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The Dewey Decimal System of Love
Josephine Carr
For questions about the science of the heart and how it
beats, go to the 616.12’s and for questions about the
philosophy of the heart, go to the 700.4’s
[ms. pg 223] Ally Skinner doesn’t fall into any category… Forget those stereotypes about librarians. With long
auburn
hair and perfect skin, Ally looks half her age of forty.
And even though she’s been celibate for fifteen years, she
doesn’t live a monastic life. Ally enjoys the finer
things,
like her zippy convertible, ice-cold martinis, classical
music, and her sensuously appointed apartment. However, like any good librarian, Ally is discreet in
public—and hides her extravagant nature behind a French
twist and sensible clothes. But after last night, even her
most proper attire can’t hide the signs—the pink cheeks,
the extra-poufy hair, the bounce in her step. Ally Skinner is in love. The heart-palpitating, nausea-inducing, silly,
inexplicable, absurd and pointless kind of love found in a
romance novel. And for once in her life, what Ally needs
to
know she can’t find in any book—she can only live it…
NAL, September 2003
ISBN #0451209710 272 pages Trade Size $12.95
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