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Book Beveling

Kelly Mayfield

Slicing through books from the lens of a reader, writer and librarian; the intersection is rarely a perfect right angle.

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    Reader, writer, and high school librarian. Author of The Quick-Start Library Guide (Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, 2025).

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