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      <image:caption>This guy gets it. Use your own brain, not generative AI.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>BIPOC authors should be celebrated on World Book Day.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Add some African authors to your TBR list in 2025.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ali Wong is a bonafide celebrity, who is also an author, so she’d be the perfect host for a book club.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Proof that Lori L. Tharps is a global literary citizen and book nerd. When she travels, she takes pictures of herself with books.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Malaga is a literary city, with plenty of bookstores and book festivals.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Don’t forget to check your local library in Malaga for books in English. You never know what literary treasures you could find.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Welcome to Marrakech!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Koutoubia Mosque translates to the Bookseller’s Mosque because Marrakech was once the epicenter for booksellers.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>I was hoping to find traditional booksellers in the medina, but I didn’t meet any on this trip. Maybe next time!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The cozy, but elegant library at the Jnane Tamsna hotel just requires readers to settle in and read a book.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Cyber Parc in Marrakech is lush and green and there’s a designated reader’s corner where you can sit and read your favorite book!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>For an inexpensive and easy DIY Writing retreat in Marrakech, book a stay in traditional riad.</image:caption>
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