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Murder at Midnight: The FBI’s battle with violence and drugs in a small Southern town  

September 29, 2025

By Erin WoodTrue crime readers and those who recall the 2016 murder of Susan Cooper in Malvern have a new perspective on the case from central Arkansas author Jerry Spurger, the FBI agent who worked the case from start to finish.   Murder at Midnight: The FBI’s battle with violence and drugs in a small Southern town (independently published by Spurgers) was released this summer, with a launch event in Conway

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River To Ridge: Arkansas’s Wildlife Management Areas  

September 5, 2025

By Erin WoodYears in the making, River To Ridge: Arkansas’s Wildlife Management Areas is a field and travel guide across the wildly varying terrain of the state’s natural areas. But thanks to the soothing photography and descriptive prose, readers don’t have to leave the comfort of their chairs to feel immersed in healing outdoor scenes.  From Bayou Meto to Sylamore, profiles of state Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) take up the

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Butterfly Dreams by Carol Dabney 

July 25, 2025

For Maumelle children’s book writer/illustrator and retired preschool music teacher Carol Dabney, connecting with young readers has meant hitting the road this summer. Dabney has traveled to locations across Arkansas and as far as St. Louis from libraries to Whole Foods stores and has in the past conducted butterfly release parties, children’s birthday and tea parties, baby showers, and other special events.   Equipped with her voice, her ukulele, and songs

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GC Library’s Bookmobile Provides Several Convenient Services 

May 29, 2025

Did you know that the Garland County Library has a bookmobile named Donna?   Items and services provided by Donna the Bookmobile include:   The library folks say, “This new service is staffed by a friendly, warm-blooded human.” Donna is equipped with a wheelchair-accessible lift.  Visit www.gclibrary.com/bookmobile to view the current schedule, which includes monthly stops at Artfully Baked and Brewed, Hot Springs Farmers and Artisans Market, Garland County Senior Center, and

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Fill the Kiddos’ Summer Time with the Summer Reading Program at GC Library 

April 27, 2025

If you have a kiddo, you won’t want to miss sign-ups for summer reading at the Garland County Library, June 10 – July 31!   The Summer Reading program is open to children ages 1-18. There is no deadline to sign up, but it’s best to sign up before June 10 so you don’t miss out on logging your reading hours to win amazing prizes. Participants can visit the library every

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Let’s Go to the Mall: An ‘80s Seek-and-Find 

April 6, 2025

By Erin WoodIf you’re a nostalgic ‘80s fan and love to go on the hunt Where’s-Waldo-for-adults style, you can’t miss Little Rock illustrator Sally Nixon’s latest, Let’s Go to the Mall: An ‘80s Seek-and-Find.    Featured at the 2024 Six Bridges Book Festival and published by the always-on-trend Chronicle Books, this retro twist on the seek-and-find book features 20 radical scenes of life in the 80s. Explore burger joints, video rental stores, and

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Read Between The Wines 

February 3, 2025

Literacy is key to living, as well as enjoying, life. So, all advocates of the written word should consider attending “Read Between The Wines,” a night benefitting the Literacy Council of the Ouachitas. This annual event has gained a reputation as a fun convergence of book lovers in the greater Hot Springs area. And this year’s event promises music, art, and history as well as words.  This year’s visiting author

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Shop Local Books This Season 

December 2, 2024

According to the American Booksellers Association, nearly a quarter of independent booksellers’ annual profits come from holiday sales. With holiday book-buying dollars, consumers can make significant impact on independent bookstores, small publishers, and local authors—and this can be done conveniently online.   Some considerations:  What is Amazon’s impact? Both author and publisher make pennies on the dollar. Most authors don’t sell the tens of thousands of copies necessary to earn a

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From Almeda to Zilphia: Arkansas Women Who Transformed American Popular Song 

September 30, 2024

By Erin Wood A new illustrated book about the musical and cultural impact of Arkansas women launched on September 17. “Women’s stories were underrepresented in Arkansas music history,” said author Stephen Koch about From Almeda To Zilphia: Arkansas Women Who Transformed American Popular Song.  “Despite their collective cultural impact, these women’s stories have too often been overlooked, forgotten, or never told.” Koch’s book profiles 30 artists with Arkansas connections who’ve influenced

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Two AR Books Represented at National Book Festival in D.C. 

September 1, 2024

By Erin WoodTwo 2024 Arkansas Center for the Book “Great Reads” selections represented our state at the 2024 National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., in August. The 2024 Festival theme was “Books Build Us Up.”   The 2024 Great Read for Youth is the picture book Cypress Knees and Tupelo Trees: Discovering Plants and Animals of the Swamp (Et Alia Press, 2023), written and illustrated by Cathy Melvin.  The 2024 Great

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2024 Six Bridges Book Festival

July 31, 2024

By Erin WoodThe Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) has announced the lineup for the 2024 Six Bridges Book Festival, which will be held September 23-29, 2024.   Celebrating its 21st year, the Six Bridges Book Festival will host approximately 50 authors in virtual and in-person panel discussions, readings, book signings, and other programs.  Most festival events will be free and open to the public and will be held at CALS’s Library

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Lottie Deno: A Novel of the Civil War & the American Southwest By Frank Thurmond 

June 28, 2024

By Erin WoodLittle Rock author Frank Thurmond says his latest novel “is inspired by fascinating historical events and real-life characters (including the author’s own 19th century namesake), and tells the story of an alluring young woman who gambles her way through the Texas frontier in search of her outlaw lover.”   Lottie Deno: A Novel of the Civil War and the American Southwest is a first-person account of a girl becoming

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