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Local librarians and Bookmarks staff make recommendations for your 2021 summer reading list

If you’re ready to kick back, relax and dive into some must-read books this summer, librarians with the Forsyth County Public Library and staff at Bookmarks in Winston-Salem have some suggestions. Each year, the Forsyth County Public Library hosts a summer reading program to give Forsyth County residents of all ages the chance to sign up and participate in the program, Brian Hart, library director of Forsyth County Public Library, said. Participants gain entries into a prize drawing by either completing a Summer Reading Bingo Card that lists numerous activities or logging books read. “It’s not just exclusive to reading, although, obviously, that is the focal point of it,” Hart said of the program. “We do believe that there is value in reading throughout the course of the summer, particularly for young minds and young children throughout Forsyth County. Reading certainly helps to ensure that they can retain a great deal of the information that they have lea

Bookmarks launches its community-wide effort aimed at uniting on the common theme of antiracism

Bookmarks, the group behind the annual book festival, plans to use literature to fuel a community-wide initiative against racism. The literary arts nonprofit organization and independent bookstore hopes to bring the community together throughout the summer in conversations about racism through the Book with Purpose effort. “We’re working with dozens of community partners on programming throughout the summer for kids and adults,” Jamie Rogers Southern, executive director of Bookmarks,” said after a press conference at Bookmarks on Friday. This summer program will start with the book “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America” by Ibram X. Kendi.

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