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161) Ghost walk
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
viii, 244 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Antiquarian bookseller Dido Hoare investigates the murder of a customer whose World War II past included code-breaking for the British government. The case involves an ancient manuscript of gnostic gospels.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
325 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the new owner of Pettistone's Fine Books, Darla Pettistone is determined to prove herself a worthy successor to her late great-aunt Dee, and equally determined to outwit Hamlet, the smarter-than-thou cat she inherited along with the shop. Darla's first store event is a real coup, the hottest bestselling author of the moment is holding a signing there. But when the author meets an untimely end during the event, it's ruled an accident, until Hamlet...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
You'd think a book about antiquarian bookselling wouldn't be loaded with suspense or keep us laughing, or make us shake our heads in wonder at the adventures of its 87-year-old and 84-year-old authors. But Old Books, Rare Friends does that and more as longtime partners Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern introduce us to their quite unusual love affair with books and each other. Thanks to their gift for opening up this world, we never want to leave...
165) Deadly editions
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A treasure hunt through Edinburgh gives way to a search for a villain terrorizing the city in Paige Shelton's Deadly Editions, the sixth Scottish Bookshop Mystery. Bookseller Delaney Nichols receives a mysterious cloaked visitor one evening at the Cracked Spine Bookshop. He presents to her an even more perplexing note: an invitation to an exclusive treasure hunt hosted by eccentric socialite Shelaigh O'Connor. Delaney is intrigued, but also cautious:...
166) Shelf life: romance, mystery, drama, and other page-turning adventures from a year in a bookstore
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
223 p. ; 23 cm
Language
English
167) The stolen letter
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Bookseller Delaney Nichols meets a woman who believes she is Mary, Queen of Scots, reborn. When the Cracked Spine is royally threatened, she must do all she can to save the shop. Heading back to work the day after she returns from her European honeymoon, Delaney Nichols is excited to get back to the Cracked Spine. But as she disembarks the bus and hurries toward the shop she and another woman collide, sending a stack of books the woman is carrying...
168) Trick or murder?
Author
Series
Sophie Sayers village mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Hawkesbury Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
294 p. : 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When the strange new vicar arrives in Wendlebury Barrow, his ban on Halloween not only upsets the whole village, it also threatens to scupper Sophie Sayers' fledgling romance with charismatic bookseller Hector Munro. What is the dark secret that the vicar is keeping about Hector, and whose is that body buried at the bottom of the vicarage bonfire on Guy Fawkes Night? Sophie is determined to find out."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
478 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, color portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Almost ten years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his bestseller The Everything Store. Since then, Amazon has expanded exponentially, inventing novel products like Alexa and disrupting countless industries, while its workforce has quintupled in size and its valuation has soared to well over a trillion dollars. Jeff Bezos's empire, once housed in a garage, now spans the globe. Between services like Whole Foods, Prime...
170) Movie cat
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
298 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
171) The poison pen
Author
Series
Scottish bookshop mystery volume 9
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Edinburgh is mourning recent the death of Queen Elizabeth II when Bookseller Delaney Nichols's boss comes to her with a most unusual assignment. An old friend of his, living in an estate in the village of Roslin, has found what could be a priceless relic on her property, and Delaney is tasked with investigating. Could Jolie possibly have an item of breathtaking Scottish historical significance in her possession? But when Delaney arrives at Jolie's...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The House of Twenty Thousand Books is journalist Sasha Abramsky's elegy to the vanished intellectual world of his grandparents, Chimen and Miriam, and their vast library of socialist literature and Jewish history. A rare book dealer and self-educated polymath who would go on to teach at Oxford and consult for Sotheby's, Chimen Abramsky drew great writers and thinkers like Isaiah Berlin and Eric Hobsbawm to his north London home; his library grew...
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
©2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Helene Hanff is a New Yorker who loves books but cannot afford expensive ones. When she sees an ad in the Saturday Review for a London bookstore, she sends them her want list and is soon delighted to receive a package of used books - good readable editions, cheap. She begins a correspondence with the bookseller, Frank Doel. Built on a basis of mutually held taste, knowledge, interests and consideration, the bond between the lonely New Yorker and the...
174) Goodbye again
Author
Series
Wyndham Beach volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
511 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2010], p2008
Physical Desc
5 sound discs (ca. 5 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
This collection brings together essays from the four volumes of Christopher Milne's memoirs. From his much publicized childhood on Cotchford Farm to his war experiences, his marriage, and his proprietorship of a successful bookshop in a small English town, the life of the famous author's son was one of much joy and some pain. It was also one of deep introspection. The selected writings offered here illuminate the shy, quiet man who was a thoughtful...
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