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  • Online Reading Challenge – June Wrap-Up

    How did your reading go this month? Did you read something that featured lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning individuals? Share in the comments. In June, we celebrated LGBTQ culture and honored the movement for LGBTQ rights.

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  • New Nonfiction about Artificial Intelligence

    Do you have questions about artificial intelligence? Check out our new nonfiction about AI. These insightful and recent nonfiction books cover a wide variety of topics related to artificial intelligence. This is by no means a complete list of books on AI, but is instead a small sampling of the new titles owned by the Davenport Public Library. Descriptions are provided by the publishers.

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  • June 2026 Celebrity Book Club Picks

    It’s a new month which means that Jenna Bush Hager and Reese Witherspoon have picked new books for their book clubs! Reminder that if you join Bestsellers Club, you can choose to have their selections automatically put on hold for you.

    Bestsellers Club is a service that automatically places you on hold for authors, celebrity picks, nonfiction picks, and fiction picks. Choose any author, celebrity pick, fiction pick, and/or nonfiction pick and The Library will put the latest title on hold for you automatically. Select as many as you want! Still have questions? Click here for a list of FAQs.

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  • New Genre Pride Reads

    Happy Pride Month! Let’s celebrate this annual time of year with new horror, mystery, romance, and science fiction all featuring LGBTQ+ authors and themes. Below you will find a sampling of new titles available that fit this theme. As of this writing, all of these titles are owned by the Davenport Public Library. Descriptions are provided by the publishers.

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  • Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay

    “Utang na loob: a debt from within. From the heart. It is a debt you did not ask for and will never pay off but must always try to. It is gratitude for the ancestors who brought you into existence, for the family who raised you, for the community who helped you in ways direct and indirect, visible and invisible. It is acknowledgment that none of us are alone.”
    ― Randy Ribay, Everything We Never Had

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