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March 5, 2024July 3, 2024 JMRL Blog

“It is so easy to have principles. Far, far harder to live by them.”

February 14, 2024July 6, 2024 JMRL Blog

Community Poetry Slam with Bluebird & Co. launches JMRL’s Teen Poet Laureate Contest

February 1, 2024July 6, 2024 JMRL Blog

“There it was again: conscience. Lincoln believed he was acting according to motives higher than the merely political.”

January 31, 2024July 6, 2024 JMRL Blog

Resources for Black History Month

January 23, 2024July 6, 2024 JMRL Blog

“There’s a time to live and a time to die. In between there’s time to remember.”

January 18, 2024July 6, 2024 JMRL Blog

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

January 12, 2024July 6, 2024 JMRL Blog

Brown Baggers Book Club: Potluck Selection Party

January 5, 2024July 6, 2024 JMRL Blog

Dial-a-Story

January 4, 2024July 6, 2024 JMRL Blog

2024 Same Page Community Read

December 29, 2023July 6, 2024 JMRL Blog

2023: Another Winning Year 

December 29, 2023July 6, 2024 JMRL Blog

Top 10 Checkouts – 2023

December 28, 2023July 6, 2024 JMRL Blog

“Truthfully, this is the fabric of all my fantasies: love shown not by a kiss or a wild look or a careful hand but by a willingness for research.”

December 6, 2023July 6, 2024 JMRL Blog

“He still could not understand why he had nothing, and would never have anything, and there was no one who knew and who could tell him. It was the unsolved mystery of his life.”