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Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books

By Paul Collins

Bloomsbury, 246 pages, $14.95 paper

The village Hay-on-Wye is a fantasyland for book lovers. This memoir takes readers to the Welsh town with 1,500 residents and 40 bookstores, where Paul Collins, his wife and baby relocated from San Francisco. In this charming, droll tale, Collins guides readers through the cobblestone village known as the “town of books.