| Buying Books Online: Finding Bargains and Saving Money at Booksense Stores, Amazon's Marketplace, and Other Online Sites Publication Date: December 2, 2002There may not be a more practical addition to the library of any book lover, parent, or college student this year than Stephen Windwalker's Buying Books Online: Finding Bargains and Saving Money with Booksense Stores, Amazon Marketplace, and Other Online Sites.Windwalker is the longtime bookseller who wrote the book on Amazon Marketplace and online bookselling with his recent bestselling entrepreneurship title Selling Used Books Online: The Complete Guide to Bookselling at Amazon's Marketplace and Other Online Sites, one of the top 20 small business titles o...
| | The Love Letter Publication Date: May 15, 1995In praise of Rameau's Niece, the New York Times hailed "the sheer delight of listening to Cathleen Schine's wonderfully inventive comic voice." Schine's sparkling new comedy of manners is a sublimely sophisticated romance, a delectable confection that pairs illicit love with mystery and the joys of selling books. Helen MacFarquhar is a woman in control of her life and everyone in it - until an anonymous love letter falls into her hands one summer morning. Until that moment, smart, sexy, fortyish Helen has led a blissful existence as the proprietor of a small boo...
| | A Slepyng Hound to Wake: a novel Publication Date: July 19, 2011In his second bibliomystery, bookhound Henry Sullivan has a new girlfriend, a new apartment, and a shelfload of troubles. ...
| | Beyond the Bookstore with CDROM Publication Date: November 2003The worldwide book market is almost $90 billion, and every year half of those sales are made in non-bookstore markets such as museums, schools, libraries, warehouse clubs, catalogs, book clubs, book fairs, and to corporations, among many other markets.This book will show you how to increase your sales and profits in these lucrative segments: No returns or distribution discounts when you sell directly to niche markets* 79 proven strategies for selling more books and making more money* Discover rewarding new markets in which to sell your books* Createnew products...
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| | My Kingdom of Books: An Autobiography Publication Date: December 31, 1999The candid, anarchic autobiography of the colorful, eccentric second-hand book trader. Richard Booth recalls a lifetime searching the world for books, and his work in developing Hay-on-Wye as the second-hand book capital of the world. ...
| | The Seven Stairs: An Adventure of the Heart Release Date: May 15, 1989Memoir ...
| | White Elephant Dead (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 11) Release Date: September 7, 1999The Women's Club of Broward's Rock prides itself on the success of its annual White Elephant Sale. But this year's sale is marred by a bizarre turn.A sly black mailer coerces five of the town's most prominent citizens into donateing valuable artifacts--or some very unflattering information about the individuals might be revealed. When a volunteer fails to return the pick-up van, Henny Brwaley, Annie's best customer and chood chum, drives off to find the missing woman, just as a powerful squall hits the island.Hours later, a worried Annie goes off in search of H...
| | Brightfount Diaries Publication Date: July 1, 2001In a small provincial city, Peter lives with his long-suffering Aunt Anne and his eccentric Uncle Leo, and works in a bookshop called Brightfounts, which he describes as a shabby outpost of literacy. Cutting the apron strings, he moves into a bed-sit and composes these witty diaries, in which he includes amusing remarks about publishers, authors, booksellers and customers, a revelation about his dotty uncle, and his efforts to find a suitable girl. ...
| | How to Be Bad: A Novel Release Date: May 26, 2005Mark is a mild-mannered twenty-three-year-old bookseller who makes endless lists about stupid things. His life changes when he reestablishes contact with his old girlfriend, Caro. At seventeen, Caro was an implausibly sexy, promiscuous, druggy big-mouth. Six years later, she's exactly the same and Mark falls in love with her all over again. Caro, who has nothing but contempt for Mark's list and his choirboy attitude, asks him to prove his love by giving him a list of her own: a list of people she wants him to kill for her. As things begin to spiral out of control an...
