The final total of books gifted to Ballou Library via the October Book Fair & Cyber Monday  holiday shopping (which continued all week), comes in just over 200 titles! Thank you so much for buying books and helping to spread the word for this DC high school!

The wish list remains open year-round and there are a ton of great books on it, all of them chosen and approved by Ballou students. These are books the teens want and we so enjoy doing everything we can to get these books to them.

In the coming days I will be moving things around a bit on the list, getting series books together so they are easier to find. (I really really REALLY wish that amazon had "search by title" and "search by author" functions. So frustrating!) And we will, of course, be continuing to assist Ballou to fill its shelves next year and hope that you will return to the list and also help us spread the word about the amazing work done by librarian Melissa Jackson.

Have a lovely holiday folks, and thanks again for all you do to support this high school library.

Lyrical, visceral, and wise, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz haunts the melancholy middle between heartbreak and hope.



In Sal’s case, he scrapes together every illuminating spark: the tenacity of Fito, the loyalty of Sam, the grace of his father, the serenity of his grandmother. And through the spark of The Inexplicable Logic of My Life and Sáenz’s luminous prose, we learn anew how family is forged by more than blood—and though who we are is our life’s work, identity is never a solitary act.

Mensen bewust besmetten met coronavirus is snelste manier om vaccin te testen, maar kunnen we dat risico wel nemen?  Gazet van AntwerpenHele verhaal bekijken via Google Nieuws

1. DFL-preses na coronagevallen bij Dresden: "Geen reden om te twijfelen"  sporza.be
2. Volledige ploeg Dynamo Dresden moet één week voor herstart Duitse competitie in quarantaine: “Kunnen 14 dagen niet spelen”  Het Laatste Nieuws
3. Al 3 spelers besmet: "Niet twijfelen aan de voortzetting 2. Bundesliga"  VoetbalNieuws.be
4. 2 extra besmettingen bij Dresden: team in quarantaine en duel met Hannover uitgesteld  sporza.be
5. Geen twijfels over hervatting Duits voetbal na nieuwe besmettingen: “Vanaf het begin gezegd dat we hierop voorbereid zijn”  Het Laatste Nieuws
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1. Tubeke krijgt geen licentie en zakt naar tweede amateurklasse  Het Laatste Nieuws
2. Tubeke vangt bot bij BAS en zakt naar tweede amateurklasse  sporza.be
3. Tubeke krijgt geen licentie nationale amateurs en zakt voor het tweede seizoen op rij  Het Nieuwsblad
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Valerie De Booser poseert op zwoele wijze. En haar nieuwe liefde? Die reageert ZO! (foto)  Zita.beHele verhaal bekijken via Google Nieuws

1. IJsland wint virtueel Eurovisiesongfestival, België eindigt ...  De Standaard
2. IJsland wint 'virtueel Songfestival', België eindigt vijfde | Eurovisiesongfestival | Showbizz  Het Laatste Nieuws
3. IJsland wint alternatieve Eurovisiesongfestival online, België wordt vijfde  VRT NWS
4. België vijfde op (virtueel) Eurovisiesongfestival, IJsland w...  Het Nieuwsblad
5. IJsland wint online Songfestival 'Eurostream 2020', België 5e  songfestival.be
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1. Zijn hitlijst was lang, zijn invloed op latere iconen zoals The Beatles en Prince immens: flamboyant rock-'n-rollpionier Little Richard (87) is niet meer  Het Nieuwsblad
2. Rock-n'-rollpionier Little 'Tutti Frutti' Richard (87) overleden  Het Laatste Nieuws
3. Rock 'n' roll-pionier Little Richard is overleden, herontdek zijn grootste hits  VRT NWS
4. Little Richard drukte zware stempel op de rock-'n-roll  De Tijd
5. Muzieklegendes over Little Richard: “Als ik zijn muziek beluisterde, kon ik God horen”  Het Laatste Nieuws
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1. Deze onlinegames zijn nu veel beter dan bij hun lancering en ideaal in corona-tijden  AD.nl
2. Deze onlinegames werden veel beter met de tijd  Het Laatste Nieuws
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Experts luiden noodklok over misbruik coronasteun  Het Belang van LimburgHele verhaal bekijken via Google Nieuws

Italiaanse vrijwilligster 1,5 jaar na ontvoering in Kenia bevrijd  De MorgenHele verhaal bekijken via Google Nieuws

1. Voormalige TVL-kok 'Chef Moke' overleden (Wellen) - Het Belang van Limburg Mobile  Het Belang van Limburg
2. Wellense chef Moke Karmaoui overleden: “Je blijft ons grote voorbeeld en onze held”  Het Laatste Nieuws
3. Limburgse chef Moke Karmaoui (50) overleden: “Je blijft ons grote voorbeeld en onze held”  Het Laatste Nieuws
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Zes vriendinnen schrijven elk hun levensverhaal: “Ik was beschaamd en heb hier met niemand over gepraat. Tot nu”  Het Nieuwsblad

1. Oud-schepen die herstelde van covid-19 hield illegaal barbecuefeest  De Standaard
2. Burgemeester Veerle Heeren misnoegd na barbecuefeestje bij van corona herstelde ex-schepen  Het Belang van Limburg
3. Burgemeester misnoegd na barbecuefeestje bij van corona hers...  Het Nieuwsblad
4. Goedele Liekens reageert op illegale barbecue met ex-schepen: “Voor alle duidelijkheid, ik was daar niet hè”  Het Laatste Nieuws
5. Ex-schepen die herstelde van corona en OCMW-raadslid aanwezig op illegale barbecue, politie legt feestje stil  Het Laatste Nieuws
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WHITEBEARD so f*cking awesome even He-Man joined his crew

Archer and Korean Pop star Chou Tzuyu, of "Twice", may have hit the target on the coolest new way to flip your hair.

