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People of the Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as rare-books)
avg rating 4.04 — 160,132 ratings — published 2008
The Cookbook Collector (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as rare-books)
avg rating 3.34 — 13,673 ratings — published 2010
Camino Island (Camino Island, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as rare-books)
avg rating 3.83 — 169,684 ratings — published 2017
The Bookman’s Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rare-books)
avg rating 3.76 — 18,599 ratings — published 2013
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rare-books)
avg rating 3.23 — 13,136 ratings — published 2022
Over The Hills (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rare-books)
avg rating 3.71 — 17 ratings — published 1930
Deadly Devotion (Deadliest Love #5)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 4.00 — 460 ratings — published
Deadly Obsession (Deadliest Love #3)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 4.18 — 612 ratings — published
Ace of Hearts (Vegas Underground, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,150 ratings — published 2018
Joker's Wild (Vegas Underground, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,931 ratings — published 2019
Deadly Seduction (Deadliest Love #2)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 4.10 — 714 ratings — published
Wild Card (Vegas Underground, #7)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,981 ratings — published 2019
Jack of Spades (Vegas Underground, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,894 ratings — published 2018
Deadly Passion (Deadliest Love #4)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 4.19 — 544 ratings — published
Mase (Storm Enterprises #5)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 4.10 — 766 ratings — published
His Queen of Clubs (Vegas Underground, #5)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,254 ratings — published 2019
King of Diamonds (Vegas Underground, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,439 ratings — published 2018
Mafia Daddy (Vegas Underground, #1.5)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,807 ratings — published 2018
Deadly Temptation (Deadliest Love #1)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,151 ratings — published
Dead Man's Hand (Vegas Underground, #6)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,119 ratings — published 2019
Third Comes Vengeance (Promised in Blood, #3)
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avg rating 4.21 — 7,257 ratings — published
Second Comes War (Promised in Blood, #2)
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avg rating 4.19 — 7,714 ratings — published
Bounty (Barbarians of the Sand Planet #1)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,640 ratings — published 2020
Saving You Losing Me: A second-chance, enemies to lovers romance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 4.47 — 119 ratings — published
Possessed (Raider Warlords of the Vandar, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 3.95 — 7,099 ratings — published 2020
First Comes Blood (Promised in Blood, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 3.90 — 9,861 ratings — published
Fiercely British (The Carter Brothers #2)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 4.32 — 103 ratings — published
Brutally British (The Carter Brothers #1)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 4.24 — 362 ratings — published
The Personal Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 4.04 — 248,467 ratings — published 2021
The Coloring Crook (Pen & Ink Mysteries, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,689 ratings — published 2018
The Lions of Fifth Avenue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 3.89 — 88,113 ratings — published 2020
Booked to Die (Cliff Janeway, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 3.89 — 9,565 ratings — published 1992
The Bookman's Wake (Cliff Janeway, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,577 ratings — published 1995
Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,719 ratings — published 1997
The Book Stops Here (Bibliophile Mystery #8)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,103 ratings — published 2014
The Lies That Bind (Bibliophile Mystery #3)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,162 ratings — published 2010
Tree of Codes (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,817 ratings — published 2010
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 4.12 — 540,371 ratings — published 1928
Yankee Stranger (Williamsburg #2)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,016 ratings — published 1944
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,281 ratings — published 1995
By Its Cover (Commissario Brunetti, #23)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,316 ratings — published 2014
Seven Daughters (Nook)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 4.00 — 7 ratings — published 1874
Winds of Chance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rare-books)
avg rating 4.27 — 15 ratings — published 1934
My Pretty Pony (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rare-books)
avg rating 3.61 — 548 ratings — published 1989
Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rare-books)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,541 ratings — published 1988
The Sonnets: Poems of Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rare-books)
avg rating 4.24 — 194 ratings — published
South American Romances (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rare-books)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
The Complete Guide to Sweet Peas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rare-books)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
My Winnipeg (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rare-books)
avg rating 4.50 — 42 ratings — published 2005
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“Anthropodermic bibliopegy had been a specter on the shelves of libraries, museums, and private collections for over a century. Human skin books -mostly made by 19th century doctor bibliophiles - are the only books that are controversial not for the ideas they contain, but for the physical makeup of the object. They repel and fascinate, and their very ordinary appearances mask the horror inherent in their creation.”
― Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
― Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
“The world was a glorious place this morning. The birds were particularly noisy in their greeting to the day. The sky was a cloudless blue, the color of delphiniums.
He'd never before equated the color of the sky to a flower.
This morning he would show Ellice some of the rare volumes in the Forster collection. He hoped she would be impressed at the illuminated scrolls or the Bible he suspected was one of the first Gutenberg volumes. Would she be interested in the Latin poetry he'd found? One of his ancestors had evidently collected erotic poetry.”
― The Virgin of Clan Sinclair
He'd never before equated the color of the sky to a flower.
This morning he would show Ellice some of the rare volumes in the Forster collection. He hoped she would be impressed at the illuminated scrolls or the Bible he suspected was one of the first Gutenberg volumes. Would she be interested in the Latin poetry he'd found? One of his ancestors had evidently collected erotic poetry.”
― The Virgin of Clan Sinclair
