Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

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The love story of Henry and Claire whose lives are punctuated by Henry's disappearance to different points in time--sometimes even back to visit Claire as a young woman. When Henry meets Claire, he is twenty-eight, and she is twenty. He's a hip, handsome librarian; she is an art student with Botticelli hair. Henry has never met Claire before; Claire has known Henry since she was six...
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Alcatraz Versus The Evil Librarians

by Brandon Sanderson

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In The Stacks: Short Stories About Libraries And Librarians

by Michael Cart

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This is an anthology of short stories in defence of reading by some of the greatest practioners of the genre, including Isaac Babel, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, Alice Munro, Lori Moore and H.H. Munro.
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Here Lies The Librarian

by Richard Peck

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The Newbery Medal-winning author of "A Year Down Yonder" is back with a rousing, wicked comedy of cars, role models, and revelation that features quirky characters, a folksy setting, classic cars, and hilarious yet moving moments.
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Free For All: Oddballs, Geeks, And Gangstas In The Public Library

by Don Borchert

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Mild-mannered librarian tells all in shocking new book! Not long ago, the public library was a place for the bookish, the eggheaded, and the studious-- often seeking refuge from a loud, irrational, crude, outside world. Today, libraries have become free-for-all entertainment complexes filled with rowdy teens, deviants, drugs, and even sex toys. Lockdowns and chaperones are often necessary. W
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Unshelved

by Barnes and Ambaum

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Welcome to Unshelved, the world's only daily comic strip set in a public library! Writer Gene Ambaum (the made-up name of a real-life librarian) and co-writer and artist Bill Barnes have been publishing since February 16, 2002. Some of the stories are made up, some of them are based on real life, and some are absolutely true stories sent to us from our readers. And the stranger the story, the more
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Case Of The Missing Books

by Ian Sansom

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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
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Grand Complication

by Allen Kurzweil

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Alexander Short is a stylish young reference librarian. With his job in jeopardy and his marriage coming apart, Alexander meets the improbably named Henry James Jesson III, a book-lover who hires the librarian for some after-hours research. His task: to complete a cabinet of curiosities chronicling the life of a mysterious eighteenth- century inventor. As the investigation heats up, Alexander real
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What Would Dewey Do?

by Barnes and Ambaum

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Welcome to Unshelved, the world's only daily comic strip set in a public library! Writer Gene Ambaum (the made-up name of a real-life librarian) and co-writer and artist Bill Barnes have been publishing since February 16, 2002. Some of the stories are made up, some of them are based on real life, and some are absolutely true stories sent to us from our readers. And the stranger the story, the more
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Archivist: A Novel

by Martha Cooley

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Matthias Lane is the proud gatekeeper to countless objects of desire, the greatest among them being T.S. Eliot's letters to Emily Hale. Now in his late 60s and archivist at an unnamed East Coast university, Matthias is--as one of his colleagues tells him--"exceptionally well defended." He's intent on keeping the Hale collection equally remote, and when a young poet first seeks access, Matthias reb
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Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian

by Scott Douglas

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For most of us, librarians are the quiet people behind the desk, who, apart from the occasional “shush,” vanish into the background. But in Quiet, Please, McSweeney’s contributor Scott Douglas puts the quirky caretakers of our literature front and center. With a keen eye for the absurd and a Kesey-esque cast of characters (witness the librarian who is sure Thomas Pynchon is Julia
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Camel Bookmobile

by Masha Hamilton

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Fiona Sweeney is a librarian in New York but yearns to be somewhere else, someplace where she can make a difference to the world. Bored by her long-term boyfriend and her day-to-day habits, she ventures out to Kenya, where she hopes to set up a travelling lending library that will reach nomadic tribes in the bush. The library travels in a small camelback convoy and, as with many other such well-me
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Library Mascot Cage Match

by Barnes and Ambaum

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What's so funny about a library? Just about everything, as you'll find out in Library Mascot Cage Match, the third Unshelved collection. In addition to a year's worth of comic strips featuring library mascots duking it out and the return of the masked mystery man known only as "the Shusher," LMCM features the all-new full-color graphic novelette Empire County Strikes Back. Can Mallville's libraria
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Historian

by Elizabeth Kostova

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When a motherless American girl living in Europe finds a medieval book and a package of letters, all addressed ominously to "My dear and unfortunate successor . . ." she unwittingly assumes a quest she will discover is her birthright - a hunt that nearly brought her father to ruin and may have claimed the life of history professor Bartholomew Rossi. What does the legend of Vlad the Impaler, the hi
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Book Club

by Bill Barnes

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What happens in the library stays in the library. But oh, what happens in the library! Dewey has a book club, and you do not talk about Book Club. Colleen has a blog, but she doesn't know everyone can read it. Someone gave vegan Tamara a membership to the ham-of-the-month-club. And Merv reserved every copy of the new Harry Potter for purposes nefarious. This fourth Unshelved collection also featur
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Ice Queen

by Alice Hoffman

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A solitary New Jersey librarian whose favorite book is a guide to suicide methods is struck by lightning in Alice Hoffman's superb novel, The Ice Queen. Orphaned at the age of eight after angrily wishing she would never see her mother again, our heroine found herself frozen emotionally: "I was the child who stomped her feet and made a single wish and in so doing ended the whole world‹my world
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People Of The Book: A Novel

by Geraldine Brooks

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Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famous Sarajevo Haggadah, which was rescued during the Bosnian war. When Hanna discovers a series of tiny artifacts in the book's ancient binding, she begins to unlock its mysteries.
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Library Lil

by Suzanne Williams

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By the time she was eight, Lil had read every children's book in the library and was working her way through the encyclopedias. So it's no surprise to anyone when she grows up to become the librarian of nearby Chesterville. Unfortunately, folks there haven't opened a book in twentyyears -- they're too busy watching TV.Then one night a storm knocks out all the electricity, and Lil knows it's her on
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Read Responsibly

by Barnes and Ambaum

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Aside from a year's worth of hilarious strips, the fifth year of Unshelved includes dozens of full-color Unshelved Book Clubs, a convention guide and much more!
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Rex Libris Vol. 1

by James Turner

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The astonishing story of the incomparable Rex Libris, Head Librarian at Middleton Public Library, and his unending struggle against the forces of ignorance and darkness. Rex travels to the farthest reaches of the galaxy in search of overdue books. Wearing his super thick bottle glasses, and armed with an arsenal of high technology weapons, he strikes fear into recalcitrant borrowers, and can take
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