Superstore book chain magnate and cozy children's bookshop owner are anonymous e-mail cyberpals who fall head-over-laptops in love, unaware they are combative business rivals.

Loveday Cardew's beloved Lost for Words bookshop, along with the rest of York, has fallen quiet. At the very time when people most need books to widen their horizons, or escape from their fears, or enhance their lives, the doors are closed. Then the first letter comes. Rosemary and George have been married for fifty years. Now their time is running out. They have decided to set out on their last journey together, without ever leaving the bench at...

An alluring adventure. Now that Suimei has moved out of the haunted bookstore, Kaori insists that she only misses the extra rent money--not Suimei himself. But when Tamaki, the story-seller, asks her to deliver a bundle of books to the southern islands, Kaori jumps at the chance to drag Suimei along!

Four Europeans from different cultures set out across a vast desert-like landscape to find a remote place to establish the world's last bookshop filled with the treasures of world literature they carry with them.

Sarah Obeng, a doctoral student at Columbia University, is weeks away from following her very married boyfriend to Ohio when her mother suddenly passes away. Her inheritance? King of Glory, a small Christian bookstore serving a Ghanaian immigrant community in the Bronx. Tasked with arranging her mother's funeral according to her family's traditional expectations, Sarah must simultaneously navigate her plans to relocate as well as the unexpected return...