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  Du'Notte Travel Agency

  Zor Alexander, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  The Du'Notte Travel Agency provides tourists with alternative indoor plans for equally exciting adventures at home as to what you might find elsewhere. As Emerson says, "traveling is a fool's paradise." Why go anywhere at all? Du'Notte!

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  Telltales

  Clarisse Angkasa, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  A narrative retelling of disturbing events in history

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  Pointless

  Anonymous, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Thank you for staying and reading.

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  Only For So Long

  Elsa Barrientos, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Unless our population changes its ways, these landscapes that are so familiar to us now will last only for so long. This book illustrates the impact climate change will have on our environment in the years to come.

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  Glass Is Skin Is Water Is

  Raghvi Bhatia, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Glass/Skin/ Water can flow or can crash. This book uses liquidity or fluidity as a trope to speak about intertwine topics of memory, religion, ritual, and torture. In my project, the anxiety is in the water because of the inherent volatility of all the systems to which it alludes.

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  ABC of Me

  Georgina Bronheim, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  ACB of Me is a poem about when I moved to America at age 4 and learned to speak English.

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  The Mistaken Belief That If You Obscure Your Past, It Won't Affect Your Children's Futures; Or I Love You, Grandma, But We've Learned Some Fucked-Up Things

  Madeleine Cherr, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This project is partly an exploration of how WW2 and secondarily pre-war anti-Jewish pogroms affected my family, and also partly autobiographical. In this, I try to outline the process and discomfort of learning details of my family's ethnicity and wartime trauma that my grandmother hid from her husband and children.

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  Designer Book Project

  Donna Christy, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This is an intimate double-sided book-within-a book between 'you', the reader, and 'me', Italian designer Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007). First, Sottsass takes the reader on a brief but comprehensive retrospective of his work in architecture, interior design, furniture, glass, product design, painting, sculpture, and the radical Memphis movement. Upon turning the last page of Sottsass's work, the book then morphs to begin the 'book within a book': the reader is engaged with projects in Sottsass's voice that mirror the above design categories. These challenges are to be completed in the book. Since the red Olivetti typewriter is an iconic Sottsass design, typed personal notes to the reader from Sottsass about his work and related interactive projects in both sections of this book enveloper the reader in a personal design journey.

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  Bond.

  Joshua Coverdale, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  It's a book about my self. Personal experiences of being black and Muslim in America.

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  Drawn Marks And Cavities

  Daphne Do, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  body marks and cavities drawn on milky plexiglass. turning intimate aspects of myself into an anonymous entity of self examination that is both personal and impersonal. leaving elements generic yet familiar.

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  BIRTHER / [birth her]

  Kiran D'Souza, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  My coming-out story, my mother's experience with pregnancy and motherhood, and the connection between the two.

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  A Voyage For Fools

  Daniel Fidoten, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  A whaler's blind pursuit of a beast leads him down a dark path.

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  122 Brook to 41 Sheldon

  Elena Foraker, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  2018. 608 page hand-sewn book featuring every letter or number found on a block in Providence. Each word or phrase is accompanied by the shape of the material it was found on (gas meter, stop sign, sticker, etc). The block I chose is very residential and I had to peer around houses to collect the text. The letters are skewed to demonstrate this action of viewing everything at strange angles.

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  The Body Is All Underground

  Lucy Freedman, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This piece is a book series of collected images admiring the beauty and charm of photographs of women's bodies as compared to the erotic nature of mushrooms.

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  One-Handed Book

  Sabrina Futch, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  In eighteenth-century Europe, upper-class women's increasing access to education coincided with the invention of the novel. Both of these were considered frivolous by men, who believed that reading was a waste of women's time. Furthermore, we have proof that some of the novels kept by women contained explicit sexual content, which encouraged women to celebrate their sexuality in a way they never had before. This zine is a tribute to those little books, informally known as "one-handed books", little-known catalysts of a wave of eighteenth-century female empowerment.

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  Intraphysicum Apocrypha

  Mackay Hare, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Zen-anarchism Blend-Tec™ blended with a thoroughly scattered mind. A communique from void.

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  Dad, I Love You

  Joseph Inglima, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  At a young age I decided that I was always going to love my Dad, through thick and thin. These cards display the journey through the hard times to the happy times of our relationship. Each card has a quote my Dad said to me in his real hand writing, the opposite side of the card sheds some abstract context on the quote.

