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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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...
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC FORRue, 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 Fiction, Call number: FIC COLMartin, 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 MARWoods, 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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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 GERSullivan, Matthew
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: Fiction Sullivan 2017Flower, 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
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GERYagisawa, Satoshi
Summary: Twenty-five-year-old Takako has enjoyed a relatively easy existence, until the day her boyfriend Hideaki, the man she expected to wed, casually announces he's been cheating on her and is marrying the other woman. Suddenly, Takako's life is in freefall. She loses her job, her friends, and her acquaintances, and spirals into a deep depression. In the depths of her despair, she receives a call...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC YAGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YAGYates, Louise.
Summary: Dog loves books so much that he decides to open a book store.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE YATZiegler, 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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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ZIEColl, Susan
Summary: Independent bookstore owner Sophie Bernstein is burned out on books. Mourning the death of her husband, the loss of her favorite manager, her only child's lack of aspiration, and the grim state of the world, she fantasizes about going into hiding in the secret back room of her store. Meanwhile, renowned poet Raymond Chaucer has published a new collection, and rumors that he's to blame for his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COLGable, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GABCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GABMcClain, Lee Tobin
Summary: Running a bookstore on a quaint Chesapeake Bay island is Deena Clarks dream job. but the offer comes with a catch - helping Luis Dominguez figure out fatherhood. Distrustful of men, Deena had hoped the billionaire would agree to pay child support for her late friend's baby and let her continue raising Willow alone. Instead, he plans to move to Teaberry Island with Willow, and he wants Deena in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCBurns, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing Large Print 2018