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Come write postcards to your political representatives tonight!
We'll be here with materials and supplies and snacks so everyone can hang out and get to know their neighbors while getting their voices heard by our elected officials. It's turned into a fun Third Thursday tradition, so come hang out! We're beginning around 5:00, and planning on wrapping up around 7:00. See you here!
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School district pulls 'To Kill A Mockingbird' from reading list; 'makes people uncomfortable'
al.com
Biloxi administrators pulled the novel from the 8th-grade curriculum after the district received complaints that some of the book's language "makes people uncomfortable."
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Neika SeiboldNot Blessed Sacrament! 8th grade just finished. My son was so shocked at the outcome of the trial. He will never forget it
5 days ago · 1
Erika Petersen GmachStupid. There's no growth or development without discomfort.
5 days agoDiane HedinPull Trump, because he makes me uncomfortable.
5 days agoJackie StJoanArt and racism both do make people uncomfortable.
3 days ago · 1Jackie StJoanThey should
3 days ago · 1West Side Books shared a post.
“I have read 200 pages [of Ulysses] so far—not a third; and have been amused, stimulated, charmed, interested, by the first 2 or 3 chapters—to the end of the cemetery scene; and then puzzled, bo...
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MacArthur winner Jesmyn Ward writes socially conscious works set in the South
latimes.com
Jesmyn Ward, author of "Salvage the Bones" and "Sing, Unburied, Sing" is a recipient of a 2017 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
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Winner of the Best Translated Book Award! Already on the shelf!
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rose after the snow storm. Peace and safety to all those in harms way.
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Aj MosesWhat an intriguing beautiful title
1 week ago · 1How much is that Kazuo in the window?
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Alice ReichGood job!
2 weeks ago · 1A fine selection for this year's Nobel Prize for Literature: www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/books/kazuo-ishiguro-nobel-appraisal.html
Kazuo Ishiguro, a Nobel Winner Whose Characters Are Caught Between Worlds
nytimes.com
In his disparate novels, Ishiguro is a uniter, a conferrer of calm, rather than a divider.
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Alice ReichA conferrer of calm. May we all be.
2 weeks ago · 1full moon and season changing. Poems always help the transitions.
Cia Abbott Bullemer, Tim Williams and 4 others like this
Not feeling the football game today? Come tackle some books with your mind in our charming bookstore!
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