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This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
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Include books by the same authorI Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
Gina Sheridan · 157 pages
From a patron's missing wetsuit to the scent of crab cakes wafting through the stacks, Sheridan showcases the oddities that have come across her circulation desk: encounters with local eccentrics; bizarre reference requests; and heart-warming stories of patrons who roam the stacks every day.
The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
Josh Hanagarne · 296 pages
The story of how a Mormon kid with Tourette's found salvation in books and weight-lifting.
The Burning Page
Genevieve Cogman · 448 pages
"Never judge a book by its cover. ... Due to her involvement in an unfortunate set of mishaps between the dragons and the Fae, Librarian spy Irene is stuck on probation, doing what should be simple fetch-and-retrieve projects for the mysterious Library. But trouble has a tendency of finding both Irene and her apprentice, Kai--a dragon prince--and, before they know it, they are entangled in more da
Wild About Books
Judy Sierra
A librarian named Mavis McGrew introduces the animals in the zoo to the joy of reading when she drives her bookmobile to the zoo by mistake.
The Case of the Missing Books
Ian Sansom · 344 pages
Israel Armstrong is a passionate soul, lured to Ireland by the promise of an exciting new career. Alas, the job that awaits him is not quite what he had in mind. Still, Israel is not one to dwell on disappointment, as he prepares to drive a mobile library around a small, damp Irish town. After all, the scenery is lovely, the people are charming—but where are the books? The rolling library's 15,000
The Boy Who Was Raised by Librarians
Carla Morris
Melvin discovers that the public library is the place where he can find just about anything--including three librarians who help in his quest for knowledge.
The Silence of the Library
Miranda James · 345 pages
Everyone in Athena, Mississippi, knows Charlie Harris, the librarian with a rescued Maine coon cat named Diesel. Hes returned to his hometown to immerse himself in books, but a celebrated authors visit draws an unruly swarm of fanatic mystery buffs, and one devious killer. Its National Library Week, and the Athena Public Library is planning an exhibit to honor the centenary of famous novelist Elec
Library Lil
Suzanne Williams · 32 pages
A formidable librarian makes readers not only out of the once resistant residents of her small town, but out of a tough-talking, television-watching motorcycle gang as well.
The Giver of Stars
Jojo Moyes · 432 pages
From the author of Me Before You, set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond. Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbeari
Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library
Don Borchert · 232 pages
Here is a ringside seat for the unlikely spectacle of mayhem and absurdity that is business as usual at the public library. Cops bust drug dealers who've set up shop in the men's restroom, a burka-wearing employee suffers a curse-ridden nervous breakdown, and a lonely, neglected kid who grew up in the library still sends postcards to his surrogate parents -- the librarians. From the first page of
The Reading Circle
Ashton Lee · 284 pages
With one year to show her library's value to the community, librarian Maura Beth Mayhew tries to raise the library's profile through a book club, while clashing with a councilman determined to divert library funds for another project. "Welcome to the quirky town of Cherico, Mississippi, where potluck meetings at the local library provide a feast for mind and stomach alike. . . If some folks had t
The Well of Lost Plots
Jasper Fforde · 384 pages
"Leaving Swindon behind her, to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots - the place where all fiction is created - Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from inside an unpublished novel of dubious merit entitled Caversham Heights. Her husband, Landen, exists only in her memories and with Goliath and the Chronoguard on her tail in the real world, the s
The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future
Robert Darnton · 218 pages
"In The Case for Books, Robert Darnton offers an in-depth examination of the book from its earliest beginnings to its shifting role today in popular culture, commerce, and the academy. In a lasting collection drawn from previously published and new work alike, Robert Darnton lends unique authority to the life and role of the book in society. The resulting book is a wise work of scholarship - one t
The Library Dragon
Carmen Agra Deedy
Miss Lotta Scales is a dragon who believes her job is to protect the school's library books from the children, but when she finally realizes that books are meant to be read, the dragon turns into Miss Lotty, librarian and storyteller.
Tomas and the Library Lady
Pat Mora · 40 pages
While helping his family in their work as migrant laborers far from their home, Tomas finds an entire world to explore in the books at the local public library.
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Nicholson Baker · 372 pages
"Since the 1950s, our country's libraries have followed a policy of "destroying to preserve": They have methodically dismantled their collections of original bound newspapers, cut up hundreds of thousands of so-called brittle books, and replaced them with microfilmed copies - copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and quality of the original paper and illustrations, and deteriorate
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
Avi Steinberg · 416 pages
The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq
Jeanette Winter · 32 pages
Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library--along with the thirty thousand books within it--will be destroyed forever. In a war-stricken country where civilians--especially women--have little power, this true story about a librarian's struggle t