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Read With MLC: Short Stories
Welcome to May, and the fifth reading prompt for our 2024 Read With MLC reading challenge: read a short story collection. May is actually Short Story Month and…
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Mississippi’s Arab-Americans
Happy Arab-American Heritage Month! Did you know that members of the Arab ethnic group began immigrating to Mississippi in the 1870s? These people were mainly Christians from Lebanon and…
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It’s a Poetry Party!
April is National Poetry Month, which makes it an ideal time to go to your bookshelves and pick out your favorite verse, sonnet, ballad, haiku, or limerick. Predating…
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Read With MLC: Celebrity Memoirs
Welcome to April, and the fourth reading prompt for our 2024 Read With MLC reading challenge: read a celebrity memoir. Is there anything more delicious than escaping your…
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The WPA Files: Fewer Aliens, More Gossip
Have you ever wanted to learn more about your town? Do you like gossip and facts about trees? You need to check out the WPA files! WPA stands for…
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I Am Woman, Hear Me Write
It’s Women’s History Month. Quick! Name your favorite female Mississippi author! There are a slew of wonderfully talented authoresses hailing from our great state and they have written…
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Read with MLC: Graphic Nonfiction
Welcome to March and the third reading prompt of our 2024 Read with MLC challenge: read a work of graphic nonfiction. Nonfiction comics have been around for longer…
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That All May Social Media
That All May Read. That’s the slogan of the National Library Services for the Blind and Print Disabled. I think about those words a lot. In 2018, the National Health…
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Finding Your Nonfiction Niche
We all know fiction genres: romance, science fiction, fantasy… all types of books that have their own shelves in bookstores everywhere. But what about nonfiction? Most people know…
