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The Door-to-Door Bookstore

A Novel

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The charming international bestseller about an unlikely friendship between an elderly door-to-door bookseller and a nine-year-old girl that changes his life.
Small-town German bookseller Carl Kollhoff delivers his books to special customers in the evening hours after closing time, walking through the picturesque alleys of the city. These people are almost like friends to him, and he is their most important connection to the world.
When Kollhoff unexpectedly loses his job, it takes the power of books and a nine-year-old girl to make them all find the courage to rebuild their bonds with each other.
A bestselling phenomenon internationally, Carsten Henn's The Door-to-Door Bookstore is a feel-good novel about books and friendship.
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      June 1, 2023
      Carl Kollhoff spends his evenings traversing his small German town, delivering books to customers of the bookstore where he has worked for decades. For most of these people, Carl is the only outside human contact they have, and Carl prides himself on providing them the exact books that will satisfy their reading tastes. And then one day, Schascha, a nine-year-old girl in a sunshine-yellow coat, appears and bursts into his carefully ordered routine. With the new owner of the bookstore threatening to suspend the book-delivery service and Schascha causing him to rethink the role he plays in his customers' lives, Carl questions what his future will look like. This slim novel is a warm and heartfelt story about the myriad ways books create connections between people. Readers who love Fredrik Backman and books about books, such as The Last Chance Library (2021), by Freya Sampson, and The Reading List (2021), by Sara Nisha Adams, should pick up this charming story about the power of books and reading.

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