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301) El último lector
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
1. edición.
Language
Español
Description
La biblioteca de Icamole se ha quedado sin lectores. Sin embargo, los libros que la habitan se apoderan de la cotidianidad del pueblo que muere de sed y dan la respuesta a una muerte misteriosa. La de una pequena que aparece inerte dentro de la unica reserva de agua que queda: el pozo de Remigio, hijo de Lucio, el bibliotecario. Un verdugo implacable de las malas historias, mismas que entrega sin remordimiento a las cucarachas. Lucio sera el encargado...
302) Wedding duress
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tori is ecstatic to become Mrs. Milo Wentworth in a few days, but she has a lot to do before she sashays down the aisle. Favors need to be sewn, vows need to be written--and a mystifying murder needs to be solved. When Beatrice, a fellow member of the Sweet Briar Ladies Society Sewing Circle, learns that her former nanny took a fatal fall in her new employers' home, she suspects the death was not an accident. Now Tori's spending her last days as a...
303) Learning to love
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Sugar and spice: Librarian Jayne Gilbert needs a man--a man she can bring to her high school reunion. She wants to prove to her former classmates that she isn't the lonely bookworm they predicted she'd become. So, naturally, Jayne turns to a book. It's called How to Pick Up a Man. And it works, even if she attracts the attention of good-looking Riley Chambers only because she's carrying that book, not because she followed its advice!
Love by degree:...
304) Trouble in Texas
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Murphy, Bramble's prim and proper librarian, has sworn off men, but Brant Cates' kisses melt her resolve faster than ice cream on a hot day. Brant needs Elizabeth to help solve his great-granddaddy's murder and put his past to rest but is this buttoned-up beauty the future for Bramble's newest bad boy?
Author
Series
Christmas in Evergreen volume 3
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Katie, an author struggling to write her second novel, heads to Evergreen, Vermont for a holiday retreat--only to get an assignment to write an article about the town. On the train, she meets Ben, a former big-city reporter who's now a librarian in Evergreen. Katie's initially skeptical about Evergreen's love of Christmas; the place seems too good to be true. Meanwhile, Ben's wary of Katie's intentions. He's protective of his small town, and he knows...
306) Reap what you sew
Author
Series
Southern sewing circle mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
Language
English
Description
"Tori Sinclair has found a sense of home with the Sweet Briar Ladies Society Sewing Circle. During their get-togethers, she can relax with her sewing and listen in on Sweet Briar's latest gossip. Bet when the town is chosen to be the setting of Warren Shoemaker's movie, the sewing circle gets cought up in bigger drama. With dreams of stardom, everyone is hoping to be cast as an extra - which lucky Tori is. But fame has its price, as they learn when...
307) Codex born
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Five hundred years ago, Johannes Gutenberg discovered the art of libriomancy, allowing him to reach into books to create things from their pages. Gutenberg's power brought him many enemies, and some of those enemies have waited centuries for revenge. Revenge which begins with the brutal slaughter of a wendigo in the northern Michigan town of Tamarack, a long-established werewolf territory. Libriomancer Isaac Vainio is part of Die Zwelf Portenære,...
308) Taken in
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"When a trip to the Big Apple ends in murder, the sewing circle searches for a killer who's rotten to the core"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Little Person author Zoe Zola believes that one of the unluckiest things in life is to receive an invitation--in the form of a letter edged in black--to an Agatha Christie symposium at an old Upper Peninsula hunting lodge. Her reluctance dissipates when she learns that the organizer is named Emily Brent--the name of a character poisoned by cyanide in Christie's And Then There Were None. As a dreary rain soaks the U.P., Zoe and nine other Christie...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Imagine a library-- a very special one with velvet chairs and fine-grained bookshelves, run by a librarian whose only concern is pleasing her patrons. In fact, this librarian will stop at nothing to service her readers. To fulfill her role, she has lovingly collected a vast and varied set of stories guaranteed to satisfy every lust, literary or otherwise"--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Jayne Frost volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Nocturne Falls - the town that celebrates Halloween 365 days a year. Jayne Frost is a lot of things. Winter elf, Jack Frost's daughter, Santa Claus's niece, heir to the Winter Throne and now ... private investigator. Sort of. When she buys a sealed box at an estate sale and cat-related circumstances cause that box to be opened, life in Nocturne Falls starts to go haywire. Jayne has no choice but to figure out what she unleashed and how...
312) Blitz: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"September, 1940. Three women of the Checquy, the secret organization tasked with protecting Britain from supernatural threats, stand in the sky above London and see German aircraft approach. Forbidden by law to interfere, all they can do is watch as their city is bombed. Until Pamela, the most sensible of them, breaks all the rules and brings down a Nazi bomber with her bare hands. The three resolve to tell no one about it, but they soon learn that...
313) Must love cowboys
Author
Series
Once upon a time in Texas novel volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Must love cowboys. Alice Martin doesn't regret putting her career above personal relationships; but when Beau comes to her for help, Alice decides to see what she's been missing. She'll improve Beau's reading skills if the handsome cowboy teaches her how to flirt and agrees to be her date to an upcoming wedding. But when the town's gossip mill gets going, they're forced into a fake romance to keep their deal a secret. Soon Alice is seeing Beau in...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle "Entering the Madness of Others" and offers an epigraph: "Reality is no obstacle." Indeed. This high-octane obsessive rant vaults over all obstacles, fueled by the idées fixe of a "gray little librarian" with fallen arches whose name-mr herman melvill-is merely one of the coincidences binding him to his lodestar Herman Melville ("I too resided on East 26th Street...I, too, had worked for a while at the...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Russian
Description
"Blesti︠a︡shchiĭ zhurnalist Dmitriĭ Polui︠a︡nov schital svoi︠u︡ nevestu Nadi︠u︡ Mitrofanovu devushkoĭ miloĭ, no, uvy, predskazuemoĭ. Da i chem mozhet udivitʹ skromnai︠a︡ bibliotekarsha?.. Poėtomu, kogda pogibla ee byvshai︠a︡ odnoklassnit︠s︡a, Dima ne somnevalsi︠a︡: ėto sluchaĭnostʹ. Neponi︠a︡tno tolʹko, pochemu nevesta nervnichaet i umoli︠a︡et, chtoby on rassledoval smertʹ devushki. Na pervyĭ...
Author
Series
Bookmobile cat mystery volume 10
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Late March is prime reading weather in the small northern Michigan town of Chilson. Though snowfall and cloudy skies deter outdoor activities, life inside the bookmobile is warm and cheerful. But as Minnie and Eddie are making the rounds to deliver comforting reads, they see something strange: loyal bookmobile patron Ryan Anderson making a sudden u-turn and speeding away. When Minnie discovers the police want to question Ryan about a bank robbery...
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"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,...
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"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 call...
319) Book of storms
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Pablo, twelve, and his younger brother Alex find a book on extreme weather, only to discover the book does not just discribe weather, it creates it--and only the Librarian can control the book's power.
320) Spell-bound
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
While cramming for her spelling test at an old library, Avery suddenly finds the words of her vocabulary workbook coming alive and wrapping around her --it is a cursed book, created by the evil Spellbinder, and only the Librarian can help her escape from the trap.
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