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I work in the only unionized library in Missouri. Pro-Democracy blue voter in a Red state. 🚫DMs

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Becoming Kin — Daniel Boone Regional Library Becoming Kin — Krawec, Patty — "Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement, and disappearance, Krawec helps readers see settler colonial...

This was the perfect book to be snowed in with during such a frought weekend. I highly recommend it to one and all.
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26.01.2026 16:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Minnesota Nice — a staff-created list from Daniel Boone Regional Library According to NPR, "Minnesota nice." It’s a stereotype born from a culture of kindness and politeness.

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20.01.2026 14:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Regina's Favorite Books of 2025 — a staff-created list from Daniel Boone Regional Library These were my favorite books, both fiction and nonfiction, through my 2025 reading journey.

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Of the 98 books I read this year, these were my favorites.

30.12.2025 13:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Women Write Short Stories — a staff-created list from Daniel Boone Regional Library If time is short during the holidays, these short story collections by women might be a great choice!

This is the latest and last of my Women Write series. I've really enjoyed doing this series this year.
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18.12.2025 19:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Women Write Fantasy — a staff-created list from Daniel Boone Regional Library When women write fantasy, you get female characters that aren't just side characters; female characters that don't look like they came out of a lingerie magazine. You get female characters who fight. ...

This is the latest in my Women Write series.
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09.12.2025 01:20 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Giving Thanks for Community — a staff-created list from Daniel Boone Regional Library The more things spin out of control, the more we need to hold each other close in community. There are a lot of great new books out this year to help us do that.

Happy Thanksgiving, y'all!
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27.11.2025 16:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Women Write Thrillers — a staff-created list from Daniel Boone Regional Library Some of the most famous authors in the thriller genre are women, including Gillian Flynn, Ruth Ware, Lisa Jewell and Karin Slaughter. Here are some new thrillers to chill you.

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The latest in my Women Write series.

21.11.2025 16:54 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Snow by Irving Berlin - arranged by Nathan Vogel and Sam Fierke
YouTube video by Samantha Fierke Snow by Irving Berlin - arranged by Nathan Vogel and Sam Fierke

The weather prophets are predicting snow flurries.

09.11.2025 16:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Women Write National Book Award Winners — a staff-created list from Daniel Boone Regional Library The National Book Awards are one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world. The National Book Foundation administers the awards which will be given on November 19, 2025.

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The latest in my Women Write series.

07.11.2025 16:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Women Write Horror — a staff-created list from Daniel Boone Regional Library It's spooky season! Horror can help us explore things in our world that don't make sense. There are a lot of things in women's lives that don't make sense. And there are a lot of women writing about t...

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25.10.2025 00:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Me too.

22.10.2025 18:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Women Write Nobel Prize Winners — a staff-created list from Daniel Boone Regional Library The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature is an international literary prize established according to Alfred Nobel's will that will be announced by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, in October 2025 a...

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22.10.2025 16:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Remembering the White House — a staff-created list from Daniel Boone Regional Library “Its 132 rooms, 147 windows, 28 fireplaces, 8 staircases, and 3 elevators are spread across the 6 floors—plus 2 hidden mezzanine levels—all tucked within what appears to be a three-story building.” ― ...

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22.10.2025 16:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Women Write Mysteries — a staff-created list from Daniel Boone Regional Library Women have been writing mysteries forever. Many female authors that were popular in their day, such as Metta Victor (1831-1885), Pauline Hopkins (1859-1930), and Mary Roberts Rinehart (1872-1958), ha...

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The latest in my Women Write series.

08.10.2025 23:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Women Write Banned Books for Young Adults — a staff-created list from Daniel Boone Regional Library So many of the more that 4200 unique titles listed in the banned book index collected by PEN America are written by women. These are just some of the incredible titles that we have in our young adult ...

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08.10.2025 23:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Women Write Banned Books — a staff-created list from Daniel Boone Regional Library So many of the more that 4200 unique titles listed in the banned book index collected by PEN America are written by women. These are just some of the incredible titles that we have in our adult collec...

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08.10.2025 23:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Women Write Science Fiction — a staff-created list from Daniel Boone Regional Library Before the 1960s and "Second Wave Feminism," female writers were few and far between. An influx of female writers also came with the transition of science fiction to the "literature of ideas" when the...

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The latest in my Women Write series.

30.09.2025 00:46 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Women Write Memoirs — a staff-created list from Daniel Boone Regional Library Women's stories, women's lives, women's perspectives have value. Women make up more than 50% of the United States population, but women's lives and stories are often trivialized, dismissed, hidden, or...

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The latest in my Women Write series.

12.09.2025 16:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No!

30.08.2025 00:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hi! The Daniel Boone Regional Library unionized a little over 3 years ago.

29.08.2025 22:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Mother Hood in Bondage by Margaret Sanger, Vail-Ballou Press, 1928, p. 5-6.

29.08.2025 22:23 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

"My health has been poor the past two years now and I don't believe I could ever stand it to have any more. Please won't you send me the information so I won't have to have more children, for we have more now than we can really take care of."

29.08.2025 22:22 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

"I was married at the age of twelve years. One month before my thirteenth birthday I became the mother of my first chid, and now at the age of thirty I am the mother of eleven children, ten of them living, the youngest now seven months old."

29.08.2025 22:21 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

In case you are unaware of what life was like for women before the creation of the Pill or have fantasies of "tradlife," here is one letter written to Margaret Sanger in the early 1900s.

29.08.2025 22:17 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0
Women Write Graphic Novels — a staff-created list from Daniel Boone Regional Library “We aren't the mistakes we made in the past. We're the choices we make going forward. And, when we can, we use the power we're given to help the people who matter to us.” ― Ariel Slamet Ries, Strange ...

And this is the latest in my Women Write series.
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28.08.2025 23:10 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Women Write Hugo Award Winners — a staff-created list from Daniel Boone Regional Library The 2025 Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award, and the Astounding Award will be presented on Saturday evening, August 16, 2025, at a formal ceremony at Seattle Worldcon 2025. The awards began in 1939. Leig...

I forgot to share this a couple of weeks ago when I published it.
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28.08.2025 23:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Women Write About Politcs — a staff-created list from Daniel Boone Regional Library During this long hot political summer, consider what women have to say about politics. All of these titles touch on politics in some fashion. Their inclusion on this list is not necessarily an endorse...

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The latest in my Women Write series.

31.07.2025 15:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Women Write Booker Prize Winners — a staff-created list from Daniel Boone Regional Library The Booker Prize has been one of the leading literary award in the English speaking world for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best sust...

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The latest in my Women Write series.

25.07.2025 17:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Real Life - Send Me An Angel '89
YouTube video by reallifeexperience Real Life - Send Me An Angel '89

Today's random wake-up song. Why?

17.07.2025 17:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Popcorn Original Song
YouTube video by Nikal98 Popcorn Original Song

Random wake-up song.
WARNING! This song has been in my head for over a week. Be careful about playing it. I was avoiding posting it, but maybe I can move on now that I have.

10.07.2025 16:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0