When her boyfriend dumps her and she loses her job during the Great Depression, librarian Alice Grace Ripley agrees to help out in the library of the tiny town of Acorn, Kentucky, where she finds more than she ever imagined.
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Author:Austin, Lynn N.Summary: - Author:Witemeyer, KarenSummary:
Repentant ex-convict Levi Grant comes to Spencer, Texas, in 1887--hoping to put his past behind him and start out fresh as the town's new blacksmith. To promote civility, Eden Spencer runs her own lending library, where she discovers...
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Author:Hanagarne, JoshuaSummary:At first glance, Josh Hanagarne seems an improbable librarian. He stands 6'7", competes in strongman contests, and was diagnosed in high school with Tourette's syndrome. But books are his first love. Everything in Josh's life--from his...
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Author:Corwin, C. R.Summary:Newspaper librarian Maddy Sprowls never gives story ideas to the editors at The Hannawa Herald-Union. She prefers to stay in the newspaper “morgue” and do her job, and hopes the editors stay in the newsroom and do theirs. Then one...
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Author:Niffenegger, AudreySummary:A funny, often poignant tale of boy meets girl with a twist: what if one of them couldn't stop slipping in and out of time? Highly original and imaginative, this debut novel raises questions about life, love, and the effects of time on...
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Author:NIFFENEGGER, AudreySummary:The story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, a librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry is...
- Author:Wright, L.R.Summary:
This Edgar Award-winning debut kicks off the crime series-and basis for the Fox TV and Hulu series Murder in a Small Town -set along Canada's Sunshine Coast. To Karl Alberg, the coastal town of Sechelt, just north of Vancouver,...
- Author:Patterson, JamesSummary:
This "celebration of the world of books" ( Kirkus ) is "a real page turner!" ( Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan ) that "feels like a love letter" ( USA Today ) to booksellers and librarians - as told to...
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Author:Garlock, DorothySummary:Everything changes for photographer Boone Tatum the moment he meets beautiful librarian Lily Denton. But danger has slipped silently into their sleepy town, marking Lily as its own.
- Author:Gilmore, LucySummary:
Sloane Parker lives a small, contained life as a librarian in her small, contained town. She never thinks of herself as lonely...but still she looks forward to that time every day when old curmudgeon Arthur McLachlan comes to browse the...
- Author:deWitt, PatrickSummary:
THE INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and...
- Author:Escobar, MarioSummary:
Libraries are being ransacked. France is torn apart by war. A French librarian is determined to resist. Told through smuggled letters to an author, an ordinary librarian describes the brutal Nazi occupation of her small coastal village...
- Author:Sampson, FreyaSummary:
A Library Reads PickJune Jones emerges from her shell to fight for her beloved local library, and through the efforts and support of an eclectic group of library patrons, she discovers life-changing friendships along the way. Lonely...
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Author:Kurzweil, AllenSummary:Critically acclaimed for his international bestseller, A Case of Curiosities, Allen Kurzweil has been called one of today's most gifted new voices in fiction. Now he returns with The Grand Complication -- a modern-day tale of literary...
- Author:Hackwith, A. J.Summary:
To save the Library of the Unwritten in Hell, former librarian Claire and her allies may have to destroy it first. Claire, the rakish Hero, the angel Rami, and the muse turned librarian Brevity have accomplished the impossible by...
- Author:Secchia, MarcSummary:
Abandoned at birth by her parents, Auli-Ambar is seen as a child blighted by a callous talon-stroke of fate. A worthless burden, she is blind, severely disfigured, and fit only for the most menial tasks. Then, a simple act of kindness...
- Author:Quinn, KateSummary:
In the snowbound city of Kiev, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son, but Hitler's invasion of Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle and sent to...
- Author:Quinn, KateSummary:
New York Times Bestseller. The bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story. In 1937 in the snowbound...
- Author:Jurczyk, EvaSummary:
What holds more secrets in the library-the ancient books shelved in the stacks or the people who preserve them? Liesl Weiss long ago learned to be content working behind the scenes in the distinguished rare books department of a large...
- Author:Colgan, JennySummary:
Nina Redmond is a librarian with a gift for finding the perfect book for her readers. But can she write her own happy-ever-after? In this valentine to readers, librarians, and book-lovers the world over, the New York Times-bestselling...
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