In an adjoining hallway, he pushed on a bookcase: the inevitable hidden door.

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As she began to speak, her hands seemed to become lighter, harder to control, so she had to put her drink down on a bookcase.

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In a session this summer in the writers room, where a bookcase was lined with titles like "American Sniper, " the staff ignored a bowl of baby carrots and sucked lollipops instead. (They pilfer candy from the better-stocked Fox sitcom "New Girl, " whose writers work next door).

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Finally, the publisher stopped in front of a glass-fronted bookcase full of manuscripts and asked Rousselot if it was his first time in Paris.

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