Now that volume and another valuable antique book that contains early maps of America have been recovered and are being returned to library officials at a ceremony on Wednesday at the office of the United States Attorney in Manhattan.
But, looking at my bookshelves, I am aware of another kind of forgetting — the spines look familiar; the names and titles bring to mind perhaps a character name, a turn of plot, often just a mood or feeling — but for the most part, the assembled books, and the hundreds of others that I've read and discarded, given away, or returned to libraries, represent a vast catalogue of forgetting.
According to his son, Martin would walk every day to the library, where he had his own cubicle, come home for lunch, and then return to the library until it was time for dinner.
Ms. Phillips said she would like to return to the library field.
As for Ms. Gustas, she is reluctant to return to the library.
I was fretting about all of this when I got the invitation to return to Motherwell library.
Mr. Reagan's remains will return to the library on Friday evening for burial at dusk, following his wishes.
Now I would never again be able to return to the library nor would I be able to finish the illustrated series of classics.
Their dinner date, at an Italian restaurant, ended not with a kiss, but with a return to the library, to finish papers due the next day.
Years passed, and I kept meaning to return to the library all the books I had checked out for the initial essay, but I kept needing them for one thing or another.
