Recent Book Activity
California Mountain Wildflowers
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
Unhinged : A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery
Untitled
Treasure of Khan
Before You Know Kindness
The Sweet Potato Queens' Field Guide to Men : Every Man I Love Is Either Married, Gay, or Dead
Shine on, Bright and Dangerous Object
Rain of Gold
Love Walked In
Tickled Pink : A Comic Novel
Sins of the Seventh Sister : A Novel Based on a True Story of the Gothic South
A Conspiracy of Paper
What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy
A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Darkest Child
The Lovely Bones
The Frog Princess (Tales of the Frog Princess)
Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas : Further, Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolso
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books registered | 0 | 2,075 |
released in the wild | 0 | 2,065 |
controlled releases | 0 | 91 |
releases caught | 1 | 944 |
controlled releases caught | 0 | 69 |
books found | 0 | 391 |
tell-a-friend referrals | 0 | 54 |
new member referrals | 0 | 36 |
forum posts | 0 | 496 |
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"My husband claims I have have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you intrinsically understand the attraction of searching for hidden treasure amongst rows of dusty shelves or you don't; it's a passion, bordering on a spiritual illness, which cannot be explained to the unafflicted. Modern bookstores cannot compete with these eccentric charms. But secondhand shops have pilgrims. The words out of print are a call to arms for those who seek a Holy Grail made of paper and ink."
excerpt from the book Elegance by Kathleen Tessaro
"Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens ..."
Carlos Ruiz Zafon (The Shadow of the Wind)
"My husband claims I have have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you intrinsically understand the attraction of searching for hidden treasure amongst rows of dusty shelves or you don't; it's a passion, bordering on a spiritual illness, which cannot be explained to the unafflicted. Modern bookstores cannot compete with these eccentric charms. But secondhand shops have pilgrims. The words out of print are a call to arms for those who seek a Holy Grail made of paper and ink."
"Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens ..."
Carlos Ruiz Zafon (The Shadow of the Wind)