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In between the bookshelves of a ghostly library is a dream for some bookworms, while it is a nightmare for others. It was mid-September, and young Alison Greenwood was looking for a new mystery that the library said they now held in their autumn newsletter. She wanted to read it before anyone else did, and to tell her patient boyfriend, Daniel Collinson all about it before he got the chance to read it. She loved the smell of paper. She adored books and reading. Of the many possible uses for a library, that was her favorite. She wasn’t bothered by the creepy, crooked backed, had-to-be-a-witch librarian, Miss Annabel Bertrand, with her long graying black hair, as if it were a new type of smoke, infecting the books, or even that boy that had to be close to her teenage years, playing pointlessly on a computer (with short brown hair and glowing, reflective, green eyes like hers). She enjoyed drawing the comparison of herself between the people that were one or two shelves away from her. Pla...