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A Little Free Library in the beautiful neighborhood of Lakengren, Eaton, Ohio. Charter #134050.

(This library is located in a gated community.)
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Dad read it in a single sitting and recommends it!
A thumbs up from a reader who has slightly aged out of the "young adult" category.
November 7, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Hachette and @littlebrownyr.bsky.social have gifted us four books by @aprilhenry.bsky.social!!!

(My 79 year-old father immediately grabbed "Stay Dead," but he's a quick reader and has promised to return it.)

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The cover of "Girl Forgotten" by April Henry. Seventeen years ago, Layla Trello was murdered, and her killer was never found. Enter true-crime fan Piper Gray who is determined to reopen Layla’s case and get some answers. With the help of Jonas—who has a secret of his own—Piper starts a podcast investigating Layla’s murder. But as she digs deeper into the mysteries of the past, Piper begins receiving anonymous threats telling her to back off the investigation, or else. The killer is still out there, and Piper must uncover their identity before they silence her forever. The cover of "Stay Dead" by April Henry. Sometimes, the only way to live is to make sure the world thinks you’re dead . . . In the aftermath of a car accident that claimed the life of her senator father, sixteen-year-old Milan finds herself adrift, expelled from her third boarding school. Milan’s mother, who has assumed the senate seat, diverts her private plane to pick up her daughter. But on their way home, a bomb rips off a wing and the plane crashes in the mountains. In her final moments, Milan’s mother entrusts her with a key. She reveals it will unlock the evidence that so many people have already died for—including Milan’s father. The only way Milan can survive, her mom tells her, is to let everyone believe she died with the other passengers. ​Milan is forced to navigate a perilous descent in freezing conditions while outwitting everything from a drone to wild animals. With relentless assassins on her trail, she must untangle the web of deceit and save herself and countless others. Will she piece together the truth in time? The cover of "Two Truths and a Lie" by April Henry. Nell has always wanted to be an actor, but she doubts her ability. As a member of her school’s theater program, she prefers working backstage. On the way to a contest, an unexpected blizzard strands her acting troupe in a creepy motel. Soon they meet a group of strangers from another high school—including the mysterious and handsome Knox, who insists they play the game Two Truths and a Lie. When it’s Nell’s turn, she draws a slip of paper written in unfamiliar handwriting: I like to watch people die. I’ve lost count of how many people I’ve killed. Suddenly, a night of harmless fun turns into a matter of life and death. As guests start to go missing, it becomes clear that a murderer is hiding in their midst ready to strike again. In a room full of liars and performers, the truth is never quite what it seems. Nell is going to have to act like her life depends on it—because it does. The cover of "When We Go Missing" by April Henry. Seventeen-year-old Willow always has a camera around her neck. She volunteers as a photographer at Finding Home, an animal shelter. When Willow stumbles upon a lost camera memory card, it’s filled with hundreds of photos of teenage girls. Some are smiling, others look unaware, and a few seem terrified. The police tell her taking photos in public isn’t a crime. But Willow can’t seem to let it go, especially after she finds her own photo on the card. So Willow teams up with new volunteer Dare to figure out what happened to the girls. As their investigation heats up, so does the chemistry between them. But everyone around Willow seems to have a secret: Finding Home’s owner, her own mom, and even Dare. When Willow learns that some of the girls on the camera card have gone missing, she realizes the unknown photographer might be a serial killer. Can Willow find him before he finds her?
November 6, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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You can read "Skylark" by Paula McClain two months before it's available for sale in January! Thanks @atriabooks.bsky.social!

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The cover of "Skylark" by Paula McLain. The New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife weaves a mesmerizing tale of Paris above and below—where a woman’s quest for artistic freedom in 1664 intertwines with a doctor’s dangerous mission during the German occupation in the 1940s, revealing a story of courage and resistance that transcends time.
November 2, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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ATTENTION REGENCY-ERA ANGLOPHILES! "Much Ado About Margaret" by @authoroux.bsky.social has been gifted to our LFL by #DellPublishing.

