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All it takes is the right book to turn a Book Hater into a Book Lover. That was Elliott's belief and the reason why he started The Book Haters' Book Club, a newsletter of reading recommendations for the self-proclaimed "nonreader." As the beloved co-owner of Over the Rainbow Bookstore, Elliott's passion and gift was recommending books to customers. Now, after his sudden death, his grief-ridden business partner, Irma, has agreed to sell Over the Rainbow...
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Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Creating an algorithm to improve his internet dating employer's match success rate only to be fired for being too effective, Sam Elliot develops a computer program that creates compelling human simulations that allow people to say final goodbyes to lost loved ones.
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"It's the dog days of summer in St. Petersburg, Florida, and Webb's Glass Shop proprietor Savannah Webb has an eco-friendly plan to help locals escape the heat--a recyclable bottle-crafting workshop taught by reticent store manager Amanda Blake. Turns out, the class is a bigger smash than expected, thanks in part to a pair of staggeringly old bottles brought in by snorkeler Martin Lane... Linked to a storied pirate shipwreck, the relics definitely...
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2024.
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English
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"June and Levi were best friends as teenagers--until the day they weren't. Now June is struggling to make rent on her beachside tea shop, Levi is living a New York cliché as a disillusioned hedge fund manager and failed novelist, and they've barely spoken in years. But after they both experience public, humiliating break-ups with their exes that spread like wildfire across TikTok rabbit holes and daytime talk shows alike, they accidentally make some...
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"When fate brings three strangers to a charming space for lease on the California coast, the Boardwalk Bookshop is born. Part bookstore, part gift shop, part bakery, it's a dream come true for Bree, Mikki and Ashley. But while their business is thriving, their personal lives are...not. Bree, wounded by brilliant but cold parents and her late husband's ultimate betrayal, has sworn to protect her heart at all costs. Even from Ashley's brother, a writer...
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"Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father's dive bar... in Washington. Piper hasn't even been in Westport for five minutes when...
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Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"Max Boyson looks good...from a distance. But up close and personal, the tattooed hottie Joelle Prima has been crushing on for the past year and half has turned into the prime example of why you shouldn't judge a book by his delectable cover. When she first learned about the massive renovation to the building they share, Joelle imagined that temporarily combining her Filipino bakery with Max's neighboring bookstore would be the perfect opening chapter...
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Annie's
Pub. Date
[2017]
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194 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Jillian Green and her great aunt Cornelia win an auction for the contents of a storage unit. Mystery unfolds as they go through the unit. Some of the furnishings were for a family restaurant that closed years ago--the same time as owner Grace disappeared.
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Annie's Attic mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
2012
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224 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Up in her grandmother's attic, Annie Dawson finds an antique key that is the first clue in a 150-year-old mystery and an ill-fated Civil War love affair. As she and the ladies of the Hook and Needle Club try to make sense of the clues, they must also figure out how to help Mary Beth when she fears she will lose her beloved needlework shop. Perhaps the key to both problems is in Annie's hands.
10) Key lime killer
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Series
Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
[2017]
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195 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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A Civil War reenactment near Moss Hollow, Georgia, turns solemn when one of the Union Soldiers turns up dead of what appears to be natural causes. No one knows his name until his widow shows up. Then she disappears.
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Annie's
Pub. Date
[2017]
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203 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Join Jillian Green in the enchanting town of Moss Hollow, Georgia, as she mixes up a batch of mystery and intrigue. After twenty years away, a career detour, and a large helping of heartbreak, she returns to the land of sweet tea and Southern charm to help her grandmother run the family business, The Chocolate Shoppe Bakery. Along the way, Jillian is surprised to find that what she lacks in culinary skill, she more than makes up for in amateur detective...
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English
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"After fleeing her hometown three years earlier, Alyssa Harrison never planned to return. Then the Silicon Valley start-up she worked for collapsed and turned her world upside down. She is broke, under FBI investigation, and without a place to go. Having exhausted every option, she comes home to Winsome, Illinois, to regroup then move on as quickly as possible. Yet, as friends and family welcome her back, Alyssa begins to see a place for herself in...
13) Burning bridges
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Katie Stearns
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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It's been a year since the car accident that nearly killed Hayley Henderson. She's ready to get her life back on track and open her small business. As she learns to let go of the past and move forward, the last thing she expects is for her past to come barreling back to rip apart her new love life. Rhys Warner had given up on finding love despite his troubled upbringing and family. His dysfunctional, alcoholic father has a past that may not be forgivable....
14) Sweet sabotage
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Series
Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
Description
The Chocolate Shoppe Bakery has some new competition. Confections & Donuts, a major chain, has opened its doors in the sleepy village of Moss Hollow, Georgia, and Jillian Green doesn't know how her grandmother's bakery will survive. When a suspicious fire engulfs a part of the Moss Hollow business district, jeopardizing the bakery and the life of Lenora Ryan, their resident master baker, Jillian sets out to discover who is behind the inferno--and...
15) Peach offerings
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Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Just the mention of Matthew Belmont's name is enough to send chills down Jillian Green's spine. After all, Jillian had been accused of killing Belmont's daughter, Nadine, soon after her return to her childhood home in Moss Hollow, Georgia. She never wanted to hear the Belmont name again. But when Matthew hires Jillian to cater a dessert spread at a soiree he is hosting, she is unwillingly pulled back into the intrigue that fills the Belmont Mansion....
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Pub. Date
2014
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344 pages; 17 cm.
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English
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Candy shop owner Ava Oosterling mixes it up with a fudge judge with a grudge--who loses his life before he can pick a winner. Ava is gearing up for the First Annual Arts Festival--a huge celebration that could draw national attention to her old-fashioned fudge shop in Door County, Wisconsin. She has invited two celebrity chefs to go head-to-head with her in a fudge contest. Everyone is having a tasty time, until a judge for the festival is found dead....
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Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Blue Hill is in an uproar! A representative from Beau-Mart is in the area, looking for a place to build its new big-box discount store. Competition is fierce among landownders wanting to make a huge profit, but things turn dangerous when someone starts sabotaging the land surveys. Can Anne uncover the saboteur before someone gets hurt?
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"When Ava Harrison receives a letter containing an unusual job listing one month after the sudden death of her ex-boyfriend, she thinks she's being haunted. The listing--a job as a live-in caretaker for a peculiar old man and his cranky cat in Driftwood, Alabama--is the perfect chance to start a new life. A normal life. Ava has always been too fearful to even travel, so no one's more surprised than she is when she throws caution to the wind and drives...
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George Brown class clown volume 19
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
123 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Determined to find a cure for his burping, George returns to Ernie's Ice Cream Emporium in search of a secret ingredient, but when a rival ice cream shop opens, George tries to keep Ernie's in business so he can solve his problem.
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English
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"Molly Canaday wishes she could repair her life as easily as she fixes cars. She was all set to open her own body shop in Last Chance when her mother ran off and left her to manage the family yarn shop instead. Now guided by the unsolicited-though well-intended-advice of the weekly knitting club, Molly works to untangle this mess. But her plan unravels when the new landlord turns out to be difficult--as well as tall, dark, and handsome. Simon Wolfe...