{"product_id":"shelf-life-romance-mystery-drama-and-other-page-turning-adventures-from-a-year-in-a-bookstore-paperback","title":"Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama, and Other Page-Turning Adventures from a Year in a Bookstore - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSuzanne Strempek Shea\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuzanne Shea has always loved a good book-and she's written five of them, all acclaimed. In the course of her ten-year career, she's done a good bit of touring, including readings and drop-ins at literally hundreds of bookstores. She never visited one that wasn't memorable. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwo years ago, while recovering from radiation therapy, Shea heard from a friend who was looking for help at her bookstore. Shea volunteered, seeing it as nothing more than a way to get out of her pajamas and back into the world. But over next twelve months, from St. Patrick's Day through Poetry Month, graduation\/Father's Day\/summer reading\/Christmas and back again to those shamrock displays, Shea lived and breathed books in a place she says sells'ideas, stories, encouragement, answers, solace, validation, the basic ammunition for daily life.' Her work was briefly interrupted by an author tour that took her to other great bookstores. Descriptions of these and her memories of book-lined rooms reaching all the way back to childhood visits to the Bookmobile are scattered throughout this charming, humorous, and engrossing account of reading and rejuvenation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor anyone who loves books, and especially for anyone who has fallen under the spell of a special bookstore, \u003ci\u003eShelf Life\u003c\/i\u003e will be required reading.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuzanne Strempek Shea, winner of the 2000 New England Book Award for Fiction, is the author of four novels, \u003ci\u003eSelling the Lite of Heaven, Hoopi Shoopi Donna, Lily of the Valley, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAround Again, \u003c\/i\u003e and the memoir \u003ci\u003eSongs from a Lead-Lined Room: Notes-High and Low-from My Journey through Breast Cancer and Radiation.\u003c\/i\u003e She lives in Bondsville, Massachusetts, and sells books at Edwards Books in Springfield, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 8.54 x 6.64 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51773127328032,"sku":"9780807072592","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a5e7057bddfa2ab3d30fe25c208fe1a3.webp?v=1780420197","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/shelf-life-romance-mystery-drama-and-other-page-turning-adventures-from-a-year-in-a-bookstore-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}