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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 that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious...
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Successful New York editor, Jen Gibbs, is at the top of her game with her new position at Vida House Publishing until a mysterious manuscript from an old slush pile appears on her desk. Turning the pages, Jen finds herself drawn into the life of Sarra, a mixed-race Melungeon girl trapped by dangerous men in the turn of the century Appalachia. A risky hunch may lead to The Story Keeper's hidden origins and its unknown author, but when the trail turns...
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2022.
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English
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"Celebrated children's book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy--to complete what she knows will be the final volume of her pseudonymously written Franklin Square novels; and even more consuming, to permanently protect the peninsula of majestic coast in Maine known as Fellowship Point. To donate the land to a trust, Agnes must convince shareholders to dissolve a generations-old partnership. And one of those shareholders is her best...
6) Booked
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Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams.
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While preparing for her upcoming nuptials, bookstore owner and rare books expert Addie Greybourne makes a startling discovery in her attic that provides clues to unraveling a complex mystery in her family, setting in motion a shocking chain of events that leads to a suspicious death.
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2021.
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English
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When the celebrity medium she hired for an event declares that there is a murderer in their presence, bookstore manager and coloring book creator Florrie Fox finds herself drawn into a strange mystery where she must expose a killer's true colors.
11) Forge
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Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.
12) In good company
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2015
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English
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"In 1880s East Coast society, Millie and Everett are determined to prove themselves as a nanny and a society gentleman, respectively. They both have one last chance, each other."
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Candy fairies volume 12
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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When the Fairy Code Book containing all of Sugar Valley's important secrets, history, and recipes goes missing, a frantic Raina, the Gummy Fairy, enlists the Candy Fairies to help her find the book before it ends up in the wrong hands.
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Bibliophile mystery volume 11
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English
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"In another Bibliophile Mystery by the New York Times bestselling author of Books of a Feather, San Francisco bookbinder Brooklyn Wainwright stumbles through the looking glass in a tale of murder, rare books, and a quest for the perfect pie"--
"San Francisco bookbinder Brooklyn Wainwright stumbles through the looking glass in a tale of murder, rare books, and a quest for the perfect pie. . . . Brooklyn's oh-so-proper future in-laws are traveling...
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"A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry"--
16) The forgers
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Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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The murderer of Adam Diehl, a reclusive rare-book collector, begins to stalk Adam's sister's lover Will -- a convicted literary forger -- under the guise of letters from long-dead authors, and soon Will realizes that this killer threatens everything he holds dear.
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English
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"The Secret History meets Ninth House in this sinister, atmospheric novel following a circle of researchers as they uncover a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York's famed Met Cloisters. When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for...
18) A Bride for Noah
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English
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Penniless and desperate for an adventure, Evie Lawrence moves to the Oregon Territory in 1851, intending to build a restaurant in one of the new settlements there.
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"When their pranks start turning scary and real zombies arrive on the scene, twins Tyler and Ryan must find a way to undo the damage they--and the Tales from the Scaremaster book that seems to be pulling the strings--have caused"--
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Pen and ink mysteries volume 02
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"When Dolly Cavanaugh's love of garage sales results in her showing up at Color Me Read with a rare book in hand, Florrie Fox. the manager of the bookstore is astounded. The Florist, the earliest known coloring book was first published in 1760. An original copy would be worth a fortune and someone else knows it. That same evening, Florrie finds Dolly dead on the floor of her apartment, a corner of a coloring book clutched in her hand."