A word from our authors… “Aliens!” The Dread Pirate Jack Spartan spit the word carelessly across the beach. He sat just shy of the water’s edge and watched the ship—his ship!—soar ever smaller to the lee of the sun, where a shadowy hulk menaced the otherwise blue sky. There would be no third hijacking, he resolved. The tropical sun bore down. Jack found shade under a palm tree and resumed his reading. He’d risked his skin to save a small satchel of books. “Aliens,” he grumbled again. They’d pay… and the words under his fingers began to tickle an idea in his head. –S. Christopher

A word from our authors… “Aliens!” The Dread Pirate Jack Spartan spit the word carelessly across the beach. He sat just shy of the water’s edge and watched the ship—his ship!—soar ever smaller to the lee of the sun, where a shadowy hulk menaced the otherwise blue sky. There would be no third hijacking, he resolved. The tropical sun bore down. Jack found shade under a palm tree and resumed his reading. He’d risked his skin to save a small satchel of books. “Aliens,” he grumbled again. They’d pay… and the words under his fingers began to tickle an idea in his head. –S. Christopher

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Out of Print

By Sean Rogers

Charlie Mueller is good with technology. He’s not that kind of old person. Sure, he’s spent four decades as an NYC bookseller, married to routine in an industry that time forgot. But he can still evolve. He can learn to sell an E-Reader. Maybe.

Jake has just arrived from Ohio-blue-eyed, polite, fresh as windowsill pie. Annoying, basically. But when Charlie gets mixed up in Jake’s plight to win the heart of Chelsea, a fellow bookseller, the two become reluctant friends. While Jake climbs the ladder of management, Charlie falls behind with the digital revolution.

Part romantic comedy, part workplace meditation, part love letter to literature, Out of Print follows Charlie through a series of late-in-life dilemmas set among the stacks of a bookstore.

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