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Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 1
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Description
Former secret agent Cotton Malone and Stephanie Nelle, a U.S. Justice Department prosecutor, must solve the mystery of fourteenth-century Templar riches and secrets before Raymond de Roquefort and his murderous allies prevail.
Author
Series
Victor Legris mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
309 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Description
When a young woman dressed in red is brutally murdered in 1891 Paris, bookseller sleuth Victor Legris and his assistant, Jojo, also investigate a mysterious red shoe found in his bookshop and a possibly related murder involving a Moulin Rouge performer.
24) The booksellers
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A behind-the-scenes look at the New York rare book world and the fascinating people who inhabit it.
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This the daily life of a middle-class family in Kabul, the family of Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul. Sultan has lived through several represive regimes, all of which burned and censored his books. Now with the Taliban gone, he is free to pursue his business and his dreams of turning his large collection into a library for Afghanistan.
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"A wickedly witty field guide to bookstore customers from the Person Who Doesn't Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have a Blue Cover) to the harried Parents Secretly After Free Childcare. It does take all kinds. If you visit bookshops more often than the grocery store, you'll recognize the types. There's the Expert (with subspecies from the Bore to the Helpful Person), the Young Family (ranging from the Exhausted to the Aspirational), Occultists...
27) An honest living
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
After leaving behind the comforts and the shackles of a prestigious law firm, a restless attorney makes ends meet in mid-2000s Brooklyn by picking up odd jobs from a colorful assortment of clients. When a mysterious woman named Anna Reddick turns up at his apartment with ten thousand dollars in cash and asks him to track down her missing husband Newton, an antiquarian bookseller who she believes has been pilfering rare true crime volumes from her...
Author
Series
Claire Malloy mysteries volume 17
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
On a honeymoon trip to Luxor, Egypt, with her new husband, Lt. Peter Rosen, teenage daughter Caron, and Caron's best friend Inez, Arkansas bookseller Claire Malloy suddenly finds her honeymoon turned upside down when the two girls are chased through back alleys by unknown pursuers and a blonde college student is kidnapped by two young men on horseback.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xv, 351 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"There is often trouble of a mythical sort in Bath. The booksellers who police the Old World keep a careful watch there, particularly on the entity that inhabits the ancient hot spring. This time trouble comes from the discovery of a sorcerous map, leading left-handed bookseller Merlin into great danger, requiring a desperate rescue attempt from his sister, the right-handed bookseller Vivien, and art student Susan Arkshaw, who is still struggling...
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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...
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Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
265 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Includes a conversation with the author, a recipe for Betty's gingersnaps, and "From the Guideposts archives."
"When Mary bumps into her neighbor one summer evening, she's glad to see that Cathy has a new man in her life. The couple is heading to the marina to take a sunset whale-watching cruise, and Mary wishes them well. But the next day Mary sees that Cathy's newspaper is still lying on the porch and her mail hasn't been collected. As the days...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
391 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
"After her mother was bedridden and her father bailed on the family, Sophie became a second mother to her twin brother, Seth, and younger sister, Jenna. Sophie supported her siblings through their college years, putting aside her own dream of opening a book shop in Piper's Cove--the quaint North Carolina beach town they frequented as children. But now it's finally time for Sophie to follow her own pursuits. Seth just got a new job, the family house...
33) The bookshop
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Description
In England in 1959, free spirited widow Florence Green follows her lifelong dream by opening a bookshop in a conservative coastal town
Author
Series
Death on Demand mysteries volume 26
Description
"Annie's friend and fellow shop owner Ves Roundtree is a very wealthy woman. Her rich brother entrusted her with his estate, and upon her death, his fortune is to be divided. Several cash-strapped islanders are in line to collect life-changing inheritances. The problem is, Ves is very much alive. Ves hosts a dinner for the prospective beneficiaries and feels a chill in the air that has nothing to do with the wintry season. Not long after, she suffers...
Author
Series
Death on Demand mysteries volume 13
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Description
Someone is playing a rather nasty April Fool's prank on mystery bookstore owner Annie Darling. A felonious forger on the idyllic -- if rarely tranquil -- South Carolina island of Broward's Rock has made it appear as if Annie is accusing some of her neighbors of murder. In the wink of a bloodshot eye, the Darling name is mud…and then the Broward's Rock body count starts mysteriously increasing. And now it's up to Annie to follow the well-hidden trail...
Author
Series
Claire Malloy mysteries volume 13
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
275 p. ; 25 m.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
viii, 296 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
Describes the true story of a provincial bookseller who discovered an incredible portrait of King Charles I at a liquidation auction and his lifelong quest to prove it was painted by Diego Velazquez.
Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 3
Pub. Date
c2007
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Description
A miraculous healing serum, kept secret by an ancient puzzle and buried with the mummified remains of Alexander the Great--in a tomb lost to the ages for more than 1,500 years--is the coveted prize for a cunning despot unless Cotton Malone, former U.S. Justice Department agent turned rare-book dealer, can beat her to it.
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