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  Private Bathroom

  Jae Jang, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  The book, Private Bathroom (2018), plays with the notion of "Private and Public". Series of photos depict myself inside the bathroom, exposing the most private space of the house. Oddity of the actions can be interpreted as an authentic act because of its unconventionality. However, the idiosyncrasy can also be interpreted as a performance with the awareness of the camera.

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  Iceberg

  April Jiang, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  A tale about global warming: a snow giant sacrificed himself to save mankind and the earth.

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  Magic Kit

  Reiley Johnson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This kit is meant to empower those who are feeling downtrodden in the current political climate, and allow them to take back some power for themselves. The magic kit is divided into two categories: ‘curse’ and ‘countercurse’. Cast the curses to exact revenge for wrongdoings, and cast the countercurses to protect yourself from harm and ill intent.

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  Pillow Book

  Abbi Kenny, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  My pillow book is a soft intractable object, I made using a Tajima 15 needle digital embroidery machine and hand sewing for the construction. The images were drawn and designed in Adobe Illustrator from my own reference photographs of people who are close to me. I then translated the illustrator file to a digital embroidery file in the embroidery program. This book is meant to be tender, like a stuff animal or something one could sleep next to.

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  Five Second Crushes

  Mishelle Kim, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

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  Red Disk

  Nikki Klein, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  an exploration of shape, form, color, pattern, texture, and line, using red as the primary color and including some interactive components.

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  Drips

  Yingshuet Lam, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Catch a cold during summer, thanks to the unnecessary low temperatures the AC brings.

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  2752 Scientists

  Henry Leland, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This artist book shows the 2752 scientists in the American Academy of Arts and Scientists who agree that rising global temperature is caused by humans. To achieve this look of this book, I laser cut through a thin black top layer on artist board to reveal the white board underneath. I also included a popup in the first pages which represents the Earth.

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  The Bookbinder

  Yvonne Liang, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This book is about Jim DiMarcantonio, a professional bookbinder, both as a bookbinding expert and ordinary human, about how he sees his work, life and relationship with books, and how he portrays himself. It’s about what I have gained from my first ten visits to his studio, my impression of him, also the relationship I have built with him over these visits.

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  Disappearing of Glaciers

  Jiayi Li, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  The white side shows the normal glaciers we see, but what will happen to glaciers in the future? Turn it over, the black side is the answer.

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  The Market

  Florence Liu, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This portfolio contains letterpress prints on handmade vegetable paper. Materials: Carrots, Bell Peppers, Tomatoes, Squash, Zucchini, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Daikon, Eggplant, Beetroot, Lokta paper, Wood An argument about the USDA standard of food labeling and contemporary marketing strategies.

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  Recording of Math Review

  Meichen Liu, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  I like math very much. I tried to review math by doing my design assignment. Through experiments, I found that printmaking is a good way to fulfill my goal. I made a book with printmaking of math problems on it.

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  16 to 6

  Xubai Li, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Inspired by ancient Chinese text, I Ching, also known as Book of Changes, the piece is not just based on the 16 abstracted ideas: Simplicity etc. Rather, it developed the further abstraction on the relationship between each words using symbolism. The mechanism embedded within the piece coincides with the ideology which I Ching represents: reflect the universe, the ever-changing, from the eight elements, the unchangeable.

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  Playing in a Dollhouse

  Lauren Marin, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Dreaming and playing never gets old, only our ways of dreaming and playing. We abandon our dolls and their homes and try not to make a mess of our own homes. This book is about the nostalgic feelings of growing up, specifically, the realization of growing up without having noticed.

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  Dear HUMANITY...

  Clarence Mensah, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  The book calls out climate change deniers, and consists of illustrative posters that could on their own present facts about climate change. Together, they present a narrative of coercion: asking people to take climate change seriously. As a letter to humanity, the sea level rises on each page to illustrate the ticking clock.The piece also discusses the role of business and 'economic growth' in propagating global warming and climate change.

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  Cartesian Circle

  Travis Morehead, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  The result of two cameras looking through each other at the clouds. Recorded with two Hasseblad 501cm's on one roll of film each.

