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Series: Wild Fell Fighting for nature on a Lake District hill farm Hardcover Lee Schofield 9780857527752 $42.95 NATURE Apr 26, 2022

’I found myself turning the pages with an inward leap of joy’ - Isabella Tree*Highly Commended in the James Cropper Wainwright Prize for Conservation*In 2015, England’s last and loneliest golden eagle died in an unmarked spot among the remote eastern fells of the Lake District. It was a tragic day for the nation’s wildlife, but the fight to restore the landscape had already begun.Lee Schofield, ecologist and site manager for RSPB Haweswater is leading efforts to breathe life back into two hill farms and their thirty square kilometres of sprawli... + Read More
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Series: Starry, Starry Night Paperback Marcia Willett 9780552177207 $19.99 FICTION Jun 28, 2022

’We’ll always be together, won’t we?’Childhood friends and cousins Leo and Alice had imagined their whole lives playing out on their beloved Devon beach. But one night when they are teens, sitting on the sand beneath the stars, Alice tells Leo a secret that must never be shared with anybody else…then packs her bag and flees.Leo is left to build his own life - without Alice. He surrounds himself with other family and friends and on the whole is content and fulfilled. But he is left with a sense of what - or who - is missing. So decades later, wh... + Read More
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Series: Summer of Love From the #1 bestselling author of uplifting feel-good fiction Paperback Katie Fforde 9780099539148 $19.99 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

A wonderfully romantic novel from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of A Rose Petal Summer, A Summer at Sea and A Wedding in the Country.’The queen of uplifting, feel good romance’ AJ PEARCE’Effortlessly lovable, warm and fun’ CLOSER’Katie Fforde is on sparkling form’ INDEPENDENT’Top-drawer romantic escapism’ DAILY MAIL____________________Who knows what might happen in a summer of love?Sian Bishop has left the hustle and bustle of the city behind and has thrown herself into a new life in the country. With her young son, her picture-post... + Read More
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Series: Walking on Sunshine Paperback Giovanna Fletcher 9781405926126 $19.99 FICTION Aug 16, 2022

The heart-warming and uplifting Sunday Times bestseller from Giovanna Fletcher’This book is beautiful’ ZOE BALL’Lovely, very moving. Giovanna’s books are very very relatable’ LORRAINE KELLYIt’s always darkest before the dawn…________After Mike loses Pia, his partner of seventeen years, best friends Vicky and Zaza rally round.But the truth is, in Pia’s absence, they all need more than a little help…Just-engaged Zaza fears the next step. Mum Vicky has lost sight of herself. And Mike can’t figure out how to start again.Luckily, Pia left a list of ... + Read More
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Series: One More Christmas at the Castle Hardcover Trisha Ashley 9781787634725 $31.99 FICTION Dec 28, 2021

’The ultimate in feelgood fiction reads, it will fill your heart with Christmas spirit.’ Milly Johnson, author of Woman in the Middle’Warm-hearted and witty, this is an absolute delight.’ Hazel Prior, bestselling author of Away with the PenguinsThis Christmas will be the most special of them all…Elderly widow Sabine knows this will be her last Christmas in her beloved home, Mitras Castle. Determined to make it just like the ones she remembers from her childhood, she employs Dido Jones of Heavenly Houseparties to help with the big day.Dido is en... + Read More
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Series: How the Penguins Saved Veronica Paperback Hazel Prior 9780735238107 $24.95 FICTION Jun 16, 2020

“A glorious, life-affirming story. I read it in a day. I’m going to buy it for so many people this year!”—Clare Mackintosh, New York Times bestselling author of Let Me LieA heartwarming story about a curmudgeonly but charming old woman, her estranged grandson, and a colony of penguins that proves it’s never too late to be the person you want to be…and that family is what you make it.After a disastrous first meeting with the grandson she never knew she had, eighty-four-year-old Veronica McCreedy wants to find a worthwhile cause to endow with her... + Read More
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Series: The Beach Trap Paperback Ali Brady 9780593440155 $23.00 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

Two best friends torn apart by a life-altering secret. One summer to set the record straight.When twelve-year-olds Kat Steiner and Blake O’Neill meet at Camp Chickawah, they have an instant connection. But everything falls apart when they learn they’re not just best friends—they’re also half sisters. Confused and betrayed, the girls break off all contact.Fifteen years later, when their father dies suddenly, Kat and Blake discover he’s left them a joint inheritance: the family beach house in Destin, Florida. The two sisters are immediately at od... + Read More
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Series: The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie Paperback Rachel Linden 9780593440193 $23.00 FICTION Aug 02, 2022

An uplifting novel about a heartbroken young pie maker who is granted a magical second chance to live the life she didn’t choose…. from the bestselling author of The Enlightenment of Bees.Lolly Blanchard’s life only seems to give her lemons. Ten years ago, after her mother’s tragic death, she broke up with her first love and abandoned her dream of opening a restaurant in order to keep her family’s struggling Seattle diner afloat and care for her younger sister and grieving father. Now, a decade later, she dutifully whips up the diner’s famous l... + Read More
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Series: LOVE & TACOS Ramón and Julieta Paperback Alana Quintana Albertson 9780593336229 $22.00 FICTION Feb 01, 2022

When fate and tacos bring Ramón and Julieta together on the Day of the Dead, the star-crossed pair must make a choice: accept the bitter food rivalry that drives them apart or surrender to a love that consumes them.Ramón Montez always achieves his goals. Whether that means collecting Ivy League degrees or growing his father’s fast-food empire, nothing sets Ramón off course. So when the sexy señorita who kissed him on the Day of the Dead runs off into the night with his heart, he determines to do whatever it takes to find her again. Celebrity ch... + Read More
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Series: Vagina Obscura An Anatomical Voyage Hardcover Rachel E Gross 9781324006312 $40.00 SCIENCE Mar 29, 2022

Shortlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction A New York Times Editors’ Choice A Science Friday Best Science Book to Read This Summer A myth-busting voyage into the female body. A camera obscura reflects the world back but dimmer and inverted. Similarly, science has long viewed woman through a warped lens, one focused narrowly on her capacity for reproduction. As a result, there exists a vast knowledge gap when it comes to what we know about half of the bodies on the planet. That is finally changing. Today, a new ... + Read More
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Series: Flying Solo A Novel Hardcover Linda Holmes 9780525619277 $37.00 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

A woman returns to her small Maine hometown, uncovering family secrets that take her on a journey of self-discovery and new love, in this warm and charming novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over.Smarting from her recently canceled wedding and about to turn forty, Laurie Sassalyn returns to her Maine hometown of Calcasset to handle the estate of her great-aunt Dot, a spirited adventurer who lived to be ninety-three. Alongside boxes of Polaroids and pottery, a mysterious wooden duck shows up at the bottom of a... + Read More
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Series: Evvie Drake Starts Over A Novel Paperback Linda Holmes 9780525619260 $23.00 FICTION Jun 02, 2020

From the host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, comes a heartfelt debut about the unlikely relationship between a young woman who’s lost her husband and a major league pitcher who’s lost his game—an instant New York Times bestseller.In a small town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth “Evvie” Drake rarely leaves her house. Everyone in town, including her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and she doesn’t correct them. In New York, Dean Tenney, former major-league pitcher and Andy’s childhood friend, is struggling with... + Read More
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Series: Well-Behaved Indian Women Paperback Saumya Dave 9781984806154 $22.00 FICTION Jul 14, 2020

From a compelling new voice in women’s fiction comes a mother-daughter story about three generations of women who struggle to define themselves as they pursue their dreams.Simran Mehta has always felt harshly judged by her mother, Nandini, especially when it comes to her little “writing hobby.” But when a charismatic and highly respected journalist careens into Simran’s life, she begins to question not only her future as a psychologist, but her engagement to her high school sweetheart.Nandini Mehta has strived to create an easy life for her chi... + Read More
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Series: Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop Paperback Roselle Lim 9781984803276 $22.00 FICTION Aug 04, 2020

Become enamored with the splendor of Paris in this heartwarming and delightful story about writing one’s own destiny and finding love along the way.Vanessa Yu never wanted to see people’s fortunes—or misfortunes—in tea leaves.Ever since she can remember, Vanessa Yu has been able to see people’s fortunes at the bottom of their teacups. To avoid blurting out their fortunes, she converts to coffee, but somehow fortunes escape and find a way to complicate her life and the ones of those around her. To add to this plight, her romance life is so nonex... + Read More
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Series: The Marriage Game Paperback Sara Desai 9780593100561 $22.00 FICTION Jun 09, 2020

It’s a clash of culture in this romantic comedy about arranged marriages from Sara Desai.Layla Santos is the child of first-generation immigrants from India. Her parents run a Michelin-starred Indian restaurant in San Francisco and are very traditional in their ways, including a firm belief in the benefit of arranged marriages. Her father, thinking he knows best, signs Layla up for IndianGirlMatch.com and sets up a series of dates without telling her….Sam Mehta is the self-made CEO of a corporate consultancy specializing in downsizing. Also the... + Read More
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Series: Rules for Visiting A Novel Paperback Jessica Francis Kane 9780525559245 $23.00 FICTION Apr 28, 2020

