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Everyman's library volume 247
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Publisher's description: The Bookshop is a postwar tragicomedy of manners, set in an isolated seaside town where an enterprising woman opens a bookstore only to find it beset by poltergeists, weather, and hostile townsfolk. The Gate of Angels is an Edwardian romance within a novel of ideas: a young doctor devoted to science and to his all-male Cambridge college finds his life and views disrupted by a nurse named Daisy. The Blue Flower, which won the...
202) Found in a bookshop
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Loveday Cardew's beloved Lost for Words bookshop, along with the rest of York, has fallen quiet. At the very time when people most need books to widen their horizons, or escape from their fears, or enhance their lives, the doors are closed. Then the first letter comes. Rosemary and George have been married for fifty years. Now their time is running out. They have decided to set out on their last journey together, without ever leaving the bench at...
203) READING THE CLUES
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Secrets of Mary's Bookshop volume 3
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English
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Mary's sister Betty receives notice that she is being sued and that the Emerson Grist Mill, which has been in her late husband's family for hundreds of years, actually belongs to the Hopkinses, with whom the Emersons have feuded for generations. Betty is sure that it can't be true, but Mary isn't so certain and sets out to unravel the mill's forgotten history. As Mary digs in the Ivy Bay archives, she hears rumors of a murder that started the feud....
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Malcolm Kershaw volume 1
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English
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Years ago Malcolm Kershaw wrote a list of his 'Eight Favourite Murders' for his Old Devils mystery bookshop blog. Among others, it included those from Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders, Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train and Donna Tartt's The Secret History. Now, just before Christmas, Malcolm finds himself at the heart of an investigation as an FBI agent believes someone may be re-enacting each of the murders on his list. Can the killer be...
205) Hidden meaning
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Secrets of Mary's bookshop volume 23
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At the funeral of Margaret Flannery, Mary encounters a woman who claims Margaret stole her daughter's identity. At first, Margaret's daughter, Marnie, dismisses the accusation. But when she finds a box of documents in her mother's cottage that suggests Margaret did indeed change her name when she was younger, Marnie asks for Mary's help to find out the truth. If the real Margaret Flannery died as a girl decades ago, then who was Marnie's mother? With...
206) Lost for words
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"One day Mary notices a young woman sitting in her bookshop. As the afternoon passes, the woman remains, pretending to read a book and clearly waiting for someone who never arrives. When Mary approaches her, she tearfully confesses that she doesn't remember anything before that day. The only clue she has to her identity is a note she found in her pocket when she woke up on the beach, which says, "Katie, arrive at Mary's bookshop at 1:12." Mary takes...
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Un thriller histórico ambientado en el fascinante mundo del libro en el siglo XVI. Novela histórica y de intriga, El taller de libros prohibidos nos transporta a la época en la que imprimir, vender y leer libros podía llegar ser una actividad sumamente peligrosa. Alcalá de Henares, 1572. La joven librera Inés Ramírez acaba de quedar viuda y ha de ponerse al frente del negocio familiar. Pronto descubre que su esposo poseía la clave de acceso...
208) Ty kochasz mnie
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Polish
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Joe Goldberg ma dość zgiełku miast, pozerów i dość Love. Szuka bliskości z naturą, prostych przyjemności na przytulnej wyspie na północno-zachodnim Pacyfiku. Po raz pierwszy od dłuższego czasu może odetchnąć. Dostaje pracę w miejscowej bibliotece w końcu wie to i owo o książkach - tam poznaje: Mary Kaye DiMarco - bibliotekarkę. Joe nie będzie się wtrącał, nie popadnie w obsesję. Zdobędzie ją w staroświecki sposób. . ....
209) Lost in love
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"Playing for Keeps: Jacob McCoy and Dana Cochran have known each other for years, but the timing has just never been right. Then she invites him over to play with her and Mason Caldwell-- and things get complicated. Jacob loves Dana so much that he's even willing to share her with Mason. But a red-hot threesome isn't all that he wants from her. When tragedy strikes their fledging relationship, Jacob has to convince Dana that pushing him away isn't...
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"Lisa Wellman and Simon Canterville are surprised to find a dead man on their roof in the midst of rushing to open the Canterville Book Shop in time for the holidays. And not just any dead man--Ebenezer Hart--the man who opposed the book shop opening in Olde Town, Portsmouth, Virginia. What might be more surprising is when Daniel Fairhaven--Lisa's ex--turns up at the door of the three-story Victorian house to head the police investigation. She hasn't...
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Una mañana, camino de su pequeña librería parisina, Laurent Letellier se topa con un bolso de mujer abandonado y decide llevárselo con la intención de devolverlo a su dueña. Desaparecidos el billetero y el móvil, su propósito parece casi imposible si no fuera porque, entre diversos objetos, Laurent encuentra una libreta roja llena de anotaciones, pensamientos y recuerdos. Cediendo a la curiosidad, se sumerge en la jugosa lectura, amparado...
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