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Check out all of the upcoming programs at Bossier Parish Libraries Annie Gilmer This week in library news, I decided to feature some of our current programming, both virtual and in-person. I admit that I settled on this topic because we’ve been working on summer reading plans recently – yes, summer planning does start this early, in fact, it started way back in January (or earlier really) but we’ve recently dialed it up to 11, or gotten the ball rolling, whichever figure of speech you prefer -- and this all brought programming in general to the forefront of my mind.

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Today is Presidents Day, a holiday established in the late nineteenth century to celebrate the greatest of America’s founders, George Washington. By the end of his life Washington himself was hardly in a celebratory mood when he reflected on the state of the country. Describing Washington as the greatest of America’s founders will likely raise some hackles—or at least some eyebrows—among historians and history buffs who are partial to other figures of the age, but that is exactly how the other founders themselves regarded him. In fact, Washington’s preeminence seemed self-evident to...

  Here is a collection of eleven short stories by Rukmini Attygalle, her first foray into having her creative writing published. She writes poetry too. The Bay Owl Press of Perera and Hussein Publishing House published her book in January 2021. Priced at Rs 850 it is out on sale at several bookshops. Comments Author Anthea Senaratna states on the arrestingly designed cover of Of Saris & Grapefruit that the book is “A compelling read!” On the back cover, writer and columnist Michael O’Leary comments: “This collection of stories displays many clear insights, much deep feeling and also ...

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