{"id":8972,"date":"2011-01-26T13:46:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T21:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=8972"},"modified":"2011-01-26T13:46:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T21:46:42","slug":"keep-texas-reading-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=8972","title":{"rendered":"Keep Texas Reading, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/newlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/readingcowboy1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8970\" title=\"readingcowboy\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/newlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/readingcowboy1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"417\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year, I held a<a href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=2920\"> Book Drive <\/a>at my studio to benefit a used bookstore in Laredo, Texas, after the town of over a quarter of a million people lost their one and only bookstore, a \u00c2\u00a0B. Dalton. Thanks to book donations from the community, The Laredo Center for the Arts opened a store, now called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laredoartcenter.org\/Bookstore.html\">The Book Nook.<\/a> The Book Nook operates solely through the generosity of donations and its volunteers are grateful for any help. Let&#8217;s help the good people of Laredo have access to books. Besides books, they accept dvds, videotapes and magazines. Your used children&#8217;s books are especially appreciated. <em>Please contact AnnaIsabel Alvarez at (956) 725-1715 for more information.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This week, the artists and crews on Family Guy, American Dad and The Cleveland Show really came through, and we are sending off piles of dusty tomes \u00c2\u00a0 &#8211; from Foucault to Trixie Belden and the Mysterious Visitor to Weightlifting for Dummies &#8211; to the Wild West.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/newlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8971\" title=\"books\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/newlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/books.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My assistant Lindsay sorting books. We realized we can tell <em>a lot<\/em> of our co-workers by their books.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I held a Book Drive at my studio to benefit a used bookstore in Laredo, Texas, after the town of over a quarter of a million people lost their one and only bookstore, a \u00c2\u00a0B. Dalton. 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