Free for All Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library

Mild-mannered librarian tells all in shocking new book! Not long ago, the public library was a place for the bookish, the eggheaded, and the studious-- often seeking refuge from a loud, irrational, crude, outside world. Today, libraries have become free-for-all entertainment complexes filled with rowdy teens, deviants, drugs, and even sex toys. Lockdowns and chaperones are often necessary. What happened? Don Borchert was a short-order cook, door-to-door salesman, telemarketer, and Christmas-tree-chopper before landing a job in a California library. He never could have predicted his encounters with the colorful kooks, touching adolescents, threatening bullies, and tricksters who fill the pages of this hilarious memoir. In "Free for All," Borchert offers readers a ringside seat for the unlikely spectacle of mayhem and absurdity that is business as usual at the public library. You' ll see cops bust drug dealers who' ve set up shop in the men' s restroom, witness a burka-wearing employee suffer a curse-ridden nervous breakdown, and meet a lonely, neglected kid who grew up in the library and still sends postcards to his surrogate parents-- the librarians. In fact, from the first page of this comic debut to the last, you' ll learn everything about the world of the modern-day library that you never expected.Borchert, Don is the author of 'Free for All Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library', published 2007 under ISBN 9781905264124 and ISBN 1905264127.