"bookshelves" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe furniture that is specifically used to store books, such as in the following example sentence: "I ordered two new bookshelves to organize all the books in my study."
But even so, as I note that Piketty's bookshelves are lined with such headache-inducing titles as The Principles of Microeconomics and The Political Influence of Keynesianism, simple folk like me still need some help here.
"My legal team has injuncted the book, had it forced off the bookshelves and to be pulped, for a new edition to have corrections included, a public apology to be issued, and in due course for damages, obviously, to be lodged," Brown said.
It was, he remembers, "state of the art": a grand public building with elegant, deco curves to the custom-made furniture, handsome timber bookshelves and bright brass handrails up the stairs.
Ms Rowling hit the bookshelves just as a similar superstar phenomenon was taking over publishing, with sales increasingly concentrated on individual mega-bestsellers rather than spread across a few dozen authors and titles.
Given the indignation her financial claim has caused, chances are it might not even make the best-seller list once it hits Bogotá's bookshelves.
None took up the offer.In a land where pious words saturate airwaves and canonical texts fill bookshelves, the prominence of relatively secular types like Mr Qimani marks a trend.Their following may be tiny compared with the adulation enjoyed by Mr Qaradawi.
"Tree shrews ricocheted across my bookshelves and desk," he recalled.
Your columnist's bookshelves groan with two giant tomes examining Anglo-Polish wartime cooperation.
Most such reports end up lining bookshelves and gathering dust.
Entire bookshelves already stand testament to the president's knack for driving left-leaning American writers into a frenzy.
At his time, the dictionary was still a new item on bookshelves, and people would indeed buy it as a reference book to improve their own writing and understand that of others.
