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It‘s always fun to walk past a big pile of books at work, and see how many of them I‘ve read. Out of this stack (Fiction & Literature, A-D authors) I‘ve only read five! ?
Daughter of Fortune and Inés of My Soul by Isabel Allende, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan, and Caleb‘s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks. How about you? ? #behindthescenesatbookmans

Scochrane26 I‘ve read The Blind Assassin twice & Little Bee. Both great. 5y

Crazeedi 5-bookshop on shore, edge of orchard, shop of found things, calebs crossing, grandmother asked me 5y

diovival @Scochrane26 I've read the same two books from this stack 5y

ravenlee Just two - Jane Eyre and Death Comes for the Archbishop. 5y

readordierachel Only 2. The House on Mango Street and Jane Eyre. Both favorites. 5y

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Moss Hysteria | Kate Collins

The punny-est title I found today as I shelved the mystery section. 😂 #behindthescenesatbookmans

Sunraven Love it! 😆 5y

Megabooks 🤣🤣🤣 5y

DGRachel Cozies have the best titles! 5y

CouronneDhiver They really do @DGRachel 5y

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Well I can add “foot model” to my resume. 🤣😂🤣 #behindthescenesatbookmans

vivastory Now I'm thinking of the Seinfeld hand model episode 😂 6y

Jennick2004 Owwwwww!! 6y

Laughterhp Just looking at that hurts my feet! 😂 6y

howjessicareads Lol, I kept my other foot on un-Lego‘d carpet! Safe! 🤣 @vivastory @Jennick2004 @Laughterhp 6y

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Then She Was Gone | Lisa Jewell

Day 10 of #30junebooks is SUMMER!
Here in #Tucson, summer means heat. And since everyone wants a nice air-conditioned place to hang out while the kids are outta school, Bookmans is BUSY all day, every day. 📚
I checked my employee recs shelf this morning, and it was totally empty! So I stocked it up with some fun, light summer reads, plus a couple of faves. 😍 I wonder how many days it‘ll be before it‘s empty again. 🤔 #behindthescenesatbookmans

Megabooks If I were in Tucson, I would try one! I loved my visit out there. Great city! 6y

Tamra I love recs! 6y

howjessicareads 🙂🙂 @Megabooks @Tamra 6y

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Raising Readers: Helping Your Child to Literacy | Steve Bialostok

When it‘s inventory week and Mom goes to work an extra day, you get dragged along. But they didn‘t seem to mind too much. 😏 #raisingreaders #behindthescenesatbookmans

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Sarah's Key | Tatiana de Rosnay

We have a huge stack of SARAH‘S KEY in the back room. Plus I turn it down at least once every time I‘m on the trade counter. Plus I have personally thrown away several junky copies of it. WHY are there so many copies of this book trying to come to Bookmans?? 🤣 Was it that terrible? Did they just print too big of a press run? 🤷🏼‍♀️ Have any of you read it? #behindthescenesatbookmans

sammisho I read it and loved it! I tend to see it alot at used book sales. 6y

Amiable I loved it. Very unsettling read, though. 6y

Headinherbooks_27 I loved it too despite that it was sad.
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LibrarianRyan I think over a span of 8 years that at least one person a year had to talk up this book at Books Between Bites. Ughhhhh. It‘s the book club pick from hades. 6y

Teresereading Its been lingering on my #TBRpile for a long time..... 6y

ravenlee When I was at BN this book flew off shelves, but mainly to people who only read a couple books a year (better than nothing, I admit, but not heavy readers). I would guess that‘s why it shows up at used book stores a lot. 6y

KarenUK Read it with a book club..... very moving,but didn‘t like the present day set epilogue.... (edited) 6y

juliegumdrop I cried several times reading this. The ending was predictable, and I cried anyway. 6y

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Making up a few of the many hours I missed post-surgery... and this lucky kid got to help me with inventory pre-counts this morning. She was really into it for like 30 minutes. And then not so much. 😬 Also, ahem fellow employees — she was pretty critical of some of your handwriting when checking prices for me. “That‘s a 5?? That looks like an S with a squiggle. How hard is it to write a $5??” 😂😂 #behindthescenesatbookmans

ShananigansReads 😂😂😂 6y

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Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra | Vaseem Khan