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Author
Series
Cotton Malone volume 5
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Description
Awakened by a housebreaking stranger who is revealed to be a friend of Henrik Thorvaldsen and the father of a young man he once tried to save, Cotton Malone flees with the intruder when they are pursued by a shadowy organization.
Author
Series
A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery volume Book 2
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gemma Doyle and Jayne Wilson are busy managing the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium on Baker Street and adjoining Mrs. Hudson's Tea Room in anticipation of the store's upcoming book signing with the illustrious Renalta Van Markoff, author of the controversial Hudson and Holmes mystery series. But during the author Q&A session, dedicated Sherlockian Donald Morris verbally attacks Renalta and her series for disgracing Sherlock's legacy, only to...
Author
Series
A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery volume 4
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
**Sherlockians will delight at the latest charming installment of national bestselling author Vicki Delany's fourth Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery. Gemma and Jayne donate their time to raise money for the rebuilding of a burned out museum-but a killer wants a piece of the auction.** Walking her dog Violet late one night, Gemma Doyle, owner of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop, acts quickly when she smells smoke outside the West London Museum. Fortunately,...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared"--
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Just in time for Sherlock Holmes’s 166th birthday, the fifth installment in national bestselling author Vicki Delany’s Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery takes Sherlockania to the max with a Holmes convention and historic 221 Baker Street.
Gemma Doyle and her friends travel to London for a Sherlock Holmes convention–but will Gemma’s father take the fall for a felonious forger’s fatality?
The 6th of January is Sherlock Holmes’s birthday,...
Author
Series
A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery volume Book 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Gemma Doyle, owner of Cape Cod's Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, finds a rare and potentially valuable magazine containing the first Sherlock Homes story hidden in her shop, she and her friend, Jayne, set off to find the owner, only to stumble upon a dead body.
Author
Series
Cotton Malone volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Receiving an anonymous note containing an unfamiliar web address, former government operative Cotton Malone logs on to discover Cassiopeia Vitt being tortured by a mysterious perpetrator who orders Cotton to deliver an unknown object.
Author
Series
Malcolm Kershaw volume Bk 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
'Swanson rips us from one startling plot twist to the next; A true tour de force. ; 'Lisa Gardner"Fiendish good fun. "'Anthony HorowitzFrom the hugely talented author of Before She Knew Him comes a chilling tale of psychological suspense and an homage to the thriller genre tailor-made for fans: the story of a bookseller who finds himself at the center of an FBI investigation because a very clever killer has started using his list of fiction's most...
Author
Series
Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery volume 7
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's a crisp, early October weekend, and business is slowing down as fall descends at the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium and adjacent Mrs. Hudson's Tea Room. Wealthy philanthropist and prominent Sherlockian David Masterson has rented Suffolk Gardens House, where he plans to entertain his friends in a traditional English country house weekend. As the chosen caterers, Jayne Wilson and Gemma Doyle get to work preparing lavish meals and setting...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Ex-secret agent Cotton Malone and his partner, the enigmatic Cassiopeia Vitt, are pitted against ruthless Central Asian dictator Irina Zovastina as they scour the globe in search of the final resting place of Alexander the Great.
Author
Series
Cotton Malone volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mysterious manuscript discovered in the tomb of Charlemagne sends Cotton Malone on a perilous international quest that takes him and twin sisters with their own agenda from an ancient German cathedral to the harsh, unforgiving world of Antarctica in pursuit of the truth about the death of his father on a classified sub mission beneath Antarctica.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
January means ice wine season in the Niagara Falls region, and Charming Books owners Violet and Grandma Daisy Waverly have decided to host celebrity sommelier Belinda Perkins's book signing during the annual midnight grape-harvest festival. Little do either Waverly women know, the ice wife festival will turn colder still when Violet finds Belinda in the middle of the frozen vineyard--with a grape harvest knife protruding from her chest.
15) Silverview
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Silverview, John le Carrae turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years-the secret world itself. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small Englishseaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish aemigrae living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems...
Author
Series
A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery volume Book 3
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Legendary stage and movie star Sir Nigel Bellingham arrives on Cape Cod to star in a stage production of The Hound of the Baskervilles put on by the West London Theater Festival. When Sir Nigel, some of the cast, and the director visit the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop at 222 Baker Street, Gemma Doyle realizes that Sir Nigel is not at all suited to the role. He is long past his prime and an old drunk to boot. The cast, in particular the much younger...
17) No two persons
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"One book. Nine readers. Ten changed lives. New York Times bestselling author Erica Bauermeister's No Two Persons is "a gloriously original celebration of fiction, and the ways it deepens our lives." That was the beauty of books, wasn't it? They took you places you didn't know you needed to go... Alice has always wanted to be a writer. Her talent is innate, but her stories remain safe and detached, until a devastating event breaks her heart open,...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"I am not a Consulting Detective, Gemma Doyle reluctantly tells 10-year-old Lauren Tierney, when the little girl comes to the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium to beg Gemma to find her missing cat, Snowball. Gemma might not be able to follow the clues to find the cat, but her dog Violet follows her nose to locate the missing kitten in a neighbor's garden shed. Gemma and Violet proudly return Snowball to her grateful owner, and Gemma basks in praise...
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Language
English
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Description
"In the vein of Amelie and The Little Paris Bookshop, a modern fairytale about a French woman whose life is turned upside down when she meets a reclusive bookseller and his young daughter. Juliette leads a perfectly ordinary life in Paris, working a slow office job, dating a string of not-quite-right men, and fighting off melancholy. The only bright spots in her day are her metro rides across the city and the stories she dreams up about the strangers...
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Language
English
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Description
""This sparkling novel starts with high energy and unique characters that move from one surprise to another." --Ann Garvin, USA TODAY bestselling author All it takes is the right book to turn a Book Hater into a Book Lover... That was what Elliot--the beloved co-owner of Over the Rainbow Bookshop--believed before his untimely passing. He always had the perfect book suggestion for the self-proclaimed Book Hater. Now his grief-ridden business partner,...