An Ohio State football fan doesn't need to walk 19 miles to prove their love, but it doesn't hurt.

That's what Redditor orweezy and some friends decided to do. But they didn't do it for the mileage, they did it to spell out the four most important letters to them.

Orweezy told his story Aug. 17.

My coworker friends and thought it would be cool to start off the football season by mapping and walking the Ohio Script this past weekend and using the stadium as the "I" dotting.

...We got like 8 miles into it and thought.... "you know this would have been better if we biked it" It took us 6 and a half hours of walking but we made a few bar stops so from 6:30am through 2:45pm. We were doing a work competition about fitness and the metrics used was time, so we walked everywhere and I think we just carried it over. I would rather bike it next time for sure.

The Ohio State Buckeyes will kick off their season on Sept. 7.

As Arizona's cities are laying off and furloughing workers because of cratering revenues as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, their Republican senator is telling them to toughen up. She isn't going to help them by voting for any financial support for state local government, citing that "blue state bailout" bullshit.

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More than two inexcusably long months after the modern-day lynching of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, the two men who ambushed and shot him for the "crime" of jogging-while-Black have been arrested and denied bond.

Mind you, it took that long, and cycling through three district attorneys to find one who would even go so far as to seat a grand jury to consider if there was enough evidence to charge these men with a crime, let alone arrest them. They were walking around free as birds, while Mr. Arbery's mother approached her son's birthday and first Mother's Day without him, in anguish.

What finally got them arrested, charged, and denied bond was the leaking of video taken by a man driving a truck behind the two who killed Mr. Arbery, shooting a video as grotesquely nonchalant as if he was simply recording his kids in a cute game of Cops and Robbers. Ironically, the video was leaked by a friend of the arrested men, in an attempt to clarify events surrounding the shooting. It was the resulting national outcry that motivated authorities in Georgia to finally take definitive action to cage the beasts and charge them with murder. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation took over and is now in charge of the case.

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Felix‘s hole feels a little tighter no? Pobrecito had broken his arm when rollerblading and is now recovering. So now he needs to catch up on all the cock he’s missed. Robert Royal, TimTales‘ flavor of the month has one beautiful long raw cock waiting for him. Time for Felix to get a little physical... View Article

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Friends describe me as sexy, intelligent and very self confident. I’m not cocky I just know my own worth. I love learning about what turns you on, I love exploring that. I love sports, cigars and sex. Chat with karl_bert.

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Researchers at Princeton University and the University of California-Los Angeles have found that the moon is at least 4.51 billion years old, or 40 million to 140 million years older than scientists previously thought. The findings — based on an analysis performed at Princeton on samples brought back from the moon in 1971 — provide an approximate date for the impact that could allow scientists to estimate when life on Earth began.

Researchers at Princeton and Rutgers universities have found that the hepatitis E virus — an emerging liver virus historically found in developing countries but now on the rise in Europe — uses a technique to spread infection that scientists could in fact exploit to treat the disease.

Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber issued a statement to the University community Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, on the federal immigration executive order.

Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber and 47 other American college and university presidents today sent a letter to President Trump urging him to "rectify or rescind the recent executive order closing our country's borders to immigrants and others from seven majority-Muslim countries and to refugees from throughout the world." "If left in place," the letters says, "the order threatens both American higher education and the defining principles of our country."

Princeton University Professor of Mathematics John Mather, remembered as a "great mathematician" with a reserved and pleasant demeanor, died Jan. 28 of complications from prostate cancer at his home in Princeton. He was 74.

Scientists know that two-star systems can support planets, but the question has remained whether an Earth-size terrestrial planet were orbiting two suns could it support life. A study in the journal Nature Communications has now found that an Earth-like planet orbiting two stars could be habitable if it were within a certain range from its two stars.

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (October 17, 2019) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will present the proposed cleanup options for the Vernay Laboratories Inc. site at a public meeting on Thursday, Oct. 24 in Yellow Springs. The information session will run from 5-7 p.m.

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Raubtiere, ein polygamer Zoodirektor namens Joe Exotic und ein Mordkomplott bilden den Rahmen der Erfolgsdoku "Tiger King". Was geschah hinter den Kulissen? Exotics Ex-Partner John Finlay erzählt seine Version.

Die Therapeutin und Autorin Lori Gottlieb erklärt, wie Freundschaften und Liebesbeziehungen besser gelingen, wenn man ehrlich mit eigenen Fehlern umgeht – und berichtet dabei von sich selbst.