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  • Twelve blocks north is another book-filled room that Ms. Selldorf likes to peruse for inspiration: the Morgan Library, built to house financier Pierpont Morgan's weighty collection of rare tomes and manuscripts.

    Fully Booked Jen Renzi 2012

  • She passed the Louvre and the souvenir shops on her way toward the hallowed, book-filled halls of Galignani.

    The Poet Prince KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2010

  • His grandfather, a board member of the National Genealogical Society, would conduct research in a narrow, book-filled study at his home in Covington, Va.

    A Local Life: William Addams Reitwiesner, 56; genealogist of presidents, kings and thousands of commoners Timothy R. Smith 2010

  • Hefting his book-filled suitcase, Professor Stratford wove his way in the direction of a sign that helpfully read way out and depicted a pointing hand.

    KNIGHTLEY ACADEMY VIOLET HABERDASHER 2010

  • Hefting his book-filled suitcase, Professor Stratford wove his way in the direction of a sign that helpfully read way out and depicted a pointing hand.

    KNIGHTLEY ACADEMY VIOLET HABERDASHER 2010

  • The curtain comes up at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, where Race opened Sunday night, on a stylized Santo Loquasto set of a looming book-filled law-firm library, plopped like a diorama — this is an educational lesson, after all — in the center of an otherwise bare all-black and starkly lit stage.

    Make Way for Mamet the Didact! 2009

  • Or perhaps authors feel they have to throw in some sex scandal to spice up the crusty, book-filled ivory tower.

    Joanne Rendell: Scandalous Sex on Campus 2009

  • I called and visited her and her then husband, Saeed Urrehman, in her father's elegant book-filled study in a sheltered middle-class 1950's or 1960's suburb.

    Monroe Price: Farida Batool, Photography and Pakistani Lives 2009

  • The curtain comes up at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, where Race opened Sunday night, on a stylized Santo Loquasto set of a looming book-filled law-firm library, plopped like a diorama — this is an educational lesson, after all — in the center of an otherwise bare all-black and starkly lit stage.

    Make Way for Mamet the Didact! 2009

  • If you're in St. Louis, their "unprepossessing, book-filled brick house" (per The New York Times 'Jan Hoffman last summer) shouldn't be hard to find: According to Ms. Sittenfeld, her husband "wants to bring our Obama yard sign back out of retirement for the day."

    The Story of O: American Wife Author Sittenfeld Writes Serialized Inauguration Novella for Slate 2009

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