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Free E-books For Patients Under Quarantine

In South Korea an e-book subscription service that began in 2017, Millie’s Library, is offering people under home quarantine and coronavirus patients free access to their 50,000 title library for two months. “Millie’s said that its decision to allow free access to its library was a way of ‘giving back to society.’”

Mobile Library

The Echo Mobile Library in Greece was founded in 2016 and operates thanks to its 15 volunteer team to bring books to refugee camps. “’There is one family who speak Urdu and the mother had made her way through every single Urdu book we had,’ Dignan says. ‘When I was back in London I looked all over the place for another Urdu book and eventually I found one.’”

2020 Lambda Literary Awards Finalists!

Prepare the TBR: the Lambda Literary Awards Finalists for 2020 have been announced. Categories range from Lesbian Fiction to LGBTQ Studies and include genre categories like romance, sci-fi/fantasy, poetry and mystery. And nonfiction is especially exceptional with finalists like Ordinary Girls; How We Fight For Our Lives; In The Dream House; Real Queer America; Long Live The Tribe Of Fatherless Girls. Your next great read is definitely on the Lambda finalist list!