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I love bookstores for many reasons but revere both the idea and the practice of public libraries. To me, they embody the civic-scale practice of a gift economy and the notion of common property. Libraries are models of gift economies,
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― Beartown
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― The Shadow of the Wind
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― Emma
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― Codename Villanelle
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