyrinthine paths and harrowing outcomes. And “Inside the House of the Historian” invites us to a dinner party turned murder mystery full of figures like Nefertiti, Queen Victoria, John Adams, and Marilyn Monroe. These stories and others entice readers to confront the past, the present, and themselves all at once. Zany and haunting, inviting and brilliant, each poignant tale delves into the surreal and tragicomic nature of the present through the lens of yesterday.

Explore more: https://debutiful.net/2026/01/15/inside-the-collection-senaa-ahmad-dissects-the-age-of-calamaties/

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The newly released "Bad Asians" by Lillian Li is in our Little Free Library thanks to @henryholtbooks.bsky.social! Plus, the author has shared a playlist to accompany the book: largeheartedboy.com/2026/02/20/l... #lfl #booksky

Diana, Justin, Errol, and Vivian were always told that success is guaranteed by following a simple checklist. They worked hard, got A's, and attended a good university―only to graduate into the Great Recession of 2008. Now, despite their newly minted degrees, they’re unemployed and stuck again under their parents’ roofs in a hypercompetitive Chinese American community. So when Grace―once the neighborhood golden child, now a Harvard Law School dropout―asks to make a documentary about the crew, they agree. It’s not like her little movie will ever see the light of day.

But then the video, Bad Asians, goes viral on an up-and-coming media platform (YouTube, anyone?). Suddenly, millions of people know them as cruel caricatures, each full of pent-up frustrations with the others. And after a desperate attempt at spin control further derails their plans for the lives they’d always imagined, the friends must face harsh truths about themselves and coming of age in the new millennium.

Lillian Li’s novel wryly captures a generation shaped by the rise of the internet and the end of the American dream. An epic tale of friendship and family, Bad Asians asks, Can the same people who made you who you are end up keeping you from who you’re meant to be?

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Alexis Leigh generously shared a copy of her memoir "Pain is a Portal to Beauty: Stunning Discoveries After Loss, Psychedelics, and Feeling It All" with our Little Free Library. Thanks! @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social #lfl #booksky

What if being grateful isn’t enough?
What if I’m meant for so much more?

By all appearances, Alexis Leigh had everything—a top-tier education, a successful career, a lovely home, a beautiful family and community. But it all started to unravel in a single moment, when she was forced to acknowledge a quiet, scary truth: Just beneath the goodness of her life lay profound sadness and loneliness.

From that moment, Alexis knew she had to start unearthing the buried pain of her childhood. And she had to let go of the life she knew to do it.

In Pain Is a Portal to Beauty, Alexis shares the raw, deeply personal story of navigating her heartbreaking divorce, the unresolved grief of losing her mother, her use of psychedelics as a path to healing, and her quest to find new love.

As she began to embrace her pain, Alexis was stunned to discover miracle after miracle. Gifts she never knew she had. The freedom and power to follow her longings. Deep and rich intimacy. What she couldn’t have known at the start of her journey was that welcoming her pain—instead of running from it—would bring her to life.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Big thank you to @harpercollins.bsky.social for the gift of the brand new "The Lie You Don't Know You Believe" by Jennie Allen. Special thanks to Devin Duke, Senior Publicity Manager at Nelson Books and fellow steward, for supporting LFLs. @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social #lfl #booksky

If there was a core lie sabotaging your life, wouldn’t you want to know what it is?

And wouldn’t you want to find the way to be free?

