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Check out the books that inspire other books.

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Notes from a Children's Librarian
Carefully selected books according to curriculum and theme.

Notes from a Children's Librarian: In Living Colour
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Brilliant Black Stories
Great reads for Black History Month.

Beyond Gamache: 15 Fictional Detectives You Should Know
If you're a big fan of Louise Penny's bestselling Inspector Gamache series (and maybe—even especially—if you're not?), these are the crime fiction …
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A Gelato A Day

Strange Bewildering Time
Istanbul to Kathmandu in the Last Year of the Hippie Trail

Lights to Guide Me Home
A Journey Off the Beaten Track in Life, Love, Adventure, and Parenting

Around England with a Dog

A Season on Vancouver Island

Touch Anywhere to Begin

A Time of Light and Shadow
To Asia, Africa, and the Long Way Home

In the Name of Wild
One Family, Five Years, Ten Countries, and a New Vision of Wildness