{"id":314,"date":"2013-10-23T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2013\/10\/23\/calling-all-bibliophiles-and-bibliophobics-the-langsdale-book-sale-is-nigh\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:28:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:28:59","slug":"calling-all-bibliophiles-and-bibliophobics-the-langsdale-book-sale-is-nigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2013\/10\/23\/calling-all-bibliophiles-and-bibliophobics-the-langsdale-book-sale-is-nigh\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling All Bibliophiles and Bibliophobics:  The Langsdale Book Sale is Nigh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-W2w1IP18j4Q\/UmgvQLhmccI\/AAAAAAAAAI0\/L_SVU3jtkCA\/s1600\/scary+acl20130522-165926-742.jpg\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-W2w1IP18j4Q\/UmgvQLhmccI\/AAAAAAAAAI0\/L_SVU3jtkCA\/s320\/scary+acl20130522-165926-742.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">Are you looking for an extreme experience this Halloween?&nbsp;Is your idea of celebrating this spooky season all about facing your darkest fears head-on?&nbsp;There are haunted attractions that play into the many rational or irrational phobias of their patrons\u2014catering to frights such as coulrophobia, for instance (fear of clowns); phasmophobia (fear of ghosts); claustrophobia (fear of confined spaces);&nbsp; and achluophobia (fear of the dark). &nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">Not to be outdone this Halloween, Langsdale would like to invite you to its annual used book sale on October 30 and 31. Sure, it\u2019s not a haunted attraction per se, but if you suffer from bibliophobia (fear of books), the event will be completely terrifying.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">We have more books this year than ever before, and Langsdale Auditorium\u2019s gallery will be stacked with wall-to-wall tomes on any imaginable topic, taunting visitors with their insanely low prices ($2 for a hardback, $0.50 for a paperback; and on October 31<span style=\"font-size: x-small\">,&nbsp;<\/span>all-you-can-stuff-into-a-bag special for $1.)<span>&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">The scariest thing about the book sale is that it may be the last one for the foreseeable future, so don\u2019t miss out!<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">See you on <b>Wednesday, Oct. 30 from noon to 8 p.m. and on Thursday, Oct. 31&nbsp;from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m<\/b>. at Langsdale Auditorium, 1420 Maryland Avenue.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">Proceeds will benefit Langsdale\u2019s general fund. <span>&nbsp;<\/span>For questions, call the Langsdale Circulation Desk at 410.837.4260.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking for an extreme experience this Halloween?&nbsp;Is your idea of celebrating this spooky season all about facing your darkest fears head-on?&nbsp;There are haunted attractions that play into the many rational or irrational phobias of their patrons\u2014catering to frights <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2013\/10\/23\/calling-all-bibliophiles-and-bibliophobics-the-langsdale-book-sale-is-nigh\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Calling All Bibliophiles and Bibliophobics:  The Langsdale Book Sale is Nigh!<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[415,135,208,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}