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We Love Our Librarians & Our Library!

National Librarian Day is on April 16th, and we are so grateful for your support of your local librarians and your local library. It is truly our pleasure to interact with you and your families as we build relationships with the individuals in our communities. Our librarians take a lot of pride in learning the names of our "regulars," and we are so tickled when, in turn, patrons learn our names and recognize when someone new starts or fills in on the desk. It makes our day when we learn your reading preferences and we're able to make you aware of a new book on your favorite topic, or by your favorite author. Hopefully you get as much out of those interactions as we do. Celebrate National Librarian Day with these stories about librarians.

Greene County Public Library

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  • A heartwarming story about a mother and daughter in wartime England and the power of books that bring them together, by the bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London. In Nottingham, England, widow Emma Taylor finds herself in…
    BookToronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, [2024] — FIC Martin M
  • Inspired by true events, a thrilling Depression-era novel from the author of The Librarian of Burned Books about a woman's quest to uncover a mystery surrounding a local librarian and the Boxcar Library-a converted mining train that…
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2025. — 813.6000
  • After a bad break-up and a health diagnosis of Lupus earlier this year, Savannah takes an impulsive trip to her favorite aunt's home, where she spent childhood summers. When she arrives, Savannah is surprised to see the house overflowing…
    BookNew York : Forever, 2024. — ROM Rains A
  • When a mysterious stranger turns up making claims that threaten Lady Fowling's legacy, Hayley Burke must dig deep into her late-benefactor's history to uncover the truth and catch a conniving killer in this new mystery from USA Today…
    BookNew York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2022. — MYS Wingate M
  • 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…
    BookNew York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023] — FIC deWitt P
  • Addie Cowherd dreamt of being a novelist and offering readers the escape that books gave her during her tragic childhood. But it's the Great Depression, and when her adoptive father loses his job, Addie is forced to leave college and take…
    Large PrintWaterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Compnay, [2021] — LT INSP Sawyer K
  • 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…
    BookNew York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — FIC Labuskes B
  • Through letters with a famous author, one French librarian tells her love story and describes the brutal Nazi occupation of her small coastal village.
    BookNashville, Tennessee : Thomas Nelson, [2021] — FIC Escobar M
  • Lisbon 1943. As two American librarians are drawn into a city of dangerous subterfuge and unexpected love affairs, they are forced to choose between their missions and the men they love. Inspired by real historical figures, award-winning…
    BookNew York : Zando, 2025. — FIC Nelson S
  • The Librarian Spy

    a Novel of World War II

    Martin, Madeline,
    Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the US military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover…
    BookToronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, [2022] — FIC Martin M
  • In The Library Game, Tempest Raj and Secret Staircase Construction are renovating a classic detective fiction library that just got its first real-life mystery. Tempest Raj couldn't be happier that the family business, Secret Staircase…
    BookNew York : Minotaur Books, 2025. — MYS Pandian G
  • A strikingly original and absorbing mystery about a white-passing bookbinder in Victorian England and the secrets lurking on the estate where we she works, for fans of Fingersmith and The Confessions of Frannie Langton The library is under…
    BookToronto, Ontario : Hanover Square Press, [2024]. — MYS Shenje K
  • When Nora Pennington is asked to deliver an order of books to a creepy Gothic mansion on the outskirts of town, Lucille Wynter doesn't answer her door. Nora enters the house to find it bursting with books, and Lucille's lifeless body. Nora…
    BookNew York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corp., 2024. — MYS Adams E
  • 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 life ...…
    BookNew York, NY : Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022] — FIC Alexander P
  • London, 1944: Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While war ravages the city above her, Clara has risked everything she holds dear to turn the Bethnal Green tube station into the country's only underground library. Down here, a secret…
    BookNew York : Forever, 2023. — FIC Thompson K
  • 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…
    BookNew York : Berkley, [2021] — FIC Benedict M
  • Hana Babic is a quiet middle-aged librarian in Minnesota who wants nothing more than to be left alone. But when a detective arrives with the news that her best friend has been murdered, Hana knows that something evil has come for her, a…
    BookNew York, NY : Mullholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2025. — MYS Eskens A
  • A royal palace. A closed book. A betrayal that will echo through generations... Windsor, 1940: Secretly tasked with foiling a suspected plot, Sophie Klein is placed in the Royal Library at Windsor castle, where the princesses reside. But…
    BookLondon : Avon, 2024. — FIC Wood D
  • 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…
    BookNew York : Ace, 2024. — MYS Waggoner C
  • The Paris Library meets The Flight Girls in this captivating historical novel about the sacrifice and courage necessary to live a life of honor, inspired by the first female volunteer librarians during World War I and the first women…
    BookNew York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2022] — FIC Armstrong A