May 06, 2022 Book of the Week — Un Viaje en Zeppelin

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"It's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. The smoke and the flames now and the frame is crashing to the ground, not quite to the mooring mast. Oh, the humanity...

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Apr 25, 2022 Book of the Week — Broncho Vs. Bicycle

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"The first we saw of that high-toned tramp war over thar' at our Pecos camp; he war comin' down the Santa Fe Trail astride of a wheel with a crooked tail, a skinnin' along, with a merry song, an' ringin' a little warnin' gong...

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Apr 17, 2022 Book of the Week — Easter

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"Above in sun and wind the fertile rains, Below in clamorous waters thriving fish, and fields of summer filled with living bread, and fields of autumn filled with living wine." Easter W.R. Johnson (1933-) with relief prints by Claire Van Vliet West Burke, Vermont: The Janus Press, 1970 Z232.5 J36 J639 1970 Claire Van...

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Apr 11, 2022 Book of the Week — The Box

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"Once upon a time in the land of Hushabye Around about the wondrous days of yore I came across a sort of box Bound up with chains and locked with locks And labeled, kindly do not touch, it's war" The Box Kendrew Lascelles (1935 - 2022) Los Angeles, CA: Nash Publishing, 1974 PR6062...

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Apr 04, 2022 Now on Display: Radical! A Retrospective of Twentieth Century Dissent

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Radical! A Retrospective of Twentieth Century Dissent A Rare Books Exhibition Level 4, Special Collections Exhibition Gallery J. Willard Marriott, The University of Utah March 18 through June 17, 2022 This exhibition is free and open to the public. This exhibition was originally curated in the summer of 2020 — amid...

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Mar 30, 2022 Book of the Week — Biographium Fæmineum

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“Souls are of no sex, any more than wit, genius, or any other of the intellectual faculties.” Biographium fæmineum. The Female Worthies: or, Memoirs of the Most Illustrious Ladies, of all ages and nations. London: Printed for S. Crowder, and J. Payne in Paternoster-Row; J. Wilkie, and...

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Mar 23, 2022 The Rebel Girl: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

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"There are women of many descriptions In this queer world, as everyone knows. Some are living in beautiful mansions, And are wearing the finest of clothes. There are blue blood queens and princesses, Who have charms made of diamonds and pearl But the only and thoroughbred lady Is the Rebel Girl...

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Mar 14, 2022 Book of the Week — Tailleurs Lenitis

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"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening." — Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel Tailleurs Lenitis Paris: Tailleurs Lenitis, 1939 TT555 T35 1939 Prior to the 1830s, the word “tweed”...

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Mar 08, 2022 Book of the Week — Inspiring Women

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"I want to be remembered as a women who dared to be a catalyst of change." — Shirley Chisholm Inspiring Women Portfolio: 25 Women Who Have Been True Catalysts for Change Kathryn Hunter Baton Rouge, LA: Blackbird Letterpress, 2020 N7433.4 H8655 I57 2020 Inspiring Women was created in celebration of the...

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Feb 28, 2022 Book of the Week — Even in a Maze

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"I cannot protest the blackness that you are I cannot portray the blackness that you see I can only live the blackness that is me I cannot return to places I've not been I cannot profess a suffering not my own I can only come to you the black I...

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