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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
860L
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English
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In seventeenth-century London, Meg, who has little interest in cooking, needlework, or other homemaking skills, dreams of becoming a bookseller and someday inheriting her widowed father's book store.
3) Fear itself
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Fearless Jones novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
After a suspicious stranger shows up at Paris's door, Paris is running for his life, tangled up with one of the wealthiest women in L.A. & wondering whom he should fear more--the people he's looking for or the people he's working for. And by Paris's side is Los Angeles bookseller Fearless Jones.
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"Bermondsey, 1920s. After her mother's death Kate is taken in by her father's sister, the quick-tempered Aunt Sylvie. Already struggling to feed children of her own, Aunt Sylvie treats Kate like an unwanted burden. Although Kate's father disappeared when she was a child, she still harbours hope that he will one day reappear and release her from this miserable existence. If only she knew why he left and what really happened to her mother... One day,...
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English
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"For weeks after the sinking of the Titanic, Yorick spots his own name among the list of those lost at sea. As an apprentice librarian for the White Star Line, his job was to curate the ship's second-class library. But just as he was about to board to tend to his library throughout the passage, a superior takes his place, leaving Yorick stranded at the dock. The Titanic was not Yorick's first brush with death, but as with every near-miss he manages...
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"Living through WWII working in a Paris bookstore with her young daughter, Vivi, and fighting for her life, Charlotte is no victim, she is a survivor. But can she survive the next chapter of her life? Alternating between wartime Paris and 1950s New York publishing, Paris Never Leaves You is an extraordinary story of resilience, love, and impossible choices, exploring how survival never comes without a cost. The war is over, but the past is never past."--...
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English
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"Never underestimate the power of a woman with a shop full of books Massachusetts, 1954. With bags packed alongside her heavy heart, Alice Campbell escaped halfway across the country and found herself in front of a derelict building tucked among the cobblestone streets of Cambridge. She turns it into the enchanting bookshop of her dreams, knowing firsthand the power of books to comfort the brokenhearted. The Cambridge Bookshop soon becomes a haven...
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Set in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation, Pawel Tarnowski, a bookseller, gives refuge to a Jewish youth, David Schaffer, who has escaped from the Ghetto. Throughout the winter of 1942-1943, the two discuss good and evil, sin and redemption, literature and philosophy.
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