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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you have a few minutes today, please submit a comment opposing the elimination of the Roadless Rule. Tomorrow, October 6, is the deadline. Tell the Forest Service why protecting our forests matters to you. Submit your comment: www.regulations.gov/docket/FS-20...

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DC Books to Prisons @dcbookstoprisons.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We face book restrictions with every letter we receive, and states and prisons across the country are implementing even more restrictive bans on reading material for incarcerated people. But we still serve thousands of prisoners a year across the country! See our book wish lists - linktr.ee/dcbtp

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Monday's Multiple Book Cover Design Thread: OF CATTLE AND MEN by Ana Paula Maia #booksky 💙📚 #books #design

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Anyway, I've come to dread banned books week. Join @librariesftp.bsky.social on 10.8 so we can talk about BUILDING POWER through budget advocacy and participating in actual governance: www.eventbrite.com/e/for-the-pe...

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For The People: Public Library Snapshots

Join FTP for a discussion about our collection of snapshots that gives an overview of different public library systems in the U.S.

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Next Bladensburg Library book club discusses SWIM HOME TO THE VANISHED by Brendan Shay Basham

Poster showing book cover and date for next book club at Bladensburg Library: SWIM HOME TO THE VANISHED by Brendan Shay Basham, Nov. 14, 2pm

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Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Announcing the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Longlist 2026! The list of 13 titles from 12 languages includes novels, poetry, short fiction, and memoir. The prize is judged in 2026 by Arifa Akbar, Véronique Tadjo, Boyd Tonkin. For the full list and announcement: tinyurl.com/394cypw6

The 13 titles longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation are photographed stood on a wooden shelf with their spines facing the camera. The 13 titles are:

• Batool Abu Akleen, 48Kg., trans. from Arabic (Palestine) by Batool Abu Akleen, with Graham Liddell, Wiam El-Tamami, Cristina Viti, Yasmin Zaher (Tenement Press)

• Hanna Johansson, Body Double, trans. from Swedish (Sweden) by Kira Josefsson (Scribe)

• Krisztina Tóth, Eye of the Monkey, trans. from Hungarian (Hungary) by Ottilie Mulzet (Seven Stories Press UK)

• Linn Ullmann, Girl, 1983, trans. from Norwegian (Norway) by Martin Aitken (Hamish Hamilton)

• Lalla Romano, In Farthest Seas, trans. from Italian (Italy) by Brian Robert Moore (Pushkin)

• Hélène Bessette, Lili Is Crying, trans. from French (France) by Kate Briggs (Fitzcarraldo)

• Eva Luka, The Minotaur’s Daughter: Selected Poems, trans. from Slovak (Slovakia) by James Sutherland-Smith (Seagull)

• Geetanjali Shree, Our City That Year, trans. from Hindi (India) by Daisy Rockwell (Tilted Axis)

• Anjet Daanje, The Remembered Soldier, trans. from Dutch (Netherlands) by David McKay (Scribe)

• Ichiyo Higuchi, Troubled Waters, trans. from Japanese (Japan) by Bryan Karetnyk (Pushkin)

• Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, We Are Green and Trembling, trans. from Spanish (Argentina) by Robin Myers (Harvill)

• Anna Nerkagi, White Moss, trans. from Russian (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug) by Irina Sadovina (Pushkin)

• Ingvild Rishøi, Winter Stories, trans. from Norwegian (Norway) by Diane Oatley (Grove Press UK)

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Audrey, CMS @amayna60.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Enjoying Tastes Like Shakkar by Nisha Sharma. Lots of 'Much Ado' banter and bickering with these professionals in wedding planning and restaurant management. And what sounds like an awesome specialized ice cream cake. 🍰 What can you share this #ThursdayBookChat? 📚💙

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Free registration here for the 7th Annual Purple Bike Ride (Bowie, MD) www.bikereg.com/purple-bike-... (Not only a good cause, but riding with a free police escort is pretty fabulous!)

7th Annual Purple Bike Ride event poster (to raise awareness for domestic violence & prevention)

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The decorations are starting to go up (or come out) on n my neighborhood… #halloween #skeletons #bikingatnight

Photo of large skeleton torso in front yard of a house.

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Monday’s Multiple Book Cover Design Thread: It by Stephen King #booksky 💙📚 #books #design

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Assorted photos I took this week…

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Audrey, CMS @amayna60.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Kiss a cute stranger in a club, run into him soon after. He’s your neighbor! What are the odds?! It’s Les Normaux Vol 1 by Janine Janssen with S. Al Sabado, a graphic series that began as a webcomic. A book club pick. Anything surprising or not for #ThursdayBookChat? 📚💙

Illustrated Pair in a loose embrace, with one having fingers underthe chin of the other. Against a backdrop of Paris at night. One has green hair, the other blue complexion

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Went to the Terps vs Hokies game last night with my cousins and friends. Forgot how crazy big events/crowds can be!

Panoramic shot of SECU Stadium on 9/19/26 during the University of Maryland vs Virginia Tech Football game.

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Audrey, CMS @amayna60.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I asked my library to get All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture that Fears Mourning by @sesmith.lol. Grief can take many forms, and is often not well supported. “What if we interacted with loss in more diverse ways?” #ThursdayBookChat 📚💙

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Today’s book acquisitions courtesy of a neighborhood Little Free Library and the monthly @deepvellum.bsky.social book mailing!

