01615cam a2200277 4500 165304219 TxAuBib 20140801120000.0 140124s2014||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2014002920 9781410468895 large print : hardcover 1410468895 large print : hardcover TxAuBib Zevin, Gabrielle. The storied life of A. J. Fikry [Large Print] / Gabrielle Zevin. Large Print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2014. 319 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. A.J. Fikry's life is not what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his bookstore is failing, and his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. He is isolating himself from all the people of Alice Island and from Amelia, the Knightley Press sales rep who refuses to be deterred by A.J.'s bad attitude. And then a mysterious package appears at the bookstore that gives A.J. the ability to see everything anew. It doesn't take long for the locals to notice the change; or for that determined sales rep, Amelia, to see her curmudgeonly client in a new light; or for the wisdom of all those books to become again the lifeblood of A.J.'s world. 20140801. Booksellers and bookselling Fiction. Bookstores Fiction. Widowers Fiction. Abandoned children Fiction. Mainstream.