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  Changing Clownfish

  Eleanor Olson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Clownfish are quite unique, both in their relationship to sea anemones and their sequential hermaphroditism. While sea anemones have a deadly sting, clownfish have a mucous membrane that protects them and allows the clownfish to make its home within the anemone. This relationship is highly beneficial, as the anemone provides the clownfish with protection and leftovers from its own meals, and in return the clownfish lure other fish to provide the anemone with food as well as cleaning the anemone. Small groups of clownfish live in anemones, the largest of which is the only female of the group. The second largest of the group is a sexually mature male clownfish, called a secondary male, and the other fish living them them are all primary males, or non-reproductive males. If the female of the group was to die, then the secondary male would become the female and the largest of the primary males would take his place. The writing on the fish tells the story of this sequential hermaphroditism. In the beginning, we were all boys As we grew, some of us became pairs One matures female, the smaller male Our queen in the largest and all the boys follow her Hoping that one day we too can mature

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  The Envinronmental Cost of 2 day Free Shipping

  Utkan ÖncÜl, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This is a book showing two sides of free two day express delivery used as a marketing strategy for major online retailers. In order to compete against in-store retailers they promise to deliver the goods within two days which seriously harms the environment. Of course the companies do not portray the crude side of things to the customers and make it seem glamorous and thats why the first side of the book has illustrations and pop-ups. Conversely, the other side is simple, mundane and perhaps decaying in order to show the harm to the environment behind the process. If one side grabs the attention of the 21st century reader, the back-side represents the actual reality and they are both crucial to the concept. Finally, the experience is delivered with an actual amazon box which the reader has to open up with a knife and than take out the unnecessary packaging to reach the book because I wanted to imitate the experience lived when a product previously ordered online is being unpackaged.

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  Verses Shared

  Olivia Orr, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  My best friend Jon and I are Christians, and as we have grown closer we began to send each other Bible verses almost everyday. Jon is an incredible blessing in my life, and the verses he has sent me are a daily encouragement. I created these books which catalog all of the verses shared to capture the special relationship God has created between the two of us, and to share these encouragements with an even broader audience.

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  There was nothing but small Land and big Sun.

  Yeonsu Park, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This is a book about climate change. I got interested with two side effects that has opposite process. As sea level arises, lands get smaller and smaller. However, the ozone wholes are getting bigger and bigger due to the toxic gas exposure. I made a two sided pop-up book with this opposite processed global warming environmental problem.

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  Strike Anywhere

  Cynthia Qiao, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Strike Anywhere is a series of five accordion books about endangered species due to habitat destruction and other forces by human population. The different species are created using painted transparent paper creating a visual fragility that represents the actual fragility of their existence. The two match boxes portray the "today" and "tomorrow" of endangered species which eventually become extinct. The ashes that fill the second box are also created using the same painted transparent paper as the species in the books.

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  Roses Blooming

  Adèle Roncey, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This is the story of someone I am close to, someone who wishes to keep their identity anonymous. This is a story during WWII in France. The title is a metaphor and refers to a name. It also represents the growth of a family that is spreading--a family that is blooming.

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  Mt.Holyoke, North Hampton MA after a Thunderstorm

  Adrienne Sarasy, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Mt.Holyoke, North Hampton MA after a Thunderstorm returns to the site of Hudson River School painter, Thomas Cole's famed landscape painting of the Oxbow at Mt.Holyoke. The images within the book record the author's hike to the summit of Mt. Holyoke in July 2018, through a series of land based works. The works explore Cole's relationship with the American wilderness alongside his anti-expansionist politics, while working to understand the representation of the American wilderness through the sublime of romanticism and unreal of photography. Over 150 years after Cole's own excursion, this book acts as a brief record of the wilderness that remains atop Mt.Holyoke.

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  weight/weighlessness

  Joel Seow, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  My book is about the night, weight, and waiting.

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  I Have Eleven Maggots In My Intestine

  Hongyu Shen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Observational drawings of flowers seen around campus.

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  The bear and the weasel

  Lindi Shi, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Two parallel stories about a bear and a weasel

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  Too Late

  Skip Showers, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  An artist’s book inspired by the effects of climate change and industrialization

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  Silent Sayings

  Benji Snyder, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Is a showcase of my poetry and promotion of my website

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  Wood steel and receipt paper

  Thomas Sronkoski, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Narrative on Climate Change

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  Doublethink

  Tamara Stahl, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This book is one of a series I’m creating, inspired by Voltaire’s "Philosophical Dictionary". His essays are satirical, humorous and frequently biting critiques of mainstream culture and politics. I have decided to create my own series of books, which will combine my love of collage and bookbinding with my love of expressive typography and illustration. “Doublethink” is the first one to be completed. Though it started in class, I will continue pursuing this project in future months.

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  Landmarks of My Life

  Estelle Stroud, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Landmarks of My Life is a book about the two cities I've lived in and their significance in my life. I wanted to make this book to show how I feel about the two wonderful cities that I call home and the specific locations I would spend time as a child because all of these place have had such an impact on the person that I am. These locations are still familiar and important to me today.

