Hitting The Books-January 2025
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This Month’s Featured Book Pairings…
This month’s read-a-likes are curated for the release of The In-Between Bookstore by Edward Underhill. The story of a Magical Bookstore that allows the transgender Darby the opportunity to revisit the world of his sixteen-year-old self and maybe tweak things just a smidge.
More Magical Bookstores and Libraries, here we come!
THE BOOK OF DOORS – GARETH BROWN
Cassie works in a bookshop, shelving books, chatting with customers, and living a happy, ordinary life. Until the day one of her favourite customers, a lonely old man, dies right in front of her. She is devasted. She loved his stories and the only thing she has to remember him by is the last book he was reading. And what a book it is. Inscribed with enigmatic words and mysterious drawings, it promises that any door is every door. You just need to know how to open them. But there are those willing to kill to obtain the secrets contained within its pages and she will need help to protect it. A love letter to the magical power of books to open other worlds for those brave enough to turn the pages!
MR. PENUMBRA’S 24-HOUR BOOKSTORE – ROBIN SLOAN
Serendipity, bad luck, and sheer curiosity have landed Clay the night shift at Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. There are only a few customers, and they never seem to buy anything, instead they “check-out” obscure volumes from strange corners of the store. Clay has his curiosity peaked even further when meets the enigmatic Mr. Penumbra. This sounds like a place a booklover would love to enter and never want to leave!
INK BLOOD SISTER SCRIBE – EMMA TORZS
For generations, the Kalotay family has guarded a collection of ancient and rare books. Books that let a person walk through walls or manipulate the elements. Books of magic that half-sisters Joanna and Esther have been raised to revere and protect. To fulfill this destiny the two have spent years separated. But after their father dies suddenly while reading a book that Jo has never seen before, they must reunite to combat a danger like none they could have imagined. You will be bewitched by this book, so go where it leads you reader!
& So On…
The Shadow Of The Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Starless Sea – Erin Morgenstern
The Library Of The Unwritten – A.J. Hackwith
