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Summer Hours at the Robbers Library (2018)

par Sue Halpern

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From journalist and author Sue Halpern comes a wry, observant look at contemporary life and its refugees. Halpern's novel is an unforgettable tale of family...the kind you come from and the kind you create.

People are drawn to libraries for all kinds of reasons. Most come for the books themselves, of course; some come to borrow companionship. For head librarian Kit, the public library in Riverton, New Hampshire, offers what she craves most: peace. Here, no one expects Kit to talk about the calamitous events that catapulted her out of what she thought was a settled, suburban life. She can simply submerge herself in her beloved books and try to forget her problems.

But that changes when fifteen-year-old, home-schooled Sunny gets arrested for shoplifting a dictionary. The judge throws the book at Sunny??literally??assigning her to do community service at the library for the summer. Bright, curious, and eager to connect with someone other than her off-the-grid hippie parents, Sunny coaxes Kit out of her self-imposed isolation. They're joined by Rusty, a Wall Street high-flyer suddenly crashed to earth.

In this little library that has become the heart of this small town, Kit, Sunny, and Rusty are drawn to each other, and to a cast of other offbeat regulars. As they come to terms with how their lives have unraveled, they also discover how they might knit them together again and finally reclaim their stories… (plus d'informations)

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Coming of Age
  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
Cute book about a small town library and the people who frequent it. Some "lost" people find one another and get themselves on a better road to a happy life just by spending time together at the library.

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  hmonkeyreads | Jan 25, 2024 |
audio fiction (10hrs15min, full cast audio - 3 narrators) - multiple characters and stories converge in a small New England town library: Kit, a woman trying to forget her ex-husband (who had turned out, somehow, to be a criminal?) accepts a job as a librarian on the other side of the country; Sunny, a 15 y.o. homeschooled/no-schooled teen serving court-mandated community service after attempting to steal a dictionary from a bookstore; and Rusty, an unmarried, unemployed man who is not looking for work, but for answers.

This is a slowly-developing story rather than a tear-through-it read, but the characters are interesting and daylight hours are long. The ending was awfully convenient and neat, but overall a pleasant diversion about finding a place to belong. (And as a librarian I enjoyed Sunny's observations of the library setting.) ( )
  reader1009 | Jul 8, 2023 |
This book was not at all what I expected. I thought it would be some lite book that took place in a library.
This is a story about: loss, longing, and loneliness and how a group of people deal with it.
The is the main character Kit, who has been through so much.
Rusty who has lost everything that made him who he thought he was.
A group of retired men- The Four- who meet at the library every day and shoot the breeze for hours.
And it is about 15 year old Sunny who is performing community service at the library as punishment for trying to steal a dictionary from Barnes & Noble.
Each character in this book is complex and fascinating.
This is a fantastic book! ( )
  zmagic69 | Mar 31, 2023 |
Note: I received a finished paperback of this book from the publisher at ALA Midwinter 2018.
  fernandie | Sep 15, 2022 |
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From journalist and author Sue Halpern comes a wry, observant look at contemporary life and its refugees. Halpern's novel is an unforgettable tale of family...the kind you come from and the kind you create.

People are drawn to libraries for all kinds of reasons. Most come for the books themselves, of course; some come to borrow companionship. For head librarian Kit, the public library in Riverton, New Hampshire, offers what she craves most: peace. Here, no one expects Kit to talk about the calamitous events that catapulted her out of what she thought was a settled, suburban life. She can simply submerge herself in her beloved books and try to forget her problems.

But that changes when fifteen-year-old, home-schooled Sunny gets arrested for shoplifting a dictionary. The judge throws the book at Sunny??literally??assigning her to do community service at the library for the summer. Bright, curious, and eager to connect with someone other than her off-the-grid hippie parents, Sunny coaxes Kit out of her self-imposed isolation. They're joined by Rusty, a Wall Street high-flyer suddenly crashed to earth.

In this little library that has become the heart of this small town, Kit, Sunny, and Rusty are drawn to each other, and to a cast of other offbeat regulars. As they come to terms with how their lives have unraveled, they also discover how they might knit them together again and finally reclaim their stories

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