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Author
Series
Monster hunter mystery volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Business has been booming since Morgan Carter solved the case of the monster living in Lake Michigan. The Odds and Ends bookstore is thriving, of course, but Morgan is most excited by the doors that were opened for her as a cryptid hunter. Recently, there have been numerous sightings of a Bigfoot-type creature in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest area of Bayfield County, Wisconsin. After a man is found dead from a vicious throat injury in the...
62) Chapter & hearse
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Tricia Miles, owner of the Haven't Got a Clue mystery bookstore in Stoneham, New Hampshire, can't walk away from a good mystery. Her sister Angelica, who sees herself as the next celebrity chef, is hosting a launch party for her first cookbook when a nearby gas explosion injures her boyfriend, Bob Kelly. When Tricia reads that Bob is being tight-lipped about the accident, and how it killed the owner of the town's history bookstore, it's time to take...
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
880L
Physical Desc
325 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Since he was six years old, Milo has lived on board the Sesquipedalian, or 'Quip,' a magical train that uses the power of imagination to travel through both stories and the real world. Aboard the Quip, Milo lives and works with his uncle, Horatio, a book smuggler who trades in rare books. When Horatio takes on a dangerous new job, he needs the help of Tilly Pages, a uniquely gifted bookwanderer. But when Tilly's grandfather and Horatio are poisoned...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Phryne Fisher loves dancing, especially with gorgeous young Simon Abrahams. But Phryne's contentment at the Jewish Young People's Society Dance is cut short when Simon's father asks her to investigate the strange death of a devout young student in Miss Sylvia Lee's East Market bookshop. Miss Lee has been arrested for the murder, and Phryne believes that she is a very unlikely killer. Investigation leads her into the exotic world of Yiddish, refugees,...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"When librarian Valentina Baker was a teenager, her mother, Eloise, unexpectedly fled to her native London, leaving Val and her father on their own. Now in her thirties and fresh out of a failed marriage, Val feels a nagging disenchantment with her life--and knows she is still heartbroken over her mother's abandonment. In a bittersweet twist of fate, Val receives word that Eloise has passed away, leaving Val her Primrose Hill apartment and the deed...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Three young female employees work together to stop the Wild Nights Bookstore and Emporium from closing.
Rinn Olivera is finally going to tell her longtime crush AJ that shes in love with him. Daniella Korres writes poetry for her own account, but nobody knows its her. Imogen Azar is just trying to make it through the day. When Rinn, Daniella, and Imogen clock into work at Wild Nights Bookstore on the first day of summer, theyre expecting the hours...
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"At thirty-three-years old Evangeline Starling's life in Chicago is missing that special something. And when she's passed over for promotion at work, Evie realizes she needs to make a change. Some time away to regain perspective might be just the thing. In a burst of impulsivity, she plans a holiday in a quaint English village. The holiday package comes with a temporary position at Much Ado About Books, the bookstore located beneath her rental apartment....
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Wonderland
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
AD 610L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
During story time the Gingerbread man comes alive, so the children make haste and quickly give chase but he runs too fast and is helped from a storybook cast.
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Language
English
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Description
Robin Windsor has spent much of her life under an assumed name to avoid association with her infamous parents. She thought she'd finally found sanctuary running her used bookstore in quiet River City, Michigan. But when she receives an eerily familiar book in the mail on the morning of her father's scheduled execution, Robin is thrown back to the summer she met Peter Flynt, the perfect boy who ruined everything. Why would Peter be making contact now?...
71) A just clause
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tricia Miles, mystery bookstore owner and amateur sleuth, is in for a surprise when her ne'er-do-well father, John, comes to town--and promptly becomes a prime suspect in the murder of a woman with her own scandalous past. Even Tricia's faith in the old man is shaken when the Stoneham police break the news that her father is a known con man who has done jail time. But what about bestselling thriller author Steven Richardson? Is it a coincidence that...
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Language
English
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"Between training the new town garda and trying to set a wedding date with her fiancé, Macdara Flannery, Siobhán O'Sullivan is feeling a bit overwhelmed. She's looking forward to visiting the new bookshop and curling up with an exciting novel only to discover the shelves contain nothing but Literature with a capital L. The owner not only refuses to stock romances, mysteries, and science fiction, but won't even let customers enter his store unless...
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Relates the story of the National Memorial African Bookstore, founded in Harlem by Louis Michaux in 1939, as seen from the perspective of Louis Michaux Jr., who met famous men like Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X while helping there.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Nina Hill's life may not seem like much, but for a person battling anxiety, it's more than enough. She enjoys her job at a bookstore and her small circle of friends. Until a visit from a lawyer changes everything... The father that Nina never knew existed has died, leaving behind an enormous extended family. Nina now has innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, nephews, and cousins all living within a twenty-mile radius--some welcoming and some not...
75) Dreamland
Author
Publisher
Endeavour Quill
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
The year is 1911 when twenty-year-old heiress Peggy Batternberg is invited to spend the summer in America's Playground. The invitation to Coney Island is unwelcome. Despite hailing from one of America's richest families, Peggy would much rather spend the summer working at the Moonrise Bookstore than keeping up appearances with New York City socialites and her snobbish, controlling family. But soon it transpires that the hedonism of Coney Island affords...
76) Steeped to death
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Phoebe Winchester's beloved Aunt Eudora has a taste for adventure--and a knack for making magical tea. It's even rumored that she just might be a witch. So when Eudora passes away and leaves everything to her niece--her Victorian mansion, her bookshop/tea store, The Earl's Study, and one very chubby orange cat named Bob--Phoebe gets more than she bargained for. And she knows she's in deep when a dead man is found on the shop's back step, apparently...
Author
Series
Pages and Co volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
284 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Tilly Pages joins Oskar and his family on a Christmas trip to Paris, she and her friend bookwander into the land of fairy tales, where someone--or something--is causing chaos.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Though born out of wedlock, Fancy Trewlove is determined to fulfill her mother's wish that she marry into nobility. Fancy's keen intellect and finishing school manners make her the perfect wife for any gentleman--if he's willing to overlook her scandalous lineage. But Fancy's plans are thrown into chaos when an intriguing commoner begins visiting her bookshop--and she finds herself unable to stop thinking about him. Widowed just a year ago, the reclusive...
79) Jackson
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Caroline Carruthers thinks she buried her dreams along with the love of her life...until a stranger named Celeste dares her to chase a dream all on her own. Moving to Redemption, Texas, is chapter one in Caroline's new life story. Opening a bookstore is the next. Finding love is the last thing on her mind as she settles into this new place called home. But when she meets a handsome, soulful man who's also starting over, all bets are off. Jackson...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Language
English
Description
"When bookish young American Sylvia Beach opens Shakespeare and Company on a quiet street in Paris in 1919, she has no idea that she and her new bookstore will change the course of literature itself. Shakespeare and Company is more than a bookstore and lending library: Many of the most prominent writers of the Lost Generation, like Ernest Hemingway, consider it a second home. It's where some of the most important literary friendships of the twentieth...