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1) Camino winds
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen-even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime . . . 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...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of a shocking tragedy, Natalie Harper inherits her mother's charming, but financially strapped bookshop in San Francisco. She also becomes caretaker for her ailing grandfather Andrew, her only living relative--not counting her scoundrel father. But the gruff, deeply kind Andrew has begun displaying signs of decline. Natalie thinks it's best to move him to an assisted living facility to ensure the care he needs. To pay for it, she plans...
5) The bookshop
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Second Mariner Books ed.
Physical Desc
156 p. 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop-the only bookshop-in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to enlarge her neighbors' lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne. Florence's warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted....
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Returning to her childhood home after nearly two decades and reeling from upheavals in her world, Noel Post inherits her father's bookstore and begins receiving letters from an anonymous source, each one containing thoughts and lessons about her life and her future, and as she begins to reacquaint herself with the bookstore and the people she left behind, Noel starts to unravel the reality of her painful childhood and the truth about her family.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1960s rural Australia, lonely farmer Tom Hope, recently abandoned by his unfaithful wife, finds his life turned upside down by the arrival of Hannah Babel, a vibrant woman with a haunted past.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Lydia Smith, a clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, must unravel a puzzle left behind by a patron who has committed suicide, an effort that is complicated by memories of her violent childhood.
Author
Publisher
Delphinium Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Chas. Johnson & Sons has been a family operation for three generations-grandfather, father, and son. But when it comes time for Gabe Johnson to take the reins of the business, the world of books has changed, and the combination of the internet and inner city rents forces the store to close. But instead of folding his hand, Gabe decides to risk everything he has and reopen the shop-and, in a sense restart his life-in a small town on the shores of Lake...
Author
Series
Scottish bookshop volume 2
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"Desperate to escape from London, single mother Zoe wants to build a new life for herself and her four year old son Hari. She can barely afford the crammed studio apartment on a busy street where shouting football fans keep them awake all night. Hari's dad, Jaz, a charismatic but perpetually broke DJ, is no help at all. But his sister Surinder comes to Zoe's aid, hooking her up with a job as far away from the urban crush as possible: a bookshop on...
Author
Series
Christmas Bookshop volume 2
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller The Christmas Bookshop, an American production company decides that McCredie's is the perfect location to film a very cheesy Christmas movie and Carmen, the bookshop's manager, uses this unexpected windfall to fend off a buyout offer from an obnoxious millionaire.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
After escaping his grief over his wife's death by working in dangerous places across the world, Ben McDaniel returns to his hometown, where he falls for troubled Aubrey Wellington despite the warnings of his family and friends.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Running her family's magical bookshop in 1944, Poppy must make a decision that could change everything when her brother's best friend is killed in the war and he wants to use the magic of the shop to save him"--
Author
Series
Pages and Co volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
283 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Tilly Pages, who has found comfort in her grandparents' bookshop since her mother's disappearance, now learns that she can bookwander into any story, and decides to seek her mother.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Target consumer: For fans of resourceful amateur sleuths, thriller-leaning cozies, and readers of Jenn McKinlay's Library Lovers Mysteries. From international bestselling author Alicia Bessette comes an all-new mystery series featuring Callie Padget a former reporter turned bookshop clerk in the Outer Banks who is pulled into a deadly web of secrets when a mysterious fall at a lighthouse echoes a tragedy from her past"--
Author
Series
Irish village mystery volume 7
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Between training the new town garda and trying to set a wedding date with her fianc�e, Macdara Flannery, Siobh�an 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...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Rachel left a love note for Henry in his favorite book tucked away in his family's bookstore, and has returned years later to work alongside him as they both struggle through challenges and find hope in each other.