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"Gemma Doyle and Jayne Wilson of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop are sponsoring a book signing with the illustrious and controversial author Renalta Van Markoff when during the author Question & Answer session, Renalta collapses on the table--dead. With no shortage of suspects, it's up to the shrewd sleuthing duo to deduce the truth behind her death"--
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Anne Marie Roche wants to find happiness again. At thirty-eight, her life's not what she'd expected--she's childless, a recent widow, alone. She owns a successful bookstore on Seattle's Blossom Street, but despite her accomplishments, there's a feeling of emptiness. On Valentine's Day, Anne marie and several other widows get together to celebrate--what? Hope, possibility, the future. They each begin a list of twenty wishes, things they always wanted...
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Inversgail, on the west coast of the Scottish Highlands, welcomes home native daughter and best-selling environmental writer Daphne Wood. Known as the icon of ecology, Daphne will spend three months as the author in residence for the Inversgail schools. Janet Marsh and her business partners at Yon Bonnie Books are looking forward to hosting a gala book signing for her. Daphne, who hasn't set foot in Scotland in thirty years, is--eccentric. She lives...
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Chesapeake Shores novels volume 3
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"Struggling in his role as a newly single father, former Army medic Kevin O'Brien moves home to Chesapeake Shores. He wants a haven for himself and his toddler son, surrounded by the family he knows he can count on, and a future that's nothing like his past. But Kevin is suddenly facing a risk he hadn't anticipated, in the form of Main Street bookseller Shanna Carlyle. Shanna immediately recognizes Kevin as a wounded soul--she's had way too much...
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Cotton Malone novels volume 5
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Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone isn't looking for trouble when it comes knocking at his Copenhagen bookshop. But narrowly surviving a ferocious firefight convinces him to follow his unexpected new ally--an American Secret Service agent--and help him stop the Paris Club, a cabal of multimillionaires bent on manipulating the global economy. Only by matching wits with a terrorist-for-hire, foiling a catastrophic attack, and plunging...
6) Camino winds
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Camino Island novels volume 2
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"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...
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When his friend, Cassiopeia Vitt finds herself in a jam, Cotton Malone agrees to help. However, as he investigates why anybody would want to harm his friend, he realizes that she is in the middle of an international conspiracy. Consequently, Malone finds himself going up against his former boss and stumbles upon a plot to covertly control the world.
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Wyndham Beach volume 2
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"In the wake of her daughter's unexplained suicide and her husband Jim's sudden abandonment, Liddy Bryant is determined to move on and make some positive changes in her life. In her hometown of Wyndham Beach, the neglected and shuttered bookstore is also in need of renewal, and Liddy recognizes an opportunity to get herself and the bookshop back on track. With a little help from her friends, she's well on her way. Local contractor Tuck Shelby has...
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Cotton Malone volume 2
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2007
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Cotton Malone's teenage son has been kidnapped, and an anonymous e-mail from those responsible proves they will stop at nothing to get their hands on a coveted prize: the legendary lost Library of Alexandria, which vanished 1,500 years ago.
11) By word of mouth
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Guideposts
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[2012]
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The proprietor of Mary's Mystery Bookshop must find her valuable copy of Agatha Christie's The murder of Roger Ackroyd in time to help a little girl who needs a kidney transplant.
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Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 9
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Guideposts
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Anne and Wendy decide to organize a used books sale to raise money for the library.
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Guideposts
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[2012]
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As mystery bookshop owner Mary Fisher looks for clues about the true ownership of a grist mill that has been in her sister Betty's late husband's family for centuries, she hears rumors about an old murder and finds clues that point to answers no one wants to believe.
16) Mixed motives
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Secrets of Mary's bookshop volume 24
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Guideposts
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�2014
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Mary's sister has been kidnapped and it's up to Mary to uncover the truth in time to save her sister.
17) Missing pages
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Secrets of Mary's Bookshop volume 2
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Guideposts
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]2013]
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It's Independence Day and Mary is enjoying the parade until the July Queen, a local high school student named Amanda Branson, disappears. Mary thinks she saw Amanda at the docks just after the parade, but is not sure and Chief McArthur won't listen to her. Then it seems Mary's granddaughter Daisy holds the key to finding Amanda.
18) Snowbound
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Guideposts
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2014
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Mary is all set-up and ready to sell some books when a snowstorm hits and turns a fictional mystery weekend into a real-life drama.
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Guideposts
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[2014]
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Anne and Wendy are preparing for a new adult literacy class when Ben races inside the library to tell his mother that their dog, Hershey, has found a package on the porch. Anne chases Hershey around the yard until she is finally able to retrieve it and discovers and envelope with several thousand dollars of cash inside! Wendy is convinced the money is an answer to prayer -- the library's elevator is in severe need of repair -- but Anne doesn't feel...
20) Digging up clues
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Guideposts
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[2014]
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When gold coins wash up on shore, shipwreck fever hits Ivy Bay. Soon the beach is crawling with locals and tourists alike, all looking for the legendary lost treasure of the Lady Beth, which sank off the coast of Cape Cod almost two hundred years ago.