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Remainders of the Day: A Bookshop Diary
$27.95 Read moreNew from the author of Confessions of a Bookseller and Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops, another hilariously grumpy year behind the counter at The Bookshop. Though diaries of daily life, S
- Author: Bythell, Shaun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1567927564
- Language: English
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The Paper Man
$28.95 Read moreA deeply moving interwar romance set between 1930s Austria and 1980s Ireland, based on a real-life unsolved mystery.
1930s Austria. Vienna is a bustling, cosmopolitan city on the brink of war. Matthi- Author: O’Callaghan, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1567927858
- Language: English
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Confessions of a Bookseller
$17.95 Add to cartIn 2018, Shaun Bythell’s The Diary of a Bookseller (soon to be a major U.K. TV series) introduced readers to the joys and frustrations of his life as the owner of The Bookshop, the largest second-hand… [more below]
- Author: Bythell, Shaun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 323
- Publish Date: March 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 156792722X
- Language: English
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Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
$22.95 Add to cartA cantankerously funny view of books and the people who love them. It does take all kinds and through the misanthropic eyes of a very grumpy bookseller, we see them all–from the “Person Who Doesn’t K
- Author: Bythell, Shaun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 24, 2020
- ISBN10: 1567926924
- Language: English
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Am I Pretty When I Fly?: An Album of Upside Down Drawings
$45.00 Add to cartLike a long, funny letter from an old friend, an album of drawings by the legendary singer and activist for social justice, Joan Baez.
Since retiring from active performing, Baez has focused her formi- Author: Baez, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1567927548
- Language: English
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Lucy’s Christmas
$14.95 Add to cartShare an old-fashioned New England Christmas with your children–back to a time when making the presents was far more satisfying than buying them.
Lucy Wells likes planning ahead. In her quaint New En- Author: Hall, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 1, 2007
- ISBN10: 1567923429
- Language: English
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We of Little Faith: Why I Stopped Pretending to Believe (and Maybe You Should Too)
$28.95 Read more“It’s an inspiring book that will–hopefully–push us toward a larger cultural conversation in which ‘atheism’ isn’t seen as a dirty word.”–The Humanist
America doesn’t need more God. It needs more a
- Author: Cohen, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 156792736X
- Language: English
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The Socratic Method: A Practitioner’s Handbook
$28.95 Add to cart“Remarkable.”–Wall Street Journal
A thinking person’s guide to a better life. Ward Farnsworth explains what the Socratic method is, how it works, and why it matters more than ever in our time. Easy- Author: Farnsworth, Ward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1567926851
- Language: English
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The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth
$28.95 Add to cart“A deft combination of adventure, history, reportage and elegy.”–Washington Post
A journey to the coast of North Sentinel Island, home to a tribe believed to be the most isolated human community on- Author: Goodheart, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1567926827
- Language: English
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Brotherhood: When West Point Rugby Went to War
$29.95 Add to cart“We’re better off for having these men among us.”–Wall Street Journal
Before 9/11, the rugby team at West Point learned to bond on a sports field. This is what happened when those 15 young men became- Author: Pengelly, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1567927114
- Language: English
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The Lioness of Boston
$28.95 Add to cart“Brings Isabella Stewart Gardner fully, intimately alive–irrepressible and avid for life. In this richly compelling novel, Emily Franklin beautifully conjures this extraordinary woman and her world.”
- Author: Franklin, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1567927408
- Language: English
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The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User’s Manual
$30.00 Read more“Farnsworth beautifully integrates his own observations with scores of quotations from Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne and others. This isn’t just a book to read–it’s a book to return t
- Author: Farnsworth, Ward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1567926118
- Language: English
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Hamlet’s Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and Its Transmissions Through Myth
$28.95 Read more“A book wonderful to read and startling to contemplate….both the history of science and the reinterpretation of myths have been enriched immensely.”–Washington Post
A seminal work of scientific and- Author: de Santillana, Giorgio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 505
- Publish Date: March 24 2015
- ISBN10: 0879232153
- Language: English
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Swallows and Amazons
$18.95 Read moreFriendship, resourcefulness, adventures Here’s the classic tale of two families of children who band together against a common foe: an uncle who claims he’s too busy for his nieces.
The Walker childr- Series: Swallows and Amazons
- Author: Ransome, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 16 2010
- ISBN10: 087923573X
- Language: English
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Washed Ashore: Family, Fatherhood, and Finding Home on Martha’s Vineyard
$26.95 Add to cartThe story of a man coming into his own by coming home.
Since he was a boy, Bill Eville knew he wanted two things in life: to be a writer and a father. Being a minister’s husband had not been on this l- Author: Eville, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 1567927386
- Language: English
