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Laurie Cass · 375 pages
Librarian Minnie Hamilton spreads the joy of reading throughout Chilson, Michigan, with her bookmobile, but she doesn't ride alone. Her rescue cat, Eddie, and a group of volunteers are always on board to deliver cheer -- until one of her helpers gets checked out for good... When Minnie loses a grant that was supposed to keep the bookmobile running, she's worried her pet project could come to it
The Case of the Missing Books
Ian Sansom · 344 pages
Israel Armstrong is a passionate soul, lured to Ireland by the promise of an exciting new career. Alas, the job that awaits him is not quite what he had in mind. Still, Israel is not one to dwell on disappointment, as he prepares to drive a mobile library around a small, damp Irish town. After all, the scenery is lovely, the people are charming—but where are the books? The rolling library's 15,000
Murder by the Book
Betsy Brannon Green · 275 pages
Murder becomes the name of the game when small-town librarian Kennedy Killingsworth meets Foster Scoggins, the leathery-faced resident who applied for a library card just hours before his gruesome death. To complicate matters, Kennedy's ex-husband, Deputy Cade Burrell, seems desperate to find any reason to talk to Kennedy ever since his scandalous affair.
Dangerous Alterations
Elizabeth Lynn Casey · 264 pages
When her philandering ex, along with his great-aunt, is murdered, Yankee librarian Tori Sinclair must rely on her friends from the Sweet Briar Ladies Society sewing circle to help her prove her innocence before everything she has worked so hard for unravels.
Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs
Molly Harper · 355 pages
It looks like someone in Half Moon Hollow is trying to frame a series of murders on Jane Jameson, an out-of-work, small-town librarian-turned-vampire. And her relationship with her sexy, mercurial vampire sire keeps running hot and cold. What's a nice undead girl to do?
The Giver of Stars
Jojo Moyes · 432 pages
From the author of Me Before You, set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond. 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 overbeari
The Reading Circle
Ashton Lee · 284 pages
With one year to show her library's value to the community, librarian Maura Beth Mayhew tries to raise the library's profile through a book club, while clashing with a councilman determined to divert library funds for another project. "Welcome to the quirky town of Cherico, Mississippi, where potluck meetings at the local library provide a feast for mind and stomach alike. . . If some folks had t
Love Overdue
Pamela Morsi · 432 pages
Meet Dorothy Jarrow: devotedly unsexy librarian Buttoned-up book lover DJ is all sensible shoes, drab skirts and studious glasses. After an ill-advised spring-break-fueled fling left her mortified, she's committed to her prim and proper look. When she's hired by a rural library in middle-of-nowhere Kansas, she finally has the lifestyle to match-and she can't wait to get her admin on. But i
Naked Once More
Elizabeth Peters, Barbara Mertz · 332 pages
Kirby is chosen to write a sequel to a bestselling novel whose author disappeared seven years earlier. When she goes to the author's hometown she is plagued by accidents and becomes embroiled in murder, mystery and romance.
Here Lies the Librarian
Richard Peck · 159 pages
Peewee idolizes Jake, a big brother whose dreams of auto mechanic glory are fueled by the hard road coming to link their Indiana town and futures with the twentieth century. And motoring down the road comes Irene Ridpath, a young librarian with plans to astonish them all and turn Peewee's life upside down.This novel, with its quirky characters, folksy setting, classic cars, and hilariously larger-
The Girl Who Cried Monster
R.L. Stine · 137 pages
A girl loves torturing her younger brother with stories of monsters. When she leaves something back at the library, and goes to get it, she sees something that makes her wish that she had never told any of those stories because now, no one believes her.
Fatal Fixer-Upper
Jennie Bentley, Jenna Bennett · 332 pages
With the help of a hunky handyman, Avery Baker, a former New York textile designer, begins fixing up her aunt's crumbling estate, until she discovers clues that lead to a missing local professor, in this first installment in a new mystery series that features home-renovation and design tips.
The Unbound
Victoria Schwab · 362 pages
Each body has a story to tell, a life seen in pictures that only Librarians can read. The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which they rest is the Archive. Last summer, Mackenzie Bishop, a Keeper tasked with stopping violent Histories from escaping the Archive, almost lost her life to one. Now, as she starts her junior year at Hyde School, she's struggling to get her life back. B
Sweet Revenge
Diane Mott Davidson · 359 pages
he Book Goldy Schulz is thrilled to be catering a holiday breakfast feast for the staff of the Aspen Meadow Library. But little does she know that on the menu, alongside the Great Expectations Grapefruit, Chuzzlewit Cheese Pie, and Bleak House Bars, is a large helping of murder.While setting up at the library, Goldy spots a woman lurking in the stacks who bears a striking resemblance to Sandee Br