The Department Of Rare Books And Special Collections

 Eva Jurczyk wrote The Department Of Rare Books And Special Collections. In this story the protagonist is Liesl, a woman of retirement age who is asked to fill in as head of the library when her supervisor suffers a stroke. I would not want her job. Her coworkers are now her subordinates and most of them are angry and rude and challenging. Life is too short to have to deal with toxic people like that. In her first days in the new role the most precious book the library has goes missing. Who took the book is a mystery that gets solved by Liesl eventually.  The story is set at a university in Toronto. I liked the book because it gave me a glimpse into what it would be like to work at a university and to have to deal with the college president and the donors to the library.