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Melissa Payne

From Melissa Payne, bestselling author of Memories in the Drift, comes an emotionally rich, feel-good novel about hope, second chances, and seeing the world through someone else's eyes. Orphaned at a young age and witness to her brother's decline into addiction, Nora Martinez has every excuse to question the fairness of life. Instead, the openhearted librarian in the small Colorado community of Silver Ridge sees only promise. She holds on to the hope that she'll be reunited with her missing brother and does what she can at the town library. It's her home away from home, but it's also a sanctuary for others who, like her brother, could use a second chance. There's Marlene, an elderly loner who believes that, apart from her husband, there's little good left in the world; Jasmine, a troubled teen; Lewis, a homeless man with lost hope and one last wish; and Vlado, the security guard who loves a good book and, from afar, Nora. As a winter storm buries Silver Ridge, this collection of lonely hearts takes shelter in the library. They'll discover more about each other, and themselves, than they ever knew--and Nora will be forced to question her brother's disappearance in ways she never could have imagined. No matter how stranded in life they feel, this fateful night could be the new beginning they didn't think was possible.

The Night of Many Endings

Vanessa

Now I'm just doing it for me, and it makes me happy.

They'd all let something control their lives.

She used to say that God made so many different people, so why wouldn't he have made lots of paths to understanding too.

Libraries were one of the last places someone could go where they didn't have to buy or believe in anything to come in.

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Not My Kind of Book

I liked the idea of this book, but not the way Payne actually put the book together. She makes assumptions about how people should (in her opinion) react and behave in certain situations. People who don't react that way are looked down upon and deemed inferior. The protagonist, Nora, is irritating.

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