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Evan Friss
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August 2023
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The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
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2024
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4 editions
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On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City
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2019
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3 editions
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The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s
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2015
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3 editions
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Thanks! That's very kind of you to say. I don't have any immediate plans to write a history of the American library, but maybe down the road. Have you read Susan Orlean's THE LIBRARY BOOK? It's not a history of the library as an institution, but is a
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Jerry Edward Stephens
Sherry Thomas' THE LIBRARIANS is a fun read as a crime novel set in Austin, Texas.
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Evan Friss
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“The right book put in the right hands at the right time could change the course of a life or many lives.”
― The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
― The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
“Bookstores also stimulate our senses. Being surrounded by books matters. Sociologists have found that just growing up in a home full of books—mere proximity—confers a lifetime of intellectual benefits.”
― The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
― The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
“a city without a bookstore wasn't a city worth calling home.”
― The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
― The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
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