Martha Storm has lived her unhappy adult life taking care of everyone else while always being taken advantage of. Gone is the young girl who used to write imaginative stories and share them with her Nana. Now her only joy is working part time at the library, until one day she arrives home and finds a book waiting for her. A book with her Nana’s name as author, inscribed to Martha three years after her supposed death. As Martha explores this mystery her life begins to change and expand showing her it is never too late to change who we are, what we want, and how we interact with the people in our life.
Magical and lovely, The Library of Lost and Found shows us the resiliency of the human spirit. One of my favorite books this year, and I will highly recommend it to all our patrons as a must read.

Martha Storm spends all her time helping other people, so much so, that they have begun to treat her like a doormat. All she wants is a paying job at the library she volunteers at every day. Then one day someone delivers her a book of fairy tales. The book is dedicated to Martha and written by her beloved grandmother who died over 30 years earlier. Strangely the date on the book is three years after the wild and zany Zelda was supposed to have died. After some digging, Martha discovers that her grandmother is actually alive and tracks her down to find out why she was “dead”. The answers are surprisingly hard to find, as Zelda seems more intent on reliving her youth than telling Martha the truth. Oh, what a lovely book, I wanted to give Martha a big hug. A woman who loves books and telling stories and helping everyone but herself – you can’t help but love her. The story is pure magic