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Celebrating over 30 years of fundraising for the Boca Raton Public Library!
FRIENDS OF THE BOCA RATON PUBLIC LIBRARY, INC.,, In
Non-profit volunteer 501(c)(3) organization
(EIN #59-2004980)
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Ilena Alvarez
Jan 6, 20222 min read
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 19, 20213 min read
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, 20212 min read
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 28, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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
Sep 30, 20213 min read
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 23, 20213 min read
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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Ilena Alvarez
Sep 18, 20212 min read
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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Ilena Alvarez
Sep 13, 20213 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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 27, 20212 min read
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 23, 20200 min read
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Tracy Wasserman
Jun 6, 20201 min read
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 11, 20201 min read
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 29, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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 6, 20202 min read
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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