James Patterson
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians
Matt Eversmann retired from the US Army after twenty years of service. His first book with James Patterson was Walk in My Combat Boots.
Chris Mooney is the internationally bestselling author of fourteen thrillers. The Mystery Writers of America nominated Remembering Sarah for an Edgar Award. He teaches creative writing at Harvard.
Kelly Moore is an adult services librarian at a public library in the Dallas–Fort Worth area of northern Texas.
“Use Nancy Pearl’s formula,” I say, explaining the blueprint that the famed librarian came up with over a decade ago. “She says you should give a book fifty pages. But if you’re over the age of fifty, take your age and subtract it from a hundred. So, if you’re seventy, give the book thirty pages. Life is too short to waste on reading a book you’re not enjoying.”
Suzette Baker is a military veteran and former head librarian at the Kingsland Branch Library in Llano County, Texas.
Steve Potash, CEO of the digital distributor OverDrive—one of the systems canceled by our county for carrying what they called inappropriate books—hugs me and breaks down in tears.
Karen Roy has been a medical research librarian and a children’s librarian. She has worked around the country and now lives in New York City.
“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn” is a magnificent quotation from the librarian John Cotton Dana in 1912.
Bill Kelly is the adult programming manager for the Cuyahoga County Public Library in Northeast Ohio, near Cleveland.
Libraries level the playing field. They’re free and open to the public. All are welcome. Our doors are open. Come in and learn to become your best self. Follow your dreams and reach your true potential. Let your reach exceed your grasp. Whatever book you want to read, it’s free on the honor system.
It’s hard to imagine anywhere else in our society so devoted to the concept of everyone being completely equal.
