Linda Maxie is a retired librarian with a passion for matching the right book with the right reader. After earning an MLS from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, she spent her career working in public, elementary, and high school libraries, where she obsessively pored over book reviews, intent on building the perfect collection. After retirement, she continued her quest in the volume you see here. Currently, she lives in Virginia with her husband, Roger, and their rescued mixed-breed canine, Dusty Marie.