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|title=The Storied Life of A J Fikry

|sort=Storied Life of A J Fikry, The

|publisher=Little, Brown

|date=March 2014

|summary=Pleasantly heartwarming, but this tale of a bookseller and the building of his unusual family circumstance does spend too much effort preaching to the converted when it comes to praising other literature.

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A J Fikry is not having a good time. He's lost his wife to a car crash, and he's not making that much money. The book store he runs, stuck out on a limb on a quiet island community, is too remote to turn a profit year-round, and he has just dismissed the latest publisher's rep to turn up at his door, partly because her previous counterpart, an inconsequential part of A J's life when all is said and done, had died and he didn't know about it. But his bad time is about to get a lot worse, as the one thing he owns worth the most – a rare book, more valuable than his house, his business, anything – is about to vanish. Which bizarrely will cause several major changes to his one-person household…