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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Small-town German bookseller Carl Kollhoff delivers his books to special customers in the evening hours after closing time, walking through the picturesque alleys of the city. These people are almost like friends to him, and he is their most important connection to the world. When Kollhoff unexpectedly loses his job, it takes the power of books and a nine-year-old girl to make them all find the courage to rebuild their bonds with each other"--
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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Bookstore owner Nora Pennington escaped her past a decade ago. So it feels like a visit from another world when Kelly Walsh--the woman her ex-husband left her for--walks through the door of Miracle Books. As it turns out, she's been dumped too. Shockingly, however, this woman is about to become a murder victim. Who would do such a thing? The Secret, Book, and Scone Society joins forces with the sheriff's department, but they've barely begun their...
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English
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London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn’t feel the same to Gertie ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. Bingham Books was a dream they shared, and without Harry, Gertie wonders if it’s time to retire to the seaside. But fate has other plans for Gertie. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the decision to send their children away from the growing turmoil. Gertie decides to take in one of these refugees,...
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"With a psychic fair in West London, Gemma Doyle, owner of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, when murder makes an appearance during a sǎnce, must figure out whether the killer is flesh and blood or something evil summoned from beyond the veil"--
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Language
English
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A serious true crime junkie, Roach looks down her nose at the pumpkin-spice-latte-drinking casual fans who only became interested in the genre once it got trendy. But when Laura, a pretty and charismatic children's bookseller, arrives to help rejuvenate the struggling bookstore branch, Roach recognizes in her an unexpected kindred spirit. Despite their common interest in true crime, Laura keeps her distance from Roach, resisting the other woman's...
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Series
Lady librarian mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
1784 London. Miss Tiffany Woodall didn't murder her half-brother, but she did bury him in the back garden so that she could keep her cottage. Now, the confirmed spinster has to pretend to be Uriah and fulfill his duties as the Duke of Beaufort's librarian while searching Astwell Palace for Uriah's missing diamond pin, the only thing of value they own. Her ruse is almost up when she is discovered by Mr. Samir Lathrop, the local bookseller, who tries...
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English
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Massachusetts, 1954. Alice Campbell escapes halfway across the country and finds herself in front of a derelict building tucked among the cobblestone streets of Cambridge, and she turns that sad little shop into the charming bookstore of her dreams. Tess, Caroline, Evie and Merritt become fast friends in the sanctuary of Alice's monthly reading club at The Cambridge Bookshop, where they escape the pressures of being newly independent college women...
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Series
Paperback sleuth volume 1
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cordelia knows books. An addict-turned-dealer of classic paperbacks, when she's not spending her days combing the charity shops and jumble sales of suburban London for valuable collector's items, she's pining for the woman of her dreams and nimbly avoiding her landlord's demands for rent. The man she's just robbed turns out be one of London's most dangerous gangsters, and now he's on her trail and out for blood.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
The owner of Tomes & Tea, a book and tea shop, Jazzie, when her friend Brie, who recently made contact with her biological father—and is looking for a husband—is murdered, Jazzie, playing detective, is faced with a list of suspects ranging from jealous half-siblings to unsuitable suitors.
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
449 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"I, Maggie Banks, solemnly swear to uphold the rules of Cobblestone Books. If only, I, Maggie Banks, believed in following the rules. When Maggie Banks arrives in Bell River to run her best friend's struggling bookstore, she expects to sell bestsellers to her small-town clientele. But running a bookstore in a town with a famously bookish history isn't easy. Bell River's literary society insists on keeping the bookstore stuck in the past, and Maggie...
11) The poison pen
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Edinburgh is mourning recent the death of Queen Elizabeth II when Bookseller Delaney Nichols's boss comes to her with a most unusual assignment. An old friend of his, living in an estate in the village of Roslin, has found what could be a priceless relic on her property, and Delaney is tasked with investigating. Could Jolie possibly have an item of breathtaking Scottish historical significance in her possession? But when Delaney arrives at Jolie's...
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In these classic mystery tales, literature is a matter of life or death. Of crime fiction's many sub-genres, none is so reflexive and so intriguing as the "bibliomystery": stories that involve crimes set, somehow, in the world of books. In Vincent Starrett's "A Volume of Poe," a bookseller is murdered; in Ellery Queen's "The Adventure of the Three R's," the detective tracks the disappearance of a local Missouri author; and a killer stalks the stacks...
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