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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…
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Reading Black Mississippi
February is Black History Month, which makes it a great time to visit the bookshelves and refocus your reading on some of the great Black authors out there.…
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Read with MLC: Reread a Book You Love
Welcome to February and the second reading prompt of our 2024 Read with MLC challenge: reread a book you love. There’s something incredibly special about a book you…
