Stead, Rebecca
Summary: "When a mysterious little free library (guarded by a large orange cat) appears overnight in the small town of Martinville, eleven-year-old Evan plucks two weathered books from its shelves, never suspecting that his life is about to change. Evan and his best friend Rafe quickly discover a link between one of the old books and a long-ago event that none of the grown-ups want to talk about. The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Lehane, Cornelius
Summary: An invitation from a prestigious liberal arts college to buy their mystery-novel collection comes as a welcome surprise for Raymond Ambler, crime-fiction curator at New York City's prestigious 42nd Street Library. But his pleasure quickly turns sour when the collection's curator - Ambler's friend Sam Abernathy - tells him he plans to fight the acquisition tooth and nail. Why would Abernathy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Brook, Allison
Summary: Carrie Singleton is just about done with Clover Ridge, Connecticut. Then she's offered a job as the head of programs and events at the local library-- which comes complete with its own ghost. Her first major event is a program presented by retired homicide detective Al Buckley, who claims he knows who murdered Laura Foster, a much-loved part-time library aide who was bludgeoned to death fifteen...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M BROYoung, Karen Romano
Summary: Eleven-year-old Pearl Moran cannot imagine life without the historic but under-utilised branch of the New York Public Library where she was born (in the Memorial Room) and where her single mother works as the circulation librarian; the other librarians, the neighbourhood people, the raccoons, and most of the 41,000 plus books all form the structure and essence of her life--but when someone cuts...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2019
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Buzzelli, Elizabeth Kane
Summary: When they investigate a string of disappearances of young girls, will Jenny Weston and Zoe Zola be dispatched with extreme pride and prejudice?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUZCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BUZSt. James, Dorothy
Summary: Trudell Beckett succeeded in building a secret book room in her now bookless library, where book lovers can rejoice in the printed word. The last thing she needs is a mysterious vandal who seems intent on creating chaos. The interloper doesn't steal anything, but brutalizes the books, damaging them and knocking them off shelves. A patron of the secret book room tells Tru that there have been...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company. 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ST.JBuzzelli, Elizabeth Kane
Summary: The police discover a young girl's body, dressed in an old-fashioned white lace dress, just outside Bear Falls. Then another local girl from town disappears. Librarian Jenny Wilson and her neighbor, author and little person Zoe Zola, know they have to do something. A trio of wealthy newcomers from Chicago has just moved into a huge mansion on Lake Michigan. Nathan and Delia Wickley are genial...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BUZWingate, Marty
Summary: "Hayley Burke is determined to make the First Edition Library a success in every way but was not counting on having to solve an old friend's murder in this all-new mystery from USA Today bestselling author Marty Wingate. I am happy to report that I am finally settling in to my position as curator of Lady Fowling's collection of first edition mysteries at the First Edition Library in Middlebank...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WINGilbert, Victoria
Summary: "Returning to her role as an amateur detective is the last thing library director Amy Muir wants. She's already buried under an avalanche of responsibilities, including sharing the directorship of the local public library, parenting her holiday-obsessed five-year-old twins, and helping her choreographer husband, Richard, present The Nutcracker as part of the town's festivities. With her frosty...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GILHowell, Dorothy (Dorothy A.)
Summary: "Abbey Chandler has barely arrived in Hideaway Grove before things turn from blissful to bloody as the new librarian is mowed down by a car. The only witness on the scene isn't much help, aside from handing Abbey the bag of books dropped by the victim. Even worse, the sheriff's office seizes Abbey's car because of a suspicious dent in the right front fender. Through it all, she keeps looking...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Archer, C. J.
Summary: "Librarian Sylvia Ashe knows nothing about her past, having grown up without a father and a mother who refused to discuss him. When she stumbles upon a diary that suggests she's descended from magicians, she's skeptical. After all, magicians are special, and she's just an ordinary girl who loves books. She seeks the truth from a member of the most prominent family of magicians, but she quickly...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: C. J. Archer 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 9781922554222James, Miranda
Summary: "Charlie Harris remembers Wilfred 'Wil' Threadgill as one of the outsiders during high school. His friend Melba Gilley had a big crush on Wil, who dropped out after his junior year. Wil hit the road for California and never looked back. Wil eventually became a star, fronting a band and writing award-winning songs. Coming back to work with students in the college music department, Wil is now the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Kelly, Sofie
Summary: Kathleen is excited to meet three old pals of her beau, Detective Marcus Gordon, while they visit charming Mayville Heights on business. But the reunion is cut short when one of the friends is killed—and the evidence points towards Marcus as the murderer. Though it seems she doesn’t know all of Marcus’s secrets, Kathleen is sure he’s no killer. With his suspect status sidelining him from...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KELArcher, C. J.
