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A depository of literary materials of historic and contemporary value; for exhibition and public access. It is a research and serene study conducive library.

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'Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.' - Taryn Simon
Celebrating International Archives Day at your favorite Historic Reference Collection.

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"It's a magical, secret place," she said, eyes wide, waving her hands around like a magic wand, trying to make it sound every bit as fantastical as as it were in her head...
From 'Mulberry dreams'
-Violette Kee- Tui

Available at your nearest BPL branch.😊

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Good day.
Here's an excerpt from today's absolutely fantastic 'Book of the week.'
"Why don't you have a swimming pool?" said a nine year old boy with blond hair almost the same shade as his skin and impossibly skinny legs that made his knees stand out like clenched fists...

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"We've got something better than a swimming pool," Emma told the pair of fat, ruddy-cheeked twins she'd been saddled with for the afternoon.
"Jah, what?" they asked in unison.

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"My dad says all White people have swimming pools. Blacks don't coz they can't swim. My dad says it has something to do with their brains not being as big as ours."

From 'Mulberry dreams'
-Violette Kee- Tui

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@ThuliKinging @ChronicleZim The prevalent print error from book number four is that each title's publication year's in the title it precedes.

So that book number eight is published in 1918, and Phathisa Nyathi's 'Traditional Ceremonies of AmaNdebele' in 2001.

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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
-Aldous Huxley, Collected essaysLetters to the Editor: 105 books you didn’t know were in Bulawayo https://t.co/N8L0xr7jmm via @ChronicleZim

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They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird."

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And here's our book excerpt for the week of 21-26 October, 2019. George Orwell's '1984'- Part 2, chapter 5:

"One knew that it was all rubbish, so why let oneself be worried by it? She knew when to cheer and when to boo, and that was all one needed...

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...because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane...

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...It was inconceivable to think these would disappear. They seemed permanent. Now not one of them remains-and I think that that is a recipe for optimism!"

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Here's an excerpt from a Q and A on Dorris Lessing's 'The Golden Notebook' Our book of the week.

Sarah O'Reilly, "You've lived through one of the most tulmutuous centuries in our history. How has that affected you?"

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Dorris Lessing, "Well, I've lived through Hitler, ranting and raving; Mussolini too; the Soviet Union, which we thought would last for all time; the British empire, which seemed impregnable; the colour bar in Rhodesia and elsewhere; the heyday of European empires...

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That knife that sheared its wool
-for your own good-same tool
That ends its life for wine and feast.
Those who cry FREEDOM learn to desist.

01/01/18
-Philtrum
-Philani A. Nyoni

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Poem titled 'The 2nd Republic' from our book of the week

The decanter is new the spirit old
It’s been here since nineteen-bloody-time
Carbine-t sauvignon, thick as guerilla mud
Tastes of iron, like the tinkling of dimes: ...

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God and the sun blinded in gunpowder smoke
To not hear the silencing of the cuddly lamb.
Curdling, blood bubbling, the wound chokes, ...