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  Exceed

  Parintorn Suwanpraipatana, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  “Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream” -extract from To A Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley The book asks viewers to reflect on the disconnection between the physical world and the mental world; in this instance, the limit of human physical facial expression as oppose to the depth of feelings. Happy or sad, the ranges of emotion shown is limited purely to how much the face can contort. Viewers are asked to “look inside” the closed book.

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  The Hawk, The Fish, The Girl

  Maggie Tseng, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This is a holistic piece about perspective. The book/zine focuses on 1 scenario from 3 outlooks. I wanted something that simply and subliminally reminded readers of the world outside of theirs that is never just right or wrong, real or unreal. Each perspective informs the other that doesn't fit into a binary of either or.

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  Sum of My Parts

  Skye Volmar, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  "Sum of My Parts" is a secret avowal of intimate "firsts." In it: drawings of dolls refer to the body made object, and poetic language to a dissonant mind. What's more, the narrative asks each viewer a question created in adolescent counselling, "Show me where on the doll..." Many of my initial experiences in sex, lust, love, and intimacy can be tracked back to childhood curiosity. Some of which, for lack of care, consent, or context were traumatic experiences. Despite growing support for "me too" and the sex positive movement, our society is still sexually repressive. Heteronormativity and hyper-masculinity are a product of the white, male, cis-gendered patriarchy, which privileges boisterous behavior by braggadocious men (from Kavanaugh to Trump). In reality, gendered violence, objectification, homophobia, transphobia, and rape-culture are rampant. This rhetoric produces shame surrounding some of our most meaningful moments. This book creates room for reflection. It suggests that some private parts are worth sharing, no matter what "they say." Don't mistake my vulnerability for weakness: my femininity, my womanhood, my queerness, my blackness, for weakness. I am delicate and strong. I am quiet, but you can not, will not, silence me.

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  Paradise

  Yiwen Wang, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This book is based on Lin Yi-han’s novel Fang Si-qi’s first love paradise. It tells the story of a 11-year-old girl being raped and sexually abused by her literature teacher during extra course. She couldn’t bear the betrayal of literature as a tool for such atrocity. She decided to fall in love with him. The novel was speculated to be based on Lin’s personal experience. After the novel was published, she committed suicide at her apartment in Taipei on April 27th, 2017.

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  For All that has Gone with the Train

  Yueying Wang, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Every moment on a train is densened and enriched with memories flushing-in and sceneries flying-by. The meaning of it changes when the length of a second is physically stretched or condensed as a result of a different moving speed in space. Looking out by the window of a train, the reactions of meeting the new and letting them go oscillated in such an overwhelming frequency, which makes every train journey an epitome of life--beyond the mere coordinate-change in time and space.

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  Demiurge

  Chloe Wilwerding, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This book tells a new origin narrative that uproots the anthropocentric and gendered hierarchies of the Genesis story.

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  Yujiang Wu, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Mauricio Kagel was a German-Argentine composer, film maker, dramatist, and performer. He devoted revolutionary works to the new music-theater genre, especially instrumental theater. Kagel blurred the distinctions between theatrical and musical performance, semantic and aesthetic listening. His pieces focused on the visual and kinetic nature of performance, dimensional space of the stage, the bodily presence of the performers, the three-dimensional space of the stage, and the spectacle of stage events. This book refers to six pieces of Kagel's works: Szenario, Debut, Repertoire, Parkett, Pas de cinq, and Kontra --> Danse. Inspired by Kagel's discovering new music-theater, this book functions as a collection of five pieces of alternative musical instruments.

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  Nothing to Fear

  Mason Zabrucky, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  The piece is a popup book encompassing the world issue of pollution, and the fact it's being ignored despite the clear evidence hence the name. The pollution is personified as a giant sludge monster putrefying everything around it.

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  Fer•rice Wheel

  Liekkas Zhang, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This is about how climate change affects agriculture. The global warming effect cause the cultivation of rice moves northward. It makes the rice dies away in one place and grows again in a new place.

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  Care(ful) Discovery

  Runqi Zhu, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  This book is a representation of the the preservation carpentry process from a crumbling start to a restored end. There is not much narrative unveiled on the surface of the book but within the structure. With a flashlight, the audience will be able to discover the whole story in the structural inner layer of the book, just like they will be able to see the work that carpenters have done when they peel away the paint and the first layer of the preserved wall.

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  This is a Book

  Kevin Ho, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  A narrative spanning across a series of three books exploring the idea of books being containers for stories and what happens when the characters in said stories try to escape their containers.