Is This a Cry for Help?: A Novel by Emily Austin Michael J. Lamendola For anyone who’s ever lost

For anyone who’s ever lost a friend or had one

this sturdy book is made to be loved and enjoyed by very young children

a veritable who’s-who of sultans

But before the competition can even begin

she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement

Is This a Cry for Help?: A Novel by Emily Austin Michael J. Lamendola For anyone who’s ever lostEmily Austin, the bestselling queen of darkly quirky, endearingly flawed heroines (Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus), returns with a luminous new novel following a librarian who comes back to work after a mental breakdown only to confront book banning crusaders in an empowering story of grief, love, and the power of libraries. Darcys life turned out better than she could have ever imagined. She is a librarian at the local branch, while her wife Joy