bookstores

"Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric uncle Billy's bookstore, solving the scavenger hunts he created just for her. But on her twelfth birthday, Billy has a falling-out with her mother and disappears from Miranda's life. Sixteen years later, she receives unexpected news: Billy has died and left her Prospero Books, which is teetering on bankruptcy, and one final scavenger hunt. Returning to the bookstore as its owner, Miranda is drawn into a journey through Billy's past--and the terrible secret that tore her family apart"--Provided by publisher.

Cobweb the cat and the Black Cat Bookstore's ghost bring Mr. Brown and Miss Button together on Valentine's Day.

After a bookstore opens next door to their parents' pizza shop, strange things begin to happen. Bookshelves collapse, the fire alarm goes off, and the books disappear. Is someone sabotaging the bookstore? And when a secret message appears in the wall between the two stores, can nine-year-old Pete and eleven-year-old Penny Pizzarelli crack the case?.

"You can't walk straight on a crooked line. You do you'll break your leg. How can you walk straight in a crooked system?" Lewis Michaux was born to do things his own way. When a white banker told him to sell fried chicken, not books, because "Negroes don't read," Lewis took five books and one hundred dollars and built a bookstore. It soon became the intellectual center of Harlem, a refuge for everyone from Muhammad Ali to Malcolm X. In No Crystal Stair, Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Vaunda Micheaux Nelson combines meticulous research with a storyteller's flair to document the life and times of her great-uncle Lewis Michaux, an extraordinary literacy pioneer of the Civil Rights era. "My life was no crystal stair, far from it. But I'm taking my leave with some pride. It tickles me to know that those folks who said I could never sell books to black people are eating crow. I'd say my seeds grew pretty damn well. And not just the book business. It's the more important business of moving our people forward that has real meaning.".

"An anthology of science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories, each with a bookstore at its core, featuring stories by Ramsey Campbell, Charles de Lint, Harlan Ellison, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Jack Williamson, Gene Wolfe, and more, with an introduction by Neil Gaiman"--Provided by publisher.

"Curious George heads to a bookstore where his favorite author is signing books, but while waiting in line, he decides to browse and organize some open boxes"--OCLC.

Tells the story of Lewis Michaux who built a bookstore in Harlem despite widespread opposition.

"Ella has moved to the spooky town of Windy Hollow to live with her Great Aunt Raven. She is kept busy by a series of odd jobs arranged by her mysterious aunt. Alphabetizing the shelves at Simon's Book Store seems like a simple odd job. But then Ella meets a little girl who wants to tell Ella a story. But then she stumbles upon the surprise ending of the little girl's untold story"--Amazon.

"The story of the . . . Shakespeare & Company bookstore and its owner Sylvia Beach and the many . . . writers who came to meet, read and share ideas"--Provided by publisher.

When Joe first sees aspiring writer Guinevere Beck, he instantly falls for her and gets her to fall for him, too. Soon their mutual obsession for each other becomes dangerous, and they each discover something about the other that changes everything.