bookshelf
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Duane looked around the room, with its many bookshelves and metal objects and such.
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She looked around, scanning the rows of bookshelves around them.
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The walls are lined with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, but there’s only room inside for a single table with computers and the circulation desk.
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There was a rolling ladder attached to the bookshelf, and Danny wanted to ask if he could slide around on it the way Belle did in Beauty and the Beast.
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As “Wuthering Heights” continues to fly off of bookshelves, six authors who’ve written on love’s many fluctuations speak on their own relationships with the book and the legacy of Brontë’s text.
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