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Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything--everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however; she's also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. Not everyone is keen on Cussy's family or the government's new book program, and along her treacherous...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade,...
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2012, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Miss Smith brings her students to the public library, they not only meet Virginia Creeper, the librarian, but also a host of frightening creatures that emerge from the pages of the "Incredible Storybook" as Ms. Creeper reads her favorite tales.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charlie Harris is busy enjoying his new grandson when a mysterious man with a connection to Charlie's family starts visiting the library, bringing with him troubling questions about an unsolved murder... Charlie may be a proud new grandfather, but he and Diesel still have work to do at Athena College and the small Mississippi town's public library. He's too busy to deal with true-crime writer Jack Pemberton, who wants Charlie as the subject of his...
65) Desolation Road
Author
Series
Torpedo Ink volume 4
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"Torpedo Ink is Aleksei 'Absinthe' Solokov's whole life. They're his brothers, his family - his everything. But that doesn't stop him from wanting something that only belongs to him. That's why the tough biker has spent the last six weeks at the library, reading every book he can get his hands on and watching the prim and proper librarian who makes his blood rush. For the past six weeks, Scarlet Foley has been fantasizing about the handsome, tattooed...
67) Summer reading
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a woman who'd rather do anything than read meets a swoon-worthy bookworm, sparks fly, making for one hot-summer fling in New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay's new rom-com. For Samantha Gale, a summer on Martha's Vineyard at her family's tiny cottage was supposed to be about resurrecting her career as a chef, until she's tasked with chaperoning her half-brother, Tyler. The teenage brainiac is spending his summer at the local library...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cussy Mary Carter is the last of her kind, her skin the color of a blue damselfly in these dusty hills. But that doesn't mean she's got nothing to offer. As a member of the Pack Horse Library Project, Cussy delivers books to the hill folk of Troublesome, hoping to spread learning in these desperate times. But not everyone is so keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and the hardscrabble Kentuckians are quick to blame a Blue for any trouble...
Author
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anna O'Brien leads a quiet life as a map librarian at the Library of Congress until she stumbles across the mystery of a ship disappeared at sea. Thwarted in her attempts to uncover information, she turns to Congress for help. Luke Callahan was a powerful congressman before his promising career was shadowed in scandal. He joins forces with the winsome librarian, and they are soon embroiled in secrets more perilous than they ever imagined.
70) The good sister
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Sally Hepworth, the author of The Mother-In-Law, delivers a knock-out of a novel about the lies that bind two sisters. From the outside, everyone might think Fern and Rose are as close as twin sisters can be: Rose is the responsible one, with a home and a husband and a fierce desire to become a mother. Fern is the quirky one, the free spirit, the librarian who avoids social interaction and whom the world might just describe as truly odd. But the...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good. Picking up her mother's old packhorse library...
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"As she drives her mobile library van between villages of Ireland's West Coast, Hanna Casey tries not to think about a lot of things. Like the sophisticated lifestyle she abandoned after finding her English barrister husband in bed with another woman. Or that she's back in Lissbeg, the rural Irish town she walked away from in her teens, living in the back bedroom of her overbearing mother's retirement bungalow. Or, worse yet, her nagging fear that,...
73) The book charmer
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sarah Dove is no ordinary bookworm. To her, books have always been more than just objects: they live, they breathe, and sometimes they even speak. When Sarah grows up to become the librarian in her quaint southern town of Dove Pond, North Carolina, her gift helps place every book in the hands of the perfect reader. Recently, however, the books have been whispering about something out of the ordinary: the arrival of a displaced city girl named Grace...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In turn-of-the-20th century Texas, the Berachah Home for the Redemption and Protection of Erring Girls is an unprecedented beacon of hope for young women consigned to the dangerous poverty of the streets by birth, circumstance, or personal tragedy. Built in 1903 on the dusty outskirts of Arlington, a remote dot between Dallas and Fort Worth's red-light districts, the progressive home bucks public opinion by offering faith, training, and rehabilitation...
Publisher
New Line/Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Clare has been in love with Henry her entire life. She believes they are destined to be together, even though she never knows when they will be separated: Henry is a time traveler, cursed with a rare genetic anomaly that causes him to live his life on a shifting timeline, skipping back and forth through his lifespan with no control. Despite the fact that Henry's travels force them apart with no warning, Clare desperately tries to build a life with...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rebecca McCutcheon is the first female court reporter in Montana. During a murder trial she's covering, she's convinced that the defendant is innocent, but no one but the handsome new Carnegie librarian, Mark Andrews, will listen to her. In a race against time, will they be able to find the evidence to free the man before it's too late?"--
Author
Series
Brixton brothers volume 1
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Reading level: ages: 8-12
When twelve-year-old Steve Brixton, a fan of Bailey Brothers detective novels, is mistaken for a real detective, he must elude librarians, police, and the mysterious Mr. E as he seeks a missing quilt containing coded information
Author
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of World War II, this unforgettable novel, inspired by the true story of the Council of Books in Wartime, follows three women whose fates become intertwined by their belief in the power and goodness in the written word to triumphover the very darkest moments of war.
Berlin 1933. Following the success of her debut novel, American writer Althea James receives an invitation from Joseph Goebbels himself to participate in a culture...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Annika (rhymes with Monica) Rose is an English major at the University of Illinois. Anxious in social situations where she finds most people's behavior confusing, she'd rather be surrounded by the order and discipline of books or the quiet solitude of playing chess.
Annika Rose feels lost in social situations, saying the wrong thing or acting the wrong way; she just can't read people. Working at the Harold Washington Library, she prefers the quiet...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
When shy school librarian Alexis Stone is dumped for being too meek-- in bed!-- she decides to kick-start a more adventurous life with her first one-night stand. At a hotel bar she meets Logan, a foul-mouthed stranger, but as they get to their room the hotel catches fire in a freak lightning storm-- and their exit is caught on camera. Now pictures of Alexis and Logan Arthur-- hotshot challenger for the Texas governor's seat-- are all over the internet....
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