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The most frightening story ever told

Scary-story enthusiast Billy Shivers helps out when the Haunted House of Books threatens to go out of business.

No crystal stair

a documentary novel of the life and work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem bookseller
Fictionalized biography of the bookseller and civil rights activist who owned the African National Memorial Bookstore in Harlem, New York City.

Belle's discovery

2017
Before Belle went to the enchanted castle and met the beast, she was a young girl, and this is her story.

Curious George Goes to a Bookstore

2014
"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.

The bridge

a novel
2012
Charlie Barton, having owned and operated The Bridge, a Franklin, Tennessee, bookstore that had been in business for thirty years, is left despondent after a flood ruins the store and a tragedy strikes, but in the face of despair he finds a second chance. Meanwhile, Molly Allen, who moved to Portland and left her one-true love Ryan Kelly five years earlier, and Ryan struggle to come to terms with their feelings for one another.

Archie Greene and the magician's secret

2015
Archie Greene has lived with his grandmother since he was a baby, but when a mysterious package arrives on his twelfth birthday with instructions to take it to a strange bookshop in Oxford, he finds himself involved with a secret society of people who protect the world's magical books, and discovers that he has family he never knew about.

The Spine Tingler

2015
A boy delivering a book to The Dark Angel bookstore finds a monster waiting for him, the Spine Tingler, a scorpion-like creature created from the spines of books, and only a librarian with a hardcover book can save him.

The bookstore burglar

2013
When someone steals the key to the Black Cat Bookstore, the owner's clever cat, Cobweb, comes up with a plan to scare the bugler away.

Time was soft there

a Paris sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.
2005
A memoir in which the author, a former crime reporter, describes his experiences as a resident of Shakespeare & Co., a venerable Paris bookstore and writer's haven where he sought refuge after fleeing Canada in a panic due to threats from a thug he named in a book.

The bookshop

1997
When Florence Green opens a bookshop in a sleepy seaside town she is met with open resistance by her neighbors who resent her success.

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