“I felt a sense of belonging in the stacks that I didn’t find elsewhere in my almost entirely white school and town. I spent free periods happily volunteering in my high school library. The summer before college, the school librarian mailed me a check for fifty dollars. Despite my embarrassment that she knew how little we had, I was touched that she believed in me enough to invest in my success… librarians were angels on earth.”

“Library magic is quite real when you’re open to it, which fortunately, I am. To make the magic work, you need to open yourself to possibility and serendipity. Then the library gods take over, guiding your eyeballs to writing that might launch you further into whatever madness brought you to the library in the first place.”

A Q&A with The Manuscripts Club Author Christopher de Hamel.

Inside a drawer in my office desk sits a stash of manilla envelopes. Inside each are some of the letters I have collected over a span of nearly twenty years from high school students across the U.S. In these writings, the students share with me, often quite poignantly, what impact reading The Kite Runner has had on their lives.

“Our library is like the heartbeat of our city.”—Ruta Sepetys
Hear more from inside the audiobook studio as beloved authors share the library love…

I can say without a doubt that I would not be where I am today—or writing books—without the library and librarians.

“My life, my entire self, wouldn’t be possible without you. From the time I was very young, my mother took me to libraries.”

“Thank you for making me the reader and writer I am today. I’m the American-born daughter of Chinese immigrants, and as a girl, I often felt torn between worlds. But I felt at home at the library…”

“Telling stories—and listening to them—are part of our human DNA. . . “

Author Traci Chee describes how audiobook narrator Kim Mai Guest adds her own magic to her Sea of Ink and Gold series and why listening is such a treat!

Delia Ephron’s SIRACUSA is narrated by two real-life married celebrity couples! WATCH video of Delia in the studio as she reveals the audiobook cast.