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Camino Island novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton Universitys Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars. 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...
2) Camino winds
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Series
Camino Island novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen--even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime ... Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida's governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce decides...
Author
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Delia Welegtabit discovered two things during her childhood on a South Pacific island: her love for mathematics and a novel that isn't supposed to exist. But the elusive book proves unexpectedly dangerous. Oskar Lens, a science fiction-obsessed mobster in the midst of an existential crisis, will stop at nothing to find the novel. After Delia's husband Levi goes missing, she seeks help from Daniel Chase, a young, face-blind book dealer. The infamous...
Author
Series
Cemetery of forgotten books volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Barcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife Bea have much to celebrate. They have a beautiful new baby son named Julian, and their close friend Fermin Romero de Torres is about to wed. But their joy is eclipsed when a mysterious stranger visits the Sempere bookshop and threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city's dark past.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Follows university professor Miss Willoughby as she helps with a paranormal investigation when family friends experience hauntings at their antique bookshop.
A University professor with an insatiable appetite for investigation is asked by some old family friends to investigate a series of hauntings at their antique bookstore.
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Publisher
Distributed by North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"C.J. Floyd, the streetwise, Denver-based bail bondsman and Vietnam vet, gets embroiled in an investigation that reaches back to the building of the transcontinental railroad, leads him to a famous photograph, and has him tangled with eccentric power brokers and collectors who are after a slice of priceless American history"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Traveling to Idaho at the invitation of a wealthy horse owner, Cliff discovers a stunning collection of first-edition children's classics. The books are valued in the millions, which would be excellent news for their owner--if he hadn't suddenly been murdered . Considering the worth of the books, it's no secret why someone would kill to get near them. But to find out who that someone is, Cliff must pound a trail through the world of horseracing.
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Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Entreated by partner Erin D'Angelo to help in the case of a friend, who has been accused of murdering her husband, avid book collector Cliff Janeway investigates and discovers that the victim possessed a valuable collection of books
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