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84, Charing Cross Road
Author: Helene HanffA heartwarming love story about people who love books for readers who love books This funny, poignant, classic love story unfolds through a series of letters between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London at 84, Charing Cross Road. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share a charming, sentimental friendship based on their common love for books. Discover the relationship that…
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Author: Mary Ann Shaffer“I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has…
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The Librarian Spy
Author: Madeline MartinAva thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the US military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence. Meanwhile, in occupied France, Elaine has begun an apprenticeship at a printing press run by members of the Resistance. It’s a job usually reserved for men, but in…
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Crime and Poetry
Author: Amanda FlowerSeries: A Magical Bookshop MysteryRushing home to sit by her ailing grandmother’s bedside, Violet Waverly is shocked to find Grandma Daisy the picture of perfect health. Violet doesn’t need to read between the lines: her grandma wants Violet back home and working in her magical store, Charming Books. It’s where the perfect book tends to fly off the shelf and pick you... Violet has every intention to hightail it back to Chicago, but then a dead man is…
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Skating Shoes
Author: Noel StreatfeildSeries: The Shoe BooksIn the tradition of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Little Princess come Noel Streatfeild's classic Shoes books. Skating Shoes is the perfect gift for figure skating fans! It's a stroke of great luck when Harriet Johnson's doctor prescribes skating after an illness that has left her feeling frail and listless. For on her very first day at the rink, Harriet meets orphaned Lalla Moore, who is being brought up by her wealthy aunt Claudia to be…
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STEELHEART spoilery vlog
My Patreon spoilery vlog book this month is Steelheart and I couldn’t wait to get started on another Sanderson series! It was so fun to film my thought process and then watch it as I was editing and see the places where I was right and the places I was so wrong. Sanderson brought some fun twists in that I didn’t see coming and I really enjoyed that. Join the Windy Poplars tier on Patreon to get access to this…
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