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Publisher
Wings Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (160 pages)
Language
English
Description
Virtually every San Antonio citizen over a certain age with any interest in literature will have vivid memories of Rosengren's Books. It was the absolute center of literary culture not only in San Antonio, but in Texas, for decades. Indeed, from the 1930s to the 1980s, Rosengren's Books was considered one of the finest bookstores between New York and San Francisco. It was a mid-continent haven for writers as diverse as Frost, John Dos Pasos, J. Frank...
42) Proof of murder
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English
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"The seaside New England town of Greyborne Harbor is home to many grand estates, including the Queen Anne Victorian Addie inherited from her great aunt. Now one of those mansions is holding an estate sale, which is just what the bookshop owner needs to replenish her supply of rare editions--even if the house is rumored to be haunted. Assisting an overwhelmed insurance appraiser with the inventory, Addie discovers an 1887 magazine containing Arthur...
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English
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"The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland is a book lover's paradise, with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the portly bookshop cat. You'd think that after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to his quirky customers by now. Don't get him wrong, there are some good ones among the antiquarian porn-hunters, die-hard train book lovers, people who confuse bookshops for libraries, and the toddlers just...
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English
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"Niagara region booksellers Violet Waverly and Grandma Daisy sleuth the slaying of a sommelier whose book signing turned into her sayonara. January means ice wine season in the Niagara Falls region, but the festivities leave Charming Books owner Violet Waverly cold, still reeling from a past heartbreak. A past heartbreak who will be present at the annual midnight grape-harvest festival, and no magic in the world or incantation powerful enough could...
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English
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A bicycle race is not Charming Books proprietor Violet Waverly's idea of a pleasant pastime, but police chief David Rainwater really wants them to enter the Tour de Cascade as a couple, so she reluctantly consents. The Tour de Cascade is the brainchild of Violet's grandma Daisy. The race is a fundraiser to build the Cascade Springs Underground Railroad Museum. But not everyone in this Niagara Region village supports the race. As if the bike race weren't...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Relates the story of the National Memorial African Bookstore, founded in Harlem by Louis Michaux in 1939, as seen from the perspective of Louis Michaux Jr., who met famous men like Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X while helping there.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The Bookshop by the Bay is a breezy, escapist beach read from powerhouse bestselling women's fiction author Pamela Kelley. Two lifelong friends. One bookshop by the beach. And the summer that could change everything. Jess loves her work as a high-profile lawyer in the respectable and austere city of Charleston. But when she finds her husband, Parker, has been cheating on her with his assistant, she retreats, with her thirty year-old daughter Caitlin...
49) Duck & company
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rat and Duck run a bookshop and work to find the right book for each of their customers.
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Language
English
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"Fresne Prison, 1940: A former maid at a luxury villa on the Riviera, Margot Bisset finds herself in a prison cell with writer and French Resistance fighter Joséphine Murant. Together, they are transferred to a work camp in Germany for four years, where the secrets they share will bind them for generations to come... Paris, around about now: Evie Black lives in Paris with her teenage son, Hugo, above her botanical bookshop, La Maison Rustique. Life...
51) Notting Hill
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©[2013]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (124 min.) : sound, color, Blu-ray ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A famous film star falls in love with an ordinary guy when she visits his book shop to buy a book.
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Language
English
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"Discover the dramatic story of how a humble bookseller fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the 20th century to the world in this new novel from the author of The Girl in the White Gloves. 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cobweb the cat and her best friends, who are mice, save the spooky Black Cat Bookstore from a burglar who says he doesn't believe in ghosts.
54) Notting Hill
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
Widescreen ; Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The world's most famous movie star falls in love with a small-time bookstore owner.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
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Eleven-year-old Tilly Pages, who has found comfort in her grandparents' bookshop since her mother's disappearance, now learns that she can bookwander into any stories, and decides to seek her mother.
56) The bookshop
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
In England in 1959, free spirited widow Florence Green follows her lifelong dream by opening a bookshop in a conservative coastal town
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
Teenagers Rachel and Henry find their way back to each other while working in an old bookstore full of secrets and crushes, love letters and memories, grief and hope.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 310 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ellen Morgan is a 30-something, neurotic bookstore owner. She tries to get by in life dealing with her various friends who include the outgoing redhead Paige, the insecure photographer Adam, her unsure-of-himself cousin Spence, the coffee-shop guy Joe Farrell, and the critical and obnoxious Audrey. Most challenging of all, Ellen also has to contend with her annoying and overbearing parents Lois and Harold.
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