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Join Mayor Jim Brainard and Indiana’s own award-winning author James Alexander Thom as they celebrate the literary arts with the unveiling of the Little Free Library at noon on Monday, Aug. 13.
Representatives from Anderson Birkla, Signworks, Inc., Carmel Clay Public Library Foundation and Software Engineering Professionals will also be on hand to celebrate their partnership with the city to generate a love of reading and endorse the community’s book exchange.
The Little Free Library, a replica of a London phone booth along with two reading benches, provides a book sharing program to promote access to readers both young and old. The reading benches physically feature the following Indiana authors as well as their books:
- James Alexander Thom – Follow the River
- Mari Evans – A Dark & Splendid Mass
- John Green – The Fault in our Stars
- Gene Stratton Porter – A Girl of the Limberlost
- Kurt Vonnegut – Complete Stories
- James Whitcomb Riley – Little Orphant Annie
The event will take place at the southeast corner of the Tarkington Theater Garage west of the Monon Trail.