Photo of two books: Richard Powers’s Bewilderment and Eva Figes’s Nelly’s Version

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Monday's Multiple Book Cover Design Thread: Look at Him by Anna Starobinets (translated by Katherine E. Young) #booksky💙📚 #books #design #womenintranslation #translatedliterature

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I feel like I could just watch this over and over. It looks 100% like he's going to get sacked and he just ducks and everyone flies past him. Pure magic.

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Lamar Jackson is a wizard

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Audrey, CMS @amayna60.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For #SpinsterSeptember, several pages in with the memoir Plant Dreaming Deep, my first May Sarton apart from some poems. She starts with the installation of an ancestor’s portrait in her home, when at fifty four she’s the last of her family. Any startings or finishings for #ThursdayBookChat? 📚💙

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Nicolette Jones @nicolettejones.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Forest Xiao, Cambridge School of Art MA, who today won the Klaus Flugge Prize for Seven Babies. Recalling Oxenbury, the book comes from Xiao’s experience that one new baby feels like seven, and from sketchbooks full of observation. Walker Books @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Monday’s Multiple Book Cover Design Thread: Germinal by Émile Zola #booksky 💙📚 #books #design #LaborDay

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Keith @smockeith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

There are some things that simply bring people together. Dolly Parton's Imagination Library is one of them. Now, funding for this remarkable literacy program is being threatened. Sign the petition to support the Imagination Library Via @everylibrary.bsky.social bit.ly/46B3b8Y

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Help support libraries across the country by taking action today!

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Looking for your favorite flash fiction recommendations, please (and thank you)! #booksky 💙📚 #flashfiction

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Monday’s Multiple Book Cover Design Thread: On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle (translated by Barbara J. Haveland) #booksky 💙📚 #books #design #WITmonth

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Audrey, CMS @amayna60.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Three stories left to read in the collection Sweetlust by Asja Bakic’, tr. by Jennifer Zoble. Climate disaster prompts a time travel scramble, a young couple is pestered to sell an unknown piece of land, other off-kilter tales. A cool #WiTMonth pick for #ThursdayBookChat. Please share a book! 📚💙

What looks like an altered photo of white surf crashing on pink foregrounded water, with yellow in the distance and a pale green sky.

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The cat distribution system was in full effect tonight… (not sure we’re keeping Trent but we’ll make sure he finds a good home)

Photo of young white & grey cat looking up at the camera.

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Beautiful Bizarre Magazine @beautifulbizarre.net · 21/08/2026

It’s difficult to make something seem futuristic yet also ancient. But David Naylor navigates that dividing line seamlessly through his incredible airbrush paintings. His airbrush on aluminum painting ‘Guide of the Blue Cave’ is eerie & eldritch. Discover more at Rehs Contemporary: buff.ly/TmRJ6ov

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Audrey, CMS @amayna60.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

People often say “I’m finally getting to this“ book or series and it has been available just six months or a year. For me, it’s Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi, with the translation from Arabic by Jonathan Wright approaching ten years. Anything vintage or new to share #ThursdayBookChat? 📚💙

Close up on torn away drawing in black and white of an eye, and ear, and mouth with chin. Background is black with acid green for title and author typefaces

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Monday’s Multiple Book Cover Design Thread: Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Léger (translators: Natasha Lehrer & Cécile Menon) #booksky 💙📚 #books #design #WITmonth

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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

🍉🤍 if anyone needs a smile love is love #caturday 🔆♥️🌿

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Craig Hayes @craighayes.com · 14/08/2026

Despite months of protest against ICE’s planned expansion at Metro 1 in Hyattsville, the Prince George’s County government has approved their application for a Use & Occupancy permit. Join me & sign this to send a message to our county leadership: Rescind the U&O permit and protect our community!

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Protect Community Services at 6505 Belcrest Road

Prince George's County Executive Aisha Braveboy, the Prince George's County Council, the Department of Permitting, Inspections and Enforcement (DPIE), and other relevant County officials We, the unde...

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Lovely bike trip to the National Arboretum yesterday. (Photos of old U.S. Capitol columns.)

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Two more 2026 book discussions at the Bladensburg Library! - Fever Dream (Samanta Schweblin)--Sept. 12th (2pm) - Swim Home to the Vanished (Brendan Shay Basham)--Nov. 14th (2pm)

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Audrey, CMS @amayna60.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Night Market by Jonathan Moore. Previously, I had checked this out when I had too many on the go. It has a cool, assured mix of near-future crime procedural, climate, other dystopia intrigues. And I really liked Moore’s The Dark Room. What can you share #ThursdayBookChat? 📚💙

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Republic of Consciousness Foundation’s August Book of the Month: The Completely True Tales of Um Mimi & Sharawi the Adulterer by Belal Fadl (translated by Osama Hammad, published by Dar Arab) #bookmail #booksky 💙📚 #translatedlit

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monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Monday's Multiple Book Cover Design Thread: Ultramarine by Mariette Navarro #books #design #booksky💙📚 #WITmonth #WomenInTranslation

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