I asked several officers this, but of course no one could tell me. I grieved that I couldn't comfort him in his last moments.

C-SPAN2 has a new Book TV show that features interviews with nonfiction authors, so it has turned a full-size bus into a fully contained television studio. They take it to big book events to let people know about their new show, and we're now one of the largest book sales in the Southeast, if not the nation.

He had proved to us over and over he could be trusted, so we didn't question him.

It is really important to have a good sale this year because the libraries' budget for new books from the county has been cut by 80 percent this year.

I didn't think five years ago that we'd be as quickly up to this point as we are.