The Agony of a Borrower

✍ Rebecca Makkai 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Penguin Publishing Group 🌐 en-US ⚖ 1 MB

**In this delightful, funny, and moving first novel, a librarian and a young boy obsessed with reading take to the road.** Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten- year-old Ian Drake, runs away from

The book borrower: a novel

✍ Alice Mattison 📂 Fiction 📅 2012;2001 🏛 HarperCollins;Library of Congress, NLS/BPH 🌐 English ⚖ 160 KB 👁 1 views

On the day they first meet in a city playground, Deborah Laidlaw lends Toby Ruben a book called _Trolley Girl_ , the memoir of a forgotten trolley strike in the 1920s, written by the sister of a fiery Jewish revolutionary who played an important, ultimately tragic role in the events. Young mothers w

The Book Borrower: A Novel

✍ Mattison, Alice 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 HarperCollins 🌐 English ⚖ 186 KB

On the day they first meet in a city playground, Deborah Laidlaw lends Toby Ruben a book called _Trolley Girl_ , the memoir of a forgotten trolley strike in the 1920s, written by the sister of a fiery Jewish revolutionary who played an important, ultimately tragic role in the events. Young mothers w

Borrower of the Night

✍ Peters, Elizabeth 📂 Fiction 📅 0 🌐 English ⚖ 549 KB

Borrower of the Night

✍ Peters, Elizabeth 📂 Fiction 📅 0 🌐 English ⚖ 556 KB

Borrower of the Night

✍ Peters, Elizabeth 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Constable & Robinson 🌐 en-jm ⚖ 277 KB

A new heroine from the creator of the internationally bestselling Amelia Peabody series A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of sixteenth century Germany, may be hidden in the medieval castle in the town of Rothenburg. The prize has calle