city library

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“I have nothing,” he said, as he tried to make some money repairing an old car at a homeless encampment across from the city library.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2023

“We’re known for the port,” she said Thursday afternoon outside a city library where she had just dropped off her ballot.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2022

“The Friends has been very careful not to fund, through private philanthropy, the business of being the library: being a city library means paying for hours, staff, facilities maintenance.”

From Washington Times • Dec. 16, 2019

We’re talking in a cafe by the river Lee in Cork, after a discussion of her work in the city library.

From The Guardian • Sep. 4, 2016

There it was, monster, in black and white, in a battered dictionary in a great city library.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides