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Mr. Putter and Mrs. Teaberry bring Tabby and Zeke to the library for a special storytime.

Suggests a method of reading that begins with planting oneself beneath a tree and leads to a book party one hopes will never end.

Emma is used to thing going her way. Her father is headmaster of her prestigious boarding school, her friends take her advice as gospek, and she's convinced that a relationship with her long-time crush is on the horizon. As it turns out, Emma hasn't seen anything yet. When she finds an old book in an abandoned library, things really start going Emma's way: anything she writes in the book comes true. But the power of the book is not without consequences,...

"In the tradition of Sarah Waters, Helene Wecker, and Jessie Burton, an atmospheric and mystery-laden historical novel set within a magical world where books are not stories but the repository of individual lives. Young Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a strange letter arrives summoning him away from his family. He is to begin an apprenticeship as a Bookbinder--a vocation that arouses fear, superstition, and prejudice amongst their small...

In a novel set in the near future, when a beautiful, yet cruel, woman that Lenny Abramov met in Italy says she his coming to stay with him in New York, even the tanks and soldiers stationed in the city and the ongoing war with Venezuela can't get him down (summary from online).

Henley hates to read, so his homework assignment to bring in his favorite book seems an impossible challenge--until his mother shows him a box of books he made himself when he was younger.

"A major literary event over two decades in the making, Your Name Here marks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt (The Last Samurai), and will introduce readers to the riveting voice of Ilya Gridneff. A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books. In this death-defying feat of ambition, collaborators Helen Dewitt and Ilya Gridneff weave together America's "War on Terror," countless years of...

When Red, a young red panda, finds her book about pandas completely omits red pandas, she decides to write a book herself.

A haunting debut novel of magic, family secrets, and the power of books, perfect for fans of The Night Circus and The Historian.
Simon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone in a crumbling house on Long Island Sound. His parents are long dead, and his mother, a circus mermaid who made her living by holding her breath, drowned in the very water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, ran off six years ago and now reads tarot cards

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Dog loves books so much that he decides to open a book store.