I walked to the shelf, my Ipod playing
Edward Maya in my ears. Yes, if the book's title really did commence
with a "Q", then it was not there. I checked on my smart
phone. Yes, it was "The Quest for Winter Sunshine", by E.
Phillips Oppenheim, and it said that it belongs to this library. And
it is in stacks. And since I could not locate the book in the Q spot
for Oppenheim, I located a librarian instead, reshelving books. She
was trying to put the book on the top shelf, so I assisted her in
accomplishing that feat.
"Now that that book is reshelved,
could you help me find another one I'm looking for?" I asked.
"Certainly," she replied.
She went to the shelf next to us where
Oppenheim was (figuratively speaking), and turned to me.
"I can't see it either! I wonder where it could have gotten to?"
"I checked it on the catalog
earlier."
"Oh, good idea, let's look again,"
she said.
I handed my smartphone to her, and she
looked at the book.
"Oh! This has NF next to it. For
the life of me, I can't remember what that means."
"Nonfiction, perhaps?" I
suggested.
"Oh yes! Nonfiction! It's in the
nonfiction section of course, that's why it wasn't on the fiction
shelf!"
"Oh! Thank you. I didn't know he
wrote any non-fiction books."
"Oh, don't thank me. See you
around!"
I walked to go get the book from the
non-fiction section, and noticed a door in the wall that was open. It
led out of the wall and outside. I did not wish to think what it led
out to, as we were five stories up. I went away, and located the book
with minimal difficulty.
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