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Parnassus on wheels & The haunted bookshop
1948·296 pages
A woman impulsively buys a traveling bookshop and finds adventure across New England; the sequel follows a Brooklyn bookstore amid romance and wartime intrigue.
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A woman impulsively buys a traveling bookshop and finds adventure across New England; the sequel follows a Brooklyn bookstore amid romance and wartime intrigue.
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"Weary of keeping house for her bachelor brother, Helen McGill impulsively purchases a mobile bookshop. Parnassus on Wheels traces her winsome adventures throughout New England as a traveling bookseller. The story's sequel, The Haunted Bookshop, unfolds in a Brooklyn store that attracts a nefarious plot as well as a budding romance. This single-volume edition of Morley's most popular novels will delight all lovers of "books about books.""--
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What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Mild clean courtship and budding romance; attraction without explicit content
Violence & gore
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Mild peril and wartime intrigue; brief non-graphic danger, no gore
Profanity
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No strong profanity present
Substance use
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Occasional social drinking typical of the period setting
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQIA+ representation present
Religious content
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Passing period cultural and Christian references only
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic; 'haunted' is metaphorical for books
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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WWI backdrop, espionage plot, and themes on books, education, democracy
Self-harm / suicide
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No self-harm or suicide content present
Abuse & suffering
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No abuse or systemic suffering depicted
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