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Quick Pic: Sometimes The Critters Win

January 25, 2013 Beth Doyle

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Books always tell you what sort of lives they have lead. Sometimes those clues are very subtle and hard to tease out, sometimes it is easy to see what has happened prior to them coming to the library. Occasionally the critters win the battle if not the war.




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