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True Colors – Pride Reads
"For the third week of Summer Reading Program 2025: Color Our World, find pride in whatever color of the rainbow you want! Check out these titles to find pride in being your true self."
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HCPL <3 Teachers
"May 5-7 is Teacher Appreciation Week. Here are some of our fave teachers in books and film. Not all of them are great teachers, but they are entertaining."
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ALA's Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2024
"The American Library Association (ALA) today released the highly anticipated Top 10 Most Challenged Books List as part of the 2025 State of America’s Libraries Report that highlights the ways libraries continue to meet the needs of their communiti..."
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Funny Feminists
"There's an old saw that still gets bandied about (despite millennia of evidence to the contrary) that women as a group just aren't funny. There's also the offshoot that says feminists are particularly humorless and self-serious. Well, these books..."
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2025 TLA Texas Topaz List: Nonfiction for Adults
"Texas Library Association recommended nonfiction titles that stimulate reading
for pleasure and personal learning."