“Moving Toward Freedom rests heavily on . . . sweeping collections.  The most important of these include Ulrich B. Phillips papers at Yale University’s Sterling Library . . . these collections provided the empirical and interpretive backbone of my book . . . “

Fill your heart with library joy, thanks to these beautiful messages of authors sharing love for libraries all recorded in the Penguin Random House Audio studios!

“There are young people walking into your library today carrying questions they do not yet have language for. The work you do ensures that when they reach for truth, it is there.”

“. . . that promise of democratic access to knowledge which libraries stand for is beautiful.”

“The Library After Dark is a love letter to libraries and books, to those who place knowledge into the hands of any who may not experience it otherwise.”

“I hope they know how grateful we readers and writers are for the work they do. I spent my childhood immersed in books, many of which were recommended to me by my school librarian or borrowed from libraries, and I hope that all children can be lucky as I was.”

I could not have written this novel without libraries and the incredible work of librarians like you.

“There are only three things in my life that have never changed: my love of the library, my love of reading, and my dream to someday be an author. . . As a librarian, I felt an intrinsic appreciation for every book that crossed my desk, and I feel honored to share mine now with this wonderful community.”

“Sometime in 1986, after completing a lengthy, emotionally exhausting novel titled You Must Remember This, the idea came to me in a flash, with a promise of adventure: writing a sequence of short, cinematic novels exploring twins, doubles, soul-mates and secret selves under a pseudonym!”

“As a library, you are the guardian and spirit-home of something absolutely precious: HUMAN ATTENTION.”

“It is librarians like you who work tirelessly to share books with a world that needs hope. Thank you for your efforts!”

“Sylvie, the main character, is formed even more deeply than she realizes by the ideas she learned from her grandparents, both of whom died when she was 13. You might even say those ideas save her. I was lucky, growing up, to have a host of adults expose me to real ideas, but I think my librarians did it most. In that way, too, they made me who I am.”