Central Kansas Library System

Elizabeth Brown's house is so crowded with books that there is not room for one more. She gives the town her books and her house and they become a public library. She did not stop reading but now she borrows books from the library instead of buying them.

"Amid literature and lattes, three women come together and find that sharing one's journey with best friends makes life richer. When attorney Madeline Carter inherits her aunt's bookstore in a small town north of Chicago, she plans to sell it and add the proceeds to her nonexistent investment portfolio. But plans change when Madeline discovers the store isn't making money and she gets passed over for promotion at her firm. She quits in protest, takes...

Clara's dream of enriching her rough life on the family farm is fulfilled when a horse-drawn book wagon visits with the country's first traveling library.

The kids in Room 207 take advantage of their teacher's good nature until she disappears and they are faced with a vile substitute.

As she tries to find the book that she must return to the library that day, Stella gathers a growing group of people who have all enjoyed reading the book.

Ruby wants to be a teacher, but after her father's death in a logging accident she must quit school to care for her ten brothers and sisters, until a chance meeting with a lonely old blind woman transforms her life.

"The librarian is a dragon killer! She also fights pirates and witches, ghosts and giants, and even a dancing octopus! When the amazing Miss Cannon hops over the desk with her mighty sword, Frankenstein, Dracula, and all the other troublemakers are done for. And all the children can go on reading even the scariest stories in peace and quiet"--Cover.