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Published February 08, 2012, 07:21 AM

Library column: Community Read

There have been a few books that I’ve read in my life that have sent me to the copy machine or a note pad to record passages that really spoke to me – passages that I don’t want to forget. One of the first was from John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath. This was required reading followed by a long paper in my sophomore college humanities class.

By: Karen Simmons, County Librarian, Alexandria Echo Press

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