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Bergman brothers volume 7
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Viggo Bergman, hopeless romantic, is thoroughly weary of waiting for his happily ever after. But between opening a romance bookstore, running a romance book club, coaching kids' soccer, and adopting a household of pets-just maybe, he's overcommitted himself?-Viggo's chaotic life has made finding his forever love seem downright improbable. Enter Tallulah Clarke, chilly cynic with a massive case of writer's block. Tallulah needs help with her thriller's...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Bookseller Shelby Cox has already sleuthed two murders from Bayside Books's home base on Blye Island, one of New York State's famed Thousand Islands. And this time, mayhem knocks right on Shelby's waterside door when she finds a body lodged between the side of her houseboat and the dock, his skull shattered"--
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Language
English
Description
"A heart-pounding, curvy romance about an indie bookstore owner who finds herself in a love triangle when she meets the author she's had a crush on for years ... and his best friend"--
"Zora has committed every inch of her life to establishing her thriving DC bookstore, making it into a pillar of the community, and she just hasn't had time for romance. But when a mystery author she's been crushing on for years agrees to have an event at her store,...
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Series
Cambridge bookshop mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Love isn't always by the books in this charming romantic comedy about a bookseller discovering how to be the main character in her story. As a self-proclaimed book hater and a firm believer that the movie is always better, Drew Young didn't anticipate inheriting her grandma's bookstore, The Book Nook. She's in way over her head even before the shop's resident book club, comprising six of the naughtiest old ladies ever, begins to do what it does best-meddle....
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English
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"Despite losing her parents in a tragic accident just before her fourteenth Christmas, Susan Norcross has had it better than most, with loving grandparents to raise her and a gang of quirky, devoted friends to support her. Now a successful bookstore owner in a tight-knit Michigan lakeside community, Susan is facing down forty--the same age as her mother when she died--and she can't help but see everything she hasn't achieved, including finding a love...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Romance novel aficionado and bookstore owner Gigi Rutherford signs up for a ten-day bus tour of the English countryside led by her favorite audiobook narrator, Zane Wilkenson, and meets an eclectic group of characters.
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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" Between training the new town garda and trying to set a wedding date with her fiancé, Macdara Flannery, Siobhán O'Sullivan is feeling a bit overwhelmed. She's looking forward to visiting the new bookshop and curling up with an exciting novel--only to discover the shelves contain nothing but Literature with a capital L. The owner not only refuses to stock romances, mysteries, and science fiction, but won't even let customers enter his store unless...
Author
Series
Mystery bookshop volume 8
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After the local library floods, Michigan bookstore owner Sam Washington agrees to host a local book club, whose unpleasant leader turns up bludgeoned to death with an Agatha Christie collection.
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Asked to look into some strange happenings at Scarlet House, a historical re-enactment museum, Gemma Doyle, owner of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, and Jayne instead find a dead body and suspect foul play as secrets about the museum come to light.
Author
Series
Cambridge bookshop mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Librarian Molly Kimball and her mother move to Cambridge, England, to help run the family-owned bookshop. The store is experiencing revenue difficulties, so Molly arranges for a famous poet to give a reading and drawn in customers. But the anticipated event ends in disaster when one of the guests is found murdered, and Molly's great-aunt's knitting needle was the murder weapon.
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Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Elinor Noel—Nory for short—is quite content running her secondhand bookshop in London. Forever torn between her working-class upbringing and her classmates’ extravagant lifestyles at the posh private school she attended on scholarship, Nory has finally figured out how to keep both at equal distance. So when two of her oldest friends invite their whole gang to spend the time leading up to their wedding together at the castle near their old school,...
15) A poisonous page
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Kitt Crowe's second Sweet Fiction Bookshop mystery whips up an array of intriguing suspects and motives into a diabolically deft read, perfect for fans of Jenn McKinlay and Joanne Fluke. It's summer festival time in Confection, Oregon, and that means a barrage of tourists making cash registers ring at Sweet Fiction Bookshop. But what should be bookseller Lexi's most lucrative time of year turns disturbing when a member of the chamber of commerce suddenly...
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English
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"Lambda Literary award winner and national bestselling author Alexandria Bellefleur returns with a steamy sapphic rom-com about a quiet bookseller and a romance novel cover model who agree to a modern-day marriage of convenience... Tansy Adams’ greatest love is her family’s bookstore, passed down from her late father. But when it comes to actual romance… Tansy can’t get past the first chapter. Tired of her stepfamily’s questions about her...
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English
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"Instead of presents this Christmas, a true crime podcaster is opening up a cold case... Madeline Martin has built a life for herself as the young owner of a thriving business, The Next Chapter Bookshop, despite her tragic childhood and now needing to care for her infirm father. When Harley Granger, a failed novelist turned true crime podcaster, drifts into her shop in the days before Christmas, he seems intent on digging up events that Madeline would...
Author
Series
Lucky lovers of London volume 1
Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"London, 1883. Finely dressed and finely drunk, Charlie Price is a man dedicated to his vices. Chief among them is his explicit novel collection, though his impending marriage to a woman he can't love will force his carefully curated collection into hiding. Before it does, Charlie is determined to have one last hurrah: meeting his favorite author in person. Miles Montague is more gifted as a smut writer than a shopkeep and uses his royalties to keep...
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Lizzie Hale may be the lucky owner of a successful romance bookshop, Love Under the Covers, but she's decidedly unlucky in love. Though she's read almost every famous romance novelist, from Jane Austen to Nora Roberts, none have helped her figure out how to get--and keep--a man. But Lizzie has bigger problems to worry about. Like murder. When swoon-worthy ranch owner and resident bachelor Brody Pierce is found stabbed through the chest, hearts are...
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Series
Exlibris adventures volume 1
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Born and raised in New York City, Ramona Keene dreamt of attending film school and traveling to Paris. Instead, she works at her uncles' bookstore, and all her adventures are between the covers of secondhand books. But the new landlord plans to triple the rent, something her uncles can't afford. To earn the money to help save the bookstore, Romy applies for a job at ExLibris Expeditions, a company that re-creates literary journeys. Her assignment:...
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