1st in a series. "You're a librarian, not a detective," Catherine Penny's daughter reminds her. But Catherine, suddenly single in her sixties, finds it easy to slip into sleuthing mode when she leaves behind New York City and a failed marriage for a lovely 17th century cottage in the idyllic English village of Far Wychwood.

When 15-year-old Mary Fred Anderson's parents are charged with second-degree murder in the neglectful death of their son, Mary Fred is sent from the fundamentalist commune she's grown up in to the nearby Maryland suburbs and the foster care of a quirky 1990s family headed by librarian Alice Cullison.

Hamilton's captivating third novel (after 2004's The Distance Between Us) follows Fiona Sweeney, a 36-year-old librarian, from New York to Garissa, Kenya, on her sincere but naïve quest to make a difference in the world.

1st in a series. This humorous series is set in Tumdrum, Northern Ireland, the small village that transplanted Londoner Israel Armstrong reluctantly makes his home. The nebbishy Jewish vegetarian shows up at the Tumdrum and District Public Library eager to assume his post as the new librarian, only to find the place boarded up and that it's his job to steward the beat-up mobile library instead.

Codex drops up-and-coming investment banker wunderkind Edward Wozny into a powerful client's commission to uncrate and organize a medieval library. The diversion quickly becomes an obsession after he enlists the help of attractive scholar Margaret Napier. They discover the mysterious Duchess of Bowmry, is in a race with her husband to locate an apocryphal codex that could destroy the Bowmry name.

Retired school librarian Darby Matheson can't seem to avoid getting tangled in other people's problems. Darby gets wrapped up in her first murder investigation in her hometown of Dulcinea, Texas when a woman she is less than fond of is found strangled to death and Darby's former student Isaac Molina is accused.

A young reporter is caught up in a deadly centuries-long treasure hunt in this thriller steeped in arcane lore and exotic history. When Paul Tomm, looks into the demise of Jaan Puhapaev, an elderly academic found dead in his cluttered house, nothing seems out of the ordinary. Tomm's discoveries lead him to a lovely young woman, a network of international smugglers and hidden alchemical libraries.

An unlikely love story about a lonely spinster librarian and a younger man, forced into loneliness because of his monstrous size. Peggy Cort, the reclusive librarian in a small Cape Cod town falls for a boy 14 years younger, who grows to be 8 feet 7 inches and 415 pounds. Though initially attracted out of sympathy, Peggy soon finds she has much in common with this sensitive, albeit enormous man.

Kathleen Levine is maternal and steady, a devoted children's librarian. When her serene life is thrown into turmoil by breast cancer, painful past secrets emerge and she desperately needs a friend. Joyce Tabachnik is a sharp-witted freelance writer who is also at a fragile point in her life. Together they forge a bond and help each other to confront scars left by old emotional wounds.

A small-town librarian with big dreams is resigned to a dull vacation with her sister and brother-in-law--until a thief accosts the group and kidnaps her. Betts offers a gripping novel that combines the suspense of a thriller with the exhilarating story of a woman's bumpy journey toward liberation.

This chronologically arranged work analyzes the stereotypical image of librarians, male and female. The work describes each film and then examines its librarian - considering every aspect from socio-economic conditions and motivations for leaving or not leaving the library, to personal attributes and entanglements with the opposite sex, to commonly used props, plot situations and lines ("Shush!").

Mild-mannered university librarian David Goldberg decides to supplement his meager salary by cataloging the personal library of Augustus Winthrop Scott, an eccentric billionaire. Soon Goldberg discovers that the little bit of knowledge he gains from organizing Scott's personal papers puts him in great danger: Homeland Security is pursuing him, and his home state has charged him with bestiality.

This sequel to Sabriel tells the tale of Lirael, the only daughter of the future-seeing Clayr who does not possess the Sight. Burying the pain of her Sightlessness in the Clayr's great library, Third Assistant Librarian Lirael's insatiable curiosity will soon lead her to an unbelievable destiny that may even be connected with that of the great Sabriel herself.

Urged by a trusted friend, energetic, self-sufficient Librarian Molly Winstead agrees to accept a passenger for her trip from California to Minnesota. She is unnerved when her intended fellow traveler is the one person she had hoped to never see again after their humiliating one-time meeting. She abhors situations out of her control. And BJ Kendall is precisely that.

The theft from a private museum in Miami of a painting by 19th-century artist Fernando Reyes of Columbus offering his book of privileges to Ferdinand and Isabella sets off the action in this latest Washington, D.C.-insider tale which unfolds at the nation's venerated reference institution – The Library of Congress.

1st in a series. Meet Marmalade (an orange and white tabby) and her partner Biscuit McKee a small town librarian. No one in Martinsville, a small town in northeastern Georgia, admits to knowing why Harlan Schneider was in the library. Clues seem to point to some local, but nobody asked Marmalade.

Sexy Librarian introduces us to Audrey Reed, a New York artist who trades her hip urban life for a job at a small public library in Minnesota. Away from the frenetic art world, Audrey hopes to find herself, and with the help of some hard words and hot nights, she succeeds.

This is the gut wrenching story of Trudi Montag, a dwarf librarian and storyteller who lives in a small town Germany between the two world wars.

This clever and inventive tale works on three levels: as an intriguing science fiction concept, a realistic character study and a touching love story. Henry De Tamble is a Chicago librarian with "Chrono Displacement" disorder; at random times, he suddenly disappears without warning and finds himself in the past or future, usually at a time or place of importance in his life.

Release Date March 16, 2010.