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Tildy Barrows, Head Curator of a beautiful archival library in San Francisco, is meticulously dedicated to the century's worth of inventory housed in her beloved Beaux Art building. She loves the calm and order in the shelves of books and walls of art. But Tildy's uneventful life takes an unexpected turn when she, first, learns the library is on the verge of bankruptcy and, second, discovers two exquisite never-before-seen dollhouses. After finding...
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From the moment she first learned to read, literary genius Darcy Wells has spent most of her time living in the worlds of her books. There, she can avoid the crushing reality of her mother's hoarding and pretend her life is simply ordinary. But when a new property manager becomes more active in the upkeep of their apartment complex, the only home Darcy has ever known outside of her books suddenly hangs in the balance.
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Welcome to the Library of Lost Things, where the shelves are stuffed with books that have fallen through the cracks-from volumes of lovelorn teenage poetry to famous works of literature long destroyed or lost. They're all here, pulled from history and watched over by the Librarian, curated by the Collectors, nibbled on by the rats. Filed away, never to be read. At least, until Thomas, the boy with the secret, comes to the Library.
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What do you get when you mix a slacker student with a bumbling amateur witch? Slacking university student Gavin wants nothing more than to spend his days reading anything other than his course materials and getting out of having to study – and for him, hiding out in the dusty halls of the library is the perfect place to do it. But when he notices his fellow students are all missing a pretty important feature, Gavin soon realizes that something has...
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A spellbinding fantasy adventure where forgotten stories come to lifeand a young girl must write their endings before they disappear forever.Some books are meant to be read. Others are meant to find you.Twelve-year-old Evelyne "Evie" Alderton has always loved unfinished stories. The books missing their final pages, the fairy tales cut shortshe collects them, desperate to imagine how they might have ended.But when she stumbles upon a mysterious book...
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a robot in possession of a soul must be in want of a life partner. Nell, Human-5014 and Second Librarian of the Athenaeum, has clung to that truth for twenty revolutions. The human extinction is in its last phases, and her desperate quest to find the recipient of her husband's soul has finally paid off. She has one request, one hope for reconnecting with the man she lost so long ago.
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A runaway heart. A waiting bookshop. A love story written by fate.When Charlotte returns to Sweetwater, she doesn't expect the bookshop she ran from to be alive with magicor for the man she left behind to still be standing in the doorway. The Bookshop of Lost & Found Hearts is a cozy, romantic tale of second chances, enchanted pages, and the courage it takes to turn the page on your past.
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"The crumbling Victorian had been abandoned long before Jane ever discovered it as a child. It was painted a sweet violet color, and the gingerbread trim was blue and green, but inside was shambles--broken glass, a dollhouse ravaged by mice, bedsheets twisted as though someone had left in a hurry. Still, the house became a hideaway whenever Jane needed to escape her volatile mother. Twenty years later, now a Harvard archivist, she returns home to...
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