Heartland Library Novels & Stories

The Harlow County Archive was on the second floor of the public library, which was itself a modest building on the east end of Main Street that had been expanded twice and maintained well and smelled, on the inside, like the specific combination of old paper and institutional carpet that Eli associated with every library he had ever been in.

On my way home, I stop by the Lending Library. Our neighborhood has been blessed with a wonderful treasure, the Lending Library. It's the most sacred of treasures for a reader like me. The idea is, I read a book, and when I'm finished, I return it to the Lending Library for someone else to read. The Lending Library is a large bookshelf that stands on a post. It resembles a mailbox.