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• Library for the War-wounded

  a Novel

  Helfer, Monika, 1947-

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  Historical Fiction - "Inspired by the author's family history, this...story transports us to the aftermath of World War II where her father, Josef Helfer, after returning from the war an amputee, managed a convalescent home for the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book That Wouldn't Burn

  Lawrence, Mark, 1966-

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  Fantasy - The boy has lived his whole life trapped within a book-choked chamber older than empires and larger than cities. The girl has spent hers in a tiny settlement out on the Dust, where nightmares stalk and no one goes. The world has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Heir to Blackwood Library

  Fox, Hester,

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  Historical Fiction - "With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. Ivy has never heard of Blackwood Abbey, or of the ancient bloodline from which…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Seaside Library

  Novak, Brenda,

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  Fiction - "Mariners Island is barely ten miles long, but when Ivy, Ariana and Cam were teenagers, it was their whole world. Beyond the pristine beaches and iconic lighthouse lies the beautiful old library that belongs to Ivy's family.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Love Scribe

  Meyerson, Amy,

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  Romance - While trying to harness her extraordinary gift--the ability to write stories that make others fall in love--Alice is summoned to the estate of the reclusive Madeline Alger and her mysterious library where she is faced with her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Littlest Library

  a Novel

  Alexander, Poppy,

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  Fiction - A heartwarming literary-themed novel about a woman who turns an ordinary red phone box into the littlest library in England and brings together a struggling town. A little red telephone box full of stories, a chance to change her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

  a Novel

  Jurczyk, Eva,

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  Mystery - "Liesl Weiss has been (mostly) happy working in the rare books department of a large university, managing details and working behind the scenes to make the head of the department look good. But when her boss has a stroke and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Woman in the Library

  a Novel

  Gentill, Sulari,

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  Mystery - "The beautifully ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is completely silent one weekday morning, until a woman's terrified scream echoes through the room. Security guards immediately appear and instruct everyone inside…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

  a Novel

  Robinson, Shauna,

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  Mystery - Banned from selling anything written this century, bookstore manager Maggie Banks, to keep the business afloat, starts an underground book club that unexpectedly unearths a town secret that could upend everything, forcing her to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Library

  a Fragile History

  Pettegree, Andrew,

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  Non-fiction - Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes or filled with bean bags and children's drawings - the history…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Paris Library

  a Novel

  Skeslien Charles, Janet,

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  Historical Fiction - "Paris, 1939. Young, ambitious, and tempestuous, Odile Souchet has it all: Paul, her handsome police officer beau; Margaret, her best friend from England; her adored twin brother Remy; and a dream job at the American…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Chance Library

  Sampson, Freya,

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  Fiction - "June 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 librarian June…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Interlibrary Loan

  Wolfe, Gene,

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  Science Fiction - A sequel to "A Borrowed Man" is set in a future world of artificial intelligence where a clone is loaned out to a little girl before discovering that his original self, a mystery writer, is still alive. Hundreds of years…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Information Hunters

  When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe

  Peiss, Kathy Lee,

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  Non-fiction - "Information Hunters examines the unprecedented American effort to acquire foreign publications and information in World War II Europe. An unlikely band of librarians, scholars, soldiers, and spies went to Europe to collect…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Library of Legends

  a Novel

  Chang, Janie,

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  Historical Fiction - "China, 1937: When Japanese bombs begin falling on the city of Nanking, nineteen-year-old Hu Lian and her classmates at Minghua University are ordered to flee. Lian and a convoy of more than a hundred students,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bodies in the Library

  Wingate, Marty,

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  Mystery - "Hayley Burke has landed a dream job. She is the new curator of Lady Georgiana Fowling's First Edition library. The library is kept at Middlebank House, a lovely Georgian home in Bath, England. Hayley lives on the premises and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Library of the Unwritten

  Hackwith, A. J.,

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  Fantasy - "Books that aren't finished by their authors reside in the Library of the Unwritten in Hell, but when restless characters who emerge from those unfinished stories escape, it is up to the Librarian to track them down...and keep…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Summer Hours at the Robbers Library

  a Novel

  Halpern, Sue

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  Fiction - "A debut novel about the unlikely friendship between a middle-aged woman trying to start over and an intelligent, unusual teenage girl that blossoms when she's assigned community service in her local library" --

• Better Off Read

  Page, Nora,

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  Mystery - "Septuagenarian librarian Cleo Watkins won't be shushed when an upstart young mayor threatens to permanently shelve her tiny town's storm-damaged library. She takes to her bookmobile, Words on Wheels, to collect allies and rally…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Library Book

  Orlean, Susan,

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  Non-fiction - "Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world, from their humble…Read moreRead more of this annotation