April 7 - 13 is National Library Week, "a time to celebrate our nation's libraries, library workers' contributions and promote library use and support. The theme for National Library Week 2024 is "Ready, Set, Library," illustrating the idea that in our always-online world, libraries give us a green light to something truly special: a place to connect with others, learn new skills, and focus on what matters most."  (ALA)  We just want you to remember that the library is a great place to study, find new things, and strengthen community!

If thinking about libraries has put you into a reading mood, come on in and check out our fun display of books about libraries.  Fantasy or adventure stories featuring libraries, exciting (and tragic) corners of book and library history, or memoirs of library life in strange places -- we've got it all!  Here are some of our favorites:

 

Cover ArtThe Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer

To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean's Eleven.

 

 

 

Cover ArtOutwitting History: the amazing adventures of a man who rescued a million Yiddish books by Aaron Lansky
In 1980, a twenty-three-year-old student named Aaron Lansky set out to rescue the world's abandoned Yiddish books before it was too late. Twenty-five years and one and a half million books later, he's still in the midst of a great adventure.
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtThe Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
Collecting books can be a dangerous prospect in this fun, time-traveling, fantasy adventure--the first in the Invisible Library series. Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, a shadowy organization that collects important works of fiction from all of the different realities...
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtLabyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges has been insinuating itself into the structure, stance, and very breath of world literature for well over half a century. Multi-layered, self-referential, elusive, and allusive writing fills this collection of short stories.
 
 
 
 
Cover ArtDark Archives by Megan Rosenbloom
On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy--the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering.
 
 
 
Cover ArtThe Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa
Bookish high school student Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the secondhand bookstore he inherited from his beloved bookworm grandfather. Then, a talking cat appears with an unusual request. The feline asks for--or rather, demands--the teenager's help in saving books with him. The world is full of lonely books left unread and unloved, and the cat and Rintaro must liberate them from their neglectful owners....