Summary: "One book can change your life. Finding an old manuscript in the attic has always been a fantasy of Sylvia's. She just never expected the fantasy to come true, or for it to lead her to answers about her mysterious family. The silver clasps binding the pages contain rare magic--the same magic that might run through Sylvia's veins. To discover a link to her ancestors means understanding the book...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: C. J. Archer 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ARCCass, Laurie
Summary: "Minnie and her rescue cat Eddie can often be found out and about in their bookmobile near Chilson, Michigan, delivering great reads to grateful patrons all over the county. But they always brake for trouble, and when Minnie sees a car speeding away down the road and soon comes upon a dead bicyclist, she assumes she just missed seeing a hit-and-run. Minnie is determined to discover who was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Cass 2021James, Miranda
Summary: The theater department at Athena is putting on a play by a fledgling playwright with local connections. Charlie's son-in-law, Frank Salisbury, will be calling the directorial shots, and his daughter, Laura, will be taking on the lead female role. Luke Lombardi, the guest artist, is someone she knew in Hollywood. The older male actor - whose career in film has been on the wane - arrives with a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JAMJames, Miranda
Summary: "Charlie Harris has sworn off investigating murder and mayhem after a recent close call. Instead, he's delighted to cheer on his daughter, Laura, who's starring in a production of Careless Whispers. The theater department at Athena College is debuting the play written by a fledgling playwright with local connections and Charlie's son-in-law, Frank Salisbury, will be calling the directorial...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JAMJurczyk, Eva
Summary: "Liesl Weiss has been (mostly) happy working in the rare books department of a large university, managing details and working behind the scenes to make the head of the department look good. But when her boss has a stroke and she's left to run things, she discovers that the library's most prized manuscript is missing. Liesl tries to sound the alarm and inform the police about the missing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JURLarsen, Samantha
Summary: "1784 London. Miss Tiffany Woodall didn't murder her half-brother, but she did bury him in the back garden so that she could keep her cottage. Now, the confirmed spinster has to pretend to be Uriah and fulfill his duties as the Duke of Beaufort's librarian while searching Astwell Palace for Uriah's missing diamond pin, the only thing of value they own. Her ruse is almost up when she is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC LARCass, Laurie
Summary: Minnie Hamilton and her rescue cat, Eddie, cruise around lovely Chilson, Michigan, delivering happiness and good reads in their bookmobile. But the feisty librarian is worried that the bookmobile's future could be uncertain when a new library board chair arrives and doesn't seem too friendly to her pet project. Still, she has to put her personal worries aside when she and Eddie are out on their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CASHerchenroether, Sara
Summary: "In 1983, deep in New Mexico's Gila National Forest, the bodies of a young woman and two children were found. Who were they? How did they get there? Thirty years later, two women find themselves drawn to the cold case. Librarian Laura MacDonald begins her own investigation as a way to distract herself from breast cancer treatments and becomes consumed by her search for answers. Jean Martinez is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERJames, Miranda
Summary: Charlie Harris and his Maine Coon cat, Diesel, are embroiled in a new mystery when a cold case suddenly heats up in the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series. Charlie Harris has been enjoying some peace and quiet with his new grandson when a mysterious man with a connection to an unsolved murder starts visiting the library...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JAMPeterson, Tracie
Summary: "Rebecca McCutcheon is the first female court reporter in Montana. During a murder trial she's covering, she's convinced that the defendant is innocent, but no one but the handsome new Carnegie librarian, Mark Andrews, will listen to her. In a race against time, will they be able to find the evidence to free the man before it's too late?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Gates, Eva
Summary: "They're getting married! Lucy Richardson and Connor McNeil have announced their engagement. Their friends throw a party for the couple at Coquina Beach, close to Lucy's beloved Bodie Island Lighthouse Library. As they're packing up the presents and the (few) leftovers from Josie's Cozy Bakery, who should arrive, but Richard Eric Lewiston III, Lucy's former almost-fiancé and his overbearing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022