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A nice dedication to librarians by Rick Riordan

Lorcan Dempsey

We downloaded Rick Riordan’s latest novel, The Red Pyramid, to my son’s iPod Touch this afternoon. As he began to read, he came across this nice dedication:

To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Duat.

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