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"None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is." -- David Guterson,  Snow Falling on Cedars Be it because of politics or the upcoming family gathering (or lack thereof) or your own personal demons, we all feel lost sometimes. Here are  some quotes to help bring you back ...

Well yes, they're horrible puns. But sometimes we all need a reason to crack a smile and these days are seeming darker than most. So with that caveat, have at it, Friends. Pre-emptive apologies. Why is John Milton terrible to invite to game night? Because when he's around, there's a pair of dice lost. What makes "Civil Disobedience" such a great essay? Thoreau editing . What happened when Past, Present, and Future walked into a bar? It was tense. How does Voltaire like his apples? Candied . Why did the run-on sentence think it was pregnant? Its period was late. When I was a kid, my teacher said, "Name two pronouns." I said, "Who, me?" What was Socrates' favorite thing to mold? Play dough . Why did Shakespeare write in pen? Because pencils confused him -- 2B or not 2B?? Honestly, everyone should just leave writing to the prose. That Charlotte Brontë, she's a breath of fresh Eyre. What do pregnant women and apostrop...

that will make you hungry for your lunch break -- both to eat AND read.

Print off the attached voucher and bring it with you to Barnes & Noble in Hadley on Sunday, December 4. A percentage of your purchases that day will be donated to the Jones. The only catch: you MUST present the voucher in order for the money to be donated to the library. OR, you can place an online order and enter the voucher code (12048773) upon checkout. (Click on image to enlarge.) Don't feel like printing this voucher out? Stop by the Jones and just pick up a copy!

Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of nine books, including The Inside of an Apple, Take It, Shake, Your Time Has Come, and two collaborations with Matthew Rohrer: Nice Hat. Thanks. and Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He is an editor at Wave Books and has translated numerous works of poetry and prose, including Micrograms, by Jorge Carrera Andrade, 5 Meters of Poems (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010) by Carlos Oquendo de Amat and Poker (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008) by Tomaž Šalamun, which was a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Award. Most recently, he has co-edited Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners. He is also the recipient of numerous other awards, including a NYFA fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Seattle and New York. Jeffrey Yang is the author of the poetry collections Vanishing-Line and An Aquarium. He is the translator of Liu Xiaobo’s June Fourth Elegies, Su Shi’s East Slope, and Ahmatja...

So we're country mice, not city mice and, as a result, we're a little late to the Books On The Subway game. But we think it's brilliant. Brilliant! Makes us want to have a subway in Amherst  just to leave books around stations.