✦ LIBER ✦

The Bookseller

✍ Scribed by Peter Briscoe

Book ID: 111084499
Publisher: Palo Verde Press via Indie Author Project
Year: 2022
Tongue: English
Weight: 39 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780963489883
ASIN: B09QX9PMT8

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Five stories about professors, students, librarians, booksellers, and early scientific explorers—all living literately, on journeys of the mind. The first story, “One of Our Stars,” is about a professor so engrossed in difficult studies that even a blatant sexual invitation (accepted) merely distracts him. He concentrates with the mental force of a chess grandmaster, a zen roshi, or a musical virtuoso. The next story, about a female college student, is set in a Colombian jungle. The third story portrays a once formidable professor coming to terms with retirement, old age, and approaching death. The fourth (title) story, novella length, takes place in an Ecuadorian library that is experiencing rampant theft. A place where some men steal books while others wonder why they bother. A literary, intellectual mystery that explores the library as a profound idea while the world rushes into a digital, post-literate future. The fifth story explores the evolving status of a beautiful young female scholar who each year attends a Latin American Librarians Conference.
The first edition of THE BOOKSELLER received Honorable Mention in the 2021 International Latino Book Awards competition, and has garnered top ratings from readers and from reviewers such as PW’s BookLife Reviews, IndieReader, and Readers’ Favorite.

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