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The Bookshop of Yesterdays
Amy Meyerson
Park Row
May 2019
On Sale: May 7, 2019
384 pages
ISBN: 0778369080
EAN: 9780778369080
Kindle: B075JGB4C6
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Hardcover (June 2018)
Women's Fiction
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.
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