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"People are drawn to libraries for all kinds of reasons. Most come for the books themselves, of course; some come to borrow companionship. For head librarian Kit, the public library in Riverton, New Hampshire, offers what she craves most: peace. Here, no one expects Kit to talk about the calamitous events that catapulted her out of what she thought was a settled, suburban life. She can simply submerge herself in her beloved books and try to forget...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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New York high school student Elizabeth gets an after-school job as a page at the "New-York Circulating Material Repository," and when she gains coveted access to its Grimm Collection of magical objects, she and the other pages are drawn into a series of frightening adventures involving mythical creatures and stolen goods.
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Language
English
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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 have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt's new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Fountas & Pinnell
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Physical Desc
19 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
On "Read to a Pet Day" at the library, Biscuit plays with story time puppets, visits with friends, and listens to recorded books before a librarian helps him discover his favorite acivity of all.
12) The starless sea
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English
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"Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a rare book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues -- a bee, a key, and a sword -- that lead...
13) Library mouse
Author
Series
Library mouse books volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Sam, a shy but creative mouse who lives in a library, decides to write and illustrate his own stories which he places on the shelves with the other library books but when children find the tales, they all want to meet the author.
Author
Series
Haunted library volume 2
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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English
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"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 she's descended. With nothing to keep her in London since losing her brother in the Great War, she warily makes her way to her new home. The abbey is foreboding, the servants reserved and suspicious. But there is a treasure waiting behind...
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 21
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
1991
Physical Desc
121 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
At an old library, the Alden children discover a boy who needs their help and a stranger who is after a valuable object they found in the library.
17) The parliament
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When tens of thousands of owls descend on her hometown library, rending and tearing at anyone foolish enough to step outside, Madigan Purdy, tasked with keeping her students safe, seeks inspiration from her favorite childhood book, The Silent Queen, to find a solution to their dilemma.
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Mr. Lemoncello holds a contest for his young friends where they must race to bring interesting facts back to his library."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
336 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Israel Armstrong arrives in Ireland with the promise of an exciting new job; but when he discovers that the 15,000-plus books in his mobile library have disappeared, he sets out to find the thief.
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