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Managing Data for Patron Privacy
Kristin BrineyLISNews.orgNew book... Managing Data for Patron Privacy: Comprehensive Strategies for Libraries https://t.co/7a2CNNKgvn
Paperback, 2022
$69.99$44.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise BrownLISNews.orgThe Radical Woman Behind “Goodnight Moon” Margaret Wise Brown constantly pushed boundaries—in her life and in her art. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/02/07/the-radical-woman-behind-goodnight-moon
Board Book, 1991
$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Fall of Númenor: And Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-Earth
J. R. R. TolkienLISNews.orgHarperCollins have announced that a new Tolkien publication, The Fall of Númenor, will be published on 10th November 2022. Edited by well-known Tolkien expert Brian Sibley, the book collects together J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings of the Second Age. https://t.co/cX6etdTxUa
Paperback, 2024
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Velveteen Rabbit: or How Toys Become Real
Margery Williams BiancoLISNews.orgThe Velveteen Rabbit Was Always More Than a Children’s Book Margery Williams Bianco’s story is a memorial to what we lose in exchange for adulthood. https://t.co/nBui3f8ojS
Paperback, 2018
$7.45$3.72 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dalkey Days: A Memoir
Steven MooreLISNews.orgBehind a pseudonym, literary provocation James Campbell’s ‘NB by J.C.’ brings together the columns of an incendiary cultural critic. Steven Moore’s ‘Dalkey Days’ looks back on a career of publishing artistically ambitious author https://t.co/crYw3fCPmE
Paperback, 2023
$14.00$7.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The School for Good Mothers
Jessamine ChanLISNews.orgHow to Get Published: A Book’s Journey From ‘Very Messy’ Draft to Best Seller The publishing industry is intimidating. How does a writer break in? Follow the roller coaster creation of Jessamine Chan’s “The School for Good Mothers.” https://t.co/nt7h0gCQkJ
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
On the Road
Jack KerouacLISNews.orgJack Kerouac: still roadworthy after 100 years The author of On the Road had a messy, contradictory life. Yet he’s as relevant as ever – and not just for obsessed young men https://t.co/ngM4aAUvcb
Paperback, 1976
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Marple: Twelve New Mysteries
Agatha ChristieLISNews.orgAgatha Christie novels reworked to remove potentially offensive language Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries have passages edited by sensitivity readers for latest HarperCollins editions https://t.co/MD5L5RcMcn
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mason & Dixon
Thomas PynchonLISNews.orgThomas Pynchon, Famously Private, Sells His Archive The elusive author of “Gravity’s Rainbow” and “Mason & Dixon” has sold his papers to the Huntington Library. They include drafts, notes and letters — but sorry, no photographs of him. https://t.co/qQrbVmF4Rb
Paperback, 2004
$30.99$15.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Gender Queer: A Memoir
Maia KobabeLISNews.orgAfter writing “Gender Queer,” a memoir about coming out as nonbinary, Maia Kobabe didn’t think the book would find much readership. Instead, it landed the author at the center of a battle over which books belong in schools: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/01/books/maia-kobabe-gender-queer-book-ban.html Thanks @inmybook !
Paperback, 2019
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book