Author, professor and minister RHETT ELLIS (how Southern is that?) lives in Monroeville, Alabama, hometown of one of America’s finest novelists, author Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird).
It is there that he was bitten by the library bug. It is there that he teaches Ethics at Alabama Southern Community College and preaches on Sunday in his Baptist church. It is there that he wrote his third book, “How I Fell In Love With a Librarian and Lived to Tell About It.”
“How I Fell In Love With a Librarian and Lived To Tell About It” (Sparkling Bay Books, February 2004) is available from all major booksellers, including Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Amazon and Barnes & Noble. ISBN softcover: 097063140; hardcover: 0967063159. Amazon.com.
Author, professor and minister RHETT ELLIS (how Southern is that?) lives in Monroeville, Alabama, hometown of one of America’s finest novelists, author Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird).
It is there that he was bitten by the library bug. It is there that he teaches Ethics at Alabama Southern Community College and preaches on Sunday in his Baptist church. It is there that he wrote his third book, “How I Fell In Love With a Librarian and Lived to Tell About It.”
“How I Fell In Love With a Librarian and Lived To Tell About It” (Sparkling Bay Books, February 2004) is available from all major booksellers, including Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Amazon and Barnes & Noble. ISBN softcover: 097063140; hardcover: 0967063159. Amazon.com.The Librarian the protagonist falls is love with has no bun and no reading glasses. She is, quite simply, in the words of the author, “the most beautiful woman in the world, the most beautiful creature in all existence.” She is also the central figure in an atypical library romance…one in which our hero (Robert Chesterfield Smith) helps to rally the populace of their small town to keep the library open in opposition to a greedy local politician. Something of a familiar story in today’s world of budget cutbacks and downsizing.
Director of the Monroe County (AL) Library Jacqueline Hines Nobles says of Ellis’ book: “You always meet the nicest and most interesting people in a library. Ellis has written a charming story about a library, a minister’s crusade to keep it open, and a lovely but very strange new librarian. The minister, smitten at first glance, takes an entertaining and adventurous journey with the new librarian. Their relationship expresses how unconditional acceptance of differences can lead to happiness. Read it, you will enjoy it.”
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