Bello, A. (Abiola)
Summary: Trey Anderson balances the pressures of school popularity with a job at his family’s beloved local bookshop, Wonderland. Quirky, creative Ariel Spencer needs tuition for the prestigious art program of her dreams, and an opening at Wonderland is the answer. When Trey and Ariel learn that Wonderland is on the brink of being shut down by a neighborhood gentrifier, they team up to stop the doors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BELBartynski, Julie M.
Summary: Curious George heads to a bookstore where his favorite author is signing books, but while waiting in line, he decides to browse and organize some open boxes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Four Europeans from different cultures and fields of art set off in a minibus with a quality trove of world literature. They go in search, across a vast desert-like landscape, to find a place as remote as possible where they will establish the world's last bookshop. An isolated location is just perfect for their purpose, as there, the printed books of the world will be much safer from big city...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LASBusby, Cylin
Summary: "The bookstore cat is an adorable... bossy... cuddly cat. He is everything from intelligent and loyal to naughty and vocal! But most of all, the bookstore cat is a well-loved (and well-read) kitty. Follow his funny antics from A to Z through a day in his bustling, book-filled shop. The Bookstore Cat is based on a Victorian parlor game, The Minister's Cat, in which players try to think of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BUSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BUSForman, Gayle
Summary: "Aaron Stein used to think books were miracles. But not anymore. Even though he spends his days working in his family's secondhand bookstore, the only book Aaron can bear to read is one about the demise of the dinosaurs. It's a predicament he understands all too well, now that his brother and mom are gone and his friends have deserted him, leaving Aaron and his shambolic father alone in a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA PA FIC FORSafi, Aminah Mae
Summary: Rinn Olivera is finally going to tell her longtime crush AJ that she is in love with him. Daniella Korres writes poetry for her own account, but nobody knows it is her. Imogen Azar is just trying to make it through the day. When they clock into work at Wild Nights Bookstore on the first day of summer, they are expecting the hours to drift by the way they always do. Instead, they have to deal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAFFaris, Stephanie
Summary: Gabby's father has a podcast called Ghost Search, and this time they are investigating a haunted bookstore--ten-year-old Gabby does not believe in ghosts and always tries to debunk the hauntings, but this time she is not so sure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FARForman, Gayle
Summary: "Aaron Stein used to think books were miracles. But not anymore. Even though he spends his days working in his family's secondhand bookstore, the only book Aaron can bear to read is one about the demise of the dinosaurs. It's a predicament he understands all too well, now that his brother and mom are gone and his friends have deserted him, leaving Aaron and his shambolic father alone in a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC FORGrisham, John
Summary: A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University's Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars. 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRICopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Grisham 2017Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction GriRue, Gretchen
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RUECampbell, Ramsey
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMColgan, Jenny
Summary: Nina Redmond is a librarian with a gift for finding the perfect book for her readers. But can she write her own happy ever after?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COLColgan, Jenny
Summary: An American production company decides that McCredie's is the perfect location to film a very cheesy Christmas movie. Who can resist the narrow, historic street, the Victorian grey stone buildings, and a warmly lit shop window? Carmen Hogan, the bookshop's manager, is a bit horrified, but the money the studio is paying is too good to pass up. She'll use the money to enlarge the store after the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLGrisham, John
Summary: A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University's Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars. 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GRIMartin, Madeline
Summary: "August 1939: London prepares for war as Hitler's forces sweep across Europe. Grace Bennett has always dreamed of moving to the city, but the bunkers and drawn curtains that she finds on her arrival are not what she expected. And she certainly never imagined she'd wind up working at Primrose Hill, a dusty old bookshop nestled in the heart of London. Through blackouts and air raids as the Blitz...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MARWeil, Jamie
Summary: Details the life and career of the internet businessman, discussing his youth, creation of Amazon, and his purchase of the "Washington Post."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BEZOSWoods, Evie
Summary: The Keeper of Stories meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets. "The thing about books,' she said 'is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of." On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found... For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One More Chapter 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Deutsch, Jeff
Summary: "Books, even obscure ones, are readily available online in the age of digital retail. As bookstores attempt to find their identity in a new era, some have survived by selling everything from toys to socks, coffee to stationery. In this short book, Jeff Deutsch, the director of the Seminary Co-op Bookstores in Chicago, aims to make the case for the value of spaces devoted to books and the value...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 341.45 DEUGerber, Daryl Wood
Summary: As the annual Renaissance Fair comes to Crystal Cove, Jenna Hart's Cookbook Nook is packed with tasty treats and all things medieval, while her pal Bailey is ready to swoon over her upcoming nuptials at a local vineyard. But when the two friends discover the body of the vineyard's owner bludgeoned by a winepress, all their merriment fades, along with their hopes for a vintage year. Which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale Cengage Learning 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GERLyons, Annie
Summary: London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the heart-wrenching decision to send their children away from the growing turmoil. After a nudge from her dear friend Charles, Gertie decides to take in one of these refugees, a headstrong teenage girl named...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "When a bookshop patron commits suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this fiendishly clever debut novel from an award-winning short story writer. Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she keeps a meticulously crafted existence among her beloved books, eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogs--the lost and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SULCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SULCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Sullivan 2017Bythell, Shaun
Summary: "The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland is a book lover's paradise, with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the portly bookshop cat. You'd think that after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to his quirky customers by now. Don't get him wrong, there are some good ones among the antiquarian porn-hunters, die-hard train book lovers, people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godine 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 381.45 BYTFlower, Amanda
Summary: "Christmas is coming to Cascade Springs, and so is the long-awaited wedding of Charming Books proprietor Violet Waverly and police chief David Rainwater. But the reception becomes memorable for all the wrong reasons when a woman's dead body floats by on the Niagara River. Violet is shocked to recognize the deceased as a woman who visited Charming Books two days before, toting a rare first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: Book clubs from all over have descended on Crystal Cove to celebrate the library's Book Club Bonanza week, and Jenna Hart has packed the Cookbook Nook with juicy reads and tasty cookbooks. But she's most excited about spending an evening with the Mystery Mavens and their moveable feast, when they will go from house to house to share different culinary treats and discuss the whodunit they're all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cengage Gale 2019