Today, we’ll explore donation options in the Motor City.
Detroit has a rich library culture. The Detroit Public Library opened on March 25, 1865, in a single room of the old state Capitol building with a collection of about 5,000 books, and in 1886, it had grown to 70,000 books. Add a fierce independent-bookstore scene and a small army of literacy nonprofits, and you’ve got a city where good books don’t usually gather dust.
Imagine closing a book after the final chapter and seeing a payment notification on your phone. Sounds like the perfect job, right? Well… almost.
Most companies will not pay you simply to sit on the couch and enjoy a novel. They pay for what you do with the book afterward: write a review, improve a manuscript, record an audiobook, summarize its ideas, or help another reader decide whether it is worth picking up.
What happens in a world without death?
The Arc of a Scythe book series is an ongoing sensation within the Young Adult dystopian subgenre. With its captivating portrayal of a seemingly idyllic society that hides its rotten elements behind a picture-perfect façade, it has become a favorite among children, teenagers, and adults alike.
If you’re interested in understanding the lore, world, characters, and books of the series, worry not—here is the beginner’s guide to the Scythe book series.
A princess who must push herself out of distress, a marriage that is not what it seems, and a mysterious yet alluring guardian complicating what is already an impossible situation.
Despite its recent publishing date, the Shield of Sparrows series by Devney Perry has become the newest sensation on BookTok and Bookstagram for fans of romantasy slow-burn fiction with a dash of very light spice.
You buy a new book with every intention of reading it. Then work gets busy, your phone starts buzzing, and suddenly the book has sat untouched on the nightstand for three months.
The problem is usually not that you dislike reading. It is that reading has to compete with activities designed to demand your attention.
Reddit readers who finish dozens (or even hundreds) of books a year rarely rely on superhuman discipline or speed-reading tricks. They make books easier to reach, choose stories they genuinely enjoy, and turn ordinary gaps in the day into reading time.
Some of the best stories ever written aren’t about romance or adventure. They’re about two people who decide to show up for each other.
This list covers the best books about friendship across every age group. Pick the section that fits the reader you’re shopping for (even if that reader is you).
Baltimore has long called itself “the city that reads,” and indeed, the city takes its books seriously.
The Enoch Pratt Free Library, established in 1882, was one of the first truly free public library systems in the US—founder Enoch Pratt insisted it be open to every resident “without distinction of race or color,” a genuinely radical idea at the time. Baltimore is home to many legendary writers like Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Frederick Douglass, H.L. Mencken, and Anne Tyler, to name a few.
As you look up to the sky at night, you get to see the silver gleam of the moon—what if it were a dormant dragon, choosing the skies as its final resting place when its time comes?
What if it were to fall?
This unique, fairy-tale-esque premise is at the heart of the Moonfall series by author Sarah A. Parker, a romantasy following a snarky assassin, a broody dragon-riding king, and a mystery that intertwines the past and the present.
In our earlier article, we’ve covered the topic of book scouting from every angle (you can read it on our blog — The Definitive Guide to Book Scouting), and we also singled out another meaning for the term book sourcing (or book hunting), where we specifically highlighted used book hunting and reselling, as well as making a profit on second-hand books.
We also mentioned the tools that book scouts use to find books and resell them most profitably (on Amazon and not only).
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