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    The Librarian
    The Librarian
    The Librarian
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    The Librarian

    By Wolf Sherman

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    Foreword

    "You get all sorts of people in a library, and the librarian gets it all..." - Terry Pratchett

    Synopsis

    From where Anne had pushed herself back deeper into her chair, she knew that they were capable, fit, and all were in high demand. She could have been a grandmother to the men, who had placed themselves around her. Never would she have been able to compete with their fitness or strength. But, the many years in the obscure environment that old Anne had dominated, made her some true and unusual friends. Ones who'd go to the end of the world to make sure that Anne would still be around, in order for 'them' to be conduct business adequately and in the harmony they'd grown accustomed to. Feeling around the bottom of her handbag, she'd fished out the smart silver pen and waited as the cold steel slowly absorbed the heat from her liver spotted and wrinkled old hand...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWolf Sherman
    Release dateDec 11, 2017
    ISBN9781370244034
    The Librarian
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    Wolf Sherman

    Biography - Wolf ShermanWolf was born in 1970, grew up in Pretoria and after school joined the South African Police in 1988. During 1993 he was transferred to Johannesburg. During his colourfully interesting police career he was attached to several specialist divisions that include the anti-vehicle theft unit, organised-crime-and-political-investigations unit, and the East-Rand Murder & Robbery unit. After his police career he successfully applied his experience in the corporate financial world as insurance investigator and financial planner.Wolf is 48-years of age, have been blessed with three daughters, and is an avid blood and blood platelet donor. He fills his time by weaving his unusual life experience and keen interest in religion, metaphysics, war and political research and that of his love for food and classical music - into his poetry, fictional short stories, and novels.“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” - George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons.I'm always curious to listen when people talk about which book - ever - they'd first read. For me it was “The Man Called Noon” that was published in 1970. I suppose that it goes without saying the 1973 film directed by Peter Collinson - of the same name - as the 1970 Louis L'Amour novel, was quite a hit in the day.I was always in love with the books in which storytellers extended an invitation right from the word go, and pulled me in into a different world. The next early love for me growing up were bookshops and libraries. But I'd consider libraries had the first place. My love for both novels and short stories grew over the years, but somehow short stories found me more often. In part, I think because one can sponge it up in a single sitting, and move on to the next world, so to speak.On the topic of short stories, the storytellers in this instance tell how they see it - but being forced far quicker to relay that. I have no doubt that any short story can be stretched out and pinned down to become a novel - if one wanted to. Obviously there is no set length that a short story has to subscribe to, but I'd imagine anything from five-thousand to twenty-five-or-so-thousand words is adequate to save someone, murder a few people, get some revenge, use most of the rope in your boot, discard the spade when you're done, and go in hiding till the whole thing blows over. Of course, if there's a body to begin with... Which really stems from poor planning - I have always thought - in a story. Naturally. Of course, we also need to fall in love at some point and give our whole heart to someone special. It makes for a more balanced killer. In a story. Naturally.Look me up on:Pinterest @ Wolf Sherman BooksInstagram: @Wolf_ShermanTwitter: @WolfSherman2

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      The Librarian - Wolf Sherman

      The Librarian

      Copyright © All rights reserved - Wolf Sherman. The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book without permission is a theft of the author’s intellectual property. If you would like permission to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), please contact wolfshermanbooks@gmail.com

      Thank you for your support of the author’s rights. Although this is a fictional work, some locations, organisations and events are factual. The characters and times in the storyline are fictional - therefore, all resemblances to actual people present or past are purely coincidental.

      Foreword

      You get all sorts of people in a library, and the librarian gets it all… - Terry Pratchett

      Synopsis

      Everyone, or so one would hope, have met, or at least have been hushed by the pointed - and sometimes slightly crooked and wrinkled warning-finger of a librarian. Maybe even while giggling or sneezing just a little too loudly, while on a purposeful cruise down those dusty isles where ideas have always disquietly gathered in waiting. But sometimes, those ideas are suspended in forgotten worlds, where even 'Time' neglects to visit and share gossip about the smell of faded old book jackets, or brief brushing flirts with knowledge.

      Whether during our schooling phase's steady development and fondness of books, or our later laborious research in busy public- or university libraries, we may have unknowingly brushed past librarians who were not quite what they seemed. Central to published ideas being signed in and out, and having been caringly and correctly stored, some librarians have been standing in the shadows, waiting. Probably for as long as we've had the healthy need to learn, compare, debunk or accept authoritative ideas about our fascinating but sometimes cruel world, librarians have been around. Especially when the right visitors needed to evoke those dusty buried thoughts of long-forgotten pioneers who had framed our perceived reality, wanting a word or two with the destroyers in the shadows who helped write history...

      She was 68 and yesterday was her birthday. It was every bit as uneventful as the many before - by other standards maybe, in the quiet-absence of traditionally RSVP'd family and long-time colleagues, arriving to spoil with an assortment of glittery wrapped presents and multiple neat rows of flickering candles - balanced on a large and rich towering and layered black forest chocolate cake, to share lengthy discussions of how time flew since the last gathering. But for Anne, it was a perfect and meaningful day with the people she cared for sincerely. The other highlight was a single caringly and beautifully golden-paper wrapped gift, that an old philosophy professor had left her with a note. For loyal service, to 'my' Anne. Open it at home - and open it once more. The bookworms owe you this much. He smiled through his neatly trimmed beard while politely tipping his hat and followed up with a sincere long hug, then, unceremoniously, without a word, or waiting for Anne to respond... left. Although he had little to say, the gift was as life-changing as the ones which had preceded it. She loved riddles dearly and loved the old professor just as much. Then again, it wasn't the first time she received a pen from him, and although the riddle was solved already years before, he kept presenting her with a pen and a note - and she - kept on solving the same riddle, again and again.

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