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    The Eternal Librarian
    The Eternal Librarian
    The Eternal Librarian
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    The Eternal Librarian

    By Meyari McFarland

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    When humanity went to the stars they took many things with them. Brencis, the Eternal Librarian, ensured that they took the books. Unfortunately, humanity also took along their greed, their blindness and their short-sighted focus on all the wrong things.

    The Eternal Librarian is a touching exploration of human nature, determination and the love of learning that is dedicated to librarians and book lovers everywhere.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMDR Publishing
    Release dateJul 23, 2015
    ISBN9781310538698
    The Eternal Librarian
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    Meyari McFarland

    Meyari McFarland has been telling stories since she was a small child. Her stories range from SF and Fantasy adventures to Romances but they always feature strong characters who do what they think is right no matter what gets in their way. Her series range from Space Opera Romance in the Drath series to Epic Fantasy in the Mages of Tindiere world. Other series include Matriarchies of Muirin, the Clockwork Rift Steampunk mysteries, and the Tales of Unification urban fantasy stories, plus many more. You can find all of her work on MDR Publishing's website at www.MDR-Publishing.com.

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      The Eternal Librarian - Meyari McFarland

      The Eternal Librarian

      By Meyari McFarland

      Other Books by Meyari McFarland:

      Matriarchies of Muirin:

      Tales from the Dana Clanhouse

      Repair and Rebuild

      Storm Over Archaelaos

      Coming Together

      Facing the Storm

      Fitting In

      Mages of Tindiere:

      Artifacts of Awareness

      City of the Dead

      Transplant of War

      Debts to Recover:

      The Nature of Beasts

      The Manor Verse:

      A New Path

      Following the Trail

      Crafting Home

      Finding a Way

      Copyright ©2015 by Mary Raichle

      Cover image © Marketphoto | Dreamstime.com - Starship / Spaceship Launch / Science Fiction Universe Photo

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be emailed to me_ya_ri@yahoo.com

      This book is also available in TPB format from all major retailers.

      Dedication:

      This story is dedicated to Pat Jarvi, gone but never forgotten. You were the librarian of my childhood and will forever be the librarian of my heart. I'll miss you.

      Table of Contents

      The Eternal Librarian

      Memories of Fire

      Afterword

      The Eternal Librarian

      The air stung Laurens' nostrils, cold and sharp so that he felt as though the hairs were freezing solid with every breath he took. He'd never breathed air this cold. The ship hadn't allowed such wide swings of temperature. It wasn't good for the environmental systems. Laurens wasn't sure he could get used to it, not when the cold seeped into his clothes, made his skin prickle and tighten, made his fingers ache with the cold.

      Despite the cold, though, the planet was beautiful. Laurens had studied the pictures for ages before they arrived at the Eternal Library, poring over the static ones that had been sent ahead. Niels had been absorbed in the immersive holograms sent so that they'd have a feel for what it looked like before they got here.

      The holograms hadn't done the Library justice.

      Nothing could. Overhead, the sky was blue and bright, a shade that Laurens had never seen outside of very special dyes. Except no, the blue shaded from deeper indigo up directly overhead down to pale, washed out blue like the color of Niels' eyes near the horizon.

      A horizon, that was strange. Wonderful. Intimidating. Terrifying. So much space, all spread out around them for hundreds of thousands of miles. The Eternal Library sat in the middle of the biggest ocean on Chesna's southern continent, floating like a man-made continent.

      No, a reef. He'd

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