A beguiling story about the mysteries of friendship and what it takes to hold onto the people who know us bestMay Attaway, a dry, witty, and unapologetic narrator, loves literature and her work as a botanist for the university in her hometown, where she lives with her elderly father and holds herself and everyone around her to exactingly high standards. More at home with plants than people, May begins to suspect she isn’t very good at friendship, and she wonders if it’s possible to improve with practice. Granted some leave from her job, May set... + Read More
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Series: Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting A Novel Paperback Clare Pooley 9780735238459 $22.95 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

Nobody ever talks to strangers on the train. It’s a rule. But what would happen if they did? From the New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author of The Authenticity Project, a heartwarming novel about unexpected friendships and the joy of connecting.Every day Iona, a larger-than-life magazine advice columnist, travels the ten stops from Hampton Court to Waterloo Station by train, accompanied by her dog, Lulu. Every day she sees the same people, whom she knows only by nickname: Impossibly-Pretty-Constant-Reader and Terribly-Lonely-Tee... + Read More
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Series: Chorus A Novel Hardcover Rebecca Kauffman 9781640095182 $34.00 FICTION Mar 01, 2022

For readers of Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout, and Claire Lombardo, Chorus shepherds seven siblings through two life-altering events—their mother’s untimely death, and a shocking teenage pregnancy—that ultimately follow them through their lives as individuals and as a familyThe seven Shaw siblings have long been haunted by two early and profoundly consequential events. Told in turns from the early twentieth century through the 1950s, each sibling relays their own version of the memories that surround both their mother’s mysterious death and the ... + Read More
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Series: The Four Humors Hardcover Mina Seckin 9781646220465 $35.00 FICTION Nov 16, 2021

This wry and visceral debut novel follows a young Turkish-American woman who, rather than grieving her father’s untimely death, seeks treatment for a stubborn headache and grows obsessed with a centuries-old theory of medicine.Twenty-year-old Sibel thought she had concrete plans for the summer. She would care for her grandmother in Istanbul, visit her father’s grave, and study for the MCAT. Instead, she finds herself watching Turkish soap operas and self-diagnosing her own possible chronic illness with the four humors theory of ancient medicine... + Read More
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Series: Chasing the Italian Dream Paperback Jo Thomas 9780552176866 $16.99 FICTION Jul 27, 2021

From the bestselling author of Escape to the French Farmhouse comes a deliciously feel-good story about making your dreams come true, set in sun-kissed southern Italy.’A tale full of wonderful characters, sunshine, food and romance. A winning recipe!’ Katie Fforde——-A summer escape she’ll never forget…Lucia has worked hard as a lawyer in Wales, aiming for a big promotion she hopes will shortly come her way. Finally taking a well-earned break at her grandparents’ house in southern Italy, the sunshine, lemon trees and her nonna’s mouth-watering ... + Read More
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Series: The Garden House a sweeping story about family and buried secrets set in Devon Paperback Marcia Willett 9780552175081 $19.99 FICTION May 25, 2021

’A warm and engaging read’ Trisha Ashley’Lovely…Made me long for a long hot summer by the sea’ Jo ThomasA sweeping story about family and buried secrets set in Devon, perfect for fans of Erica James and Veronica Henry.After the death of her father, El moves into his home just outside Tavistock in Devon. Fresh out of university and dangling on the precipice of adulthood she questions what it is she really wants from life. Although her childhood friend, Will, is there to help her through her grief she soon realises there were things her father wa... + Read More
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Series: From the Jump Paperback Lacie Waldon 9780593328279 $23.00 FICTION Jul 19, 2022

A chronic yes-woman finally admits to what—and who—she really wants in this unforgettable and heartfelt romantic comedy, by the author of The Layover.Liv Bakersfield is used to living her life in “shoulds.” Be fit. Be financially responsible. Be your best self. An overworked graphic designer, she’s stretched so thin that she’s about to miss yet another vacation with her beloved group of college friends. But when Liv finally decides to start saying no, it feels good…good enough to leap straight into quitting her job and hopping on a plane to joi... + Read More
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Series: The Charmed Wife Paperback Olga Grushin 9780593085523 $23.00 FICTION Jan 11, 2022

From the award-winning author comes a sophisticated literary fairy tale for the twenty-first century, in which Cinderella is on the brink of leaving her supposedly perfect life behind.Cinderella married the man of her dreams—the perfect ending she deserved after diligently following all the fairy-tale rules. Yet now, two children and thirteen and a half years later, things have gone badly wrong and her life is far from perfect. One night, fed up, she sneaks out of the palace to get help from the Witch who—for a price—offers love potions to disg... + Read More
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Series: The Bright Side Running Club A novel of breast cancer, best friends, and jogging for your life. Paperback Josie Lloyd 9781643859491 $22.99 FICTION Feb 08, 2022

Josie Lloyd’s fearless novel is a tribute to the power of the human spirit in the face of hardship, based on the author’s own experience with cancer and community. In the vein of Mary Ellen Taylor’s Honeysuckle Season this “amazing, breathtaking, and inspiring” (Jenny Colgan) novel is full of hope and heart.When Keira first receives her breast cancer diagnosis, she never expects to end up joining a running group with three women she’s only just met. Totally blind-sided, all she can think about is how she doesn’t want to tell her family or step ... + Read More
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Series: TEA BY THE SEA MYSTERIES Murder in a Teacup Paperback Vicki Delany 9781496725103 $22.95 FICTION Jun 28, 2022

In national bestselling author Vicki Delany’s second delightful Tea by the Sea mystery, Cape Cod tearoom proprietress and part-time sleuth, Lily Roberts, stirs up trouble when she unwittingly serves one of her grandmother’s B&B guests a deadly cup of tea…Lily has her work cut out for her when a visit from her grandmother Rose’s dear friend, Sandra McHenry, turns into an unexpected—and unpleasant—McHenry family reunion. The squabbling boils over and soon Tea by the Sea’s serene afternoon service resembles the proverbial tempest in a teapot. Some... + Read More
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Series: GILDED NEWPORT MYSTERY, A Murder at Wakehurst Paperback Alyssa Maxwell 9781496720771 $22.95 FICTION Jun 28, 2022

In the ninth installment of the glittering Gilded Newport Mystery series from Alyssa Maxwell, during the autumnal chill of Newport, Rhode Island at the close of the nineteenth century, journalist Emma Cross discovers an instance of cold-blooded murder on the grounds of Wakehurst Mansion…Following the death of her uncle, Cornelius Vanderbilt, in September 1899, a somber Emma is in no mood for one of Newport’s extravagant parties. But to keep Vanderbilt’s reckless son Neily out of trouble, she agrees to accompany him to an Elizabethan fête on the... + Read More
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Series: HONEY CREEK NOVEL, A Picnic in Someday Valley Paperback Jodi Thomas 9781420151329 $11.99 FICTION Mar 29, 2022

The charming and uplifting new novel from the legendary author of dozens of unforgettable romances! Travel to the small town of Honey Creek where ties run deep and happiness is just around the next river bend…“It’s the novel’s patchwork of tender, slow-building relationships between quirky, caring characters that keeps the pages turning. Readers will be pleased.”— Publishers WeeklyMarcie Latimer longs to run away from Someday Valley—especially since her ex-boyfriend spun a web of lies that almost led to tragedy in neighboring Honey Creek. Littl... + Read More
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Series: HONEY CREEK NOVEL, A Sunday at the Sunflower Inn A Heartwarming Texas Love Story Paperback Jodi Thomas 9781420151374 $21.95 FICTION Apr 26, 2022

Fans of Carolyn Brown and B.J. Daniels will adore this slice of Americana delivered with warmth, endearing characters, and authentic Texan flair. The legendary New York Times and USA Today bestselling author brings a sense of nostalgia to the town in this delightful journey of second chances.Jessica Ann McKenzie—“Jam” to everyone in Honey Creek—has fulfilled her dream of owning the best restaurant for miles around. Serving candlelit dinners to every couple in town on Valentine’s Day is a reminder of another dream, one she’s just about given up ... + Read More
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Series: VINEYARD NOVEL, A A Vineyard Wedding Paperback Jean Stone 9781496737656 $21.95 FICTION Apr 26, 2022

For fans of Debbie Macomber and Elin Hilderbrand, Jean Stone’s “lovingly rendered” (Booklist) Vineyard novels are heartwarming beach reads set on beautiful Martha’s Vineyard, featuring bestselling mystery author and Vineyard Inn proprietor Annie Sutton. Now Annie’s wedding is just around the corner—but so is trouble that may cast a shadow over her plans, and her future.Finding love on Martha’s Vineyard has been a dream come true—but for the bride-to-be, the price of happiness may be too high… With her long-awaited wedding to police sergeant Joh... + Read More
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Series: An Enchanted Bay Mystery A Spell for Trouble An Enchanted Bay Mystery Hardcover Esme Addison 9781643853031 $35.99 Jul 07, 2020

Fans of Ellery Adams and Heather Blake will be charmed by this seaside cozy mystery series full of humor and heart, mermaids and magicAleksandra Daniels hasn’t set foot in the quiet seaside town of Bellamy Bay, North Carolina in over twenty years. Ever since her mother’s tragic death, her father has mysteriously forbidden her from visiting her aunt and cousins. But on a whim, Alex accepts an invitation to visit her estranged relatives and to help them in their family business: an herbal apothecary known for its remarkably potent teas, salves, a... + Read More
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Series: A Perveen Mistry Novel The Satapur Moonstone Paperback Sujata Massey 9781641291316 $20.95 FICTION Mar 10, 2020

The highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed novel The Widows of Malabar Hill.India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri mountains, where the princely state of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur’s royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic hunting accident. The state is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapur’s two maharanis, the dowager queen and her daughter-in-law. The royal ladies are... + Read More
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Series: Pen & Ink Murder Outside the Lines Paperback Krista Davis 9781496724632 $21.95 FICTION Sep 28, 2021

Includes A Front and Back Cover for You to Color! With Halloween just around the corner, the fall colors in Georgetown are brilliant. As manager of the Color Me Read bookstore, coloring book creator Florrie Fox has arranged for psychic author Hilda Rattenhorst to read from Spooktacular Ghost Stories. But the celebrity medium arrives for the event in hysterics, insisting she just saw a bare foot sticking out of a rolled-up carpet in a nearby alley. Is someone trying to sweep murder under the rug? Florrie calls in her policeman beau, Sergeant E... + Read More
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Series: Tea by the Sea Mysteries Tea & Treachery Hardcover Vicki Delany 9781496725066 $35.00 FICTION Jul 28, 2020

In this charming new cozy mystery series from national bestselling author Vicki Delany, a New York City expat-turned-Cape Cod tea shop owner must solve the murder of a local real estate developer to help her feisty grandmother out of a jam . . . As the proud proprietor and head pastry chef of Tea by the Sea, a traditional English tearoom on the picturesque bluffs of Cape Cod, Lily Roberts has her hands full, often literally. But nothing keeps her busier than steering her sassy grandmother, Rose, away from trouble. Rose operates the grand old ... + Read More
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Series: The Essence of Perfection Paperback Nita Brooks 9781496721945 $21.95 FICTION Mar 31, 2020

Wickedly entertaining, insightful, and always surprising, Nita Brooks delivers a delicious new novel about a celebrity perfume designer forced to add a daring new ingredient to her carefully curated life… Among the uber-famous, she’s the most highly sought-after fragrance maker—and a well-kept secret. But designing a scent for pop’s newest superstar could take Nicola King and her family’s business from elite to downright legendary. Of course, mystery is part of Nicola’s brand—so no one knows she’s actually an over-cautious person who always p... + Read More
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Series: BEYOND THE PAGE BOOKSTORE A Margin for Murder A Charming Bookish Cozy Mystery Paperback Lauren Elliott 9781496735133 $11.99 FICTION Apr 26, 2022

In the riveting new mystery from the USA Today bestselling author, a murder and a missing first edition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses send rare bookstore owner Addie Greyborne on an investigation to challenge even the most distinguished of bibliophiles…Addie leaves her Greyborne Harbor bookstore, Beyond the Page Books and Curios, in the capable hands of her assistant while she travels to the neighboring town of Pen Hollow to attend a book sale at a library that is closing due to lack of funding. But the real find is a b... + Read More
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Series: A Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery Murder by the Book Paperback Lauren Elliott 9781496720191 $8.99 FICTION Oct 30, 2018

Addie Greyborne loved working with rare books at the Boston Public Library—she even got to play detective, tracking down clues about mysterious old volumes. But she didn’t expect her sleuthing skills to come in so handy in a little seaside town … Addie left some painful memories behind in the big city, including the unsolved murder of her fiancé and her father’s fatal car accident. After an unexpected inheritance from a great aunt, she’s moved to a small New England town founded by her ancestors back in colonial times—and living in spacious G... + Read More
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Series: Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores True Tales and Lost Moments from Book Buyers, Booksellers, and Book Lovers Hardcover Bob Eckstein 9780553459272 $29.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 04, 2016

A beautifully packaged gift book from New Yorker cartoonist Bob Eckstein in which he showcases the world’s most beloved bookstores with one-of-a-kind illustrations and charming personal anecdotes from owners, clerks, and customers.Based on the author’s popular series for The New Yorker (in which he profiled New York’s best bookstores), Footnotes from the World’s Greatest Bookstores is a collection of illustrations and anecdotes from around the world, celebrating beloved bookshops and the people who work (and shop) in them. Each shop is profiled... + Read More
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Series: The Book of CarolSue Paperback Lynne Hugo 9781496725677 $21.95 FICTION Aug 25, 2020

Award-winning author Lynne Hugo returns with a life-affirming, poignant novel in the spirit of A Man Called Ove—a story brimming with both wit and warmth about how a family gets on…and goes on. CarolSue and her sister, Louisa, are best friends, but haven’t had much in common since CarolSue married Charlie, moved to Atlanta, and swapped shoes covered with Indiana farm dust for pedicures and afternoon bridge. Louisa, meanwhile, loves her farm and animals as deeply as she’d loved Harold, her late husband of forty years. Charlie’s sudden death ... + Read More
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Series: A Jane Wunderly Mystery Murder at the Mena House Hardcover Erica Ruth Neubauer 9781496725851 $35.00 FICTION Mar 31, 2020

Well-heeled travelers from around the world flock to the Mena House Hotel—an exotic gem in the heart of Cairo where cocktails flow, adventure dispels the aftershocks of World War I, and deadly dangers wait in the shadows… A 2020 Agatha Award NomineeEgypt, 1926.Fiercely independent American Jane Wunderly has made up her mind: she won’t be swept off her feet on a trip abroad. Despite her Aunt Millie’s best efforts, the young widow would rather gaze at the Great Pyramids of Giza than into the eyes of a dashing stranger. Yet Jane’s plans to remain ... + Read More
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Series: The Sunday Potluck Club The Sunday Potluck Club Paperback Melissa Storm 9781496726643 $21.95 FICTION Mar 31, 2020

“A poignant and touching story of friendship, love and healing. Perfect for your book club!”—#1 New York Times bestselling author, Barbara FreethyA recipe for living… New friends can be found in unexpected places. For Bridget and Amy, that place was the cancer ward of an Anchorage hospital. Now, as each struggles to overcome loss, they lean on each other for support—sharing suppers, laughter and tears. Bridget and Amy aren’t about to let hardship knock them down—Bridget plans to return to her veterinarian school studies, Amy to her position... + Read More
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Series: The Weight of the Heart Paperback Susana Aikin 9781496725158 $21.95 FICTION May 26, 2020

Set in contemporary Spain, Susana Aikin’s latest novel is a colorful, beautifully written examination of memory, romance, and the intricacies of family duty. On a sweltering August day in Madrid, Anna, Julia, and Marion return to their childhood home. The once grand mansion, furnished with exotic objects and art that reflected the cultures of their English father and Spanish mother, once bustled with visitors. But since their father’s death, all three sisters have been reluctant to go back, still feeling the weight of his domineering influenc... + Read More
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Series: A Bookmobile Mystery Better Off Read A Bookmobile Mystery Hardcover Nora Page 9781683316435 $35.99 FICTION May 08, 2018

When her best hope of saving her storm-damaged library is found murdered, senior librarian Cleo Watkins hits the road in her bookmobile in search of justice.Septuagenarian librarian Cleo Watkins won’t be shushed when an upstart young mayor threatens to permanently shelve her tiny town’s storm-damaged library. She takes to her bookmobile, Words on Wheels, to collect allies and rally library support throughout Catalpa Springs, Georgia.However, Cleo soon rolls into trouble. A major benefactor known for his eccentric DIY projects requests all avail... + Read More
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Series: Keys to Love Island Affair A Fun Summer Love Story Paperback Priscilla Oliveras 9781420150179 $21.95 FICTION Apr 28, 2020

From the USA Today bestselling author of West Side Love Story, an acclaimed romantic comedy series with its own set of complex family dynamics set in Key West, Florida filled with humor, fake dating, Latinx culture, and perfect for summer beach reading…Goodreads, Bookish, & Glitter Guide Best Of & Most Anticipated Books | Kirkus Reviews, Bookpage, Booktrib, & Smexy Books Most Anticipated Romances | Frolic Book of the Week “I finished Island Affair with a big smile on my face. I can’t decide what I adored more: Luis and Sara’s love story; their ... + Read More
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Series: A Honey Creek Novel Breakfast at the Honey Creek Café Paperback Jodi Thomas 9781420151282 $21.95 FICTION May 26, 2020

A Publishers Weekly Bestseller!From Jodi Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of Mornings on Main and Indigo Lake, comes this heartwarming new novel set in Honey Creek, Texas—a small town where family bonds and legends run deep, and friendship and love are always close at hand… Piper Jane Mackenzie, mayor of Honey Creek, won’t let a major scandal rip her quirky hometown apart, or jeopardize her dream of one day running for higher office. So she’s willing to welcome undercover detective Colby McBride, hired to help solve the mystery behin... + Read More
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Series: MYSTERY BOOKSHOP Bookclubbed to Death Paperback V.M. Burns 9781496739469 $22.95 FICTION Dec 27, 2022

When a literary critic is found bludgeoned to death with a copy of The Complete Works of Agatha Christie, Michigan bookstore owner, author, and amateur sleuth Samantha Washington discovers there is such a thing as bad publicity in Agatha Award finalist V.M. Burns’ latest Mystery Bookshop novel.After the local library in North Harbor, Michigan, is flooded in a storm, Sam offers her bookstore as a new venue for the Mystery Mavens Book Club. Unfortunately, she immediately runs afoul of the club leader, Delia Marshall, a book reviewer who can make ... + Read More
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Series: IRISH VILLAGE MYSTERY, AN Murder in an Irish Bookshop A Cozy Irish Murder Mystery Paperback Carlene O'Connor 9781496730824 $11.99 FICTION Jan 25, 2022

