A Quote by Louise Penny
Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word.
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Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers.
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