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Let us introduce you to Lily King, one of the many booklovers on staff here at AbeBooks. Lily works in the Customer Support department as our Communications Specialist. She has been an AbeBooks employee for seven years, and a voracious reader all her life. More a fan of reading than collecting, Lily loves the freedom [...]

Debate broke out in the AbeBooks marketing department this morning over whether the world is judging popstar Justin Bieber too harshly for his most recent gaffe. On the off chance that you have managed to avoid the new thus far, here it is: the 19-year-old Bieber reportedly visited Anne Frank House in Amsterdam while touring. [...]

This is a great post from Flavorwire. They rounded up 10 examples of letters of admiration and appreciation written to famous authors…from other famous authors! Some of the examples include a 1976 letter from Ray Bradbury to Robert Heinlein (“…will continue to be grateful for the help you offered when I was so poor & [...]

It’s a shame that authors don’t pose with their pipes anymore. Pipes are such a useful accessory when you need something to occupy your hands while some tiresome photographer is trying to take your picture. Dan Brown, who seems to wear tweedy sports jackets, would perhaps be a good pipe smoker. Our little gallery of [...]

February’s top sale was a rare set of the only 18th-century French translation of Shakespeare, which went for $16,816. It’s a 20-volume set, so works out to about $840 per volume. Other items of note include an autographed copy of a book detailing the discovery of DNA, and a 1952 book about handmade Japanese paper, [...]

The Google doodle today (February 25th, 2013) pays homage to American artist of the macabre and ridiculous, Edward Gorey, who would have turned 88 today. Gorey was a funny mix of the delightfully innocent and childlike and the eerie, dark and crawly. Once you’ve seen a bit of Gorey’s work, it becomes instantly recognizable. His [...]

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I so often read a news item that makes me go “oh good Lord….what? How can…? No.” that it’s a real treat to read something that makes sense. This article I read in The Guardian is one of the rare gems that does. Apparently, patients in the UK who are suffering from non-severe mental health [...]

The Guardian did another great top 10 a few weeks ago. This one is Top 10 Adventure Classics, offered by Charlie Fletcher, author of Far Rockaway. In discussing his reasons for writing Far Rockaway (largely his children), he mentions the importance of the story, and how sometimes the story can be more important than the [...]

Have you read Blindness? It was the first I’d ever heard of José Saramago, when a friend lent me the novel some 10 years ago. While Saramago’s syntax and writing style were very difficult to adjust to, and at times I despaired I never would, the story was so compelling that I was unable to [...]