Bartynski, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014

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1 available in Kids' Favorite Characters, Call number: JE CUR

Forman, 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 FOR

Grisham, 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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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRI

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRI

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRI

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Grisham 2017

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction Gri

Busby, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BUS

Forman, 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 FOR

Safi, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAF

Campbell, Ramsey

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAM

Harrel, Lindsay

Summary: "Lindsay Harrel presents a powerful story of healing, forgiveness, and finding the courage to write your own story. A year after the death of her abusive fiance, domestic violence counselor Sophia Barrett finds returning to work too painful. She escapes to Cornwall, England--a place she's learned to love through the words of her favorite author--and finds a place to stay with the requirement...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HAR

Martin, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

Weil, Jamie

Summary: Details the life and career of the internet businessman, discussing his youth, creation of Amazon, and his purchase of the "Washington Post."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2015

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BEZOS

Burns, V. M.

Summary: Samantha Washington is opening a mystery bookstore in North Harbor, Michigan, on the shores of Lake Michigan. She's also penning a cozy mystery set in England. When a shady realtor turns up dead in her backyard, the police suspect Samantha. Aided by her feisty grandmother and an enthusiastic ensemble of colorful retirees, Samantha is determined to close the case before she opens her store.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing Large Print 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BUR

Evans, Richard Paul

Summary: "After nearly two decades, Noel Post, an editor for a major New York publishing house, returns to her childhood home in Salt Lake City to see her estranged, dying father. What she believed would be a brief visit turns into something more as she inherits the bookstore her father fought to keep alive. Reeling from loneliness, a recent divorce, and unanticipated upheavals in her world, Noel begins...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC EVA

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EVA

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Evans 2021

Lorello, Elisa.

Summary: Celebrity screenwriter Danny Masters has the world at his feet. He's dating a movie-star bombshell and his latest screenplay is a shoe-in for an Oscar. But he's empty. With few accomplishments to her credit, longtime bookstore employee Sunny Smith celebrates her fortieth birthday by setting forty goals for herself. Sleeping with her writing idol, Danny Masters, makes the list.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LOR

Sloan, Robin

Summary: After a layoff during the Great Recession sidelines his tech career, Clay Jannon takes a job at the titular bookstore in San Francisco, and soon realizes that the establishment is a facade for a strange secret.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SLO

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1 available in Adult, Call number: P SLO

Wiggs, Susan

Summary: "Natalie Harper feels she must sell the bookshop she's inherited to pay for her grandfather's care, but he refuses to acquiesce, and renovation of the store and its studio apartment push her life in a whole new direction. Besides, she loves the store and its books provide welcome solace for her overwhelming grief. After she moves into the small studio apartment above the shop, Natalie carries...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIG

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIG

Wiggs, Susan

Summary: There is a book for everything. Somewhere in the vast Library of the Universe, as Natalie thought of it, there was a book that embodied exactly the things she was worried about. In the wake of a shocking tragedy, Natalie Harper inherits her mother's charming but financially strapped bookshop in San Francisco. She also becomes a caretaker for her ailing grandfather Andrew, her only living...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2020

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WIG

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WIG

Summary: Edited and introduced by the writer and critic Henry Hitchings, these fearless, passionate, inquiring essays by award-winning international writers celebrate one of our most essential, but endangered, institutions: the bookshop. From Denmark to Egypt, from the USA to China, Browse brings together some of the world's leading authors to investigate bookshops both in general and in particular -...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pushkin Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 BRO

Summary: A 21st-century romantic thriller centered around a relationship that gets taken too far, When a brilliant bookstore manager crosses paths with an aspiring writer, his answer becomes clear: anything. As he uses the internet and social media to gather the most intimate of details to get close to her, a charming and awkward crush quickly becomes obsession when he quietly and strategically begins...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV YOU

Gable, Michelle

Summary: "In 1942, London. Nancy Mitford jumps at the chance to manage the Heywood Hill bookshop while the owner is away at war. When a mysterious French officer insists that she has a story to tell, Nancy must decide if picking up the pen again and revealing all is worth the price she might be forced to pay. Eighty years later, Heywood Hill is abuzz with the hunt for a lost wartime manuscript written...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAB

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAB

Gerber, Daryl Wood

Summary: "The holidays are Jenna Hart's favorite time of year, but just as she's decorating the Cookbook Nook for all the festive events, her imperious older sister makes a surprise visit, anxious that her husband's been more naughty than nice. To make matters worse, her father's good friend Jake shows up on her doorstep with a frantic report that his friend has been murdered--trussed with Christmas...

Format: text

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 GER

Maitland, Barbara.

Summary: Cobweb the cat and her best friends, who are mice, save the spooky Black Cat Bookstore from a burglar who says he doesn't believe in ghosts.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2001

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MAI