Erdrich, Louise
Summary: A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading with murderous attention, must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Erdrich 2021Rue, 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 RUENelson, Vaunda Micheaux.
Summary: Relates the story of the National Memorial African Bookstore, founded in Harlem by Louis Michaux in 1939, as seen from the perspective of Louis Michaux Jr., who met famous men like Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X while helping there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MICBello, 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 BELSandford, John
Summary: Det. Lucas Davenport has battled some real demons over the past 15 Prey novels and drifted in and out of lust and love with a host of women. But now he's happily married to the lovely Weather; has a nine month old son, Sam; and takes care of his 12-year old ward, Letty West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2004
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Summary: Lucas Davenport's old boss, Rose Marie Roux, has moved up and taken Lucas with her, creating for him a special troubleshooting job for the cases that are too complicated for others to handle--cases like when two people, a white woman and a black man, are found hanging naked from a tree in the woods of northern Minnesota.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2003
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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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Summary: The 200 acres of great white pines, sacred to the Anishinaabe tribe and known to them as Minishoomisag (the native word for Our Grandfathers), lie just a stone's throw from the lumber mill of Karl Lindstrom, a wealthy industrialist hardly known for his environmental sensitivity. So, when an explosion at Lindstrom's mill results in the death of one of his night watchmen, it's little wonder that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRUClaire, Ann
Summary: "In this series debut, a mysterious bookshop visitor dies under murderous circumstances, compelling the Christie sisters and their cat, Agatha, to call on all they've learned about solving mysteries from their favorite novelist. Ellie Christie is thrilled to begin a new chapter. She's recently returned to her tiny Colorado hometown to run her family's historic bookshop with her elder sister,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 2022
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Summary: Fourteen-year-old Caleb Parker has not been having much fun playing baseball recently, but when his mother volunteers to host Ricky Alvarez, a nineteen-year-old Dominican player on a local independent team in their Minnesota town, he finds a friend and mentor whose own struggles serve as an inspiration to the young Caleb.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MADFluke, Joanne
Summary: When the keyboard player for the Cinnamon Roll Six jazz band is murdered after a tour bus accident on the way to Lake Eden, Minnesota, Hannah Swensen investigates and comes up with several local suspects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2012
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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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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA PA FIC FORZiegler, Jennifer
Summary: William Wyatt Orser's life is turned upside down after his mother has a stroke, but the socially awkward, word-loving twelve-year-old finds glimmers of hope when he discovers friends who share his love of wordplay and books.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022
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Summary: After an extravagant honeymoon, Hannah's eager to settle down in Lake Eden and turn domestic daydreams into reality. But when her mother's neighbor is discovered murdered in the condo downstairs, reality becomes a nightmarish investigation. Victoria Bascomb, once a renowned stage actress, was active in the theater community during her brief appearance in town . . . and made throngs of enemies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2017
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Summary: Thirteen-year-old Wes is on his first ever fishing trip to Leech Lake in northern Minnesota with his best friend Josh and Josh's family and he is more skeptical than enthusiastic--but when he hears the stories about catching a gigantic 'Muskie', he is hooked.
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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 TROSummary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CLIJenoff, Pam
Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JENLandvik, Lorna
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ulverscroft Group Limited 1997
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Summary: With her baby due any day, her husband gone, and suddenly forced to face the world alone, Patty Jane creates her own unique beauty salon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1997
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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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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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