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Arkansas Fiction Booksellers and bookselling Booksellers and bookselling Fiction Coming of age FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths Geist, William Childhood and youth Murder Investigation Fiction Paris (France) Fiction Teenage boys Missouri Biography Women detectives FictionPatterson, James
Summary: To be a bookseller or librarian... You have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. An advocate. A visionary. A person who creates "book joy" by pulling a book from a shelf, handing it to someone and saying, "You've got to read this. You're going to love it." Step inside The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians and enter a world where you can feed your curiosities, discover...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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Summary: On Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale that might be her next novel. A giant resort developer is using its political muscle and deep pockets to claim ownership of a deserted island between Florida and Georgia. Only the last living inhabitant of the island, Lovely Jackson, stands in its way. What the developer doesn't know is that the island has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MaherPryor, Mark
Summary: When his bookseller friend, a former Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter, is kidnapped and other booksellers are murdered, Hugo Marston, head of security for the U.S. embassy in Paris, discovers a shocking conspiracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seventh Street Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY PryorSwanson, Peter
Summary: "Years ago, bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a list of the genre's most unsolvable murders, those that are almost impossible to crack--which he titled "Eight Perfect Murders"--chosen from among the best of the best including Agatha Christie's A. B. C. Murders, Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, Ira Levin's Death Trap, A. A. Milne's Red House Mystery, Anthony...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY SwansonHart, Carolyn G
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY Hart,Darkshire, Oliver
Summary: "Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd (est. 1761) to apply for a job. Allured by the smell of old books and the temptation of a management-approved afternoon nap, Darkshire was soon unteetering stacks of first editions and placating the store's resident ghost (the late Mr. Sotheran, hit by a tram). By turns unhinged and earnest, Once Upon a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DarkshireBerry, Steve
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BerryGeorge, Nina
Summary: ""There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even remedies--I mean books--that were written for one person only...A book is both medic and medicine at once. It makes a diagnosis as well as offering therapy. Putting the right novels to the appropriate ailments: that's how I sell books." Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GeorgeSeierstad, Asne
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 SeirsHart, Carolyn G.
Summary: Summer is a hectic time of the year for Annie Darling. Sun and scorching temperatures never fail to bring swarms of tourists to her mystery bookstore Death on Demand for the latest beach reads. But Annie still finds time to enjoy herself. The Browards Rock Fourth of July dance is just around the corner, and the island is buzzing with excitement Shell Hurst included. Shell is the kind of woman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP MYSTERY HartHess, Joan.
Summary: "Claire Malloy--now a married woman of leisure--tries her hand at volunteering, but instead lands her right in the middle of another murder investigation Longtime bookseller and single mother, Claire Malloy has recently married her long term beau and moved out of her less than opulent apartment into a sprawling, newly remodeled house. Her daughter, Caron, is making plans for college. All of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY HessHanff, Helene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.540 HanfHart, Carolyn G.
Summary: Unable to volunteer at a book signing by a popular local writer, Annie Darling arrives after the event and discovers her fellow volunteer, Gretchen Burkholt, murdered after having left numerous voicemails about some scandalous news she wanted to share.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2012
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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY HartHess, Joan.
Summary: "Claire Malloy, for as long as she can remember, has been the local bookseller and owner of the Book Depot and the widowed mother of teenage Caron, who frequently speaks in ALL CAPS. But her life has changed dramatically in recent years. Claire has married her longtime beau, Deputy Police Chief Peter Rosen. Still the owner of the Book Depot, Claire has passed the day-to-day running of it on to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY HessLe Carré, John
Summary: "In Silverview, John le Carré 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 English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION LecarreHess, Joan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY HessLaurain, Antoine
Summary: Bookseller Laurent Letellier comes across an abandoned handbag on a Parisian street. There's nothing in the bag to indicate who it belongs to, although there's all sorts of other things in it. Laurent feels a strong impulse to find the owner and tries to puzzle together who she might be from the contents of the bag. Especially a red notebook with her jottings, which really makes him want to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallic Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION LaurainCruz, Ted
Summary: "The Democratic Party is now controlled by Cultural Marxists. So are our universities and public schools, the media, Big Tech, and Big Business. Corporations push transgenderism down their customers' throats. Banks punish gun shops. Hollywood insults our religious beliefs and grooms our children. The big investment companies use our retirement savings to promote leftist causes. And the Biden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 CruzGeist, William
Summary: Before there was 'tourism' and souvenir ashtrays became 'kitsch,' the Lake of the Ozarks was a Shangri-La for middle-class Midwestern families on vacation, complete with man-made beaches, Hillbilly Mini Golf, and feathered rubber tomahawks. It was there that television host Bill Geist spent summers in the sixties during his school and college years, working at Arrowhead Lodge -- a small resort...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 Geist 2019Geist, William.
Summary: Before there was 'tourism' and souvenir ashtrays became 'kitsch,' it was a Shangri-La for middle-class Midwestern families on vacation, complete with man-made beaches, Hillbilly Mini Golf, and feathered rubber tomahawks. It was there that author Bill Geist spent summers in the Sixties during his school and college years working at Arrowhead Lodge-a small resort owned by his bombastic uncle-in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2019
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1 available in Adult Audiobooks, Call number: CDBK 921 GeistFisher, David
Summary: "The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's documentary television series Legends and Lies: The Real West, a fascinating, eye-opening look at the truth behind the western legends we all think we know : How did Davy Crockett save President Jackson's life only to end up dying at the Alamo? Was the Lone Ranger based on a real lawman--and was he an African American? What amazing detective work led...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 FisherSpalding, Katie
Summary: "Overturn everything you knew about history's greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known. As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a genius - but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." So begins Katie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SpaldingSivertson, Howard
Contents: Coureurs de Bois -- Campsite at Day's End -- Portaging around Saganaga Falls: 1795 -- Boat Day at Ransom Mine: 1847 -- Angel descends on Isle Royale -- Daring rescue during the famine of 1856 -- Schooner Charley en route to Prince Arthur's landing -- Columbia, the first ore boat -- Letter from Norway -- Waiting out a Northeaster -- Schooner Pierpont at Wright Island: 1866 -- Isle Royale light...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Superior Port Cities 1996