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brattlebookshop.com

One of America's Oldest and Largest Antiquarian Book Shops, Est 1825. We buy and sell good used and rare books.

bostonathenaeum.org

We have many inviting places to spend the day. WiFi, work tables, and nooks. The fee can go toward a membership if you join that day.

bookshop.org

An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

thebookshop.com.au

Ocean Vuong - The Emperor of Gladness The Emperor of Gladness is a touching, forceful novel about members of a team working at HomeMarket, a fast food restaurant in East Gladness, Connecticut. The novel slowly draws out each character as we are placed deep inside their modest yet poignant worlds. It is not a novel driven by plot, at least not at first. For a while, it wanders – a bit earnest, a little too weightless. But slowly, Vuong builds it into something extraordinary. The novel’s heart sits with Hai, a 19-year-old Vietnamese-American boy hiding from his mother after lying to her about leaving to attend medical school. Hai is addicted, adrift – he has already dropped out of college once following the death by drugs of his best friend and likely lover - and, following an almost-attempt at suicide on the bridge on the outskirts of Gladness, begins sharing a house with Grazina, an older Lithuanian woman slipping into dementia. Their bond, born of separate but parallel estrangements, is quiet, strange, and deeply moving. They play war games from her fractured memories of childhood in occupied Europe, as she slips into a state of confusion between the past and present, initially only occasionally, but then more often as the book goes on, even as Hai nods off mid-conversation. Around them, a constellation of characters form: Sony, Hai’s cousin - who may be autistic and whose portrayal by Vuong is brilliant - is obsessed with Civil War generals and the myth of American heroism. Sony’s mother is in jail. BJ, a co-worker, performs homemade rap and amateur wrestling while Wayne, the shift supervisor, manages them like a warden with a soft underbelly. Maureen and “Russia” make up the balance. Loss pulses through the novel - loss of direction, of family, of memory, loss as a result of deceit. Sony believes his father was a hero in the Vietnam War and had a diamond lodged in his hand following a blast from a grenade. After being fi

fullersbookshop.com.au

tasmanian's leading independent booksellers. masterful recommenders, curious readers, eccentrically knowledgeable, community proud, and 101 years young.

lovestruckbooks.com

Lovestruck Books is Cambridge's first-of-its-kind romance bookstore, celebrating love in all its forms. Discover expertly curated romance novels, a welcoming café and wine bar, romantic merchandise, and engaging events. F

wakefieldbooks.com

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justbooks.in

justbooks is an online library rental service that provides a unique reading experience to book lovers with a wide range of books for every type of ...

frugalbookstore.net

"Changing Minds One Book at a Time" Bookstore located in Roxbury with a passion of promoting literacy within our children, teens and adults. We've got all these great books (and getting more all the time) at incredible prices that we want you to see.

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