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The Little Book
The Little Book: A Novel | Selden Edwards
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Thirty years in the writing, Selden Edwards' dazzling first novel is an irresistible triumph of the imagination. Wheeler Burden-banking heir, philosopher, student of history, legend's son, rock idol, writer, lover, recluse, half-Jew, and Harvard baseball hero-one day finds himself wandering not in his hometown of San Francisco in 1988 but in a city and time he knows mysteriously well: Vienna, 1897. Before long, Wheeler acquires a mentor in Sigmund Freud, a bitter rival, a powerful crush on a luminous young woman, and encounters everyone from an eight-year-old Adolf Hitler to Mark Twain as well as the young members of his own family. Solving the riddle of Wheeler's dislocation in time will ultimately reveal nothing short of one eccentric family's unrivaled impact upon the course of human history. Edwards, author of The Lost Prince, brilliantly weaves romance, art, history, and culture in this unforgettable and dazzling debut novel.
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BeansPage
The Little Book: A Novel | Selden Edwards
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Look what my grandmother has! Mini books!!!! 😍😍😍
@JeanAudrey @DebbieLV

Captivatedbybooks At Barnes and Nobles they had the tiniest John Green (i believe that‘s his name the author who wrote the fault in our stars) around Christmas time 5y
Redwritinghood I love her cabinet too. 5y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa That is awesome!! 5y
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Bookgirl I have several tiny books. I love the idea of a cabinet for them! 5y
Avanders That is so cool 5y
Ddzmini 😍😍😍📚 5y
SleepyDragon I used to have that exact cabinet. I didn't have mini books in mine, though. 5y
BookBabe Aaaahhh!!! So perfectly charming! 😍❤️ 5y
BeansPage @BookBabe OMG I just found out I'm not following you! 😲 How could I have missed that??? Goodness 🙄 Problem solved LOL 😜 5y
KayPhoenix So cute! Also, I have that same cabinet. I painted it distressed green and keep my perfume in it. :-) 5y
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bookandcat
The Little Book: A Novel | Selden Edwards
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I've made a gross miscalculation, I have had these books for more than two months and somehow am only halfway through two but need to finish all of them by tomorrow evening. What have I been doing?!? (Rereading Harry Potter, I guess. And too much dabbling among books). 😳

Doesn't help that I am NOT enjoying The Little Book, and it's for #bookclub tomorrow...

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Maybe the not so little Little Book needs to be a bail? 5y
bookandcat @Riveted_Reader_Melissa but I NEVER bail on book club books 😭 5y
bookandcat @Riveted_Reader_Melissa even when they're bad I finish them 😂 5y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @bookandcat Well then, I better leave you alone to read some more tonight!🤔 5y
bookandcat UPDATE: I DID IT! FINISHED THEM ALL. they got progressively better lol 5y
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GinEyre22
The Little Book: A Novel | Selden Edwards
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readingjedi That's a very cool can. 5y
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GinEyre22
The Little Book: A Novel | Selden Edwards
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$15 worth of books from the library book sale!

SilversReviews AWESOME!! 5y
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Bookish_B
The Little Book: A Novel | Selden Edwards
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A person I don't know recommended this to me on a "what are you reading" thread on FB when I said I was trying to read stuff based in Vienna in preparation for a trip there. I had never heard of the book & probably wouldn't have picked it up on my own but I'm glad it found its way to me because I really did enjoy it. And it WAS perfect for what I was looking for. It took place in Vienna but also incomporated some famous characters from the past.

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Sydsavvy
The Little Book: A Novel | Selden Edwards
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#timetravel Anyone heard of / read this one? Edwards gave a talk at #HNS2017 and was pretty fun so I thought I'd check it out. It's the story of a man whisked back in time to Vienna, in 1897. As it so happens, Hitler is there, too. Can history be changed?

LeahBergen It's sitting on my shelf. 😬 7y
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marjoleinlvb
Fin de siecle | Selden Edwards
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From Boston to Vienna, this is the perfect book during rainy autumn days ❤️️