Finn by Chris Keniston

Author:Chris Keniston
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Indie House Publishing
Published: 2017-02-20T16:00:00+00:00

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Poker. Of all the things Joanna would have expected the ladies social club to do, playing cards would not have been even a footnote. And yet, why was she surprised? Aunt Eileen was a hoot. Probably a card shark too. She'd dropped Joanna off at the Tuckers Bluff public library and hurried on to her weekly game at the café.

Standing in the old brick building, Joanna took in the surroundings. Unlike her movie counterpart of the same name, the librarian Marion was an older woman who made the sisters look like spring chickens. Aunt Eileen had explained that the only way for the town to keep the library going was to have volunteer staff. Marion had been in charge ever since she retired from the Butler Springs public library well over ten years ago.

The woman knew every nook and cranny and had led Joanna to a dusty section of the back storage facility. "We'd been working backwards from most recent to the beginning of time to record all the data on microfiche. Now it's all about computers. Bottom line, what little we have on Three Corners is at the back of a long line to be scanned and stored."

Joanna wasn't sure if the sweet old lady was using the royal 'we' or if there really were other people to help her scan and store this stuff. Looking at the aisles of shelves filled with books and ledgers and stacks of mismatched tomes, it struck her that it might take the lifetimes of several volunteers to get it all scanned to computer. "I can take it from here."

"Oh no." Marion pulled out a pair of white cotton gloves and handed them to Joanna, then retrieved another pair for herself. "Some of these books are quite valuable. It may not look it, but this storage space is temperature controlled."

"Of course." What more could Joanna say? That the place looked like her Aunt Peggy's spare junk room? Or a scene from a Vincent Price film noir? A dangerous place to be in the dark.

"Now." Marion surveyed the printed cards on the rim of the shelves. "I'm pretty sure we can find some of what you want…here." She came to an abrupt stop and grinning like a kid about to sit on Santa's lap, pulled out a large bound volume that Joanna assumed had to be old newspapers.

Prepared with her gloves on, Joanna received the old book, arms out, and waited as Marion continued to stack several more volumes on.

"All right. That should get us started."

An hour later a group of young teen girls had come in to use the computers for their own research project. Assured that Joanna could be trusted not to damage the old papers, Marion had delightedly hurried off to tend to the teens. It had never occurred to Joanna that there was someplace in this state where every kid didn't have their own computer, but what she found more interesting still was that not a single one seemed to mind.

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