Books about Bookstores

Description: These two books about bookstores will remind you of history, ambition and the importance of literature to everyone, especially people who are trying to find a voice. Shakespeare and Company is the iconic bookstore founded by Sylvia Beach in Paris, and the home to many key literary figures.This book ceebrates the well-lgihted bookstore and the warm hearth on the Left bank, all while evoking the zeitgeist of an era through its revealing glimpses of James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, and more.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore is a mystery/adventure set in San Francisco, revolving around an out-of-work marketeer and web designer who takes a job as a clerk at the odd little bookshop of the title. What follows is a fantastical series of events involving an international secret society and almost impossibly complex codes hidden inside a series of books.

Consists of : Shakespeare and Company (Well Read), Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Very Good)