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The bookshop of yesterdays / Amy Meyerson.
-- The Bookshop of Yesterdays is a lyrical story of family, love and the healing power of community. It's a love letter to reading and bookstores, and a testament to how our histories shape who we become.
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- ISBN: 9781488078736
- ISBN: 1488078734
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)
- Publisher: New York : Park Row Books, 2018.
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- Baker & Taylor
When Miranda Brooks receives the unexpected news that her uncle Billy has died and left her his bookstore, she discovers he's left her a business teetering on bankruptcy and a final scavenger hunt. - Hardie Grant
Look for Amy Meyerson’s new novel The Imperfects, a captivating literary page-turner.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Best Books of Summer 2018 Selection by Philadelphia Inquirer and Library Journal
“Part mystery and part drama, Meyerson uses a complex family dynamic in The Bookshop of Yesterdays to spotlight the importance of truth and our need for forgiveness.” —Associated Press
A woman inherits a beloved bookstore and sets forth on a journey of self-discovery in this poignant debut about family, forgiveness and a love of reading.
Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric Uncle Billy’s bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for her. But on Miranda’s twelfth birthday, Billy has a mysterious falling-out with her mother and suddenly disappears from Miranda’s life. She doesn’t hear from him again until sixteen years later when she receives unexpected news: Billy has died and left her Prospero Books, which is teetering on bankruptcy—and one final scavenger hunt.
When Miranda returns home to Los Angeles and to Prospero Books—now as its owner—she finds clues that Billy has hidden for her inside novels on the store’s shelves, in locked drawers of his apartment upstairs, in the name of the store itself. Miranda becomes determined to save Prospero Books and to solve Billy’s last scavenger hunt. She soon finds herself drawn into a journey where she meets people from Billy’s past, people whose stories reveal a history that Miranda’s mother has kept hidden—and the terrible secret that tore her family apart.
Bighearted and trenchantly observant, The Bookshop of Yesterdays is a lyrical story of family, love and the healing power of community. It’s a love letter to reading and bookstores, and a testament to how our histories shape who we become. - Harlequin
Look for Amy Meyersonâs new novel The Imperfects, a captivating literary page-turner.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Best Books of Summer 2018 Selection by Philadelphia Inquirer and Library Journal
âPart mystery and part drama, Meyerson uses a complex family dynamic in The Bookshop of Yesterdays to spotlight the importance of truth and our need for forgiveness.â âAssociated Press
A woman inherits a beloved bookstore and sets forth on a journey of self-discovery in this poignant debut about family, forgiveness and a love of reading.
Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric Uncle Billyâs bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for her. But on Mirandaâs twelfth birthday, Billy has a mysterious falling-out with her mother and suddenly disappears from Mirandaâs life. She doesnât hear from him again until sixteen years later when she receives unexpected news: Billy has died and left her Prospero Books, which is teetering on bankruptcyâand one final scavenger hunt.
When Miranda returns home to Los Angeles and to Prospero Booksânow as its ownerâshe finds clues that Billy has hidden for her inside novels on the storeâs shelves, in locked drawers of his apartment upstairs, in the name of the store itself. Miranda becomes determined to save Prospero Books and to solve Billyâs last scavenger hunt. She soon finds herself drawn into a journey where she meets people from Billyâs past, people whose stories reveal a history that Mirandaâs mother has kept hiddenâand the terrible secret that tore her family apart.
Bighearted and trenchantly observant, The Bookshop of Yesterdays is a lyrical story of family, love and the healing power of community. Itâs a love letter to reading and bookstores, and a testament to how our histories shape who we become. - Harlequin
Look for Amy Meyerson's new novel The Imperfects, a captivating literary page-turner.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Best Books of Summer 2018 Selection by Philadelphia Inquirer and Library Journal
"Part mystery and part drama, Meyerson uses a complex family dynamic in The Bookshop of Yesterdays to spotlight the importance of truth and our need for forgiveness.' 'Associated Press
A woman inherits a beloved bookstore and sets forth on a journey of self-discovery in this poignant debut about family, forgiveness and a love of reading.
Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric Uncle Billy's bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for her. But on Miranda's twelfth birthday, Billy has a mysterious falling-out with her mother and suddenly disappears from Miranda's life. She doesn't hear from him again until sixteen years later when she receives unexpected news: Billy has died and left her Prospero Books, which is teetering on bankruptcy'and one final scavenger hunt.
When Miranda returns home to Los Angeles and to Prospero Books'now as its owner'she finds clues that Billy has hidden for her inside novels on the store's shelves, in locked drawers of his apartment upstairs, in the name of the store itself. Miranda becomes determined to save Prospero Books and to solve Billy's last scavenger hunt. She soon finds herself drawn into a journey where she meets people from Billy's past, people whose stories reveal a history that Miranda's mother has kept hidden'and the terrible secret that tore her family apart.
Bighearted and trenchantly observant, The Bookshop of Yesterdays is a lyrical story of family, love and the healing power of community. It's a love letter to reading and bookstores, and a testament to how our histories shape who we become.
