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The Midnight Library
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Matt Haig
A new novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived. By the internationally best-selling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time.
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84, Charing Cross Road
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Helene Hanff
This charming classic, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share a winsome, sentimental friendship based on their common love for books. Their relationship, captured so acutely in these letters, is one that will grab your heart and not let go.
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The Diary of a Bookseller
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Shaun Bythell
Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost ... In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribulations of life in the book trade.
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The Booklover's Library : a novel
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Madeline Martin
In wartime England, widow Emma, when she's separated from her daughter, seeks solace in the friendships she forms at Boots' Booklover's Library, but when the Blitz intensifies, she fights to reunite with her daughter, learning to depend on her community and the power of literature to find hope in the darkest of times.
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The Cat Who Saved the Library : a novel
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Såosuke Natsukawa
"A chronic asthma condition prevents thirteen-year-old Nanami from playing sports or spending time with her friends after school. But nothing can stop her from one of her favorite activities. Nanami loves to read and happily spends much of her free time in the library, cocooned among the stacks. Then one day, Nanami notices that, despite the library being as deserted as ever, some of her favorite books...are disappearing from the shelves.
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Midnight at the Bright Ideas bookstore : a novel
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Matthew Sullivan
A first novel by an award-winning short story writer follows the efforts of a bookstore clerk to unravel a puzzle left behind by a patron who has committed suicide, an effort that is complicated by memories of the clerk's violent childhood.
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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop : a novel
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Satoshi Yagisawa
After a young Japanese woman's life falls apart, she moves into a flat above her eccentric uncle's bookshop, staying rent-free in exchange for working at the store and developing a passion for Japanese literature.
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The Heartbeat Library
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Laura Imai Messina
A tender, contemplative and uplifting novel about grief, friendship and the many ways we heal, by the internationally bestselling author of The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World.
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The Radcliffe Ladies' Reading Club : a novel
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Julia Thomas
"Never underestimate the power of a woman with a shop full of books Massachusetts, 1954. With bags packed alongside her heavy heart, Alice Campbell escaped halfway across the country and found herself in front of a derelict building tucked among the cobblestone streets of Cambridge. She turns it into the enchanting bookshop of her dreams, knowing firsthand the power of books to comfort the brokenhearted. The Cambridge Bookshop soon becomes a haven for Tess, Caroline, Evie, and Merritt, who are all navigating the struggles of being newly independent college women in a world that seems to want to keep them in the kitchen."
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The Cinnamon Bun Book Store
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Laurie Gilmore
"Gorgeous and outgoing fisherman, Noah, is always up for an adventure. And a scavenger hunt sounds like a lot of fun. Even better that the cute bookseller he's been crushing on for months is the one who wants his help! Hazel didn't go looking for romance, but as the treasure hunt leads her and Noah around Dream Harbor, their undeniable chemistry might be just as hot as the fresh-out-of-the-oven cinnamon buns the bookstore sells..."
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The Bookshop on the Corner : a novel
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Jenny Colgan
A "literary matchmaker" who takes joy in pairing readers with perfect books moves from the city to a sleepy village where she becomes a bookmobile driver and rediscovers her senses of adventure and home while searching for a happy ending of her own. By the best-selling author of Little Beach Street Baker.
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The Lending Library : a novel
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Aliza Fogelson
When the Chatsworth library closes indefinitely, small-town art teacher Dodie Fairisle turns her sunroom into her very own little lending library, which leads to both new friendships and romance, as well as an unexpected chance to realize her secret dream of motherhood.
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The Underground Library : a novel
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Jennifer Ryan
When the Blitz destroys Bethnal Green Library in London, librarian Juliet Lansdown, along with two other women, relocates the stacks to the local Underground station where the city's residents shelter nightly, determined to lend out stories that will keep spirits up, but soon tragedy after tragedy threatens to destroy what they've built.
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What You Are Looking for is in the Library
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Michiko Aoyama
This tribute to the magic of libraries, friendship and community follows Tokyo's most mysterious librarian, Sayuri Komachi, as she gives her visitors one unexpected book, which has life-altering consequences, giving the borrower the motivation they didn't realize they need to change their life.
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The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry : a novel
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Gabrielle Zevin
When his most prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, is stolen, bookstore owner A. J. Fikry begins isolating himself from his friends, family and associates before receiving a mysterious package that compels him to remake his life.
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The library of lost dollhouses : a novel
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Elise Hooper
"A fresh new dual-timeline novel from beloved author Elise Hooper, about a young librarian who discovers historic dollhouses and embarks on a journey to uncover the hidden secrets behind the intricate miniatures, perfect for fans of Fiona Davis and Marie Benedict."
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