| | Bookstore Cat(Step into Reading, Step 1, paper) Release Date: September 10, 1994| Age Level: 4 and up...
| | White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings Publication Date: April 29, 2004This is a novel about London - its past, its people, its underbelly and its madness. 'In this extraordinary work, Sinclair combines a spiritual inquest into the Whitechapel Ripper murders and the dark side of the late Victorian imagination with a posse of seedy book dealers hot on the trail of obscure rarities of that period. These ruined and ruthless dandies appear and disappear through a phantasmagoria interspersed with occult conjurings and reflections on the nature of fiction and history' - "Guardian". ...
| | The King's Gold: An Old World Novel of Adventure (Red Lion) Release Date: May 13, 2008| Series: Red LionOne look at the centuries-old document she receives from a mysterious stranger is all it takes to plunge Lola Sanchez—a brilliant bibliophile and owner of the Red Lion bookshop—into the adventure of an already adventurous lifetime. The ancient writings tell of a stolen fortune in Montezuma's gold—and of the thief's transformation from conquistatore to alchemist . . . to werewolf. Riches beyond imagining possibly await the stalwart globe-trotter who can solve the intricate riddles hidden in the artifact's crumbling pages. But a...
| | Yankee Doodle Dead (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 10) Release Date: August 1, 1999Master mystery spinner Carolyn Hart gives us the tenth high-spirited entry in her Agatha, Anthony and Macavity Award-winning Death on Demand series.The most delectable sleuthing couple since Nick met Nora, Annie and Max Darling manage to find quite a bit of murder in their allegedly safe and serene South Carolina island resort town. After all, murder is Annie's business -- well, sort of. She's the proprietor of the popular Death on Demand mystery bookstore and cafe, and her establishment seems to attract trouble like Annie's pesky felines, Dorothy L. and Agatha, a...
| | Exit from Grace Publication Date: March 14, 2012Arguing like children is a way of life for Grace and her father, Marty. But after pushing him too far one evening, Grace storms off to the comfort of her own children, while Marty falls prey to a brutal home invasion. In an instant, the mighty patriarch has fallen.But Marty's not alone; others in Austin, TX have died.And when the lead detective, Ally Watters, digs deeper into Marty's attack, she finds striking similarities that link the case to recent murders. The police want answers; the family wants to move on and forget. Justice seems of little concern to t...
| | A Novel Death Publication Date: June 3, 2011Like many other used booksellers, Delhi Laine, proprietor of Secondhand Prose, dreams of making the Great Find if not a Shakespearean Folio, then at least a fragment of an Emily Dickinson or Edgar Allan Poe manuscript. But after receiving a very rare and valuable children's book into her collection, she finds out such treasures can come at a terrible cost the suspicious death of one colleague and another left for dead days later. Her investigation into the true owner of the book reveals that those around her are not what they seem, as she is drawn into a world o...
| | Death by the Book (Jack Susko Mystery) Release Date: January 19, 2010| Series: Jack Susko Mystery Jack Susko is enjoying a quiet life as the owner of a secondhand bookstore, preferably in the company of his cat rather than actual paying customers. But when Hammond Kasprowicz, a crabby but wealthy businessman, offers Jack some easy money, of course Jack doesn’t turn down the offer. After all, what problem could there possibly be with locating as many copies as possible of the works of an obscure poet? And who cares what Hammond wants to do with them? For all that Jack cares, he could burn them. Which, in fact, is exactly wh...
| | East Hope Release Date: February 3, 2009A ?captivating novel of loss and recovery?(Katheleen Maloy, author of Every Last Cuckoo) and new beginnings, set in a small town in Maine.Several months after her husband?s sudden death, and troubled by one night?s indiscretion, Caroline Waverly seeks refuge in the house she?s inherited in East Hope, Maine. There she finds the courage to face the consequences of her choices?her precarious finances, her alienated college-age son, and the man she left behind. Will Harmon also puts his old life behind him, arriving in East Hope to run the local used bookshop. As he...
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