bookcase

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"I brought one bookcase down to the void deck in the middle of the night. I was concerned about whether people would catch me doing something I was 'not supposed' to be doing."

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

His two youngest girls play, in a discarded bookcase – the nearest they have to a dolls house.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026

Scanning my bookcase, which contains a few hundred volumes, it occurred to me that none of them would make sense if Sister Albertine hadn’t grown me into a reader.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

A wooden bookcase piled with works of pre-Columbian history, archaeology and artist catalogs sags in the middle.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2024

But that old bookcase floated, and Uppity hung on for dear life as the water carried him downstream.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney