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Gable, Michelle

Summary: "In 1942, London. Nancy Mitford jumps at the chance to manage the Heywood Hill bookshop while the owner is away at war. When a mysterious French officer insists that she has a story to tell, Nancy must decide if picking up the pen again and revealing all is worth the price she might be forced to pay. Eighty years later, Heywood Hill is abuzz with the hunt for a lost wartime manuscript written...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAB

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAB

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAB

Maher, Kerri

Summary: "Discover the dramatic story of how a humble bookseller fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the 20th century to the world in this new novel from the author of The Girl in the White Gloves. When bookish young American Sylvia Beach opens Shakespeare and Company on a quiet street in Paris in 1919, she has no idea that she and her new bookstore will change the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022

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Gable, Michelle

Summary: In 1942, London, Nancy Mitford jumps at the chance to manage the Heywood Hill bookshop while the owner is away at war. Between the shop's brisk business and the literary salons she hosts for her eccentric friends, Nancy's life seems on the upswing. But when a mysterious French officer insists that she has a story to tell, Nancy must decide if picking up the pen again and revealing all is worth...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GAB

Knight, Eliza

Summary: "1938: She was one of the six sparkling Mitford sisters, known for her stinging quips, stylish dress, and bright green eyes. But Nancy Mitford's seemingly sparkling life was really one of turmoil: with a perpetually unfaithful and broke husband, two Nazi sympathizer sisters, and her hopes of motherhood dashed forever. With war imminent, Nancy finds respite by taking a job at the Heywood Hill...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KNI

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KNI

Knight, Eliza

Summary: Pre-WWII. Nancy Mitford lands a new job at a bookshop in Mayfair. In the present, Lucy St. Clair arrives at the same shop with a book that has a mysterious inscription from Nancy.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC KNI

Adimi, Kaouther

Summary: "Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. He more than fulfilled its motto 'by the young, for the young', discovering the twenty-four-year-old Albert Camus in 1937. His entire archive was twice destroyed by...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADI

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