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Название книги: The Bad Book Affair
Автор(ы): Ian Sansom
Жанр: Детектив
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The fourth book in the Mobile Library series, 2009
For my correspondents,with all due respectBOOKMOBILEI spend part of my childhood waitingfor the Stearns County Bookmobile.When it comes to town, it makes aU-turn in front of the grade school andglides into its place under the elms.It is a natural wonder of lateafternoon. I try to imagine Dante,William Faulkner, and Emily Dickinsontraveling down a double lane highwaytogether, country-western on the radio.Even when it arrives, I have to wait.The librarian is busy, getting outthe inky pad and the lined cards.I pace back and forth in the line,hungry for the fresh bread of the page,Because I need something that will tell mewhat I am; I want to catch a book,clear as a one-way ticket, to Paris,to London, to anywhere.Joyce Sutphen
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“Here we are, then,” said George, opening the creaking, paint-flaking, hinge-rusted, wood-rotting brace-and-ledge door to the former chicken coop that was now home to Israel Armstrong (BA, (Hons.)), certainly Tumdrum’s and possibly Ir
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