Most of us have been living inside a lie so long it feels like the truth. It has quietly shaped our identity, our relationships, and even how we see God. Until we see it, we’ll keep circling the same frustrations, the same shame, the same thoughts of I’ll never change. But freedom is possible. In The Lie You Don’t Know You Believe, Jennie Allen pulls back the curtain on the enemy’s oldest trick—and shows us how to dismantle it with the spiritual authority we already have in Christ. She guides us through how to:

Spot the three core lies everyone believes—and name the one running your life.
Trace the moment your lie took root and how the enemy’s been using it to keep you stuck.
Cut ties with your old narratives so they stop shaping your choices.
Challenge lies in real time and replace them with God’s truth.
This isn’t about behavior modification. This is about transferring your life out of the enemy’s kingdom of lies and into the kingdom of light—where joy, peace, and strength aren’t fleeting feelings but your everyday reality. Freedom starts here. Take hold of it.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Drumroll . . . The Good Morning America Book Club title for March has been announced! "The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives" by Elizabeth Arnott is now in our LFL! (No in-library pics, as it's gray and rainy-- perfect book reading weather.) #GMA #LFL #booksky @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

Beverley, Elsie, and Margot are not your average housewives. They are all wives of convicted killers. During the sun-drenched summer of 1966, the three women form an unlikely friendship after the discoveries of their husbands’ brutal crimes. With their exes—some of California’s most infamous murderers—dead or behind bars, they are attempting to forge a new future for themselves.

Headstrong Beverley tries compulsively to maintain control of everything around her, all while raising two children. Bookish Elsie fights to make a name for herself in the newsroom, working among men who sneer at her career goals. Glamorous Margot prefers partying to homemaking and devotes all her energy to upholding the appearance that everything is fine—anything to quell the shame from her husband’s deceit.

They know people look at them and think only one thing: How could they not have known what their husbands were doing? How much are they to blame? And yet when a string of local killings hits the news, the three women—underestimated, overlooked, shrewd—decide to get to work. After all, who better to catch a killer than those who have shared their lives and homes with one?

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Thanks to Berkley and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social for the gift of the wildly popular "This Book Made Me Think of You" by Libby Page. (It's already gone from our Little Free Library.) #booksky #LFL @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

A woman receives an unexpected gift from the man she loved and lost—a year of books, one for every month—launching a reading-inspired journey to live, dream, and love again in this glimmering and heart-stopping novel.

Twelve books. Twelve months. One chance to heal her heart…

When Tilly Nightingale receives a call telling her there’s a birthday gift from her husband waiting for her at her local bookshop, it couldn’t come as more of a shock. Partly because she can’t remember the last time she read a book for pleasure. But mainly because Joe died five months ago....

When she goes to pick up the present, Alfie, the bookshop owner with kind eyes, explains the gift—twelve carefully chosen books with handwritten letters from Joe, one for each month, to help her turn the page on her first year without him.

At first Tilly can’t imagine sinking into a fictional world, but Joe’s tender words convince her to try, and something remarkable happens—Tilly becomes immersed in the pages, and a new chapter begins to unfold in her own life. Monthly trips to the bookstore—and heartfelt conversations with Alfie—give Tilly the comfort she craves and the courage to set out on a series of reading-inspired adventures that take her around the world. But as she begins to share her journey with others, her story—like a book—becomes more than her own.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

The newest book from Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov, "Fight Oligarchy," gifted to our library by @crownpublishing.bsky.social! #LFL #booksky

The cover of "Fight Oligarchy" by Bernie Sanders.

From the moment that Sanders began his Fighting Oligarchy tour in the early days of the Trump administration, it was clear that his message resonated with Americans across the political spectrum. Record-breaking crowds numbering in the tens of thousands showed up across the country. Large numbers of Americans, in red states and blue states, were prepared to stand up and fight back. In this book, he shows how we can continue that fight.

In a series of short, pointed chapters, Sanders explains how the United States today is an oligarchic society in which a small handful of multibillionaires exercise enormous economic and political power. He describes what it means when the very rich get much richer, while the majority of Americans struggle to pay the rent and put food on the table. And he observes how a corrupt campaign finance system allows billionaires in both parties to increasingly control our political system.

