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- Away from the dead / by Bergen, David,1957-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Away from the Dead is set in the chaotic times of the Russian revolution, and traces the lives of various characters connected through love and family and loyalty. The novel follows the lives of a bookseller south of Kiev who deserts the army and writes poetry to his lover back home; an adopted Mennonite/Ukrainian peasant who runs with the anarchists only to discover that love and the planting of crops is preferable to killing; and in which a Mennonite estate owner steals a young mother's child. Bookseller Julius Lehn is drawn by his first wife into the patriarchal world of a Mennonite colony beside the Dnieper River, where he learns that pacifists can be as vicious as those who fight. After his wife dies, he gains affection for Inna, who has been cast away from her adopted family's estate, and is the sister of Sablin, the peasant who fights with the anarchists and discovers that violence is the domain of both the rich and the poor. By late 1919, Lehn's bookshop in Ekaterinoslav (modern day Dnipro) has been destroyed, and he has returned to be with Inna, whose child is gone, and with the colony under attack. The anarchists, the Bolsheviks, the Whites -- all come and go, each claiming freedom and justice. In a violent world with no end, Sablin and Lehn and Inna choose love, hoping that one can, against all odds, turn away from the dead"--
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Anarchists; Booksellers and bookselling; Bookstore owners; Mennonites; War victims;
- Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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- The vanishing thief / by Parker, Kate,1949-;
"Georgia Fenchurch appears to be an unassuming antiquarian bookseller in Victorian London, but the life she leads is as exciting as any adventure novel. For Georgia is a member of the Archivist Society, a secret association of private investigators led by the mysterious Sir Broderick. When a frantic woman comes to Georgia claiming that her neighbor, Nicholas Drake, has been abducted by the notorious Duke of Blackford, Georgia and the Archivist Society agree to take the case. But Drake is no innocent--he is a thief who has been blackmailing many of the leading members of London society. To find Drake and discover who is behind his abduction, Georgia and her beautiful assistant, Emma, will have to leave the cozy confines of their bookshop and infiltrate the inner circles of the upper crust--with the help of the dashing but dubious Duke of Blackford himself. But the missing thief and his abductor are not the only ones to elude Georgia Fenchurch. When she spies the man who killed her parents years ago, she vows to bring him to justice once and for all...at any cost"--
- Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Booksellers and bookselling; Women private investigators; Kidnapping; Parents; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical.; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths.; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional British.;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Under the cover of murder / by Elliott, Lauren.;
It promises to be Greyborne Harbor's wedding of the year. The impending nuptials of Serena Chandler and Zach Ludlow will take place aboard his family's luxurious super-yacht, currently moored in the harbor and the talk of the town. But on the day of the wedding, a man's body washes up on the beach with no ID, only a torn page from a book in his pocket. As owner of Beyond the Page Books and Curios, bibliophile Addie is called in to identify the book, but she cannot. The morning following the extravagant ceremony, a second body washes ashore and Addie has a sinking feeling that the two deaths are connected. While the guests are held on the yacht as the police investigate, at least Addie can peruse Zach's father's rare books library on board. A copy of Agatha Christie's first Hercule Poirot novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, provides a clue that the killer may still be on the ship--but narrowing down the suspects without becoming the next victim may prove a truly Herculean task...
- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Cozy mysteries.; Women booksellers; Rare books; Murder; Weddings; Detective and mystery stories;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The readers of Broken Wheel recommend / by Bivald, Katarina,1983-; Bivald, Katarina,1983-Läsarna i Broken Wheel rekommenderar.English.; Menzies, Alice,translator.;
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- Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Books and reading; Friendship; Life change events; Pen pals; Women booksellers;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- A killer edition / by Barrett, Lorna,author.;
With her assistant, Pixie, picking up more responsibility around the shop, Tricia Miles suddenly has a lot more time on her hands. Tricia decides to join the local animal-rescue board and enter the Great Stoneham Bake-Off, but neither pans out as smoothly as she'd hoped. Balancing a bake-off that's heating up with a frosty reception from the board, Tricia stops by Joyce Whitman's romance bookstore looking for a book to get her fired up. She stumbles on something hot, but it's an argument between Joyce and her neighbor Vera Osborn instead of a steamy read. When Vera turns up dead in Joyce's garden hours later, Tricia has to wonder--could Joyce be the killer? Or is the culprit still lurking in town? One thing is for sure, someone in Stoneham is stirring up something more sinister than sweet. Tricia is determined to win the cutthroat cooking contest, but first she will have to make sure no one else is in danger of getting burned.
- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Recipes.; Miles, Tricia (Fictitious character); Murder; Women booksellers; Mystery bookstores; City and town life; Baking;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Standup guy / by Woods, Stuart.;
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- Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Barrington, Stone (Fictitious character); Private investigators;
- Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 2
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- Good duke gone wild / by Bennett, Bethany(Romance author),author.;
"As a widow, Caroline Danvers has carved out a content existence, working at her family's bookshop and writing erotic novels under a pen name. Her life is simple, but her imagination is a vast wonderland of desire and romantic tales inspired by a handsome customer-a duke who will never know she exists. Dorian Whitaker, Duke of Holland, is known for two things: his role as a diplomat in the war, and his famous love match with his now-dead wife. Except, his blissful marriage was a lie. All he wants now is to be left alone. When Dorian hires a bookshop to handle the liquidation and donation of his wife's library, he's thrown together with an utterly desirable bookseller who upends his hard-won peace, and sends him on a hunt for the identity of his dead wife's lover. However, when faced with the choice of attaining closure in his old life, or beginning a new one with a working-class woman who harbors her own secrets, the duke must decide where his heart truly lies, and if that heart is capable of trusting again"--
- Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; Adultery; Letters; Man-woman relationships; Nobility; Regency; Secrecy; Widowers; Widows; Women authors; Women booksellers;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Bringing up bébé : one American mother discovers the wisdom of French parenting / by Druckerman, Pamela.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subjects: Child rearing; Child rearing; Parent and child; Parent and child;
- © 2012., Penguin Press,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Theodore Boone : the activist / by Grisham, John,author.;
Aspiring lawyer Theodore Boone takes the stand to protect his political and environmental freedoms in the fourth installment of the series.BRO-copy20131003-097/jps-items.
- Subjects: Legal stories.; Courts; Political activists; Legal stories.; Courts; Political activists;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The Wahls protocol : how I beat progressive MS using Paleo principles and functional medicine / by Wahls, Terry L.; Adamson, Eve.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."An integrative approach to healing chronic autoimmune conditions by a doctor, researcher, and sufferer of progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) whose TEDx talk is already a web sensation"--
- Subjects: Wahls, Terry L.; Multiple sclerosis; Multiple sclerosis; Multiple sclerosis; Physicians;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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