Lehane, Cornelius
Summary: An invitation from a prestigious liberal arts college to buy their mystery-novel collection comes as a welcome surprise for Raymond Ambler, crime-fiction curator at New York City's prestigious 42nd Street Library. But his pleasure quickly turns sour when the collection's curator - Ambler's friend Sam Abernathy - tells him he plans to fight the acquisition tooth and nail. Why would Abernathy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEHFeehan, Christine
Summary: Torpedo Ink is Aleksei 'Absinthe' Solokov's whole life. They're his brothers, his family - his everything. But that doesn't stop him from wanting something that only belongs to him. That's why the tough biker has spent the last six weeks at the library, reading every book he can get his hands on and watching the prim and proper librarian who makes his blood rush. For the past six weeks, Scarlet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FEEMcKinlay, Jenn
Summary: "During the most wonderful time of the year, famous author Helen Monroe arrives in Briar Creek to be the writer in residence, but her "bah humbug" attitude excludes her from the many holiday celebrations the town residents enjoy. To try to spread some Christmas cheer, library director Lindsey Norris invites the new writer in town to join her crafternoon club. Helen politely refuses, and when an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MCKRose, Karen
Summary: "Employed as the nighttime security guard of Broussard Investigations, Phineas Bishop has been working through overwhelming PTSD episodes from his army service while still utilizing his military skills. But when a violent break-in occurs at the office, the accusatory eyes of the NOPD are on Phin, and he resolves to track down the intruder and clear his name. Phin's only lead is Cora Winslow, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ROSMcKinlay, Jenn
Summary: "For Samantha Gale, a summer on Martha's Vineyard at her family's tiny cottage was supposed to be about resurrecting her career as a chef, until she's tasked with chaperoning her half-brother, Tyler. The teenage brainiac is spending his summer at the local library in a robotics competition, and there's no place Sam, who has dyslexia, likes less than the library. And because the universe hates...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MCKKelman, Suzanne
Summary: Just as the ladies are about to raise a teacup to their five hundredth rejection letter, they receive bad news that could destroy one member's reputation, and disband the group forever. To save the club, Janet joins her fellow writers on a wild road trip to San Francisco in search of the local publisher who holds the key to a long buried secret. As they race to the finish line, they'll face...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC KELGates, Eva
Summary: Workers dig into the earth to repair the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library's foundations. But the digging halts when Lucy pulls a battered tin box containing a Civil War-era diary from the pit. Tucked inside is a hand drawn map of the Outer Banks accompanied by a page written in an indecipherable code. Later that night, Lucy finds the body of historical society member Jeremy Hughes inside the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing A part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GATArcher, C. J.
Summary: "Librarian Sylvia Ashe knows nothing about her past, having grown up without a father and a mother who refused to discuss him. When she stumbles upon a diary that suggests she's descended from magicians, she's skeptical. After all, magicians are special, and she's just an ordinary girl who loves books. She seeks the truth from a member of the most prominent family of magicians, but she quickly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: C. J. Archer 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 9781922554222Hart, Elsa.
Summary: "On the mountainous border of China and Tibet in 1708, a detective must learn what a killer already knows: that empires rise and fall on the strength of the stories they tell. Li Du was an imperial librarian. Now he is an exile. Arriving in Dayan, the last Chinese town before the Tibetan border, he is surprised to find it teeming with travelers, soldiers, and merchants. All have come for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARLapierre, Alexandra
Summary: New York in the 1900s. A young girl fascinated by rare books defies all odds and becomes the director of one of the country's most prestigious private libraries. It belongs to the magnate J.P. Morgan, darling of the international aristocracy and one of the city's richest men. Flamboyant, brilliant, beautiful, Belle is among New York society's most sought after intellectuals. She also hides a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LAPBeatrice, Jenna
Summary: When loud-voiced Penelope becomes student-librarian, she is determined to prove she is perfect for the job while staying true to herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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Summary: "They're getting married! Lucy Richardson and Connor McNeil have announced their engagement. Their friends throw a party for the couple at Coquina Beach, close to Lucy's beloved Bodie Island Lighthouse Library. As they're packing up the presents and the (few) leftovers from Josie's Cozy Bakery, who should arrive, but Richard Eric Lewiston III, Lucy's former almost-fiancé and his overbearing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GATHegi, Ursula.
Summary: Set in a small German town and spanning both world wars, this novel tells the story of ordinary people living in extraordinary times.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEGKrosoczka, Jarrett
Summary: The school lunch lady, a secret crime fighter, sets out to stop a group of librarians bent on destroying a shipment of video games, while a group of students known as the Breakfast Bunch provides back-up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009