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The Library at the Edge of the World
by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
A debut novel by the author of The House on an Irish Hillside traces the experiences of a librarian on the scenic west coast of Ireland who searches for a way to rebuild her community and her own life in the wake of local estrangements.
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The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written.
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Beach Read
by Emily Henry
An acclaimed but blocked literary master and a best-selling novelist who has stopped believing in true love agree to a summer-long writing project that challenges them write well in each others’ styles.
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The Starless Sea
by Erin Morgenstern
Discovering a mysterious book of prisoner tales, a Vermont graduate student recognizes a story from his own life before following clues to a magical underground library that is being targeted for destruction.
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Must Love Books
by Shauna Robinson
After five years working at Parson's Press, an old-school business book publisher, Nora is the last editorial assistant standing, desperate to get out. But she can't leave until she finds another job to cover rent, especially when Parsons cuts already unlivable salaries. That's when Nora is forced to lie her way into moonlighting for a rival publisher...and maybe poaching a few authors along the way. But when Nora accidentally falls for Andrew Santos, an author Parsons Press can't afford to lose, she must decide where her loyalties lie. Parsons Press, Andrew, or herself and her future.
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The Bookshop of Second Chances
by Jackie Fraser
Inheriting a quaint cottage and a hefty antique book collection in Scotland, Thea Mottram falls in love with her new surroundings and a gruff bookshop owner, soon realizing that her new life may quickly become just as complicated as the one she was running from.
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Deadly Editions
by Paige Shelton
Mysteriously invited to participate in an eccentric socialite's exclusive treasure hunt, bookseller Delaney Nichols investigates her hostess's dangerous past when a man connected to the competition is found murdered.
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The Broken Spine
by Dorothy St. James
Rescuing hundreds of precious books from her newly digitized library, spunky librarian Trudell Becket is forced to prove her innocence when the politician behind the library's demolition is murdered.
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The Cat Who Saved Books
by Sōsuke Natsukawa
When a talking cat named Tiger demands that he help save books with him, high school student Rintaro Natsuki and Tiger embark on an amazing journey, liberating books from their neglectful owners and meeting a colorful cast of character along the way.
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The Book of Form and Emptiness
by Ruth Ozeki
When he begins hearing voices one year after his fathers death, 13-year-old Benny Oh, seeking refuge in the library, meets a colorful cast of characters, including his very own Book, a talking thing, who narrates Benny's life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter.
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In a Book Club Far Away
by Tif Marcelo
After not speaking for eight years, three former best friends who bonded as Army wives with a book club reluctantly reunite to help care for one of the trios children while undergoing emergency surgery.
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The Reading List
by Sara Nisha Adams
Working at the local library, Aleisha reads every book on a secret list she found, which transports her from the painful realities she's facing at home, and decides to pass the list on to a lonely widower desperate to connect with his bookworm granddaughter.
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The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
Living with a foster family in Germany during World War II, a young girl struggles to survive her day-to-day trials through stealing anything she can get her hands on, but when she discovers the beauty of literature, she realizes that she has been blessed with a gift that must be shared with others, including the Jewish man hiding in the basement.
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners, Guy Montag, suddenly realizes their merit.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Books
by Leah Price
Argues that the concepts of books and reading have undergone many cultural shifts over the centuries and challenges common fears about how the digital age is triggering the end of reading.
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The Library Book
by Susan Orlean
Reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, the 1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire, while exploring the crucial role that libraries play in modern American culture.
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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
by Edward Wilson-Lee
An account of the quest by Christopher Columbus' illegitimate son, Hernando, to create a multicultural library details his world travels to collect thousands of books.
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The Writer's Library
by Nancy Pearl
Interviews with 23 of today’s most accomplished authors reveal the books that inspired their literary careers, in an illustrated volume that includes contributions by such leading writers as T.C. Boyle, Michael Chabon, and Louise Erdrich.
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Around The World in 80 Books
by David Damrosch
A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them.
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