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Bookish: UPHEAVALS (5#) -

# Public Library Blogs: 252 Examples -
... a trade pb book by Walt Crawford;

# Librarian Meredith Farkas posts a list
of other librarians' favorite librarian blogs;

# The Mudflap Girl - a promotional outreach
campaign for a library in Wyoming. Shown here
in the form of a bookmark (graphic: jpg). +She
looks a bit like a mermaid, doesn't she? Cute.

# A woman raised in South Darfur
but living in London is to tell her story:

Tears of the Desert by Halima Bashir is a personal account of an idyllic tribal upbringing rendered a nightmare by militia attacks. Her "stunning memoir" was bought by Hodder from Felicity Bryan, to be published next autumn.

#This week's Books Page at
The First Post includes reviews of:

-- There's a Riot Going on by Peter Doggett
about Pop Music in the Sixties and Revolution...
-- The Sinner, a detective novel, bestseller in Germany...
-- a review of Exit Ghost...
-- The Beautiful Fall by Alicia Drake: glitz and glamor
in the Paris fashion world now in pb... and more.

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