bookshelf
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If the photo in my book shelf was only of Chávez, I’d still keep it up.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
I feel honored to be given the opportunity to put another book on that figurative book shelf.
From Salon • Nov. 9, 2019
He has admitted to once being a member of a neo-Nazi group, but these days, Gandhi and Martin Luther King share book shelf in his Viennese apartment.
From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2019
“Costco is not a book store. Our book shelf space is very limited. We can’t carry every title that our members are interested in reading,” the store said.
From Washington Times • Mar. 22, 2015
The books on the book shelf were gone; the padlocked closet stood open, empty; the unfastened lock swung open from the hasp.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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