“Queen of the cozy police procedural (Publishers Weekly),” USA Today bestselling author Carlene O’Connor’s seventh Irish Village Mystery brings a whodunit that tests even Garda Siobhán O’Sullivan, as the grand opening of a new bookstore in County Cork, Ireland’s village of Kilbane ends up closing the chapter on an author’s life… Between training the new town garda and trying to set a wedding date with her fiancé, Macdara Flannery, Siobhán is feeling a bit overwhelmed. But an author event at the new bookstore featuring Irish writers taking up r... + Read More
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Series: A SWEET FICTION BOOKSHOP MYSTE A Poisonous Page Hardcover Kitt Crowe 9781643859200 $35.99 FICTION Jul 12, 2022

Kitt Crowe’s second Sweet Fiction Bookshop mystery whips up an array of intriguing suspects and motives into a diabolically deft read, perfect for fans of Jenn McKinlay and Joanne Fluke.It’s summer festival time in Confection, Oregon, and that means a barrage of tourists making cash registers ring at Sweet Fiction Bookshop. But what should be bookseller Lexi’s most lucrative time of year turns disturbing when a member of the chamber of commerce suddenly dies of a heart attack. Not entirely unexpected—considering her family history—but it’s a ... + Read More
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Series: The Bookshop of Second Chances A Novel Paperback Jackie Fraser 9780593355657 $23.00 FICTION May 04, 2021

A woman desperate to turn a new page heads to the Scottish coast and finds herself locked in a battle of wills with an infuriatingly aloof bookseller in this utterly heartwarming debut, perfect for readers of Evvie Drake Starts Over.“Humor and charm abound. . . . [This] love story hits the spot.”—Publishers WeeklyThea Mottram is having a bad month. She’s been let go from her office job with no notice—and to make matters even worse, her husband of nearly twenty years has decided to leave her for one of her friends. Bewildered and completely lost... + Read More
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Series: A Magical Bookshop Mystery Prose and Cons Paperback Amanda Flower 9780451477453 $10.99 FICTION Dec 06, 2016

Magic, books, and cats collide in the latest mystery from the author of Crime and Poetry…October in Cascade Springs means tourists pouring in for the annual Food and Wine Festival, and Daisy hopes to draw those crowds to the store. She asks Violet and the local writing group to give a reading of the works of Edgar Allan Poe on the shop’s front porch to entertain the revelers. Everyone eagerly agrees.Yet their enthusiasm is soon extinguished when Violet discovers one of the writers dead in the shop moments before the event. After the shop magica... + Read More
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Series: Homecomings Paperback Marcia Willett 9780552172936 $19.99 FICTION Jun 25, 2019

At the end of the row of fishermen’s cottages by the harbour’s edge, stands an old granite house.First it belonged to Ned’s parents; then Ned dropped anchor here after a life at sea and called it home. His nephew Hugo moved in too, swapping London for the small Cornish fishing village where he’d spent so many happy holidays.It’s a refuge – and now other friends and relations are being drawn to the the house by the sea.Among them is Dossie, who’s lonely after her parents died and her son’s family moved away. And cousin Jamie, who’s coming home a... + Read More
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Series: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series The Black Prince Vintage Classics Murdoch Series Paperback Iris Murdoch 9781784875183 $22.99 FICTION Aug 27, 2019

Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.’ ’A source of wonders and delight’ Spectator Ex-tax collector and author of two unpopular novels, Bradley Pearson wishes to devote his retirement to writing a masterpiece. But the doorbell and the phone keep ringing, and every ring brings with it an ex-wife, a friend in need, a sister in trouble or a young woman seeking a teacher, and so dusty, selfish Bradley is plunged into the muddles and mysteries which will end in his doom. Winner of the... + Read More
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Series: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series The Sandcastle Vintage Classics Murdoch Series Paperback Iris Murdoch 9781784875176 $21.99 FICTION Aug 27, 2019

It's all dry sand running through the fingers.' When Bill Mor falls in love with Rain Carter he discovers a new way of being and a new joy in the world and his surroundings. To be with Rain he must abandon his prosaic life as a schoolmaster, his domineering wife Nan and his troubled teenaged children. He must draw on the powers of selfishness, hatred and anger in order to make the final break. But what love could survive all that violence? WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BIDISHA VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearles... + Read More
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Series: The Pet Shop at Pennycombe Bay Paperback Sheila Norton 9781785034220 $16.99 FICTION Apr 23, 2019

