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• The Midnight Library

  Haig, Matt, 1975-

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  Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Library Book

  Orlean, Susan

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  Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a mesmerizing and uniquely compelling book that manages to tell…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Mystery of Henri Pick

  Foenkinos, David,

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  In the small town of Crozon in Brittany, a library houses manuscripts that were rejected for publication: the faded dreams of aspiring writers. Visiting while on holiday, young editor Delphine Despero is thrilled to discover a novel so…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Library

  An Unquiet History

  Battles, Matthew

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  Provides an intriguing historical study of libraries and books, their preservation, and destruction, from the U.S. to Europe and Asia, from medieval monasteries and Vatican collections to the ever-changing information highway of today.

• The Book of Speculation

  Swyler, Erika

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  Simon Watson, a young librarian on the verge of losing his job, lives alone on the Long Island Sound in his family home--a house, perched on the edge of a bluff, that is slowly crumbling toward the sea. His parents are long dead, his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Invisible Library

  Cogman, Genevieve

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  Collecting books can be a dangerous prospect in this fun, time-traveling, fantasy adventure from a spectacular debut author. One thing any Librarian will tell you: the truth is much stranger than fiction... Irene is a professional spy for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dear Fahrenheit 451

  Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks : a Librarian's Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the Books in Her Life

  Spence, Annie

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  A laugh-out-loud, deeply personal collection of love letters and break-up notes to the books in the librarian author's life explains the complicated reasons why libraries are keeping or removing books that either are no longer checked out…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lions of Fifth Avenue

  a Novel

  Davis, Fiona, 1966-

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  It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life-her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building, and they are blessed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Part of Our Lives

  a People's History of the American Public Library

  Wiegand, Wayne A., 1946-

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  Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Library of Lost and Found

  Patrick, Phaedra

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  A shy librarian whose kind heart is often exploited receives a mysterious book of fairy tales from the beloved grandmother she believed dead and embarks on a perspective-changing journey of astonishing family secrets.

• The Librarian of Auschwitz

  Iturbe, Antonio, 1967-

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  Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.

• The Strange Library

  Murakami, Haruki, 1949-

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  Opening the flaps on this unique little book, readers will find themselves immersed in the strange world of best-selling Haruki Murakami's wild imagination. The story of a lonely boy, a mysterious girl, and a tormented sheep man plotting…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Quiet, Please

  Dispatches From a Public Librarian

  Douglas, Scott, 1978-

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  An unexpectedly raucous and illuminating memoir set in a Southern California public library.

• Reads Well With Others

  An Unshelved Collection

  Ambaum, Gene

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  The library: the final frontier. These are the adventures of the staff of Mallville Public. Their never-ending mission: to deal with strange new behaviors, to seek out new books and new donations, to boldly know that the policies they're…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Read Responsibly

  An Unshelved Collection

  Barnes, Bill, 1967-

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  Read Responsibly is the biggest, funniest, and most colorful Unshelved collection yet! The fifth-year of strips includes the famous "Pimp My Bookcart" sequence and a year's worth of full-color full-page "Unshelved Book Clubs" featuring the…Read moreRead more of this annotation