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"Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened. After...
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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. The irascible A. J. Fikry, owner of Island Books, the only bookstore on Alice Island, has already lost his wife. Now, a rare book, has been stolen from right under his nose in the most embarrassing of circumstances....
3) Silverview
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"Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian’s evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian’s family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise.
When a letter...
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Cotton Malone novels volume 5
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Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone isn't looking for trouble when it comes knocking at his Copenhagen bookshop. But narrowly surviving a ferocious firefight convinces him to follow his unexpected new ally--an American Secret Service agent--and help him stop the Paris Club, a cabal of multimillionaires bent on manipulating the global economy. Only by matching wits with a terrorist-for-hire, foiling a catastrophic attack, and plunging...
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2019.
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First Edition.
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"Daniel Mayrock's life is at a crossroads. He knows the following to be true: 1. He loves his wife, Jill, more than anything. 2. He only regrets quitting his job and opening a bookshop a little (maybe more than a little) 3. Jill is ready to have a baby. 4. The bookshop isn't doing well. Financial crisis is imminent. Dan doesn't know how to fix it. 5. Dan hasn't told Jill about their financial trouble. 6. Then Jill gets pregnant. ...But Dan doesn't...
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2022.
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"The author of the "swoon-worthy debut" (Harper's Bazaar) The Charm Offensive returns with a festive romantic comedy about a woman who fakes an engagement with her landlord...only to fall for his sister. One year ago, recent Portland transplant Ellie Oliver had her dream job in animation and a Christmas Eve meet-cute with a woman at a bookstore that led her to fall in love over the course of a single night. But after a betrayal the next morning and...
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The bookish life of Nina Hill volume 1
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2019.
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"Nina Hill's life may not seem like much, but for a person battling anxiety, it's more than enough. She enjoys her job at a bookstore and her small circle of friends. Until a visit from a lawyer changes everything. The father that Nina never knew existed has died, leaving behind an enormous extended family. Nina now has innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, nephews, and cousins all living within a twenty-mile radius--some welcoming and some not so...
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Camino Island novels volume 2
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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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Cliff Janeway mysteries volume 3
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When Cliff Janeway investigates the provenance of a signed first edition of a memoir by nineteenth-century explorer Sir Richard Burton, he becomes embroiled in a mystery involving a lost library of rare Burton material.
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Cliff Janeway mysteries volume 5
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Rare book dealer, ex-homicide cop, and private eye, Cliff Janeway is tempted out of his bookstore into the world of horseracing. He accepts an invitation from wealthy horse trainer H. R. Geiger to travel to Idaho and look at some rare first-edition children's classics that render Janeway speechless. When Geiger turns up dead, Janeway becomes convinced someone has been dipping into the book collection for their own personal profit. His search for a...
12) The love letter
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Helen MacFarquhar owns a tiny bookstore in a seaside town, where her life is exactly as she planned it, comfortable and full, but then an anonymous love letter arrives in her mail written by an unknown lover to a mysterious beloved. The letter becomes Helen's obsession.
13) The bookshop
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[2019]
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England, 1959. Free-spirited widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) risks everything to open a bookshop in a conservative East Anglian coastal town. While bringing about a surprising cultural awakening through works by Ray Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov, she earns the polite but ruthless opposition of a local grand dame (Patricia Clarkson) and the support and affection of a reclusive book loving widower (Bill Nighy). As Florence’s obstacles amass...
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Cotton Malone novels volume 3
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A miraculous healing serum, kept secret by an ancient puzzle and buried with the mummified remains of Alexander the Great--in a tomb lost to the ages for more than 1,500 years--is the coveted prize for a cunning despot unless Cotton Malone, former U.S. Justice Department agent turned rare-book dealer, can beat her to it.
15) Fear of the dark
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Fearless Jones novels volume 3
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Bookseller Paris Minton and his friend Fearless Jones search for Ulysses S. Grant, Minton's missing cousin who became involved in a blackmail scheme.
16) The booksellers
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[2020]
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A behind-the-scenes look at the New York rare book world and the fascinating people who inhabit it.
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c2006
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1st ed.
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Eighteen-year-old Rosemary Savage moves from Tasmania to New York following the death of her mother and secures a job at the Arcade, a huge emporium of used and rare books, where she becomes involved in the lives of her quirky colleagues and the search for a lost Melville manuscript.
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