Librarian Lit

Librarians Are People Too

Check out these novels featuring librarians.  Provided by the staff at the West Universty Branch Library.

	Jeff Abbott. Distant Blood After librarian Jordan Poteet learns he is related to a wealthy Texas family, their ghostly secrets entangle him in a murder case.
	Kingsley Amis. Folks That Live on the Hill A retired librarian tries to live a quiet life, but finds it frequently interrupted by the mishaps and misfortunes of his eccentric relatives.
	Josephine Carr. Dewey Decimal System of Love Reference librarian, Ally Sheffield, finds love in the wrong place.
	Martha Cooley. The Archivist Archivist Matthias Lane revisits his marital past when a woman requests access to a special collection of T.S. Eliot's love letters. A multi-layered literary suspense story.
	Art Corriveau. Housewrights During the early 20 th century, in a small town in Vermont, Lily Willard loses her job as town librarian after shocking the townspeople with her behavior at a dance.
	Anita Diamant.  Good Harbor The deepening friendship between two women of words: one a children's librarian, the other a romance novelist.
	Umberto Eco. The Name of the Rose A medieval whodunit set in a monastic library.
	Clyde Edgerton. Raney The first year of marriage between Raney, a naïve, small town Baptist belle, and Charles, a liberal librarian from Atlanta.
	Charlaine Harris. Poppy Done to Death Aurora Teagarden, librarian and detective in small town Georgia, solves the mystery of who murdered her sister-in-law.
	Ursula Hegi. Stones from the River In Nazi Germany in a town near the Rhein River, a woman who happens to be a dwarf becomes the town librarian and unofficial historian.
	Penelope Lively. Passing On An unmarried, middle-aged librarian and her brother are free to create new lives when their domineering mother dies.
	Elizabeth McCracken. The Giant's House: a Romance A lonely librarian finds a soul mate who will change her life forever -- a young man afflicted with gigantism.
	D.R. Meredith. Murder in Volume A mystery-reading book group led by a librarian becomes involved in solving a murder.
	Miriam Grace Monfredo. Must the Maiden Die In 1861, Seneca Falls librarian Glynis Tryon attempts to save an indentured servant girl from a murder charge.
	Lily Prior. La Cucina A Sicilian librarian with a passion for cooking rediscovers love after many years of solitude.
	Gail D. Storey. The Lord's Motel A Houston librarian's hilarious search for true love.
	Amanda Eyre Ward. Sleep Toward Heaven Texas death row decisions affect the lives of three women, one of them a widowed librarian.