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Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
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"A provocative and hauntingly powerful debut novel that will keep you turning pages into the early hours, The Bookseller follows a woman in the 1960s who wrestles to reconcile her daily life as a single bookstore owner with the alternate reality she suddenly begins to dream about each night, in which she is a happily-married wife and mother"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Why does mystery create a mental itch that must be scratched? New York Times bestselling author Jonah Lehrer unlocks the secrets of mystery's allure, putting together recent discoveries in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and anthropology and shining a new light on everything from the formulas of our favorite detective shows to the tricks of successful advertising campaigns and the calculated risks of the stock market....
Author
Series
Hugo Marston novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Max-an elderly Paris bookstall owner-is abducted at gunpoint. His friend, Hugo Marston, head of security at the US embassy, looks on helplessly, powerless to do anything to stop the kidnapper. Marston launches a search, enlisting the help of semiretired CIA agent Tom Green. Their investigation reveals that Max was a Holocaust survivor and later became a Nazi hunter. Is his disappearance somehow tied to his grim history, or even to the mysterious old...
Author
Series
Amish bookstore volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Yvonne Wilson has made the trek from Texas to Indiana to convince Amishman Jake Lantz to sell her client a rare book from his collection. But Jake had made a vow to his dying grandfather to never sell the book and he intends to keep that promise. Eva Graber has loved Jake since he hired her to work in his bookstore two years ago. When Yvonne shows up and seems like she might turn Jake's eye, Eva suggests that she and Jake read the book together....
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When bookish young American Sylvia Beach opens Shakespeare and Company on a quiet street in Paris in 1919, she has no idea that she and her new bookstore will change the course of literature itself. Shakespeare and Company is more than a bookstore and lending library: Many of the most prominent writers of the Lost Generation, like Ernest Hemingway, consider it a second home. It's where some of the most important literary friendships of the twentieth...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Return to the enchanting world of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London in this sequel by Garth Nix, bestselling master of teen fantasy, where once again a team of booksellers must fight to keep dangerous magic under cover before the stuff of legends destroys our world.
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Series
Skull-face bookseller Honda-san volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Discover more of the author's real-life experiences working in a Japanese bookstore! When a gay couple from abroad shows up in Honda-san's bookstore, can Honda help them find the "Japanese erotic manga" they're looking for?! What's more, Honda recounts the harsh and deadly battle that is the "store sales fair," and what to do with books considered "morally harmful"!
Author
Series
Skull-face bookseller Honda-san volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When you work in a Japanese bookstore like Honda-san, there are a million and one things to keep track of. Managing new releases, accounting for the revival of titles from the grave, understanding the unique(ly maddening) quirks of each manga publisher-it's enough to leave anyone bone-tired!
Author
Series
Skull-face bookseller Honda-san volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Honda might be a skeleton, but that's nowhere near as crazy as working in a Japanese bookstore! Whether it's running the store, dealing with out-of-print books, or handling eccentric customers, the bookstore life is filled with laughter and tears."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd (est. 1761) to apply for a job. Allured by the smell of old books and the temptation of a management-approved afternoon nap, Darkshire was soon unteetering stacks of first editions and placating the store's resident ghost (the late Mr. Sotheran, hit by a tram). By turns unhinged and earnest, Once Upon a Tome is the colorful story of life in one of the world's...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Showcasing the smart and talented people who live between the pages, this inspiring collection of true stories, as told to one of the greatest novelists of our time, invites us into a world where we can feed our curiosities, discover new voices and find whatever we want or require.
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