Grayson, Emily. The Observatory (New York: HarperCollins, 2000) 181 p.

Liz Mallory is head librarian at the Longwood Falls Library in upstate New York. She enjoys her work, but it is really an escape from real life. “I felt safe in that building, surrounded by books--objects that comforted me almost in the way that people were meant to comfort one another.” (p. 32).