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THE STORIED LIFE OF AJ FIKRY - GABRIELLE ZEVIN ...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CHRISTINA HENDRICKS AND DAVID ARQUETTEA NEW YORK TIMES
BESTSELLER'Marvelously optimistic about the future of books and bookstores and the people who
love both' Washington PostA.J. Fikry  the grumpy owner of Island Books  is going through a hard
time: his bookshop is failing  he has lost his beloved wife  and his prized possession - a rare
first edition book has been stolen. Over time  he has given up on people  and even the books in
his store  instead of offering solace  are yet another reminder of a world that is changing too
rapidly.But one day A.J. finds two-year-old Maya sitting on the bookshop floor  with a note
attached to her asking the owner to look after her. His life - and Maya's - is changed
forever.Gabrielle Zevin's enchanting novel is a love letter to the world of books - an
irresistible affirmation of why we read  and why we love.'Readers who delighted in Mary Ann
Shaffer and Annie Barrows's The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society  Rachel Joyce's
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry  and Jessica Brockmole's Letters from Skye will be
equally captivated by this adult novel by a popular YA author about a life of books  redemption
and second chances. Funny  tender  and moving' Library Journal  starred review'This novel has
humor  romance  a touch of suspense  but most of all love - love of books and bookish people
and  really  all of humanity in its imperfect glory' Eowyn Ivey  author of The Snow Child

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