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050	0	0	_aPT2707.E59 _bL3813 2015
082	1		_aFIC GEO _2
100	1		_aGeorge, Nina
245	1	4	_aThe little Paris bookshop : _ba novel _c/ Nina George ; translated by Simon Pare.
250			_aFirst U.S. edition.
260			_aNew York _b: Crown Publishers _c, 2015
300			_a392 p. _c; 22 cm
500			_aOriginally published in Germany as Das Lavendelzimmer by Knaur Verlag in 2013.
520			_a"There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even remedies - I mean books - that were written for one person only...A book is both medic and medicine at once. It makes a diagnosis as well as offering therapy. Putting the right novels to the appropriate ailments: that's how I sell books." Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened. After Perdu is finally tempted to read the letter, he hauls anchor and departs on a mission to the south of France, hoping to make peace with his loss and discover the end of the story. Joined by a bestselling but blocked author and a lovelorn Italian chef, Perdu travels along the country's rivers, dispensing his wisdom and his books, showing that the literary world can take the human soul on a journey to heal itself.
546			_aTranslated from the German to English.
650		4	_aBooksellers and book selling _x-Fiction
650		4	_aBooks and reading _x-Fiction
650		4	_aMental healing _v--Fiction
651		4	_aParis (France) _v--Fiction
655		4	_aPsychological fiction
655		4	_aLove stories
700	1		_aPare, Simon
942			_cMO
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