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Southlea Bay novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Librarian Janet Johnson is puzzled when she is invited--and practically dragged--to her first meeting of the Rejected Writers' Book Club. This quirky group of women would much rather celebrate one another's rejected manuscripts over cups of tea and slices of lemon cake than actually publish a book. But they receive bad news that could destroy one member's reputation--and disband the group forever. To save the club, Janet joins her fellow writers...
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Since childhood, Rosa Fiore — daughter of a sultry Sicilian matriarch and her hapless husband — found solace in her family's kitchen. La Cucina, the heart of the family's lush estate, was a place where generations of Fiore women prepared sumptuous feasts and where the drama of extended family life was played out around the age-old table.
When Rosa was a teenager, her own cooking became the stuff of legend in this small
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Series
Aurora Teagarden mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
Aurora Teagarden is happily preparing for her wedding to dashing business executive Martin Bartell. As a wedding gift, Martin buys her the house of her dreams: the Julius house, infamously named after the family who vanished from the house without a trace six years ago. As Roe sets about renovating and decorating her new home, she s never felt happier. Then Martin suddenly rents the small apartment on their new property to an old army buddy and...
86) Little comfort
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
In a brilliantly twisted debut set among Boston's elite, Edwin Hill introduces unforgettable sleuth Hester Thursby--and a missing persons case that uncovers a trail of vicious murder . . . Harvard librarian Hester Thursby knows that even in the digital age, people still need help finding things. Using her research skills, Hester runs a side business tracking down the lost. Usually, she's hired to find long-ago prom dates or to reunite adopted children...
88) Needle and dread
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English
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"...when a group arrives at SewTastic to work on a project, a loud and argumentative guest pushes everyone's buttons. And when she winds up dead in Rose's project room - strangled by a sewing machine power cord - it's up to Tori and the gang to stitch together the clues..." -- page [4] of cover.
89) A cryptic clue
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
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 to discover, a retiree's life can bring new thrills and new dangers. Cameron 'Cam' Clewe, an eccentric 33-year-old collector, is also seeking something; an archivist to inventory his ever-expanding compendium of rare books and artifacts. Jane's thrilled...
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Small-town librarian Kathleen Paulson often seems to gets mixed up in murder, but luckily, her very special cats always find a way to help her close a case. The charming Minnesota town of Mayville Heights is hosting a music festival, and the whole place is bustling with musicians and tourists. Kathleen is looking forward to taking in some fabulous performances--and her two cats, Owen and Hercules, are looking forward to taking in some fabulous sardine...
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"Chilson, Michigan, bookmobile librarian Minnie Hamilton and her rescue cat Eddie make a routine stop until Eddie hops into a pickup truck with a dead body in the flatbed. The friendly local lawyer who owns the pickup falls under suspicion, but Minnie and Eddie will risk their lives to get the full story."--
92) Due or die
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Series
Language
English
Description
Answering tricky reference questions is excitement enough for library director Lindsey Norris, until a murder is committed in her cozy hometown of Briar Creek, Connecticut. The question of who did it must be answered before someone else is checked out--for good.
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Language
English
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Description
"Kentucky packhorse librarian Tansy Calhoun doesn't mind the rough trails and long hours as she serves her Appalachian mountain community during the Great Depression. Yet she longs to find love like the heroines in the books she loves. When a charming writer comes to town, she thinks she might have found it-- or is the perfect man actually closer than she thinks? Perdita Sweet has called these mountains home for so long that she's nearly as rocky...
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Language
English
Description
Sometimes being pushed out of your comfort zone leads you to the ultimate prize. Charlotte and Ginny Gorman might look alike but they're completely different in every other way. Bookish Charlotte loves her job as an elementary school librarian, while her twin sister is an Instagram-famous beauty pageant contestant. Ginny has been chasing a crown since she was old enough to enunciate the words world peace, and she's not giving up until she's crowned...
95) The book charmer
Author
Series
Dove Pond novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sarah Dove is no ordinary bookworm. To her, books have always been more than just objects: they live, they breathe, and sometimes they even speak. When Sarah grows up to become the librarian in her quaint Southern town of Dove Pond, her gift helps place every book in the hands of the perfect reader. Recently, however, the books have been whispering about something out of the ordinary: the arrival of a displaced city girl named Grace Wheeler. If the...
97) Wedding duress
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Tori is ecstatic to become Mrs. Milo Wentworth in a few days, but she has a lot to do before she sashays down the aisle. Favors need to be sewn, vows need to be written--and a mystifying murder needs to be solved. When Beatrice, a fellow member of the Sweet Briar Ladies Society Sewing Circle, learns that her former nanny took a fatal fall in her new employers' home, she suspects the death was not an accident. Now Tori's spending her last days as a...
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Series
Bookmobile cat mystery volume 10
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Late March is prime reading weather in the small northern Michigan town of Chilson. Though snowfall and cloudy skies deter outdoor activities, life inside the bookmobile is warm and cheerful. But as Minnie and Eddie are making the rounds to deliver comforting reads, they see something strange: loyal bookmobile patron Ryan Anderson making a sudden u-turn and speeding away. When Minnie discovers the police want to question Ryan about a bank robbery...
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Stories and Where They Live
MCL - Good Morning America Book Club
Randolph's Top 100 of 2022
Stories and Where They Live
Description
"It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life-her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building, and they are blessed with two children. But headstrong, passionate Laura wants more, and when she takes a leap of faith and applies to the Columbia Journalism School, her world is cracked wide open. As her studies take her all over the...
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Scumble River mysteries volume 16
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English
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There's no place like Scumble River at Christmastime, and this year, school psychologist Skye Denison has twice as much to celebrate and to do. In addition to the usual holiday frenzy, Skye's wedding to police chief Wally Boyd is less than a week away, that is, if the groom isn't too busy working to attend. The town's sexy new librarian, Yvonne Osborn, has just been murdered, and the list of suspects is piling up faster than late fees on an overdue...
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