We have been sorting through the immense donation we received for the church library. Among the regular books you would expect to find in a pastor's library -- theological works, commentaries, a really large number of Bibles, doctrine, creeds and catechisms -- are the others, among them:
-- a nice collection of hymnals and songbooks (not really strange to find in a pastor's library, except for the number and variety of them)
--health and home remedy books
--a few novels, most of which would show up under women's fiction
--one of the Dear Canada books (a series of historical fiction for grades 4-7) with a school library stamp in it; I wonder if it's missing from the library
--most perplexing: three very small board books for very small children; each page has a picture on one side and a word on the other
Also interesting are the things we find in the books: receipts, invoices, letters, shopping lists, to-do lists, pamphlets, photographs, a bill of sale for some cows, reminders about appointments.... among the things he used as bookmarks, there has so far been exactly one actual bookmark!
It's been an interesting experience going through the books!
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