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It's National Library Week! Learn how to Connect with Your Library during the week of April 3-9, 2022, and all year long. Join Beth and Pearl as they discuss library-centered fiction and get suggestions from a variety of genres to add to your TBR.

Beth & Pearl's Suggestions Cozy Mystery (oh so many) -Cat in the Stacks Mystery series by Miranda James (Book 1: Murder Past Due) -Blue Ridge Library Mystery series by Victoria Gilbert (Book 1: A Murder for the Books) -Library Lover’s Mysteries by Jenn McKinlay (Book 1: Books Can Be Deceiving) -Lighthouse Library Mystery series by Eva Gates (Book 1: By Book or by Crook) -Haunted Library Mystery series by Allison Brook (Book 1: Death Overdue) -A Bookmobile Cat Mystery series by Laurie Cass (Book 1: Lending a Paw)

Fantasy -The Midnight Library by Matt Haig -The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler -Hell’s Library series by A.J. Hackwith (Book 1: The Library of the Unwritten) -The Great Library series by Rachel Caine (Book 1: Ink and Bone) -All Souls Series by Deborah Harkness (Book 1: A Discovery of Witches)

Romance -The Last Chance Library by Freya Sampson -What You Wish For by Katherine Center -No Offense by Meg Cabot -The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman -The Month of Borrowed Dreams by Felicity Hayes-McCoy

Historical Fiction -The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles -Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes -The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

Contemporary Fiction -The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams -Summer Hours at the Robbers Library by Sue Halpern -The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai

Bonus Nonfiction Suggestions -The Library Book by Susan Orlean -The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts by Joshua Hammer -Dewey: The small-town library cat who touched the world by Vicki Myron -I Work at a Public Library: A collection of crazy stories from the stacks by Gina Sheridan

Sources American Library Association. (n.d.). National Library Week. https://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/celebrationweeks/natlibraryweek

Nield, D. (2016, August 11). People Who Read Books Live Almost 2 Years Longer, Study Finds. https://www.sciencealert.com/spending-more-time-reading-could-help-you-live-longer-suggests-a-new-study

Obaro, T. (2019, October 7). "Me Before You" Author Jojo Moyes Has Been Accused Of Publishing A Novel With "Alarming Similarities" To Another Author's Book. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomiobaro/jojo-moyes-the-giver-of-stars-kim-richardson-bookwoman-of

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