Books on First

Premier bookstore/coffeehouse in the heart of Dixon, IL.
Committed to being a great place to visit & community resource for reading, learning & enjoying life

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Radio will keep us connected https://t.co/CD3PYMVhLs Wonderful Perspective @WNIJNews , JuanPablo. Best of good luck in your future! Does "sister station in Chicago" mean @wbez ? If yes, you'll get to work with @discoverdixon's own @MaryLDixon !

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A couple of people just wanting to hang and sing some songs. We close at 8pm. Come on down!

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Sometimes, you just have to go inside. Look what's here @booksonfirst Fruit smoothies, Tools for School, Jim Duis's nature prints, lemon mini-cake, @gianna_pergamo stickers & much, much more

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Barbie has never been just a pretty face. https://t.co/DRindTeiUc

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So, are we “X” marks the spot now? Come non detto! We are cool regardless of whether we tweet, text, thread or titter! Stay cool with a hot book! (And just in, some incredibly scented candles from @novellyyours made in Illinois!)

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Hope you all had a great 4th of July. Sorry we weren’t open for your visit, but you were probably busy doing other fun things, right? We’ll be open as usual tomorrow at 7am. https://t.co/wBtZnlpMFv

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Perspective: The jungle of self-delusion @WNIJNews https://t.co/4bIMxBZOT1 wow!

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You gotta read the whole thread. @booksonfirst loves these adorable illustrations. Get your paper one here and visit all of us in the Midwest.

[Kevin Cannon ⚓️ @beardhero]

Reading in Public, West Des Moines IA
Printed Bookshop, Chicago IL
@booksonfirst, Dixon IL
@monarchinkc, Overland Park KS
@foxdenbooks, River Falls WI

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Elsie was just yesterday describing @Nachusa Grasslands to visitors. They as well as lots of locals have no idea what a treasure we have, decades in the making. No, Bill, you’re not crazy.

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#GordonLightfoot, Canadian folk legend, dies at 84 - Thinking of all the great songs he wrote & shared brings back so many memories. Tonight, make new memories hearing Harold Harrison share his ⁦@booksonfirst⁩ https://t.co/gp110ReTYz

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@RichardFulco Congratulations!!!!

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What a cool class with a cool teach & cooler participants!

[Amy Newman @NewmanAmyL]

You haven't really experienced Edna Pontellier until a student, for her final project, brings in her pink electric guitar and her amp and plays a song she wrote from the point of view of Edna as she is drowning titled "Bring on the Waves." #TheAwakening #teaching #literature

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Read any good books about us lately? Come in & celebrate #IndependentBookstoreDay with discounts and an entry for each non-cafe purchase >$5 to win a gift cert. Unless you're on a road trip! @Bookshop_Org offers free shipping ALL weekend. https://t.co/4Ev0s3zBs9

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We will be open on Easter Sunday, 10am - 1pm. Just enough time to get another Chocolate Creme Egg. What makes it special as a latte or as a loaded hot chocolate are the @torani flavours: Dark Chocolate, Salted Egg Yolk & Toasted Marshmallow!

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#SeymourStein was an unbeknownst great influence on my young life, also, Madonna (Just the other day, I was singing "People are people..." https://t.co/MK3dWR0Jqw

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*Since our regular hours are all in daylight now, for all those observant of Ramadan, don't worry, ask for one after 21Apr, and we'll be happy to make a Chocolate Creme Egg latte for you!

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Ramadan is happening. Passover is about to start this week. And Lent culiminates into Easter in a week! Do we have a drink for you. As a latte or a hubba-hubba hot chocolate, try the Chocolate Creme Egg. It's too much to describe here. Come in for one soon.*

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In case my tweet didn’t go out correctly:

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Joseph Flynn says, "After all, when they ban books, they will, in the end, ban human beings too. And if you think that is hyperbole, just go ask a librarian or history teacher." Hear more on today's #PerspectivesOnWNIJ https://t.co/2IEsN8R5GH

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Perspective @WNIJNews : The right to read https://t.co/0uEP5T1qxl
Amen. Thank you, Joe, and All Supporters of thoughtful (though maybe controversial) speech.

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Perspective @WNIJNews : The right to read https://t.co/0uEP5T1qxl
Amen. Thank you, Joe and every supporter of thoughtful speech.