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2) The bookshop
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In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop-the only bookshop-in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to enlarge her neighbors' lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne. Florence's warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted....
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A sublime comedy of contemporary manners, this is the novel Jane Austen might well have written had she lived in twenty-first- century California.
Nothing ever moves in a straight line in Karen Joy Fowler's fiction, and in her latest, the complex dance of modern love has never been so devious or so much fun. Six Californians join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements...
10) Among others
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Morwenna Phelps, sent to boarding school in England after a magical battle with her half-mad mother that left her crippled and her twin sister dead, tries to find a circle of magic-minded friends, alerting her mother to her whereabouts and bringing about a reckoning.
11) You can read
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Rhyming text explains how reading can take place anywhere, from the playground to the opera, and can even take readers on adventures.
12) Northanger Abbey
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As Catherine Moreland begins to mature, many of her illusions collapse under the reality of middle-class life.
13) Inkspell
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When Dustfinger finds a crooked storyteller who can read him back to Inkscape, he leaves his apprentice Farid behind; but Farid seeks out Meggie and the two follow him back into the enchanted book.
14) Duck's vacation
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Duck is trying to enjoy a relaxing vacation, but with each turn of the page, the reader causes some calamity.
15) The book jumper
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"A teen girl discovers she is a book jumper--she can leap directly into books, meet the characters, and experience the world of the book"--
16) The whisper
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Her magical book of stories is wordless until a whisper in the wind tells a little girl to imagine a story for each page.
18) Say Daddy!
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When each family member reads a book to the new baby bear, they each hope that their name will be the baby's first words, but at a family celebration everyone is happily surprised.
19) Elephant's story
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Elephant finds a book and then sneezes, mixing up all the letters.
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