bookshelf
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Does a full bookshelf convey intellectual curiosity and open-mindedness, or immodesty and self-importance?
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
Amnesty International said the raids indicated "the chilling reality of what the city has become: a place where you can be criminalised simply for what's on your bookshelf".
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Ms. Waters’s documentary will set one pondering, then reaching for the bookshelf, or perhaps walking out into the woods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Julio Miranda-Martin fills the bookshelf in his dining room with books and treasures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
I mentally scanned my bookshelf for the really impressive names.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
What was it about O’Rourke’s bulging bookshelves that got Kilmeade so shirty?
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
Knoll has written romantic scenes before, but “Helpless” needed to be enthralling and economic enough not to get her kicked off of Target’s bookshelves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Hundreds of football fans gathered beneath the towering bookshelves of Tehran Book Garden on Sunday night to watch Iran take on Belgium in the World Cup.
From Barron's ● Jun. 21, 2026
“In fact,” he says, “I’m a lot more proud of these seven new bookshelves that I had to get installed to hold the 2,000 new books that I bought.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
She had found the book while searching the bookshelves for a trigger to a secret passage.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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