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• Funny Story

  Henry, Emily,

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  Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Personal Librarian

  Benedict, Marie,

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  The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian-who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Village Library Demon-hunting Society

  Waggoner, C. M.,

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  A librarian with a knack for solving murders soon realizes there is something supernatural afoot in her little town in this cozy fantasy mystery. Librarian Sherry Pinkwhistle keeps finding bodies - and solving murders. But she's concerned…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Paris Library

  Skeslien Charles, Janet,

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  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 Library in Paris,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Chance Library

  Sampson, Freya,

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  Lonely librarian June Jones has never left the sleepy English village where she grew up. Shy and reclusive, the thirty-year-old would rather spend her time buried in books than venture out into the world. But when her library is threatened…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love at First Book

  McKinlay, Jenn,

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  Emily Allen, a librarian on Martha's Vineyard, has always dreamed of a life of travel and adventure. So when her favorite author, Siobhan Riordan, offers her a job in the Emerald Isle, Emily jumps at the opportunity. After all, Siobhan's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 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

• What You Are Looking for Is in the Library

  Aoyama, Michiko,

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  What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just the book recommendation to help them find it. A restless…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Librarianist

  deWitt, Patrick, 1975-

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  Bob Comet is a retired librarian, isolated but not lonely, living out his quiet days in a mint-colored house in Oregon, surrounded by his books and small comforts. One morning, out on his daily walk, he performs an act of kindness that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Woman in the Library

  Gentill, Sulari,

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  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 to stay…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

  Jurczyk, Eva,

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  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 she's left to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Storybook Wedding

  Micciche, K. J.,

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  When librarian Cecily Jane Allerton and hotshot struggling author Nate Ellis are caught in a compromising position during their MFA program, they decide to get married to keep the haters from destroying their careers. To the horror of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cartographers

  Shepherd, Peng,

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  From the critically acclaimed author of The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased father's belongings holds an incredible, deadly secret--one that will lead her on an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Littlest Library

  Alexander, Poppy,

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  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