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Our LibraryReads Notable Nonfiction for October 2025 is F*CKED UP FAIRY TALES: SINFUL CINDERELLAS, PRINCE ALARMINGS, AND OTHER TIMELESS CLASSICS by Liz Gotauco! @wwnortonlibrary.bsky.social @cosbrarian.bsky.social

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Our LibraryReads Board Bonus Pick for October 2025 was selected by @surlyspice.bsky.social: VAMPIRES AT SEA by Lindsay Merbaum (Creature Publishing)!

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Our next LibraryReads October 2025 Hall of Famer is KJ Charles for ALL OF US MURDERERS! @poisonedpenpress.bsky.social @sbkslibrary.bsky.social

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Next on the October 2025 LibraryReads Top 10 list is THE MISSING PAGES by Alyson Richman! @hachettelibrary.bsky.social @misterchris.bsky.social

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Next on the October 2025 LibraryReads Top 10 list is WRECK: A NOVEL by Catherine Newman! @librarylovefest.bsky.social

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Next on the October 2025 LibraryReads Top 10 list is THE WOMEN OF WILD HILL by Kirsten Miller. @librarylovefest.bsky.social

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Next on the October 2025 LibraryReads Top 10 list is RED CITY by Marie Lu! @torbooks.bsky.social

Photo collage of book covers for LibraryReads Hall of Fame titles for October 2025

And congratulations to our LibraryReads October 2025 Hall of Fame authors and publishers! These are forthcoming books by authors who have been librarian favorites three times or more, so you know they're good. Printable list can be found at libraryreads.org.

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The suspense is over--here are the Top 10 LibraryReads picks for October 2025! Congratulations to all the authors and publishers whose books were selected! As always, a printable list is ready for collection development and readers' advisory librarians (and readers in general!) at libraryreads.org.

UNT responds to Charlie Kirk assassination following 'recent actions' on campus University of North Texas officials published a statement Thursday that apparently condemns “recent actions of a few of our community members regarding” the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

University of North Texas officials published a statement Thursday that apparently condemns “recent actions of a few of our community members regarding” the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Last four hours!

I feel like there's a resurgence online or maybe my sister found a very specific TikTok black hole to go down.

There was even a whole kerfuffle about excluding people who swap gift packs that weren't nice enough.

Deputy Used Fake Warrant To Jail, Search Innocent Black Woman: Lawsuit Photo: Douglas Sacha / Moment / Getty Images A Black woman in Texas is suing after she said she was wrongfully arrested on a non-existent warrant, per the Houston Chronicle. According to a lawsuit, Le...

chicagodefender.com/deputy-used-...

hell yeah:

"A Georgia judge on Tuesday said he will toss the racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of a yearslong conspiracy to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training facility that critics pejoratively call “Cop City.”"

apnews.com/article/atla...

Murdering someone for the 'offense' of trying to retrieve their brother's body is..beyond monstrous

and the horror is compounded by the risk of identifying it as such: The reporter "asked not to be named because Israel has killed at least 189 journalists in Gaza"
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Silver has always been a poseur who accidentally hit the lottery with two election calls, parlayed that into a bestselling primer to Bayesian Theory for Dummies that fed his gambling addiction, and has basically gotten nothing right since.

He's mad that this is obvious.

And, in Karma News: "The USMNT lost its friendly against South Korea, 2-0, in front of a largely pro-Korea crowd in New Jersey." via The Athletic.

US Migrant Raid Jolts South Korea, Stirs Investor Anxiety The immigration raid on a Georgia EV battery plant run by two South Korean firms has rattled Seoul, coming less than two weeks after President Lee Jae Myung’s White House meeting with Donald Trump whe...

"It remains unclear what visas the workers held or whether those allowed them to be on the site."

475 workers detained, huge international incident, and the Trump admin can't even give a basic explanation for it.

Would you invest in a lawless country like this?

The raid swept up 475 people, most of them South Korean citizens, agents said. No Hyundai employees were arrested, the carmaker said. LG Energy Solution, the battery manufacturer, said 47 of its employees were detained. A majority of the arrested South Korean workers were not direct employees of Hyundai or LG but were subcontractors, according to industry officials familiar with the project. The LG employees arrested were helping oversee the factory’s construction, and had arrived in the United States with visas or under a visa waiver program, the officials said. Steven Schrank, a special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations for Georgia, said during a news conference that some U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents were also detained in the raid and would be released.

Still trying to understand the Hyundai ICE raid. Supposedly a months-long investigation that... picked up people here on visas, permanent residents, and U.S. citizens?

I also haven't seen anyone charged under 8 USC §1324a for hiring undocumented employees.

🤔

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

The Family Guy meme from the turban episode. Peter sitting in a car. There's a chart that says OK not OK. The OK side is white. And not OK side is brown

The Supreme Court really said

Let me just come right out and say it: I love Bernie Sanders.

Happy birthday, old friend.

Keep up the fight!

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued. "If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

I feel like my country has all but conceded Texas to being the GOP’s literal testing grounds for gauging how much fascism the American people will tolerate & how best “legally” to do lawfare. And if I say anything about that I get 10 people telling me to move & 5 telling me that’s what I voted for.

When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.

"Thousands take to the streets of the nation's capital as regime declares war on third largest city" should be a bigger deal all around tbh.

H-E-B’s Charles Butt unveils private art collection for first time at Fort Worth museum " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/fortworthreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/DSC05096-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C200&quality=89&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/fortworthreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/DSC05096-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C520&quality=89&ssl=1" />The HEB scion’s collection at Amon Carter Museum of American Art spotlights more than 80 pieces. Here’s how the show is curated.

H-E-B’s Charles Butt unveils private art collection for first time at Fort Worth museum

Florida Is Arresting People For Using Rainbow Chalk on Crosswalks Now Four protesters have been arrested for reinstating the Pulse memorial.

"Multiple protestors have been arrested in Orlando, Florida for recoloring the Pulse Memorial’s rainbow crosswalk, even after a judge ruled that the state’s highway patrol had no probable cause in doing so." www.them.us/story/orland...

And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas

I’m no lawyer but this seems like sexual harassment.

You can likely infer from this that they’ve done this with a much wider database of images on Facebook of your and my friends and family.

Nothing will happen though.