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Buckeye

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“In times of trouble, libraries are sanctuaries.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

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“Every problem that society has, the library has, too, because the boundary between society and the library is porous; nothing good is kept out of the library, and nothing bad.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

tags: libraries, society

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“books are the last things that any human being can afford to do without.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

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“Taking books away from a culture is to take away its shared memory. It’s like taking away the ability to remember your dreams. Destroying a culture’s books is sentencing it to something worse than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

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“Libraries are physical spaces belonging to a community where we gather to share information. There isn’t anywhere else that fits that description.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

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NYRA - Picture Books — 33 members — last activity Nov 13, 2025 03:54PM
The Nevada Library Association's Nevada Young Readers' Award discussion group for Picture Books. We are currently reading for the 2026 award cycle. As ...more

NYRA - Young Readers — 30 members — last activity Nov 10, 2025 07:09PM
The Nevada Library Association's group for discussion and comment on books for young readers. As titles are selected, the moderator will post a discus ...more

No Rules Book Club — 7 members — last activity Dec 14, 2014 07:16PM
We have no rules except COME to Book Club. We read a little bit of everything. Our group began in 1996, so we are in this for the long haul.

School Librarians & Teachers — 1420 members — last activity Dec 27, 2025 09:20AM
A group where teachers and school librarians can recommend and discuss great books for kids and teens or professional resources.

Women Out Loud — 185 members — last activity Nov 24, 2017 01:04PM
This is a group dedicated to discussing badass women in literature and issues affecting women today.. We will talk about female authors who make us t ...more

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