The librarianist book

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and affecting narrative in itself. Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books and small comforts in a mint-colored house in Portland, Oregon. One morning on his daily walk he encounters a confused elderly woman lost in a market and returns her to the…

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After a chance encounter, a retired librarian begins volunteering at a retirement community, where he reckons with his past.

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A look into a day in the life of a librarian. Have you ever wondered just what does a librarian do? What are they doing back there behind the counter? Is checking books out or

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