Madeleine Roux’s next book follows a rebellious writer and the man who risks everything to publish her.

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The cover of "Much Ado About Margaret" by Madeleine Roux. Margaret Arden yearns to live like the passionate and daring women in her novel. The idyllic life at Mosely Cottage with her two younger sisters and mother is fine, but Margaret wants more than the demure and dainty existence she’s known. After a particularly brutal rejection from an annoyingly attractive publisher, Margaret fears being forced into marriage to protect her family if their financial situation doesn’t improve—until her cousin’s glamorous wedding masquerade brings her onto a collision course with scandal, notoriety, and even love. Captain Bridger Darrow is starting over after fighting for his country. Now home, he is struggling to save his family from destitution and succeed in a new venture of passion: book publishing. It’s all going rather poorly, until he stumbles upon loose pages of an astonishing novel while in attendance at his dearest friend’s wedding. Bridger knows he must publish it. But upon meeting the author, Bridger is stunned to discover that he—she—is a woman, and he has already told her off in grand fashion. While Bridger is keen to gain her trust and rescind the initial rejection, Margaret can’t help but be skeptical of his intentions. Sparks fly between the two, just as the wedding of the season starts to descend into chaos when a masked dance leads to a case of mistaken identities.
October 31, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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A giant thank you to poet MC Augstkalns for the gift of their book "This Is Not Ideal: A Year of Coping Skills."

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The cover of "This Is Not Ideal: A Year of Coping Skills" by MC Augstkalns. A raw, deeply personal collection, encompassing multiple inpatient psychiatric stays and chronicling over a year of introspection, trauma processing, and survival. Themes of grief, identity, love, queerness, mental health, and resilience weave throughout, painting a vivid picture of struggle and triumph. Augstkalns’ poems explore the complexities of being human, especially through the lens of neurodivergence, trauma, and the search for meaning. With a mix of lyrical prose, sharp wit, memes, illustrations, and unfiltered emotion, this collection is both a mirror and a lifeline, offering solidarity to those who have felt unseen and a reminder that survival is its own form of rebellion.
October 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Winner of the 2025 Ohio Book Award in Nonfiction, "On Freedom," by native Daytonian Timothy Snyder, has been gifted to our LFL by Crown Publishing!

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The cover of "On Freedom" by Timothy Snyder. Timothy Snyder has been called “the leading interpreter of our dark times.” As a historian, he has given us startling reinterpretations of political collapse and mass killing. As a public intellectual, he has turned that knowledge toward counsel and prediction, working against authoritarianism here and abroad. His book On Tyranny has inspired millions around the world to fight for freedom. Now, in this tour de force of political philosophy, he helps us see exactly what we’re fighting for. Freedom is the great American commitment, but as Snyder argues, we have lost sight of what it means—and this is leading us into crisis. Too many of us look at freedom as the absence of state power: We think we're free if we can do and say as we please, and protect ourselves from government overreach. But true freedom isn’t so much freedom from as freedom to—the freedom to thrive, to take risks for futures we choose by working together. Freedom is the value that makes all other values possible. On Freedom takes us on a thrilling intellectual journey. Drawing on the work of philosophers and political dissidents, conversations with contemporary thinkers, and his own experiences coming of age in a time of American exceptionalism, Snyder identifies the practices and attitudes—the habits of mind—that will allow us to design a government in which we and future generations can flourish. We come to appreciate the importance of traditions (championed by the right) but also the role of institutions (the purview of the left). Intimate yet ambitious, this book helps forge a new consensus rooted in a politics of abundance, generosity, and grace.
October 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Come get your Hallowread on! Vintage Books has gifted our LFL a copy of the 50th anniversary edition of "'Salem's Lot" by Stephen King!

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The cover image of "'Salem's Lot" by Stephen King.
October 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Literary fall fashion inspo from the original It Girl, courtesy of Atria Books! Check out "It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin" by Marisa Meltzer.

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Cover of "It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin" by Marisa Meltzer.
October 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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One lucky kid can read this book before it's released next week thanks to Nancy Paulsen Books!

Pearl and Patrick have finally achieved their greatest triumph: time travel. Their first stop: ancient Egypt!

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October 16, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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"As we learn to ask for and recognize signs from the other side, we start to find meaning where before there was only confusion, and see light in the darkness."

Thanks to Dial Press for gifting "Signs" by Laura Lynne Jackson.

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The cover of "Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe" by Laura Lynne Jackson.
October 16, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Gifted to us by Henry Holt, "The Elements" by John Boyne-- a saga weaving together four narratives, each representing a different perspective on crime: enabler, accomplice, perpetrator, and victim.

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The cover of "The Elements" by John Boyne.
October 13, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Thanks to Ballantine Books for "The Big Freeze" by Natalie Lampert!

"A reporter's personal journey into the world of egg freezing and the quest to control our fertility."

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The cover of "The Big Freeze: A Reporter's Personal Journey into the World of Egg Freezing and the Quest to Control Our Fertility" by Natalie Lampert.
October 6, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Thank you to @celadonbooks.bsky.social for the gift of "Dealing with Feeling" by Marc Brackett, an essential guide for regulating how we respond to our emotions in order to transform our lives.

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The cover of "Dealing with Feeling" by Marc Brackett.
October 6, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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"Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights. October 5-11 is Banned Books Week."
October 6, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Nuclear missile threat. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a test.

What would you do with 59 minutes left to live? Holly Seddon's new novel just might answer that question.

And you can read it before everyone else!

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September 30, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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A gift directly from the author, the memoir, "Twice the Family" by Julie Ryan McGue, is now in our LFL. Additionally, Ms. McGue has generously offered to participate in remote discussions with reading groups. Her contact information is included with the book.

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September 30, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Keep the summer vibes going a little longer with "The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club," generously gifted to our LFL by Ballantine Books.

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The cover of "The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club" by Martha Hall Kelly.
September 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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As fall sets in, even if cooler temperatures do not, settle into the continuing AC with "The Accidental Favorite"-- a family dramedy investigating the question so many of us have asked: do my parents have a favorite?

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The cover of "The Accidental Favorite" by Fran Littlewood.
August 20, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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A big thank you to Del Rey Books for the gift of "A Fate Inked in Blood" by Danielle Jensen!

An NYT Bestseller, Elle Best Book of the Year, & "THE must-read fantasy of of 2024!"

Available in our Little Free Library!

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The cover of "A Fate Inked in Blood" by Danielle l. Jensen.
August 20, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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A beach read for the weather we so richly deserve this weekend, thanks to Simon & Schuster, just released last week.

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The cover of "The Sandy Page Bookshop" by Hannah McKinnon.
July 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Anyone need a quiet read for our rolling summer thunderstorms?

Thanks, ‪@crownpublishing.bsky.social‬ for sharing "The Correspondent" by Virginia Evans with our Little Free Library.

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Cover of "The Correspondent" by Virginia Evans.
July 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Ohioans! Run, don't walk, to the BMV!

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(Each purchase buys a year of books for a child.)
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July 18, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Big thank you to Henry Holt for gifting this copy of "Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation" by Zaakir Tameez!

(You'll have to wait a little while longer to find it in the LFL, as I called first dibs!)

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The cover of "Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation" by Zaakir Tameez.
July 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Two country beach reads for our country beach! Thanks to Dell & Penguin Random House!

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The cover of "Holding the Reins" by Paisley Hope. The cover of "Riding the High" by Paisley Hope.
July 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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It's beach reading season!

Thanks, Dell & Penguin Random House for this fun addition to our lakeside LFL!

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The cover of "Beg, Borrow, or Steal" by Sarah Adams.
July 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM