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Category: Friday Fiction

Most Fridays we feature a fiction title that is usually anything pulp, odd covers, odd titles and anything else worth discussing! These are NOT necessarily awful.

Papito Messed Up

July 12, 2011 Holly Friday Fiction 13 comments

Papito Messed Up Agyepong-Danquah 2008 Submitter: Cataloged this today for my university library’s Africana section (so we’re keeping this, not weeding), and the cover was awful enough that I had to get a quick photo to submit. I think the

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The Librarian's Passionate Knight cover

Friday Fiction: The Librarian’s Passionate Knight

April 16, 2011 Mary Kelly Friday Fiction 14 comments

The Librarian’s Passionate Knight Gerard 2003 It is still the 16th, so I think I need to make one more post for National Library Week.  Call it a bonus post!  I totally dig these romance titles!  Of course I had

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Librarian's Secret Wish cover

Secret Librarian Wishes

April 14, 2011 Mary Kelly Friday Fiction 32 comments

The Librarian’s Secret Wish Grace 2000 I didn’t realize that as a profession we are more prone to secrets than the rest of the working world.  From yesterday’s secret scandal to today’s secret wish.   As we read on the inside

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Librarian's Secret Scandal cover

The Librarian’s Secret Scandal

April 13, 2011 Mary Kelly Friday Fiction, Librarian's Choice 16 comments

The Librarian’s Secret Scandal Morey 2010 Bad girl turns responsible librarian! Lily is flirting with danger and now Sheriff Wes Colton is getting involved. Gossip is everywhere. Just so you know, I just purchased (at retail!) this myself and will

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What the Librarian Did cover

Naughty Librarian

April 12, 2011 Mary Kelly Friday Fiction, Librarian's Choice 43 comments

What the Librarian Did Bliss 2010 My oh my! I am dying to know what the librarian “did”!  What shame is she hiding?  Extending computer time to rogue patrons? Did she forget a subfield delimiter? Bun too tight? I am

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Pam's Hot Tub

Pam’s Hot Tub

September 24, 2010 Holly Friday Fiction

Pam’s Hot Tub Basic Reader Series Mayr and Allen 1981 Submitter: Our public library just completed its Summer Weeding Club.  We created a “hall of shame” on which we posted the best of the worst, and voted to select the

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Jinny Williams Library Assistant

Romance in the Stacks

April 15, 2010 Mary Kelly Friday Fiction 47 comments

  Jinny Williams Library Assistant Temkin and Hovell 1967 Can our young modern girl find love in her local library?  Our girl Jinny moves through the stacks looking for love in all the wrong places. Maybe it will be the

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