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I'm about to whine a bit... I've borrowed this audio book from my library and am thrilled when our local public library makes such books available. It is a long book and I'll say a dense book. There is history, and theology, and biography, and names - oh, so many names to try to keep track of. I've had to renew it twice which wasn't a problem- until last week. I tried to renew and received a message that the book was no longer available at my library. Yikes! The message said to go to the library and speak to a librarian and 'express my interest'. So I did that. To no avail.

Not only is this book not available but about 3/4 of my library FAVORITES (books that I have made a list of that were to be read sometime in the future) are no longer available . I thought the library had been hacked. Now when I put murder mystery in the search engine instead of a Commissario Brunetti story or a Louise Penny book; I get a list of Boxcar Children books. I. am. not. kidding.

The librarian at my local library branch couldn't provide any answers as to what has happened. She suggested I write to the Main Branch Librarian (which I have done - no response yet). I am at a loss. If I want cheesy romance, horror stories, or children's books (not classic children's books mind you); they abound at my library. But the books that I want to read are gone.

The librarian at my local branch said she could do an inter library loan for me and she found this book on CD from another branch. She seemed annoyed when I told her that I don't have a CD player and even if I did; it's difficult to carry one around on my evening walk when I listen to the book (or listen in my car). I am truly at a loss.

I am still hoping that someone hacked my library's Hoopla app and they will figure this out and go back to providing good books.

UPDATE: Hooray, my library has this book back and is available on Hoopla! Not just this book but many others that I had on my wish list. It makes me so happy to have such a resource available!