#National Library Books

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Steamy Saturday

"The lemonade was spiked. The woman was near naked. . . . he hadn't wanted her advances."

". . . he began to find that peaceful co-existence was a hard endeavor."

"His twilight path began shortly after Mildred had seduced him, but the second seduction being by a boy near his own age."

". . . you can't help but feel a kindred sorrow for this boy. . . ."

"But it was another of many episodes which caused him to become Lost on Twilight Road."

Young Lonny knew who he was and what he desired, but the machinations of others forced their values and desires on him . . . until he met Gene Styles. Such is the premise of Lost on Twilight Road by James Colton, published in Fresno, California by National Library Books in 1964. Fortunately, there is a happy ending for Lonny and Gene, which is not always the case in 1950s and 60s gay fiction.

James Colton is a pseudonym for the popular American crime writer and poet Joseph Hansen (1923–2004). In the 1960s he wrote for the American pro-gay publication ONE, and later hosted a radio show called Homosexuality Today, and helped organize the first Gay Pride Parade in Hollywood. His Dave Brandstetter private-eye series features a hardboiled private investigator who is also openly gay, and is cited as a groundbreaking character in gay fiction and crime fiction. Hansen was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America, as well as two Lambda Literary Awards for Gay Mystery from the Lambda Literary Foundation.

The publisher, National Library Books, was founded by Sanford Aday and Wallace de Ortega Maxey, members of the American gay rights organization, Mattachine Society.

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📍Austrian National Library, Vienna, Austria

[destielmemenews]

"Publishers accused the nonprofit of infringing copyrights in 127 books from authors like Malcolm Gladwell, C.S. Lewis, Toni Morrison, J.D. Salinger and Elie Wiesel, by making the books freely available through its Free Digital Library.

The archive, which hosts more than 3.2 million copies of copyrighted books on its website, contended that the library was transformative because it made lending more convenient and served the public interest by promoting "access to knowledge.""

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Old school libraries and archives 📖

[galina]

My poet friend is visiting me from Paris, we went to show each other our favourite poems at the National Poetry Library

[without-ado]

Austrian National Library, Vienna

[artsyaprilmr]

To anyone interested in learning about Artsakh, its history and the struggle of Artsakhi Armenians for freedom and self determination, I suggest checking out Learn For Artsakh initiative (@/learn4artsakh on Instagram).They share a lot of information on these topics and spotlight the interconnection of violence inflicted on the indigenous groups in the region by the colonizing powers.

They also have an e-library with free pdfs of many books written by Armenians about Artsakh as well as literature about DR Congo, Sudan, Palestine and other nations experiencing genocide (scroll down to the "Libraries Against Genocide" section).

[mysharona1987]

This makes more sense when you realize Jeffrey Goldberg is editor in Chief at The Atlantic:

[bigtitfucker]

There is no better way to say Happy National Reading Awareness Month than with our Busty Bookworm Beauty Szenetti_ 😍💓📚📖

[fusionfanatic]

Research for an au fic I’m working on: how would Azula act and behave in a modern setting? And I don’t mean re-imagine her character within a modern context and stories. This isn’t Azula, but she’s an overachieving American high schooler with strict and overbearing parents, or Azula, but she’s the soon-to-be CEO of her father’s multinational conglomerate based in Japan or something. No, I mean how would Azula as she is in canon, Fire nation princess and all, act and behave if you simply just took her from her world and plopped her into [insert current year you’re reading this]?

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Saturday April 15.

Celebrating not just the weekend, but the weekend of National Librarian Day 2023, with some bookish, scholarly content.

[escapismsworld]

Die Toteninsel III (Isle of the Dead [third version])

1883

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901)

📍Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery), Berlin.

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State Hall of the Austrian National Library by Chris Zielecki

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[acediscowlng]

it is always amusing when i see americans telling people in third world countries to go to a library instead of pirating books. brcause like. my city had a grand total of one library. and all it had were civil engineering books from the 90s that you could not take out of the library. that library is also closed now. and that's my city. the province my mom grew up in did not have a library and still does not have a library. what exactly do you expect me to do here. where is this nonexistent library that i am supposed to be reading books from.

[without-ado]

National library of France l Liam Pearson

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