Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite

If you ask a librarian why they do what they do, you’ll hear variations. We love books. We love reading. We love putting books in peoples’ hands. We love learning. But I suppose that, if I were forced to think very hard about why I think being a librarian is so important, I would give all these answers plus an answer similar to the one the protagonist of Genevieve Cogman’s The Invisible Library gives: we want to make sure that stories and information are never lost. Irene is a librarian for the titular library. Her mission is to travel the multiverse and retrieve books, to preserve them and make sure that a copy always exists. This sounds simple enough, but Irene must also contend with the forces of chaos, a rogue librarian, a dangerously headstrong student, killer alligators, elves, and werewolves in order to to her job...

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