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Author
Series
Beyond the Page bookstore mystery volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Addie's getting into the spirit for the upcoming Charity Auction - especially since she's got an 1843 copy of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol to donate. Her former colleagues at the Boston Public Library have confirmed that its worth runs toward the high five figures, which should help with the new pediatric wing. Her mood darkens, though, when a visitor from the past appears - Jonathan Hemingway, the father of her late fiancé. His presence...
42) A cryptic clue
Author
Series
Hunter and Clewe mystery volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A retired librarian is hired by an eccentric collector who needs an archivist for his huge, expanding compendium of rare books, where she discovers the dead body of her new employer's ex-girlfriend, who was also the heir to a pharmaceutical fortune.
"Sixty-year-old Jane Hunter, forced into early retirement from her job as a university librarian, is seeking a new challenge to keep her spirits up and supplement her meager pension. But as she's about...
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When she receives an exquisite copy of the Kama Sutra from her best friend, Robin, to appraise and restore, Brooklyn Wainwright anticipates both recreating a beautiful book and spicing up her love life. But then Robin's apartment is ransacked, and the great guy she recently met is murdered in her bed. Now Robin is the #1 suspect.
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
While attending the Edinburgh Book Fair, book restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright investigates the murder of her ex, who had an original copy of a scandalous text that could change history and destroy the British monarchy.
Author
Series
Bibliophile mystery volume 3
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Book restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright returns home to San Francisco to teach a bookbinding class. Unfortunately, the program director Layla Fontaine is a horrendous host who pitches fits and lords over her subordinates. But when Layla is found shot dead, Brooklyn is bound and determined to investigate--even as the killer tries to close the book on her for good.
Author
Publisher
Fiction Junction, an imprint of River Junction Press LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Lily, a librarian with a bookmobile, arrives in the small California town of Nolan to help start a book club. Across the ocean in an Alsatian chateau, an ancient Book of Cures is stolen and surreptitiously travels to a California coast library, then on to Nolan. Suspicion swirls around the three lonely club members. Unaware of the theft, they secretly pursue their curiosity about classical erotica, while sipping a strange tea infused with herbs grown...
Author
Series
Beyond the Page bookstore mystery volume 6
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It promises to be Greyborne Harbor's wedding of the year. The impending nuptials of Serena Chandler and Zach Ludlow will take place aboard his family's luxurious super-yacht, currently moored in the harbor and the talk of the town. But on the day of the wedding, a man's body washes up on the beach with no ID, only a torn page from a book in his pocket. As owner of Beyond the Page Books and Curios, bibliophile Addie is called in to identify the book,...
Author
Publisher
Delphinium Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Chas. Johnson & Sons has been a family operation for three generations--grandfather, father and son. But when it comes time for Gabe Johnson to take the reins of the business, the world of books has changed, and the combination of the internet and inner city rents forces the store to close. But instead of folding his hand, Gabe decides to risk everything he has and reopen the shop--and, in a sense restart his life--in a small town on the shores of...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The critically acclaimed urban fantasy about a secret team of agents that hunts down dangerous books containing deadly magic previously released serially online by Serial Box, now available in print for the first time! Magic is real, and hungry. It s trapped in ancient texts and artifacts, and only a few who discover it survive to fight back. Detective Sal Brooks is a survivor. She joins a Vatican-backed black-ops anti-magic squad Team Three of...
Author
Series
Beyond the Page bookstore mystery volume 5
Publisher
Kensington Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"January isn't the season for the seaside, but the big Fire and Ice festival is keeping bookstore owner Addie busy. Amid the plans for a fireworks display and an ice-carving competition, she's also dog sitting for a friend in the hospital. When Addie goes to her friend's house to gather supplies, she notices an interesting item on the nightstand which belongs to her shop assistant, Paige: a very valuable copy of the beloved children's book The Secret...
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When a scream shatters the summer night outside their country house in the Hudson Valley, reformed literary forger Will and his wife Meghan find their daughter Maisie shaken and bloodied, holding a parcel her attacker demanded she present to her father. Inside is a literary rarity the likes of which few have ever handled, and a letter laying out impossible demands regarding its future. After twenty years of living life on the straight and narrow,...
Author
Series
Beyond the Page bookstore mystery volume 8
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Addie ... travels to the neighboring town of Pen Hollow to attend a book sale ... But the real find is a bookmobile bus, which she's excited to refit as a traveling bookstore ... The bookmobile also holds a surprising treasure: several classic first editions and an early edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. But before the bookmobile can be delivered to Addie, a fatal car crash occurs. When an autopsy reveals poison in the...
Author
Series
Beyond the Page bookstore mystery volume 7
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Addie?s determined to turn a seemingly ordinary November in coastal Greyborne Harbor into one for the books. The windows of her shop display carefully curated works by American writers, including a rare selection of traditional holiday recipes from the influential 19th-century publication Godey?s Ladies Magazine. And then there?s the town?s Civil War-era themed cooking and baking competition, with a hefty cash prize and free publicity going to the...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
Barcelona, 1957. Daniel Sempere y su amigo Fermín, los héroes de La Sombra del Viento, regresan de nuevo a la aventura para afrontar el mayor desafío de sus vidas. Justo cuando todo empezaba a sonreírles, un inquietante personaje visita la librería de Sempere y amenaza con desvelar un terrible secreto que lleva enterrado más de dos décadas en la oscura memoria de la ciudad. Al conocer la verdad, Daniel comprenderá que su destino le...
Author
Publisher
Viking, published by Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Meeting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the day Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, four thirteen-year-olds help track down a missing book of Arthurian legends that may hold the key to preventing a second attack on American soil.
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