“Stories are the most powerful things in this world. They can mend broken hearts, bring back good memories, and make people fall in love.”
― Kirsten Miller, Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books
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The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
“Let us lie here forever. Let us be buried as wild things are, by tooth and claw and worm. Let the grasses grow up through the sockets of our eyes. Let them find us in seven years or seventy, and let their brows furrow, because they cannot tell my bones from yours.”
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New Gardening Books
Have you utilized the Davenport Library Seed Library yet? Located at our Main Street location, our seed library offers vegetables, herbs, flowers, and microgreens to our patrons for free! There are no costs to take seeds, plus no library card is required to use the Seed Library. There is a limit of five seed packets per month per household.
For more information about our seed library, give us a call or visit our Seed Library Growing Companion LibGuide.
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Wake Now in the Fire: A Graphic Novel by Jarrett Dapier
(more…)Wake Now in the Fire by Jarrett Dapier & AJ Dungo, colorist Angie Kang, and letterer Jennifer Tolo Pierce is an empowering graphic novel based on the true story of a group of high schoolers in Chicago who worked to overturn the school system-wide ban of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis.
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Online Reading Challenge – May
Welcome Readers!
Our 2026 Online Reading Challenge is … KNOW YOUR HISTORY! Each month we will be reading about a different observance month and highlighting a main title about that month.
For May, we will be reading books that reflect the heritage and stories within Asian or Pacific Islander culture to celebrate Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
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