One for the Books: The power of books

One for the Books: The power of books

- Mary Louise Ruehr

By now you know I’m a sucker for books about books, about bookstores, about libraries. Here are a few of the recent ones I enjoyed.

The Echo of Old Books” by Barbara Davis is set in 1984 in New Hampshire. Ashlyn Greer owns a store that deals in rare books. The owner of a nearby vintage store calls and tells her he has just received a donation of several boxes of old books; would she like to look through them? Of course she does, and among the volumes, she finds an unusual, beautifully hand-bound book.

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