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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...
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Series
Bella Vista volume 3
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a shocking tragedy, Natalie Harper inherits her mother’s charming but financially strapped bookshop in San Francisco. She also becomes caretaker for her ailing grandfather Andrew, her only living relative—not counting her scoundrel father. After she moves into the small studio apartment above the shop, Natalie carries out her grandfather’s request and hires contractor Peach Gallagher to do the necessary and ongoing repairs. His...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Your most delightful holiday read: the sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller The Christmas Bookshop, from beloved Scottish author Jenny Colgan. Christmas comes early—far too early—to McCredie’s little Old Town bookshop in Edinburgh. It’s summer, but an American production company has decided that McCredie’s is the perfect location to film a very cheesy Christmas movie. After all, who can resist the charmingly narrow historic...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"También de este lado hay sueños. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then...
7) Camino winds
Author
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...
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Series
Mystery bookshop volume 6
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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While visiting the land of Miss Marple and Sherlock Holmes, bookstore owner and amateur sleuth Samantha Washington finds herself on a tragical mystery tour. Sam joins Nana Jo and her Shady Acres Retirement Village friends Irma, Dorothy, and Ruby Mae on a weeklong trip to London, England, to experience the Peabody Mystery Lovers Tour. The chance to see the sights and walk the streets that inspired Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle is a dream come...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Yeongju is burned out. She did everything she was supposed to: go to school, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. In a leap of faith, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. She opens a bookshop. In a quaint neighborhood in Seoul, surrounded by books, Yeongju and her customers take refuge. From the lonely barista to the unhappily married coffee roaster—and the writer who...
11) Bookstore cat
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mulligan, the bookstore cat, has an exciting day when a pigeon wanders into the store.
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Language
English
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When her eccentric novelist husband disappears, leaving behind only a hidden pair of plane tickets to Paris, Leah relocates to France and takes ownership of a small bookstore, where clues she discovers in an unfinished manuscript lead to consequential truths for her daughters.
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Language
English
Description
Krissy is meeting Vicki's parents at the Pine Hills, Ohio, airportit's the least she can do as maid of honor, even if her relationship with Mr. and Mrs. Patterson is a bit strained. Besides, her own dad is coming in on the same flight. But there are a few additional arrivals, too. Her father's brought a dateand the Pattersons, both actors, seem to have an entire entourage trailing behind them. Uninvited guests are a headacheespecially when one turns...
15) A fatal chapter
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Haunted by Pete Renquist's puzzling last words to her, Tricia Miles begins to consider who had a motive to kill her friend and president of the Stoneham Historical Society. Did Pete take his flirting too far, only to have a jealous husband teach him a lesson? Or did he discover something in the town's historical records that his killer wanted kept secret? Tricia is determined to get to the bottom of things before someone else becomes history.
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English
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"Discover the dramatic story of how a humble bookseller fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the 20th century to the world in this new novel from the author of The Girl in the White Gloves. When bookish young American Sylvia Beach opens Shakespeare and Company on a quiet street in Paris in 1919, she has no idea that she and her new bookstore will change the course of literature itself. Shakespeare and Company...
18) Final sentence
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Jenna Hart leaves behind the high-pressure world of advertising and returns home to Crystal Cove, California. Once there she helps an aunt open a culinary book-shop and cafe. She enlists her old college roommate, celebrity chef Desiree Divine to attend the grand opening, but when Desiree turns up dead Jenna will have to read between the lines to catch the killer before another body is served cold.
Author
Series
Bookstore café mystery volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
As if a run-in with an old flame and a failed marriage proposal weren’t enough to horrify Krissy for one night, a woman is found strangled to death in a room filled with ominous jack-o’-lanterns. All signs suggest a crime of passion—but when the hostess’s jewelry disappears, malevolent intentions seem way more likely... With the estate on lockdown and a killer roaming the halls, Krissy must help Officer Paul Dalton investigate each nook, cranny,...
20) The bookshop
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English
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EMILY MORTIMER, BILL NIGHY, AND PATRICIA CLARKSON. Short-listed for the Booker Prize. “A beautiful book, a perfect little gem.” BBC Kaleidoscope. “A marvelously piercing fiction.” Times Literary Supplement. In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop the only bookshop in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so...
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