Davis, Barbara
Summary: "Rare-book dealer Ashlyn Greer's affinity for books extends beyond the intoxicating scent of old paper, ink, and leather. She can feel the echoes of the books' previous owners--an emotional fingerprint only she can read. When Ashlyn discovers a pair of beautifully bound volumes that appear to have never been published, her gift quickly becomes an obsession. Not only is each inscribed with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVGrisham, John.
Summary: On Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale that might be her next novel. A giant resort developer is using its political muscle and deep pockets to claim ownership of a deserted island between Florida and Georgia. Only the last living inhabitant of the island, Lovely Jackson, stands in its way. What the developer doesn't know is that the island has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEGrisham, John
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Grisham 2020Grisham, John
Summary: Bookstore owner Bruce Cable is reunited once again with Mercer Mann for another thrilling mystery packed with sun, sand, and mayhem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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Summary: Photographer Cass Neary is desperate to get home, and she's already lost her camera--like losing a limb. Now her only chance is to cash in on a deal that a friend is about to cut for a legendary illuminated manuscript: The Book of Lamps and Banners. Rumored to have been rescued from the Library at Alexandria, the Book is said to contain ancient esoteric knowledge, even an otherworldly power. So...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANGrisham, John
Summary: Bookstore owner Bruce Cable is reunited once again with Mercer Mann for another thrilling mystery packed with sun, sand, and mayhem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Boston rare-book dealer Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline Carrington, are headed to California, where their search for a lost journal takes them into the history of Gold Rush. The journal follows young James Spencer, of the Sagamore Mining Company, on a spectacular journey from staid Boston, up the Sacramento River to the Mother Lode. During his search for a "lost river of gold,"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARGrisham, John
Summary: 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. The hurricane is devastating: homes and condos are leveled, hotels and storefronts ruined, streets flooded, and a dozen people lose their lives. One of the apparent victims is Nelson Kerr, a friend of Bruce's and an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction GriAdams, Ellery
Summary: "Even though the shop and her bibliotherapy sessions keep Nora Pennington busy during the day, her nights are a little too quiet--until Deputy Andrews and asks her to help him plan a wedding proposal. His bride-to-be, Hester Winthrop, loves Little Women, and Nora sets to work arranging a special screening at the town's new movie theater. But when a dead man is found on a hiking trail just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: As Halloween approaches, Nora Pennington decides to showcase fictional heroines like Roald Dahl's Matilda and Madeline Miller's Circe. A family-values group disapproves of the magical themes, though, and wastes no time launching a modern-day witch hunt. They're targeting not only Nora and Miracle Books, but a new shopkeeper, Celeste, who has been selling CBD oil products. When a local death is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: As Halloween approaches, Nora Pennington decides to showcase fictional heroines like Roald Dahl's Matilda and Madeline Miller's Circe. A family-values group disapproves of the magical themes, though, and wastes no time launching a modern-day witch hunt. They're targeting not only Nora and Miracle Books, but a new shopkeeper, Celeste, who has been selling CBD oil products. When a local death is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADAUrlocker, M. Z.
Summary: 1950. The Cold War simmers, and ex-GI Jack Waters is called in to investigate a fatal accident at a research lab in California. When Waters recognizes the victim, he realizes he must revisit his hidden past in World War II to solve a murder and prevent Nazi scientists from creating a terrible, new weapon in America. Blending noir detective fiction with post-WWII history, The Man from Mittelwerk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkshares, Inc. 2022
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Summary: "As the owner of Miracle Books, Nora Pennington figures all the wet weather this spring is at least good for business. The local inns are packed with stranded travelers, and among them Nora finds both new customers and a new friend, the sixtysomething Sheldon, who starts helping out at the store. Since a little rain never hurt anyone, Nora rides her bike over to the flea market one sodden day...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ADABarrett, Lorna
Summary: Tricia Miles receives two marriage proposals within fifteen minutes! The first was from her friend with benefits, Marshall Chambers, and the second from her ex-lover, police chief Grant Baker. She's still weighing her options a big white pickup roars down Main Street and hits Marshall. His death leaves Tricia feeling bereft and guilty. She stays at the apartment of her sister, Angelica, to wait...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARCarlisle, Kate
Summary: "San Francisco book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright was hoping for a fun, relaxing weekend at a local book fair, but a murderer made other plans in the latest in this New York Times bestselling series. Brooklyn and her new hunky husband, Derek, are excited to be guests at Dharma's first annual Book Festival. The entire town is involved and Brooklyn's mom Rebecca is taking charge. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CARPryor, Mark
Summary: When his bookseller friend, a former Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter, is kidnapped and other booksellers are murdered, Hugo Marston, head of security for the U.S. embassy in Paris, discovers a shocking conspiracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seventh Street Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRYLelchuk, S. A.
Summary: "Nikki Griffin, a private-investigator when she isn't running her small bookstore, is on a case. The matriarch of one of the wealthiest San Francisco families has been defrauded by a con-man, and her furious son enlists Nikki to find the money. And find the con-man. Nikki isn't a fan of men who hurt women. Her secret mission, born of revenge and trauma, is to do everything she can to remove...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Lelchuk 2021Nix, Garth
Summary: "There is often trouble of a mythical sort in Bath. The booksellers who police the Old World keep a careful watch there, particularly on the entity that inhabits the ancient hot spring. This time trouble comes from the discovery of a sorcerous map, leading left-handed bookseller Merlin into great danger, requiring a desperate rescue attempt from his sister, the right-handed bookseller Vivien,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NIXSwanson, Peter
Summary: "The story of a bookseller who finds himself at the center of an FBI investigation because a very clever killer has started using his list of fiction's most ingenious murders" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SWASwanson, Peter
Summary: "Years ago, bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a list of the genre's most unsolvable murders, those that are almost impossible to crack--which he titled "Eight Perfect Murders"--chosen from among the best of the best including Agatha Christie's A. B. C. Murders, Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, Ira Levin's Death Trap, A. A. Milne's Red House Mystery, Anthony...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SWABarrett, Lorna
Summary: "The murder of a local contractor may be the final nail in the coffin for Tricia Miles in the latest entry to Lorna Barrett's New York Times bestselling Booktown series. It's a busy summer in Booktown. Contractor Jim Stark is in great demand: he's overseeing a number of projects, including Angelica Miles's newly constructed building on Main Street, finishing up the new brew pub, and gutting a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC BARCarlisle, Kate
Summary: "Brooklyn and her hunky husband, security expert Derek Stone, have just returned from a delightful trip to Dharma, where the construction of their new home away from home is well underway, when a little black book arrives in the mail from Scotland. The book is a rare British first edition of Rebecca, and there's no return address on the package. The day after the book arrives, Claire Quinn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ADAMacRae, Molly
Summary: "First, Janet Marsh is told she'll have to wait before moving into her new home. Then she finds out the house has been vandalized. Again. The chief suspect? Una Graham, an advice columnist for the local paper--who's trying to make a name for herself as an investigative reporter. When Janet and her business partners go looking for clues at the house, they find a body--it's Una, in the garden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2016