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When her job solving mundane mysteries for library patrons entangles her in a mission to decode the whereabouts of a weapons cache from a priceless work of art before arms dealers beat her to it, librarian Quinn Ellington finally gets her chance to have an adventure like no other-and along the way, finds a love to last a lifetime." --NoveList website.
2) Open season
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She's hunting for a mate... and there's no more playing it safe. Daisy Minor is bored. Worse than that, she's boring. A plain, small-town librarian, she's got a wardrobe as sexy as a dictionary and hasn't been on a date in years. She's never even had a lukewarm love affair, let alone a hot one. So when she wakes up on her thirty-fourth birthday and wonders how it is that she still lives with her widowed mom and spinster aunt while her friends have...
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"Librarian Minnie Hamilton and her rescue cat Eddie discover a true crime story unraveling in their own nonfiction section when Minnie stumbles upon a dead body while shelving books in the library early one morning and they are determined to save the library's reputation and catch a killer"--
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"The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian-who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray. In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books,...
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"Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond, from the author of Me Before You and The Peacock Emporium. Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a...
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Miss Zukas mysteries volume 1
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Beeler Large Print
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When a dead body turns up right in the middle of fiction the police are baffled. Miss Zukas and her best friend Ruth are in hot pursuit of the truth and getting close enough to find they are about to become the next victims.
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"Chilson, Michigan, bookmobile librarian Minnie Hamilton and her rescue cat Eddie make a routine stop until Eddie hops into a pickup truck with a dead body in the flatbed. The friendly local lawyer who owns the pickup falls under suspicion, but Minnie and Eddie will risk their lives to get the full story."--
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In Tinker's Cove, Maine, sleuth and freelance writer Lucy Stone investigates the shooting of the town's librarian whose body was found in the library, minutes before a meeting of the board of directors. Police suspect all seven directors, including a former librarian. By the author of Back to School Murder.
10) Death Threads
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Southern sewing circle mysteries volume 2
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The Southern Sewing Circle mystery series continues.
Yankee librarian Tori Sinclair is basking in the warmth of her new circle of friends from South Carolina's Sweet Briar Ladies Society sewing circle. That is until local author Colby Calhoun reveals an unflattering secret about the town's historic past-and then disappears, leaving a bloody trail behind him. And when Tori begins to see a pattern of the townsfolk's age-old Southern pride...
Yankee librarian Tori Sinclair is basking in the warmth of her new circle of friends from South Carolina's Sweet Briar Ladies Society sewing circle. That is until local author Colby Calhoun reveals an unflattering secret about the town's historic past-and then disappears, leaving a bloody trail behind him. And when Tori begins to see a pattern of the townsfolk's age-old Southern pride...
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery welcomes you back to Fool's Gold, California for a fan-favorite story between a rancher and small-town librarian who prove opposites do attract!
Horse whisperer Shane Stryker is done with passion. This time around, he's determined to meet someone interested in the quiet ranch life. And the fiery, pint-size redhead who dazzles him at the local bar definitely does not fit the bill.
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12) American wife
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Random House
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On what might become one of the most significant days in her husband|s presidency, Alice Blackwell considers the strange and unlikely path that has led her to the White House--and the repercussions of a life lived, as she puts it, almost in opposition to itself. A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice learned the virtues of politeness early on from her stolid parents and small Wisconsin hometown. But a tragic accident when she was seventeen...
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Tom Doherty Associates
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"Esther is a stowaway. She's hidden herself away in the Librarian's book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her--a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda. The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do...
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Aurora Teagarden mysteries volume 4
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In Georgia, former librarian Aurora Teagarden is overjoyed when her new husband, rich and handsome Martin Bartell gives her a house as a wedding present. Intrigued, too, as the house once belonged to a family which simply disappeared. But when she tries to satisfy her curiosity with a bit of snooping, she is nearly killed by an ax-wielding attacker. Which sets her to thinking, whom exactly did she marry? By the author of Three Bedrooms, One Corpse....
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Crooked Lane
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"Greer Hogan is a librarian and an avid reader of murder mysteries. She also has a habit of stumbling upon murdered bodies. The first was her husband's, and the tragic loss led Greer to leave New York behind for a new start in the village of Raven Hill. But her new home becomes less idyllic when she discovers her best friend sprawled dead on the floor of the library. Was her friend's demise related to two other deaths that the police deemed accidental?...
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Cherry Cola Book Club volume 3
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Kensington Books
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English
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In the charming small town of Cherico, Mississippi, the Cherry Cola Book Club meets to discuss classic Southern literature, sample favorite dishes--and share their unique stories. . .
Two wonderful new chapters are unfolding for Maura Beth Mayhew, Cherico's librarian. Thanks to her persistence, a new, cutting-edge library is being built on the shores of beautiful Lake Cherico. And come September, Maura Beth will marry Jeremy McShay at his aunt and...
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Invisible Library novel volume 1
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ROC
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English
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"Collecting books can be a dangerous prospect in this fun, time-traveling, fantasy adventure from a spectacular debut author. One thing any Librarian will tell you: the truth is much stranger than fiction... Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, a shadowy organization that collects important works of fiction from all of the different realities. Most recently, she and her enigmatic assistant Kai have been sent to an alternative London....
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Zondervan
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Dear Mom and Pop, Two days ago we all spent the afternoon in palm trees. One of the village dogs broke his leash and treed the whole community. The dog is mean, but I have managed to form a cautious relationship with him by feeding him scraps from our table, and jelly beans … I hope candy doesn't hurt a dog; it hasn't hurt this dog, I can assure you. I know you're wondering about Sam … I love him with all my heart, but sometimes love isn't enough....
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