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Sourcebooks Library @sbkslibrary.bsky.social · 12h

Look beyond the BANNED designation into the heart of these amazing reads 📚 #BannedBooksWeek

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Goddard Riverside @goddardriverside.bsky.social · 13d

Applause please for Gifts from the Garbage Truck by Andrew Larsen, illustrated by @oriolvidal.bsky.social for @sbkslibrary.bsky.social! This true story about a sanitation worker who salvaged discarded items to create a museum is shortlisted for our youth social justice book prize. #GoddardBookPrizes

Cover of Gifts from the Garbage Truck with the words Announcing the 2025 Shortlist

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Sourcebooks Library @sbkslibrary.bsky.social · 2d

Sourcebooks has partnered with the team at @uniteagainstbookbans to create a free Book Resume Database! 📚 Search and find resources to support frequently challenged books here 👉 bit.ly/BookResumes #UniteAgainstBookBans #BannedBooksWeek

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Sourcebooks Library @sbkslibrary.bsky.social · 3d

Using Overdrive? We have not one, but TWO seasonal sales going on right now on OverDrive's Marketplace! Including...

🎃 Halloween & Horror Sale 👉 link.overdrive.com/Sourcebooks_...

🍳 Craft & Cooking Sale 👉 link.overdrive.com/Sourcebooks_...

Sourcebooks Library @sbkslibrary.bsky.social · 3d

Banned Books are BRAVE BOOKS ✊ Check out our Reading is Resistance page to check out brave books from Sourcebooks as well as a FREE #BannedBooksWeek activity kit ➡️ www.sourcebooks.com/reading-is-r...

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Sourcebooks Library @sbkslibrary.bsky.social · 4d

It’s #BannedBooksWeek! 💪🚨 Explore a collection of free tools and resources to support you when facing book challenges when you swipe ➡️

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Sourcebooks Library @sbkslibrary.bsky.social · 5d

Adults can behave badly, too 😈 If you've recently finished binging THE HUNTING WIVES, you can request & read ALL THE LITTLE HOUSES for more May Cobb crazy goodness! 🤝

Sourcebooks Library @sbkslibrary.bsky.social · 7d

Love a broody, protective hero? A heroine who won’t stop until she finds the truth? ACROSS THE VANISHING SKY is the small-town romantic suspense you’ve been waiting for 💓 #ewgc

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Sourcebooks Library @sbkslibrary.bsky.social · 7d

Ivy League secrets + occult magic + enemies-to-lovers sparks = AN ARCANE INHERITANCE, your next dark academia obsession 😍 #ewgc

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Sourcebooks Library @sbkslibrary.bsky.social · 7d

Want a thriller that’ll keep you up at night? IMPOSTOR is moody, chilling, and set in the misty hills of Ireland. It's a perfect read-a-like for Freida McFadden or Tana French! #ewgc

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Sourcebooks Library @sbkslibrary.bsky.social · 7d

Pour the sweet tea and settle in—because the gossip in Longview, TX is hotter than the weather. ALL THE LITTLE HOUSES is drama you’ll devour from the author of THE HUNTING WIVES 🛶 #ewgc

Sourcebooks Library @sbkslibrary.bsky.social · 7d

Healing after trauma and the sweetest romance ~ever~ collide in WHERE THE WILDFLOWERS GROW 💕 Request & read it on NetGalley and Edelweiss now!

Sourcebooks Library @sbkslibrary.bsky.social · 8d

Today is the LAST DAY for vote for your favorites for LibraryReads! 🩷 If you loved any of the following, make sure you get your votes in by end of today:

🩷 THE BRIDESMAID by Cate Quinn
🩷 THRONE IN THE DARK by A.K. Caggiano
🩷 YOUR KNIFE, MY HEART by K.M. Moronova

Sourcebooks Library @sbkslibrary.bsky.social · 9d

📺 Tune in tomorrow to catch L.J. Ross, author of the forthcoming IMPOSTOR on Brodart's Tell Me More Global Voices Webinar ❤️ Register for this FREE webinar here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Sourcebooks Library @sbkslibrary.bsky.social · 10d

Dark Romance 🤝 Halloween Season

💙 If you haven't read YOUR KNIFE, MY HEART yet, request it now on Edelweiss & NetGalley!

💙 If you HAVE read it, make sure to vote for it for LibraryReads! (Deadline is october 1!)

Sourcebooks Library @sbkslibrary.bsky.social · 11d

✉️ The Kensingtons invite you to the society wedding of the decade. There’s just one hitch. You might not make it out alive 🔪 If you loved THE BRIDESMAID, make sure to vote for it for LibraryReads by the October 1 deadline!

Sourcebooks Library @sbkslibrary.bsky.social · 12d

If you, like me, read and loved THRONE IN THE DARK, you have THREE days left to vote for it for LibraryReads! 💛💜 Highly recommend this one to everyone who loves ASSISTANT TO THE VILLAIN or THE PRINCESS BRIDE!

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Erin Bedell @erindaydreams.bsky.social · 19d

I love this eclectic collection of new books from @sbkslibrary.bsky.social! @patbenatar.bsky.social @kirstenpendreigh.bsky.social #bookposse

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Erin Bedell @erindaydreams.bsky.social · 19d

Isn’t #bookmail simply the best? Thank you @sbkslibrary.bsky.social for sharing these new titles with #bookposse!

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Jennifer Hottinger @hottsnewreads.bsky.social · 19d

🤩Wow! Check out this book Mail!!📚📪
Thank you, Source Books! ❤️ I think I know which one I am reading first with October right around the corner! Can you guess? #bookposse @sbkslibrary.bsky.social

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Sourcebooks Library @sbkslibrary.bsky.social · 14d

OUR VICIOUS DESCENT, the sequel to THIS RAVENOUS FATE, now has a ⭐STARRED REVIEW⭐ from School Library Journal 🩸 Request and read OUR VICIOUS DESCENT on Edelweiss & NetGalley now!

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Sourcebooks Library @sbkslibrary.bsky.social · 15d

This October is Down Syndrome Awareness Month! ❤️ Celebrate with your students with a free, 45-minute virtual school visit with Melissa Hart, the author of DOWN SYNDROME OUT LOUD! Learn more and sign up here ➡️ srcbks.com/DSOL-Virtual...

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Sourcebooks Library @sbkslibrary.bsky.social · 16d

Nobody loves THE WOLF KING by Lauren Palphreyman like the Sourcebooks library team does 🐺❤️ Swipe to see our reactions this this heart-pounding romantasy that's now available to request & read on Edelweiss & NetGalley ➡️

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Sourcebooks Library @sbkslibrary.bsky.social · 17d

Get the tea on upcoming books at the upcoming Booklist webinar, Library Love for LibraryReads! 📚 Can't wait to share some hot titles with you all 😉 Register here: ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Sourcebooks Library @sbkslibrary.bsky.social · 18d

BEHIND THE MIRROR is both a riveting behind-the-scenes history of BIG BROTHER and a thought-provoking exploration of this voyeuristic phenomenon and why we love it 📽️💙 Request and read it on Edelweiss and NetGalley!

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