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Dear Librarians: A Letter from Abi Maxwell, Author of <em>One Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman</em> | penguinrandomhouselibrary.com/2024/09/11/dea…

New England women like Helen Keller, Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Shirley Jackson wrote not only to entertain and inform, but often to simply keep a roof over their heads. Learn more in this week's book. nhbookcenter.blogspot.com/2024/05/book-o… #CenterForTheBook

Cheers! This week's book is about beer in New England. nhbookcenter.blogspot.com/2024/04/book-o… #CenterForTheBook

In celebration of Women's History Month the LibraryThing list of the month is Best Biographies of Notable Women. Lots of great reading options here! librarything.com/list/45354/Bes…

Northern Voices: Forty Years on the Poetry Beat, tells the story of journalist, Mike Pride’s relationships with several poets who lived and worked in New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont from the 1970s through the present. nhbookcenter.blogspot.com/2024/03/book-o… #NHAuthor #CenterForTheBook

What We Can’t Wait For in 2024 | Bookmarked blogs.loc.gov/bookmarked/202…

The 2023 Ladybug Picture Book Award winner has been announced nhbookcenter.blogspot.com/2023/12/2023-l…

This week we feature a cookbook centered around the incredible potential in gatherings of all sizes by #NHAuthor Chris Viaud nhbookcenter.blogspot.com/2023/12/book-o… #CenterForTheBook

Remembering Pulitzer-Prize Winning Novelist Willa Cather on Her 150th Birthday | Bookmarked blogs.loc.gov/bookmarked/202…

Add Your Signature to “Message in a Bottle” and Help the U.S. Poet Laureate Get to 2 Million! blogs.loc.gov/bookmarked/202…

This week we present a meditation by a #NHAuthor on the ways one can lose and re-imagine home, on what it means to love and to grieve, to find freedom and lightness among the weight of the material and the human. nhbookcenter.blogspot.com/2023/11/book-o… #CenterForTheBook

In the age of streaming, audiobooks are the hot new medium. But the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS) — part of the Library of Congress — has provided "talking books" to patrons since the 1930s! Learn more: go.loc.gov/YY1K50Q7bet

Announcing the Winners of the 2023 National Book Awards! The 74th #NBAwards Ceremony & Benefit Dinner was hosted by LeVar Burton (@levarburton) and featured special guest Oprah Winfrey (@Oprah).

With dark forces closing in, and his life hanging in the balance, Nathan finds himself in a race against time to solve the riddle of The Watchman’s Keep in the new novel by #NHAuthor Alfred M. Struthers #CenterForTheBook nhbookcenter.blogspot.com/2023/10/book-o…

We are very saddened by the passing of Louise Glück, who once served as U.S. Poet Laureate. She was the recipient of almost every poetry award in the canon during a career that established her as one of the nation’s greatest writers of the past half-century. go.loc.gov/IwAa50PWO4o

No look is complete without one of the 2023 @GillerPrize nominated books. Swipe right to see which of these must-reads are a must-have.

Hike, sketch, repeat. This week's book is an illustrated journal that chronicles the incredible journey of one #NHAuthor as she hikes every single step of the 2,193-mile Appalachian Trail. nhbookcenter.blogspot.com/2023/10/book-o… #CenterForTheBook

It will take all their courage, resourcefulness, and imagination, and the fate of all of Yther, and perhaps their own world as well, hangs in the balance as three ordinary teenagers embark on a quest in this week's book. nhbookcenter.blogspot.com/2023/09/book-o… #CenterForTheBook