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English
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Librarian Martha Storm has always found it easier to connect with books than people--though not for lack of trying. She keeps careful lists of how to help others in her superhero-themed notebook. And yet, sometimes it feels like she's invisible. All of that changes when a book of fairy tales arrives on her doorstep. Inside, Martha finds a dedication written to her by her best friend--her grandmother Zelda--who died under mysterious circumstances years...
Author
Series
A Hester Thursby mystery volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Aurora Teagarden mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009, c2002
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market ed.
Physical Desc
257 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
A bookmobile mystery volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
6) Open season
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
461 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When she stumbles upon the body of her best friend, a death that could be linked to several others, librarian Greer Hogan employs what she has read in detective novels to investigate until she realizes that she may have helped convict an innocent man in her own husband's murder.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
558 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her husband is elected president of the United States, Alice Blackwell finds her new life as first lady increasingly tumultuous as she reflects on the privileges and difficulties of her position as her private beliefs conflict with her public responsibilities.
10) Watch her
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigating a suspicious burglary and the disappearances of Prescott University alumni, Harvard librarian Hester Thursby and Detective Angela White uncover financial transgressions, rumors of infidelity, and a decades-old tragedy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the widely disliked chair of the library board of trustees and a local professor turn up dead, Greer Hogan, a librarian-turned-sleuth who has an uncanny knack for deduction, starts digging and stumbles upon a cache of decades-old secrets that could rock the town to its core.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When she is kidnapped and drugged and wakes up in a bloodstained wedding dress next to a dead man, psychic Prudence Ryland, framed for murder, knows who the real killer is and finds an unexpected ally in Jack Wingate, a crime boss's associate, who is the only one who believes her.
Author
Series
Greer Hogan mystery volume 2
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Librarian Greer Hogan is on hand to celebrate her old friend Sarah Whitaker's nuptials at the Whitaker summer home on beautiful Mirror Lake, just outside the upstate New York village of Lake Placid. But Greer has an ulterior motive--to gather information that could reopen the investigation into her husband's murder, a crime for which she believes an innocent man went to prison. Her plans come to a shuddering halt when a wedding guest goes missing...
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English
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"Paris, 1939. Young, ambitious, and tempestuous, Odile Souchet has it all: Paul, her handsome police officer beau; Margaret, her best friend from England; her adored twin brother Remy; and a dream job at the American Library in Paris, working alongside the library's legendary director, Dorothy Reeder. But when World War II breaks out, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear - including her beloved library. After the invasion, as the Nazis declare...
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian-who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray. In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books,...
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Series
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English
Description
"Being Madame Ariadne, Psychic Dream Consultant, wasn't Prudence Ryland's ideal gig, but it paid well which was reason enough to do the work--until she realizes that her latest client intends to kill her. It doesn't seem likely that rumored crime boss Luther Pell or his associate, Jack Wingate, believe her claims of being a target of a ruthless vendetta. So no one is more shocked than Prudence when Jack says he'll help her. Of course, his ideas for...
Author
Series
A Swift River Valley novel volume 5
Publisher
Mira
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Widowed single mother Clare Morgan moves to a small Massachusetts town, where she settles into her new job as the town's librarian and helps Boston ER doctor Logan Farrell decorate his grandmother's house for Christmas one last time before he sells it.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the US military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence. Meanwhile, in occupied France, Elaine has begun an apprenticeship at a printing press run by members of the Resistance. It's a job usually reserved for men, but in the war, those...
Author
Series
Finfarran Peninsula volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 374 pages, 16 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Garden Cafe, next to Lissbeg library, is a place where plans are formed and secrets shared, and where, even in high tourist season, people are never too busy to stop for a sandwich and a cup of tea. But twenty-one-year-old Jazz--daughter of the town's librarian Hanna Casey--has a secret she can't share. Still recovering from a car accident, and reeling from her father's disclosures about his long-time affair, she's taken a job at The Old Forge...
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Series
Language
English
Description
In Georgia, former librarian Aurora Teagarden is overjoyed when her new husband, rich and handsome Martin Bartell gives her a house as a wedding present. Intrigued, too, as the house once belonged to a family which simply disappeared. But when she tries to satisfy her curiosity with a bit of snooping, she is nearly killed by an ax-wielding attacker. Which sets her to thinking, whom exactly did she marry? By the author of Three Bedrooms, One Corpse....