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…library! Using one of our PCs, a Chromebook we can lend out for in-library use, or your own device on the library’s wi-fi, you can: get help at the Trial……information All this is available through the Massachusetts Access to Justice website. Contact the Reference Desk for assistance. Library PCs are available whenever the library is open. The Chromebook for…

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…Massachusetts residents have access to online library collections and services with a BPL eCard. A BPL cCard provides access to a broad selection of downloadable books, audiobooks, research databases, streaming……music and video as well as digital newspapers and magazines. A traditional BPL card, for borrowing books on-site at BPL branch, is available to anyone who lives or works in…

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…has gone virtual, so you can join in their activities remotely. (To attend the museum in person on other days, you can also book the library’s museum pass for the……profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and……Indian Wars more than a century ago. You don’t have to say you love me : a memoir by Sherman Alexie The National Book Award-winning author of The Absolutely True…

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Find out about upcoming programs, book sales, new materials and services at the library through the MHL News email newsletter. It's a great way to stay informed about what is......going on at your library. You can also sign up to receive book recommendation newsletters by email. Library News by Email Sign up to receive the MHL News, the weekly...

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In general, Memorial Hall Library welcomes gifts of money, books, materials, equipment, art objects, documents, photographs, or property of any kind, which promotes the mission of the Library. The Library……to accommodate the donor’s subject or title preferences. A plate with the donor’s name will be affixed to the item purchased, if so desired. Materials Gifts of books or other……otherwise disposed of. (See also the Library’s Gifts policy in the MHL Collection Development Manual and Book Donation FAQs on the library’s web page.) Collections Gift collections will be accepted……The names of the donor(s) and those recognized by the gift will be listed on a bookplate affixed to the material, if so desired. Real estate or other personal property…

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…in to pick up one of these books about Dr. King or other aspects of the American civil rights movement. The Black Church : this is our story, this is……Talented photographers documented that decade and captured both the bravery of civil rights workers and the violence they faced. Most notably, this book features the work of Bob Adelman, Dan……growing inequality and grinding poverty in the United States have spurred new efforts to rejuvenate the campaign. This book is essential to understanding today’s movement through King’s radical, intellectual thought…

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…history of slavery and Reconstruction in the United States, here’s a booklist for you. The accident of color : a story of race in Reconstruction by Daniel Brook The award-winning……post-Civil War America, this researched and documented book offers valuable insight into our understanding of black history and the story of America. Stony the road : Reconstruction, white supremacy, and……is an unconstitutional policy of racial discrimination. You just need to read Mystal’s book to understand that the Fourteenth Amendment once made the white supremacist policies adopted by the modern……birds : a cookbook for Juneteenth and Black celebrations by Nicole A. Taylor In this collection of recipes and essays that both celebrate and investigate Juneteenth, a critically acclaimed food…

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…have worked for the library for a minimum of eighteen months, who demonstrate academic achievement and solid work values and who are continuing their studies beyond high school. These scholarships,…

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Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15-October 15, which makes this an especially great time to check out this year’s Pura Belpré Award and Honor books. The Pura Belpré Award, “established…

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…Prize- and National Book Award-winning, The Underground Railroad, follows the harrowing experiences of two African-American teens at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. One crazy summer by Rita……Williams-Garcia In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn, New York, to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, 11-year-old Delphine and her two…

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