<html><body><span style="font-family:Book Antiqua; color:#000; font-size:12pt;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: 12pt;">This book doesn't appear to be that old, but it seems to fit other aspects of the description:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div><font face="book antiqua, palatino" size="3" style=""><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shout-at-Devil-Wilbur-Smith-ebook/dp/B004YENIX4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1391031806&sr=1-1&keywords=shout+at+the+devil">http://www.amazon.com/Shout-at-Devil-Wilbur-Smith-ebook/dp/B004YENIX4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1391031806&sr=1-1&keywords=shout+at+the+devil</a>#</font></div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Barbara Beaton</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"><span style="color: #000000;">Assistant Director/Reference Librarian</span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Milan Public Library</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">151 Wabash St.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Milan, MI 48160</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">(734) 439-1240</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><br></strong></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><img id="sigimg0" title="signature image" src="cid:sigimg0@987bb43e5528e9675feb7ae23e7c6d3f" border="0" alt="" width="123" height="93"><br></strong></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><br></strong></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br></div>
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Subject: [Michlib-l] guess the book<br>
From: "director" <<a href="mailto:shermandirector@winntel.net">shermandirector@winntel.net</a>><br>
Date: Wed, January 29, 2014 1:25 pm<br>
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</style><div class="WordSection1"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:"Century","serif"">I had a patron come in recently looking for a title that he read “a <i>really</i> long time ago.” My hints were: <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:"Century","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:"Century","serif"">-main character/narrator is male<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:"Century","serif"">-during/after WWII<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:"Century","serif"">-set in Africa<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:"Century","serif"">-elephant whose name means “plows the earth”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:"Century","serif"">-main character killed by elephant at the end<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:"Century","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:"Century","serif"">I’ve been researching and unable to find anything that seems to fit so far. My patron knows it’s a long shot to find it based on what he remembers, but I’d still like to give it my best shot. </span><span style="font-family:Wingdings">J</span><span style="font-family:"Century","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:"Century","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Vivaldi">Ms. TJ Smith<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:"Century","serif"">Ms. TJ Smith<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:"Century","serif"">Library Director<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:"Century","serif"">Sherman Township Library<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:"Century","serif"">(989) 644-5131<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:"Century","serif""><a href="mailto:shermandirector@winntel.net">shermandirector@winntel.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><hr>_______________________________________________<br>
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