A heartwarming and uplifting tale of community, friendship and love to curl up with this summer – perfect for fans of Phillipa Ashley, Milly Johnson and Jill Mansell.’A thoroughly enjoyable read’ Katie Fforde, Sunday Times bestselling author of A Country EscapeWhen the going gets ruff, it’s time to make a change…In need of a fresh start, Jess has moved to the beautiful Devon seaside town of Pennycombe Bay. However it isn’t the new beginning she was hoping for – she enjoys her new job at the local pet shop but feels like she’s treading on eggshe... + Read More
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Series: A Fairly Honourable Defeat Vintage Classics Murdoch Series Paperback Iris Murdoch 9781784875596 $21.99 FICTION Aug 27, 2019

I feel there are demons around.’ Everyone is thinking about Julius King. For comfortable, long-married Hilda and Rupert, he is a mystery. For Morgan, Hilda’s tormented sister, he is an obsession. For Morgan’s abandoned husband, Tallis, he is the source of ruin. For Simon and Axel, deeply in love, he stirs up jealousy and unease. What is Julius thinking about? He’s thinking about Hilda, Rupert, Morgan, Tallis, Simon and Axel, and they will not all survive his malevolent attention. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GARTH GREENWELL VIN... + Read More
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Series: A Country Escape Paperback Katie Fforde 9780099579441 $14.99 FICTION Mar 29, 2019

A YEAR IN THE COUNTRY. A YEAR TO FALL IN LOVE. The BRAND NEW deliciously romantic novel from the Sunday Times Number One Bestselling Author of A Summer At Sea and A Secret Garden.Fran has always wanted to be a farmer, so how she ended up a chef in London is anyone’s guess. But her childhood dream is about to come true. She has just moved in to a beautiful but very run-down farm in the Cotswolds, currently owned by an old aunt who has told Fran that if she manages to turn the place around in a year, the farm will be hers.But Fran knows nothing a... + Read More
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Series: The Last Chance Library Paperback Freya Sampson 9780593201381 $22.00 FICTION Aug 31, 2021

June Jones emerges from her shell to fight for her beloved local library, and through the efforts and support of an eclectic group of library patrons, she discovers life-changing friendships along the way.Lonely librarian June Jones has never left the sleepy English village where she grew up. Shy and reclusive, the thirty-year-old would rather spend her time buried in books than venture out into the world. But when her library is threatened with closure, June is forced to emerge from behind the shelves to save the heart of her community and the... + Read More
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Series: The Roughest Draft Paperback Emily Wibberley 9780593201930 $22.00 FICTION Jan 25, 2022

They were cowriting literary darlings until they hit a plot hole that turned their lives upside down.Three years ago, Katrina Freeling and Nathan Van Huysen were the brightest literary stars on the horizon, their cowritten book topping bestseller lists. But on the heels of their greatest success, they ended their partnership on bad terms, for reasons neither would divulge to the public. They haven’t spoken since, and never planned to, except they have one final book due on contract.Facing crossroads in their personal and professional lives, the... + Read More
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Series: Seoulmates Paperback Jen Frederick 9780593100165 $22.00 FICTION Jan 25, 2022

A Korean-American adoptee fights to be with the one she loves while coming to terms with her new identity in this enthralling romantic drama and sequel to Heart and Seoul by USA Today bestselling author Jen Frederick.When Hara Wilson lands in Seoul to find her birth mother, she doesn’t plan on falling in love with the first man she lays eyes on, but Choi Yujun is irresistible. If his broad shoulders and dimples weren’tenough, Choi Yujun is the most genuine, decent, gorgeous guy to exist. Too bad he’s also her stepbrother.Fate brought her to the... + Read More
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Series: Dangerous Damsels The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels Paperback India Holton 9780593200162 $22.00 FICTION Jun 15, 2021

“The kind of book for which the word “rollicking” was invented.”—New York Times Book ReviewA prim and proper lady thief must save her aunt from a crazed pirate and his dangerously charming henchman in this fantastical historical romance.Cecilia Bassingwaite is the ideal Victorian lady. She’s also a thief. Like the other members of the Wisteria Society crime sorority, she flies around England drinking tea, blackmailing friends, and acquiring treasure by means far more interesting than purchase. Sure, she has a dark and traumatic past and an over... + Read More
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Series: Wait For It Paperback Jenn McKinlay 9780593101377 $22.00 FICTION Aug 10, 2021

A woman looking for a new lease on life moves to Arizona where she rents a guest house on a gorgeous property with a mysterious owner—a man who teaches her about resilience, courage, and ultimately true love, in this funny, bighearted novel about hope and healing.Stuck in a dreary Boston winter, Annabelle Martin would like nothing more than to run away from her current life. She’s not even thirty years old, twice-divorced, and has just dodged a marriage proposal… from her ex-husband. When she’s offered her dream job as creative director at a cu... + Read More