trends
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Food Trends for 2017
According to this article from Forbes, there are five important food trends to be on the lookout for next year. But don’t fear – The Seattle Public Library is on top of it. Stay a step ahead of everyone with these cookbooks! Continue reading
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Top Trends: The Irresistible “-ist” List
When you work at a library, some literary trends aren’t that hard to spot: you tend to trip over them. A while back we started seeing lobsters everywhere, which last year were replaced by tigers. We’ve done whole book displays over covers featuring just feet, or headless women. (One avid reader in Montreal is especially gifted at keeping an… Continue reading
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There’s a Lobster Loose!
Lately, walking around the library, I’ve become aware of lots of beady little eyes peering at me from the shelves, and snapping claws reaching out. For some reason the past year or so has seen a strange red tide of books with lobsters on their covers. Not cookbooks, but novels – oddball comic novels in particular.… Continue reading