false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191082266m/1970282.jpg 1970282 5 Mild-mannered librarian tells all in shocking new book! Not long ago, the public library was a place for the bookish, the eggheaded, and the studious -- often seeking refuge from a loud, irrational, crude, outside world. Today, libraries have become free-for-all entertainment complexes filled with rowdy teens, deviants, drugs, and even sex toys. Lockdowns and chaperones are often necessary. What happened? Don Borchert was a short-order cook, door-to-door salesman, telemarketer, and Christmas-tree-chopper before landing a job in a California library. He never could have predicted his encounters with the colorful kooks, touching adolescents, threatening bullies, and tricksters who fill the pages of this hilarious memoir. In "Free for All," Borchert offers readers a ringside seat for the unlikely spectacle of mayhem and <br>absurdity that is business as usual at the public library. You'll see cops bust drug dealers who've set up shop in the men's restroom, witness a burka-wearing employee suffer a curse-ridden nervous breakdown, and meet a lonely, neglected kid who grew up in the library and still sends postcards to his surrogate parents -- the librarians. In fact, from the first page of this comic debut to the last, you'll learn everything about the world of the modern-day library that you never expected. 1973500 13 11 2007 Free For All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library total:980|5:144|4:336|3:358|2:120|1:22| 980 3400 1895 382 5 11 false false Tue Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 18:55:01 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 19:12:53 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 8 false false Sun Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 17:22:48 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 17:29:22 -0800 2008
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(i, at least, have managed to bite my tongue before the curse words actually emerge, or at least muttered them under my breath)
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