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Reading Without End
Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024
Reading Without End is the first essay collection on reading by the Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952–2023). Planned by Boji Tianjuan and publi…
84, Charing Cross Road
Yilin Press · 2016
In 1949 Manhattan, New York, thirty-three-year-old struggling writer Helene Hanff lives in an apartment without heating, earning a living by reading a…
The Gift from the Stars
Shanghai Popular Science Press · 2004
Adrian, a spacecraft designer, happens upon an old book titled The Gift from the Stars in a secondhand bookshop; its appendix prints a set of seemingl…
84, Charing Cross Road
Yilin Press · 2016
84, Charing Cross Road is an epistolary memoir by the American writer Helene Hanff, first published in 1970 under its original English title 84, Chari…
A Pillow of Bookish Dreams
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2025
A Pillow of Bookish Dreams is a collection of recent reading essays by the prose writer Zhu Hangman, built entirely around one word: books—buying, gif…
Old Bookshops of Kyoto
Zhonghua Book Company · 2015
Old Bookshops of Kyoto is a collection of essays by Su Zhenshu, a writer living in Japan, drawing on her years studying and residing in Kyoto. Since t…
Bookshop Diary (2 Volumes)
广西师范大学出版社/北京日报出版社 · 2023
Wigtown, Scotland's "book town," is home to a secondhand bookshop that has been open for nearly twenty years, called simply The Book Shop. The stone "…
A Lifetime Is Only Enough to Love One Person
Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2023
Do you believe in fate? Do you believe that the person destined for you will never, under any circumstances, be separated from you? Even if you flee i…
The Old Bookshop
China Culture and History Press · 2017
This book is one volume in the "Republican Era Curios" series. A collection of writings recalling the publishing industry during the Republican period…
All the Stubborn People
Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2025
Being stubborn is simply doing what you love a little longer. In an era of surging digital reading, physical bookstores are warriors rowing against th…
I Run a Bookstore in the Countryside: Pioneer Bookstore's Ten Years in Rural Areas
Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026
“Running rural bookstores, we know much suffering and frequent sorrow. A rural bookstore is a narrow gate, but however narrow, one must walk in—becaus…
The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams
New Star Press · 2019
Bernie has been lying low for quite a while—or rather, the reformed thief has worked hard to bring his secondhand bookstore to barely break even. He t…