Mentor Public Library

Never stop learning and never stop having fun. Here are just some of the things happening at Mentor Public Library.

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Read “Combustion Hour” a story by Yoon Ha Lee about the eschatology of shadow puppets.

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Quote from the amazing Joyce Carol Oates.

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The Library

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bookstagram: @tamaraniac

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1991 Bart Simpson “Read, man!” button

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Moved my Nancy Drew bookcase, so of course I had to take a photo.

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Blame is a human concept, one of its blackest and most selfish and self-binding.

Patrick Ness, Release

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It’s easier to know who I’m not than to know who I am. When everyone expects me to fail, it’s easier to give up than to try.

Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends

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Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in any society, from Iceland to Malaysia, a terrible blow to the spirit. It is worse than being penniless and more cutting than the blades of enemies.

Paulette Jiles, News of the World

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The girl lives in a beautiful dollhouse made of stone, I wrote one time in my diary when I was young, my handwriting shaky but sure. But underneath her shining plastic smile, there are only screams.

Amy Lukavics, The Women in the Walls

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Better to remain always self-reliant. Self-reliance means you're in control. Don't ever think you need a man for happiness.

Bella Forrest, The Gender Game

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Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

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Our character isn’t defined by the battles we win or lose, but by the battles we dare to fight.

Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Black Cloak

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Another day, another stolen Parks and Rec joke.

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We're more than the sum total of our choices, that all the paths we might have taken factor somehow into the math of our identity.

Blake Crouch, Dark Matter