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Looking for something to add to your 2022 to-read list? Florrie Marks, Music Library Administrative Assistant, suggests The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson. Here's more #BookRecommendations from our librarians. 👇 https://www.library.upenn.edu/blogs/libraries-news/featured-books-and-films-staff-picks

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Poetry was always central to Ashley Bryan’s work. He wrote poetry, taught poetry, and illustrated a number of poetry anthologies. See his poetic illustrations in our exhibition, Beautiful Blackbird: The Creative Spirit of Ashley Bryan. #GreatPoetryReadingDay #NationalPoetryMonth https://t.co/SGg0fov8WZ

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“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations https://t.co/iiv76Vx4pE

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Willa Cather, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of novels like O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia, was born #OTD in 1873. Many editions of her work are part of the Schimmel Fiction Collection of Women in the American Wilderness. https://t.co/InVA62lQ7N

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Happy birthday to Octavia Butler, born #OTD in 1947. Author of the Earthseed series, Kindred, and more, she paved the way for authors like N.K. Jemisin and Coulson Whitehead. Borrow her books, or other Afrofuturist classics, from the Libraries this summer! https://t.co/yIBjG3X5r7