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Of possible interest. Via @haymarketbooks

>Free Books for a Free Palestine

FTA: "If you’re setting up a liberation library at your Gaza solidarity encampment and you’d like some radical books, please write to us at orders[at]haymarketbooks.org and we’ll send some free books to get you started."

In addition, they are offering four e-books free to pretty much anyone interested.

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/508-free-books-for-a-free-palestine?utm_source=Haymarket+Newsletter&utm_campaign=f4cdb2d97b-EMAIL_Newsletter_2017_11_20_HOLIDAY1_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a36ffbc74a-f4cdb2d97b-333715369&mc_cid=f4cdb2d97b

Liz just wants a happy birthday.
Is that too much to ask?

A beautiful antique bed: her birthday present to herself. The nice delivery men set it up in her bedroom, and then all Hell breaks loose. Literally.

When it turns out the bed's former owner isn't basking in the glow of a happy afterlife, Liz must face some nasty adversaries to help him. Why on earth would she risk her life and her sanity to help a ghost? Certainly not because she’s in love with him.

Certainly not.

https://www.lauraperryauthor.com/the-bed

Paperback copy of The Bed by Laura Perry surrounded by text with arrows pointing to the book. The text reads "urban fantasy, haunted furniture, handsome ghost, demons and angels, annoying boyfriend, headstrong heroine."

Today in Labor History May 15, 1917: The Library Employees’ Union was founded in New York City. It was the first union of public library workers in the United States. One of their main goals was to elevate the low status of women library workers and their miserable salaries. Maud Malone (1873-1951) was a founding member of the union. She was also a militant suffragist and an infamous heckler at presidential campaign speeches.

@bookstadon

Maud Malone, 1914, in a feathered hat and glasses, overcoat and gloves, giving a speech. By Bain News Service, publisher - File:Maude_Malone_at_women's_suffrage_meeting,_May_1914.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=81475499

Scottish astronomer Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming was born in 1857.

Fleming's most significant contributions came in the field of stellar classification. She developed a system for classifying stars based on their spectra, which became known as the Harvard Classification Scheme. In 1890, she published the first catalog of stellar spectra, which contained over 10,000 stars classified according to her system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification#Harvard_spectral_classification

Harvard Computers working in a room in the new brick building, built in 1892. According to the information of a calendar shown in the image, this photo taken in March 1898. Williamina Fleming is standing. Immediatly in front of her are Evelyn Leland (back row center) and Ida E. Woods to the right. The rest are unknown, but the woman closest to the camera could be Annie Jump Cannon. This description is based on http://heawww.harvard.edu/~fine/Observatory/eleland.html#ComputersBrickBuilding Photo credit: UAV 630.271 (E4116), olvwork432388. Harvard University Archives.
Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming (1857-1911), circa 1890s. (Courtesy Curator of Astronomical Photographs at Harvard College Observatory.) Unknown author - http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/lib/online/almanac/0300c.htm

"If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain."
Life, p. 6 - Collected Poems (1993)

American lyric poet Emily Dickinson died in 1888. Although she wrote 1789 poems, only a few of them were published in her lifetime, all anonymously, and some perhaps without her knowledge.

Emily Dickinson at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/996

Daguerreotype taken at Mount Holyoke, December 1846 or early 1847; the only authenticated portrait of Dickinson after early childhood.
Cover of the first edition of Poems, published in 1890

Relentless pursuit and a grisly murder. ‘Hide and Seek’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Stirling Castle and more widely across Scotland during World War Two. It uses many real settings, transported eight decades back in time.

This modern image shows a recreation of a Travellers’ camp at the Highland Folk Museum that has similarities to one visited in Perthshire by two of the central characters in the book.

Find out more on our website:
https://www.arachnid.scot/book-has/index.html

This modern image shows a recreation of a Travellers’ camp at the Highland Folk Museum. There’s a cart in the foreground with a hooped tent beyond it, covered by a green tarpaulin, standing in a woodland clearing. The front cover of ‘Hide and Seek’ is shown in the bottom right corner.