Sanders also discusses how, under Trump, we are rapidly moving toward authoritarianism–with a president who is undermining our democracy as he attacks Congress, the courts, the media, and law firms and universities in search of more and more power for himself. With relentless optimism and focused energy, Sanders reminds readers that true power rests with the people—and he presents a path forward to a reinvigorated democracy.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Dad read it in a single sitting and recommends it!

A thumbs up from a reader who has slightly aged out of the "young adult" category.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Hachette and @littlebrownyr.bsky.social have gifted us four books by @aprilhenry.bsky.social!!! (My 79 year-old father immediately grabbed "Stay Dead," but he's a quick reader and has promised to return it.) @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social #booksky

The cover of "Girl Forgotten" by April Henry.

Seventeen years ago, Layla Trello was murdered, and her killer was never found. Enter true-crime fan Piper Gray who is determined to reopen Layla’s case and get some answers. With the help of Jonas—who has a secret of his own—Piper starts a podcast investigating Layla’s murder. But as she digs deeper into the mysteries of the past, Piper begins receiving anonymous threats telling her to back off the investigation, or else. The killer is still out there, and Piper must uncover their identity before they silence her forever.

The cover of "Stay Dead" by April Henry.

Sometimes, the only way to live is to make sure the world thinks you’re dead . . .

In the aftermath of a car accident that claimed the life of her senator father, sixteen-year-old Milan finds herself adrift, expelled from her third boarding school. Milan’s mother, who has assumed the senate seat, diverts her private plane to pick up her daughter. But on their way home, a bomb rips off a wing and the plane crashes in the mountains. In her final moments, Milan’s mother entrusts her with a key. She reveals it will unlock the evidence that so many people have already died for—including Milan’s father. The only way Milan can survive, her mom tells her, is to let everyone believe she died with the other passengers.

Milan is forced to navigate a perilous descent in freezing conditions while outwitting everything from a drone to wild animals. With relentless assassins on her trail, she must untangle the web of deceit and save herself and countless others. Will she piece together the truth in time?

The cover of "Two Truths and a Lie" by April Henry.

Nell has always wanted to be an actor, but she doubts her ability. As a member of her school’s theater program, she prefers working backstage. On the way to a contest, an unexpected blizzard strands her acting troupe in a creepy motel. Soon they meet a group of strangers from another high school—including the mysterious and handsome Knox, who insists they play the game Two Truths and a Lie. When it’s Nell’s turn, she draws a slip of paper written in unfamiliar handwriting:

I like to watch people die.
I’ve lost count of how many people I’ve killed.

Suddenly, a night of harmless fun turns into a matter of life and death. As guests start to go missing, it becomes clear that a murderer is hiding in their midst ready to strike again. In a room full of liars and performers, the truth is never quite what it seems. Nell is going to have to act like her life depends on it—because it does.

The cover of "When We Go Missing" by April Henry.

Seventeen-year-old Willow always has a camera around her neck. She volunteers as a photographer at Finding Home, an animal shelter. When Willow stumbles upon a lost camera memory card, it’s filled with hundreds of photos of teenage girls. Some are smiling, others look unaware, and a few seem terrified.

The police tell her taking photos in public isn’t a crime. But Willow can’t seem to let it go, especially after she finds her own photo on the card. So Willow teams up with new volunteer Dare to figure out what happened to the girls. As their investigation heats up, so does the chemistry between them. But everyone around Willow seems to have a secret: Finding Home’s owner, her own mom, and even Dare. When Willow learns that some of the girls on the camera card have gone missing, she realizes the unknown photographer might be a serial killer. Can Willow find him before he finds her?

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

You can read "Skylark" by Paula McClain two months before it's available for sale in January! Thanks @atriabooks.bsky.social! @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social #lfl #booksky

The cover of "Skylark" by Paula McLain.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife weaves a mesmerizing tale of Paris above and below—where a woman’s quest for artistic freedom in 1664 intertwines with a doctor’s dangerous mission during the German occupation in the 1940s, revealing a story of courage and resistance that transcends time.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

ATTENTION REGENCY-ERA ANGLOPHILES! "Much Ado About Margaret" by @authoroux.bsky.social has been gifted to our LFL by #DellPublishing. Madeleine Roux’s next book follows a rebellious writer and the man who risks everything to publish her. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social #lfl #booksky

The cover of "Much Ado About Margaret" by Madeleine Roux.

Margaret Arden yearns to live like the passionate and daring women in her novel. The idyllic life at Mosely Cottage with her two younger sisters and mother is fine, but Margaret wants more than the demure and dainty existence she’s known. After a particularly brutal rejection from an annoyingly attractive publisher, Margaret fears being forced into marriage to protect her family if their financial situation doesn’t improve—until her cousin’s glamorous wedding masquerade brings her onto a collision course with scandal, notoriety, and even love.

Captain Bridger Darrow is starting over after fighting for his country. Now home, he is struggling to save his family from destitution and succeed in a new venture of passion: book publishing. It’s all going rather poorly, until he stumbles upon loose pages of an astonishing novel while in attendance at his dearest friend’s wedding. Bridger knows he must publish it. But upon meeting the author, Bridger is stunned to discover that he—she—is a woman, and he has already told her off in grand fashion.

While Bridger is keen to gain her trust and rescind the initial rejection, Margaret can’t help but be skeptical of his intentions. Sparks fly between the two, just as the wedding of the season starts to descend into chaos when a masked dance leads to a case of mistaken identities.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

A giant thank you to poet MC Augstkalns for the gift of their book "This Is Not Ideal: A Year of Coping Skills." #booksky

The cover of "This Is Not Ideal: A Year of Coping Skills" by MC Augstkalns.

A raw, deeply personal collection, encompassing multiple inpatient psychiatric stays and chronicling over a year of introspection, trauma processing, and survival. Themes of grief, identity, love, queerness, mental health, and resilience weave throughout, painting a vivid picture of struggle and triumph. Augstkalns’ poems explore the complexities of being human, especially through the lens of neurodivergence, trauma, and the search for meaning.

With a mix of lyrical prose, sharp wit, memes, illustrations, and unfiltered emotion, this collection is both a mirror and a lifeline, offering solidarity to those who have felt unseen and a reminder that survival is its own form of rebellion.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Winner of the 2025 Ohio Book Award in Nonfiction, "On Freedom," by native Daytonian Timothy Snyder, has been gifted to our LFL by Crown Publishing! @timothysnyder.bsky.social @crownpublishing.bsky.social @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social #booksky

The cover of "On Freedom" by Timothy Snyder.

Timothy Snyder has been called “the leading interpreter of our dark times.” As a historian, he has given us startling reinterpretations of political collapse and mass killing. As a public intellectual, he has turned that knowledge toward counsel and prediction, working against authoritarianism here and abroad. His book On Tyranny has inspired millions around the world to fight for freedom. Now, in this tour de force of political philosophy, he helps us see exactly what we’re fighting for.

Freedom is the great American commitment, but as Snyder argues, we have lost sight of what it means—and this is leading us into crisis. Too many of us look at freedom as the absence of state power: We think we're free if we can do and say as we please, and protect ourselves from government overreach. But true freedom isn’t so much freedom from as freedom to—the freedom to thrive, to take risks for futures we choose by working together. Freedom is the value that makes all other values possible.

