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141) Murder by page one
Author
Series
Peach Coast Library mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Marvey, a librarian, has moved from Brooklyn to a quirky small town in Georgia. When she's not at the library organizing events for readers, she's handcrafting book-themed jewelry and looking after her cranky cat. At times, her new life in the South still feels strange ... and that's before the discovery of the dead body in the bookstore. After one of her friends becomes a suspect, Marvey sets out to solve the murder mystery. She even convinces Spence,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Nightingale Books, nestled on the high street in Peasebrook, a picture-postcard Cotswold town, is a dream come true for book lovers. Everyone who enters falls in love with something. But owner Emilia Nightingale is struggling to keep the shop open and the developers are circling. The temptation to sell up is proving enormous - but what about the promise she made to her father? Not to mention her customers, for whom the shop is a comfort, a meeting...
143) Much ado about you
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The cozy comforts of an English village bookstore open up a world of new possibilities for Evie Starling in this charming new romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Samantha Young. 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....
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the beloved author of Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend comes a wonderful new novel about a struggling man, written entirely in lists. Daniel Mayrock's life is at a crossroads. He knows the following to be true: 1. He loves his wife Jill ... more than anything. 2. He only regrets quitting his job and opening a bookshop a little (maybe more than a little) 3. Jill is ready to have a baby. 4. The bookshop isn't doing well. Financial crisis is imminent....
145) A sinister sense
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
Language
English
Description
"Seeing visions of the future and turning into people's thoughts come naturally to Clara Quinn thanks to her inherited Quinn Sense. Unfortunately, it offers no insight into her love life-or lack thereof-especially where hardware store owner Rick Sanders is concerned. But even though she's still nursing a broken heart, Clara offers Rick a home for his troublesome dog, Tatters. But Tatters is the least of Rick's problems when a dead body is discovered...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower is back with the third in her more-charming-than-ever Magical Bookshop mystery. Fans of Sofie Kelly and Heather Blake, prepare your bookshelves! Niagara region booksellers Violet Waverly and Grandma Daisy sleuth the slaying of a sommelier whose book signing turned into her sayonara. January means ice wine season in the Niagara Falls region, but the festivities leave Charming Books owner Violet Waverly cold,...
Author
Series
Love is murder mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Lizzie Hale may be the lucky owner of a successful romance bookshop, Love Under the Covers, but she's decidedly unlucky in love. Though she's read almost every famous romance novelist, from Jane Austen to Nora Roberts, none have helped her figure out how to get--and keep--a man. But Lizzie has bigger problems to worry about. Like murder. When swoon-worthy ranch owner and resident bachelor Brody Pierce is found stabbed through the chest, hearts are...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"An atmospheric fantasy series for bibliophiles and fans of Japanese ghost stories! (And don't miss the manga adaptation, also from Seven Seas). Kaori lives in an otherworldly bookstore with her adoptive father. Together, they provide books to the strange denizens of the spirit realm. But Kaori's peaceful days come to an end when she rescues an injured boy from the streets--a human, like her, from the mortal realm. The boy's name is Suimei, and he's...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Agnes Martai is a young archaeologist who moves to London in search of a new opportunity. Shortly after arriving in the city as she strolls through the Temple district, she is surprised by a sudden downpour and takes refuge in a very special bookstore: Moonlight Books. Edward Livingstone is looking for an assistant, and in the time it takes Agnes to dry off and sit down for a cup of hot tea, they both realize that it is no accident that she is the...
Author
Series
Love is murder mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Lizzie Hale thought mail-order brides existed only between the pages of the historical romances she stocks in her bookstore, Love Under the Covers. But when not one, but two local men introduce her to their respective new wives, she's forced to reevaluate that notion. Lizzie is surprised when Al Little, the owner of the local hardware store, asks Lizzie and her aunt Charmaine to help Svetlana, his new bride straight from Russia, to settle into Tinker's...
Author
Series
Snowball volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"It's Christmas time at the Weber Haus mountainside inn, where the official greeter, watcher, and matchmaker of the hotel's resident humans is an adorably mischievous bundle of feline fluff named Snowball. Snowball takes her job very seriously-- even if it means being a little more naughty than nice-- and she's ready to celebrate her third holiday season by making the purrrrfect match. Most cats have nine lives, but Snowball is one of the very few...
Author
Series
(Anna Lois),Pages and Co volume 6
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The final magical bookwandering adventure in the USA Today bestselling Pages & Co. series featuring Milo and Tilly as they travel into Arthurian legend to find the first bookwanderer! Perfect for fans of Chris Colfer's A Tale of Magic, Mr. Lemoncello's Library, and Lockwood & Co.! When Milo, Tilly, Oskar, and Alessia venture into Arthurian legend to find the first bookwanderer--the wizard Merlin--they discover that everything they thought they knew...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida's governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce decides to stay and ride out the storm. The hurricane is devastating: homes and condos are leveled, hotels and storefronts ruined, streets flooded,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edición: Julio de 2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Una banda de ladrones consigue robar algo que, pese a no tener precio, está asegurado en veinticinco millones de dólares: los cinco manuscritos originales de las novelas de Francis Scott Fitzgerald, que hasta hacía poco yacían en una cámara acorazada bajo la biblioteca de la Universidad de Princeton. Un botín imposible de resistir. Bruce Cable regenta una prestigiosa librería en la ciudad de verano de Santa Rosa, en Camino Island....
156) Wining and dying
Author
Series
Cookbook Nook mystery volume 10
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Crystal Cove is buzzing with the launch of its fifth annual Art and Wine Festival, when local wineries are paired with local artists to show off their latest creations. Jenna's thrilled to be showing one of her own amateur paintings at the fair, but her excitement quickly fades when an up-and-coming artist is murdered. What's more, all the evidence points to a good friend of Jenna's as the culprit, and she'll have to use all her wits to prove his...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
1-p'an.
Language
Korean
Description
High schooler Natsuki Rintarou lived with his grandfather, a bookstore owner, but his life changes when the old man passes away. As Rintarou organizes his grandfather's books, preparing to move to his aunt's home, a cat emerges from the depths of the bookshelves. The cat, speaking like a human being, asks for Rintarou's help to protect the books.
Author
Series
Cookbook Nook mystery volume 9
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The denizens of Crystal Cove are salivating over the upcoming Food Bowl Week, when local chefs offer some of their best and most imaginative creations in bite-size portions all over town. Bookstore proprietor Jenna Hart is hungry to sample as many of the delicacies as she can, but when she stumbles onto the dead body of a local food reporter and learns that her best friend's husband is the primary suspect, she'll have to summon the appetite for a...
159) No memes of escape
Author
Series
Brooklyn murder mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Amateur sleuth Odessa Dean is about to discover the only thing harder than finding her way out of an escape room is finding an affordable apartment in Brooklyn in this sequel to Killer Content. Odessa Dean has made a home of Brooklyn. She has a fun job waiting tables at Untapped Books & Café and a new friend, Izzy, to explore the city with. When she's invited on a girls' day out escape room adventure, she jumps at the chance. It's all fun and games...
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