booksellers and bookselling

Tag along with Maisy as she visits the local bookstore with her friends.

A biography of Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com.

Follows the investigation into the long-lost painting of Prince Charles by Diego Vel?zquez, which as eluded art experts for generations.

"The story of the . . . Shakespeare & Company bookstore and its owner Sylvia Beach and the many . . . writers who came to meet, read and share ideas"--Provided by publisher.

Engaging images accompany information about Amazon.com.

"When aspiring writer Guinevere Beck strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe works, he's instantly smitten. Beck is everything Joe has ever wanted: She's gorgeous, tough, razor-smart, and as sexy as his wildest dreams. Beck doesn't know it yet, but she's perfect for him, and soon she can't resist her feelings for a guy who seems custom made for her. But there's more to Joe than Beck realizes, and much more to Beck than her oh-so-perfect facade. Their mutual obsession quickly spirals into a whirlwind of deadly consequences."--Provided by publisher.

"[Presents] journalist Sasha Abramsky's elegy to the vanished intellectual world of his grandparents, Chimen and Miriam, and their vast library of socialist literature and Jewish history. A rare book dealer and self-educated polymath who would go on to teach at Oxford and consult for Sotheby's, Chimen Abramsky drew great writers and thinkers like Isaiah Berlin and Eric Hobsbawm to his north London home; his library grew from his abiding passion for books and his search for an enduring ideology. The books, documents, and manuscripts that covered every shelf at 5 Hillway were testaments to Chimen's quest -- from the Jewish orthodoxy of his boyhood, to the Communism of his youth, to the liberalism of his mature years."--Provided by publisher.

The Norwegian journalist provides a portrait of a committed Muslim man and his family living in post-Taliban Kabul, Afghanistan.

Profiles Jeff Bezos, who took his childhood love of books and turned it into Amazon.com, one of the biggest and most successful online retailers on earth.

After sabotaging her career in selling rare books simultaneously with her relationship to James, her boss and boyfriend, Lucy Alling is shocked by a new job opportunity. James's wealthy grandmother, Helen, hires Lucy as a consultant for a literary and antiques excursion. Agreeing to the job, Lucy begins to learn about Helen's secrets, all which lead her to Haworth, the home of the Bront? sisters, and the place where Lucy begins to turn her life around.