Ilena Alvarez
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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Celebrating 30 years of fundraising for the Boca Raton Public Library!
FRIENDS OF THE BOCA RATON PUBLIC LIBRARY, In
Non-profit volunteer 501(c)(3) organization
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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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Ilena Alvarez
- Aug 13, 2021
- 2 min
the 'Friends' group
Susan Cushman has written a book that highlights the Friends of the Library. It is a compilation of short stories, set in a small town,...
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Ilena Alvarez
- Aug 6, 2021
- 3 min
Curious about the Friends of the Library origin story?
Our bookstore, from time to time, has carried both of these titles: The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes and The Book Woman of Troublesome...
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Ilena Alvarez
- Aug 6, 2021
- 1 min
Staff Picks for August: Writers and Lovers by Lily King (a review)
Writers and Lovers secured my membership into the Lily King fan club. The titular character Casey is grappling with her mother's death...
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Ilena Alvarez
- Jul 7, 2021
- 1 min
Do you want to build a series collection?
You can start this summer! Do you want to build a series to add to your bookshelves? What better way than to buy books at a book sale...
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Ilena Alvarez
- Jun 28, 2021
- 2 min
COVID CHANGED BOCA FRIENDS…IN AN AMAZING WAY
When life hands you a pandemic, you make an online store! The Friends of the Boca Raton Public Library are a group that even if you...
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Tracy Wasserman
- Oct 24, 2020
- 0 min
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Tracy Wasserman
- Jun 6, 2020
- 1 min
Did You Know?
Did you know that Friends retired Board member, Betty Grinnan, is a member of The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America?...
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Tracy Wasserman
- May 12, 2020
- 1 min
Susan Sosin retires from the Board
Long time Board member and past Friends Board president, Susan Sosin, has retired from the Friends Board, after serving for almost 20...
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Tracy Wasserman
- Apr 30, 2020
- 1 min
Our book club discussions go online!
Join our two monthly book club discussions online! We also feature local authors at our book club events, and at our Sunday Speaker...
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Tracy Wasserman
- Apr 11, 2020
- 1 min
The BRPL Giving Trees
Remember a loved one or memorialize a special event with an inscribed leaf on one of the Boca Raton Public Library's two Giving Trees.
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Faith Batt
- Apr 7, 2020
- 2 min
A 2019-2020 Season Recap
Thanks to you, our valued Friends Members and supporters, we are proud to have brought you a most succes 2019-20 season. Here are some of...
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