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1) The bookshop
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English
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When Florence Green opens a bookshop in a sleepy seaside town she is met with open resistance by her neighbors who resent her success.
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Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
c2005
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English
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Betsy Burton, one of the owners of The King's English Bookshop in Salt Lake City, Utah, shares anecdotes from throughout the history of the store, discussing employees, author visits, and the joys and challenges of running an independent bookstore, and including reading lists in a range of subject areas.
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English
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
A New York Times Bestseller
"Funny, tender, and moving, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry reminds us all exactly why we read and why we love." -Library Journal, starred review
A. J. Fikry's life is not at all what he expected it to be. He lives alone, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and now his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. But when a mysterious...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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When she is out of a job just in time for the holidays, Carmen, with little cash and few options, is forced to move in with her perfect sister where she takes a job at a book store that desperately needs her help-and helps her in return.
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English
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The Haunted Bookshop (1919) is a novel by Christopher Morley. Although less popular than Kitty Foyle (1939), a novel adapted into an Academy Award-winning film, The Haunted Bookshop is a fast-paced thriller that deserves a modern audience. From unassuming beginnings as a tale about a lovelorn advertising salesman who visits a charming bookstore, The Haunted Bookshop quickly morphs into a story of paranoia, stalking, and kidnapping. "If you are ever...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Molly Allen lives alone in Portland, but she left her heart in Tennessee with a man she walked away from five years ago. Ryan Kelly lives in Nashville after a broken engagement and several years on the road touring with a country music duo. He can still hear Molly encouraging him to follow his dreams. At least he can visit The Bridge -- the oldest bookstore in historic Franklin -- and remember the hours he and Molly once spent there. For thirty...
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Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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When fate brings three strangers to a charming space for lease on the California coast, the Boardwalk Bookshop is born. Part bookstore, part gift shop, part bakery, it's a dream come true for Bree, Mikki and Ashley. But while their business is thriving, their personal lives are...not.Bree, wounded by brilliant but cold parents and her late husband's ultimate betrayal, has sworn to protect her heart at all costs. Even from Ashley's brother, a writer...
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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Black Books is a second-hand bookshop in London run by Bernard Black who makes no effort to sell, is in a perpetual alcoholic stupor, and abhors his customers. Help comes from the bumbling Manny and Fran, the frustrated next door neighbor.
13) Mystery, Inc
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Have you ever wanted something so badly you would kill for it? Identified only by the hastily -- and clumsily -- chosen alias Charles Brockden, the narrator of this story finds a bookstore that instantly piques his desire. He must call it his own; he must add it to his already-extensive collection of bookstores. But surely the owner of such a fine shop wouldn't easily part with it. Brockden forms a plan to acquire the store in such a way that no one...
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JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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There is a world beyond the world It figures. Just when Bradfordian bookshop clerk, Toby Dexter, finally works up the nerve to talk to his secret crush, she darts into an open door. Toby follows, and in that second, everything changes. Though it still looks like Bradford-on-Avon, the town's suddenly chatty ATM and river mermaids are the first clues that something is quite out of place--namely, Toby. The moment he stepped through that door, Toby entered...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"When a bookshop patron commits suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this fiendishly clever debut novel from an award-winning short story writer. Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she keeps a meticulously crafted existence among her beloved books, eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogs--the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day marauding the store's...
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Harper Muse
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Independent bookstore owner Sophie Bernstein is burned out on books. Mourning the death of her husband, the loss of her favorite manager, her only child's lack of aspiration, and the grim state of the world, she fantasizes about going into hiding in the secret back room of her store. Meanwhile, renowned poet Raymond Chaucer has published a new collection, and rumors that he's to blame for his wife's suicide have led to national cancellations of his...
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English
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A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading with murderous attention, must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year...
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Park Row Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"This sparkling novel starts with high energy and unique characters that move from one surprise to another." -Ann Garvin, USA TODAY bestselling author
All it takes is the right book to turn a Book Hater into a Book Lover…
That was what Elliot-the beloved co-owner of Over the Rainbow Bookshop-believed before his untimely passing. He always had the perfect book suggestion for the self-proclaimed Book Hater. Now his grief-ridden business partner,...
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Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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This bluestocking would do almost anything to save her reputation and her grandfather's legacy…even marry a scandalous duke.
No-nonsense Jane Delaney divides her time between her grandfather's beloved bookstore and writing newspaper columns, determined to overcome a past that's left her with scars on her face and in her heart. But when the store ends up in unexpected financial jeopardy and Jane's secrets are threatened by a mysterious blackmailer,...
20) Camino winds
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[2020]
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English
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Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen--even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime . . . Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida's governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce...
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