On Freedom takes us on a thrilling intellectual journey. Drawing on the work of philosophers and political dissidents, conversations with contemporary thinkers, and his own experiences coming of age in a time of American exceptionalism, Snyder identifies the practices and attitudes—the habits of mind—that will allow us to design a government in which we and future generations can flourish. We come to appreciate the importance of traditions (championed by the right) but also the role of institutions (the purview of the left). Intimate yet ambitious, this book helps forge a new consensus rooted in a politics of abundance, generosity, and grace.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Come get your Hallowread on! Vintage Books has gifted our LFL a copy of the 50th anniversary edition of "'Salem's Lot" by Stephen King! @stephenking.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social #booksky

The cover image of "'Salem's Lot" by Stephen King.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Literary fall fashion inspo from the original It Girl, courtesy of Atria Books! Check out "It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin" by Marisa Meltzer. @atriabooks.bsky.social @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social #booksky

Cover of "It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin" by Marisa Meltzer.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

One lucky kid can read this book before it's released next week thanks to Nancy Paulsen Books! Pearl and Patrick have finally achieved their greatest triumph: time travel. Their first stop: ancient Egypt! @nancyrosep.bsky.social @penguinkids.bsky.social @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social #booksky

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

"As we learn to ask for and recognize signs from the other side, we start to find meaning where before there was only confusion, and see light in the darkness." Thanks to Dial Press for gifting "Signs" by Laura Lynne Jackson. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social #booksky

The cover of "Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe" by Laura Lynne Jackson.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Gifted to us by Henry Holt, "The Elements" by John Boyne-- a saga weaving together four narratives, each representing a different perspective on crime: enabler, accomplice, perpetrator, and victim. @johnboynewriter.bsky.social @henryholtbooks.bsky.social @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social #booksky

The cover of "The Elements" by John Boyne.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Thanks to Ballantine Books for "The Big Freeze" by Natalie Lampert! "A reporter's personal journey into the world of egg freezing and the quest to control our fertility." #LFL #booksky @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @natalielampert.bsky.social @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

The cover of "The Big Freeze: A Reporter's Personal Journey into the World of Egg Freezing and the Quest to Control Our Fertility" by Natalie Lampert.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Thank you to @celadonbooks.bsky.social for the gift of "Dealing with Feeling" by Marc Brackett, an essential guide for regulating how we respond to our emotions in order to transform our lives. #booksky #LFL @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

The cover of "Dealing with Feeling" by Marc Brackett.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Nuclear missile threat. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a test. What would you do with 59 minutes left to live? Holly Seddon's new novel just might answer that question. And you can read it before everyone else! @holly.bsky.social @atriabooks.bsky.social @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

A gift directly from the author, the memoir, "Twice the Family" by Julie Ryan McGue, is now in our LFL. Additionally, Ms. McGue has generously offered to participate in remote discussions with reading groups. Her contact information is included with the book. #booksky #memoir #adoption #lfl

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Keep the summer vibes going a little longer with "The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club," generously gifted to our LFL by Ballantine Books. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social #booksky

The cover of "The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club" by Martha Hall Kelly.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

As fall sets in, even if cooler temperatures do not, settle into the continuing AC with "The Accidental Favorite"-- a family dramedy investigating the question so many of us have asked: do my parents have a favorite? @henryholtbooks.bsky.social @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social #booksky

The cover of "The Accidental Favorite" by Fran Littlewood.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

A big thank you to Del Rey Books for the gift of "A Fate Inked in Blood" by Danielle Jensen! An NYT Bestseller, Elle Best Book of the Year, & "THE must-read fantasy of of 2024!" Available in our Little Free Library! #delreybooks @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

The cover of "A Fate Inked in Blood" by Danielle l. Jensen.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

A beach read for the weather we so richly deserve this weekend, thanks to Simon & Schuster, just released last week. #HannahMcKinnon #booksky @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

The cover of "The Sandy Page Bookshop" by Hannah McKinnon.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Anyone need a quiet read for our rolling summer thunderstorms? Thanks, ‪@crownpublishing.bsky.social‬ for sharing "The Correspondent" by Virginia Evans with our Little Free Library. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social #booksky

Cover of "The Correspondent" by Virginia Evans.

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Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Ohioans! Run, don't walk, to the BMV! #ImaginationLibrary #DollyParton #booksky (Each purchase buys a year of books for a child.)

Image of the Ohio Dolly Parton license plate benefitting her Imagination Library.

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