Foley, Rae. Girl on a High Wire (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1969) 218 p.

Catherine Briggs is a librarian. The small town public library she manages is represented briefly in the first three pages as a dreary place: "The library was about as varied and exciting as a treadmill." Upon arriving for work she needs only change the date on her stamp and she is ready for the "thin trickle of women, mostly elderly, coming to select 'a nice romance with a happy ending.'"