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Shelf Life puts books by local and regional authors into free libraries and book exchanges across the Tri-Cities.Every three months, readers vote on a shortlist of books by writers from Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. The winning book gets purchased at full retail from a Tri-Cities indie bookstore, and we tuck copies into free libraries around the metro with a Folklore bookplate inside so whoever finds it knows where it came from.Your gift is what buys the books. Every $25 places a new title in a free library somewhere in Richland, Kennewick, Pasco, or West Richland, where a reader can take it home, pass it along, or drop it back into a different library and keep it moving.

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