Jacob Kimbarow
Veteran's Day
One of the best ways to learn about a topic that you did not experience yourself, is to read the stories from the people who did have...
Celebrating 30 years of fundraising for the Boca Raton Public Library!
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Jacob Kimbarow
- Oct 19
- 2 min
Reading: The Story of My Life
I had the pleasure of visiting The Friends Of The Boca Raton Public Library bookstore for the first time this past weekend. As I...
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Ilena Alvarez
- Mar 4
- 5 min
The Gentle Soul: Maeve Binchy
I have always been fascinated by Maeve (pronounced mayve) Binchy. As an early reader, I came across a book titled “Circle of Friends.” I...
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Ilena Alvarez
- Mar 2
- 2 min
The Docent Life
Docent (defined): an individual with an academic appointment for the institutions they serve. Our Speaker Series is up and running and...
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Ilena Alvarez
- Feb 18
- 2 min
Murder, But Make it Cozy
Hi, everyone! It’s hard to believe February is in full swing. What is time anymore? What is life? I believe it’s all about perspective....
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Ilena Alvarez
- Feb 11
- 1 min
The Cool Cat: James Baldwin
I don't think anyone can look cooler than James Baldwin looks in this picture. And as charismatic and classic as he looks on the outside,...
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Ilena Alvarez
- Feb 7
- 3 min
Valentine's Day: A Survival Guide
Valentine's Day is a day loved or dreaded 'round the world and the reasons for these strong, antagonistic feelings are obvious. This post...
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Ilena Alvarez
- Jan 31
- 2 min
The Cain and Abel Murder Weapon
Here is the stated description of Cain’s Jawbone, by Edward Powys Mathers: Six murders. One hundred pages. Millions of possible...
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Ilena Alvarez
- Jan 7
- 2 min
Happy New Year, Everyone!
The end of 2021. Did everyone have a good celebration? Were you like me who had a busy day, took a nice, long nap, and woke up just a few...
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Ilena Alvarez
- Nov 23, 2021
- 1 min
Black Friday Sale (and Saturday too!)
As a continuation from my last post... Above is just a small sampling of the books yours truly will donate on Friday morning. And there's...
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Ilena Alvarez
- Nov 19, 2021
- 3 min
The Great Purge
Hello! I hope this blog post finds everyone in a good place. During the pandemic, it felt like it was go-go-go and I haven't had a chance...
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Ilena Alvarez
- Nov 11, 2021
- 2 min
Veterans Day (f/k/a Armistice Day)
Veterans Day originated from the cessation of hostilities between the Allied nations and Germany on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day...
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Ilena Alvarez
- Oct 29, 2021
- 2 min
Florida: Not for the Faint-Hearted
Florida -- what an odd, yet magnificent state. When they say, "be a tourist in your hometown," well, this is certainly the kind of place...
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Ilena Alvarez
- Oct 17, 2021
- 2 min
October "Spooky?" Reading Recommendations: Books by Caitlin Doughty
I am not a usually morbid person. However, I do practice in trusts and estates in my day job and therefore, death, is often on the...
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ilena2
- Oct 1, 2021
- 3 min
Chanel Cleeton's First Historical Book on Cuba: Next Year in Havana (a review)
This amazing book contains all my thoughts and feelings I've harbored about Cuba my entire life. And I want to personally thank Chanel...
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Ilena Alvarez
- Sep 24, 2021
- 3 min
When Nonfiction Informs Fiction: A Romance Novelist Gets Conned out of $17M
In the 1906 edition of The King's English, H.W. Fowler declared: "A thing is unique, or not unique; there are no degrees of uniqueness;...
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Ranique Vissey
- Sep 24, 2021
- 1 min
(Guess the amount of) Candy Corn and You Can Win a Prize!
And before leaving, please check out our new store hours announcement below! Fall is in the air. We encourage our customers to come in...
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Ilena Alvarez
- Sep 18, 2021
- 2 min
Books on Wheels
Traveling bookstores/bookmobiles are not a new thing. But they seem to be a labor of love and not common. The rarity is not a statistical...
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Ranique Vissey
- Sep 14, 2021
- 1 min
Why don't you join our September book club meetings?
The Friends of the Boca Raton Public Library presents two book club meetings this month. The first meeting of the month will be held on...
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Ilena Alvarez
- Sep 14, 2021
- 3 min
Friends of the Boca Public Library, Part III of the Series
We have arrived at the 3rd part of this series where I zone in on our Friends of the Boca Public Library. In light of the Friends'...
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