BOSTON -- Recently while browsing at the Boston University Barnes & Noble, I serendipitously stumbled upon what might be the first-ever liberal action novel, The Librarian (Thunder's Mouth/Nation Books, 256 pages, $13.95 paper). Here's how it happened: I was thumbing through Bill O'Reilly's new children's book, and, in particular, I was giggling through the following passage: "Here's a big word for today: dehumanization. When you are interested in someone only on the basis of physique, you're dehumanizing him or her, seeing that person only as an attractive object…And guys, if you exploit a girl, it will come back to get...