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"Worn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv the orc barbarian cashes out of the warrior's life with one final score. A forgotten legend, a fabled artifact, and an unreasonable amount of hope lead her to the streets of Thune, where she plans to open the first coffee shop the city has ever seen. However, her dreams of a fresh start pulling shots instead of swinging swords are hardly a sure bet. Old frenemies and Thune's shady underbelly...
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Cackleberry Club mysteries volume 1
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008
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English
6) French roast
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Maggy Thorsen mysteries volume 15
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Wisconsin coffeehouse owner Maggy Thorsen helps uncover the truth when a fire tears through her cousin's market and a gruesome discovery is made in the apartment upstairs.
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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When a mysterious stranger buys a whole box of heavily iced crullers, throws them at her friend Gabby's storefront, and then winds up dead, Suzanne Hart, the owner of April Springs' only donut shop, tries to find his killer.
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Love Inspired
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Lydia Stoltzfus is content being a maidal, unwed but happily running an Amish coffee shop. Until her schoolgirl crush returns home and she falls in love, with his timid five-year-old daughter. Widower Simon Fisher has no plans to remarry, especially not his lighthearted former neighbor, but devotion to his timid girl, and a matchmaking community, shows them what their future could be.
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CreateSpace
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[2013].
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English
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A mysterious stranger shows up at Donut Hearts threatening to reveal a deadly secret about Suzanne's late father. Then the stranger is murdered before he can share what he knows. Suzanne and her mother are the main suspects, but it turns out that there are plenty of other people who wouldn't mind seeing the stranger dead!
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"Chelsea Chambers is on her own. After a public split from her NFL superstar husband, Chelsea takes a bold step out of the limelight and behind the counter of the Higher Grounds Café, an old-fashioned coffee shop in dire need of reinvention. But when her courage, expert planning, and out-of-this-world cupcakes fail to pay the bills, this newly single mom finds herself desperate for help. Better yet, a miracle. Then a curious stranger lands at Chelsea's...
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Maggy Thorsen mysteries volume 10
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Severn House Publishers LTD
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"The choice of an antique silver coffee urn as the final resting place for elderly Celeste Bouchard's ashes might seem a cruel joke. After all, the wealthy boutique owner was taken ill and died while daughter Hannah was off having lattes at Uncommon Grounds. But Maggy Thorsen, the coffeehouse's owner, has more pressing things on her mind: a jail break and subsequent shoot-out has forced her main squeeze, Sheriff Jake Pavlik, to take refuge with her....
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From Kona with love volume 1
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Rosewind Books, an imprint of Vesuvian Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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After Andrea Andie Matthews chooses her career over a marriage proposal and then loses a promotion she worked so hard for, she jumps at the chance to take a break and help run a friend's coffee shop. Alone in Hawaii, Andie befriends the staff and quickly grows to care for them, making her determined to revive the company. As luck would have it, she meets the mysterious Warren Yates on Christmas Eve. They share a cup of coffee, some conversation, and...
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"It's the holiday season in Harvest Park, and the town is in a flurry of activity leading up to the popular Festival of Lights display! Tessa Esposito, chef and owner of Anything's Pastable, is keeping all things merry, bright, and delicious for everyone. But a dark cloud looms when Mario Russo, the new proprietor of More Mocha, decides it's thyme to sleigh his competition. Mario's new espresso bar has been stealing customers from Java Time, owned...
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In the sixties, Athene Forster was the most glamorous girl of her generation. Nicknamed the Last Deb, she was also beautiful, spoiled, and out of control. When she agreed to marry the gorgeous young heir Douglas Fairley-Hulme, her parents breathed a sigh of relief. But within two years, rumors had begun to circulate about Athene's affair with a young salesman. Thirty-five years later, Suzanna Peacock is struggling with her notorious mother's legacy....
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Breakfast in bed (Sydney Landon) volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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Zoe Hart owns the coffee shop in one of the hottest upscale resorts in Florida, run by her childhood best friend, Dylan Jackson. Even though Dylan is a workaholic, he still finds time to enjoy the beautiful women who pass through his hotel--all of them except Zoe. She has been in love with Dylan for years without him noticing. But with her thirtieth birthday fast approaching, she realizes she can't keep pining away for a man who doesn't show the merest...
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Winter Publishing House
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Four deadly fae assassins come to the human realm to hunt down Kate Kole for breaking a fairy law. Leading them is Prince Cressica Alabastian, the most feared and deadly fae assassin of the North and heir to the North Corner of Ever. But after the assassins arrive in the human realm, things go terribly wrong. To Prince Cressica's horror, his assassins unwittingly get roped into running a cozy café on Kate Kole's behalf. To blend in, the fae assassins...
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Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Esme, a barista, feels invisible, like a ghost... also, when Esme drinks too much coffee she actually sees ghosts. Yara, the elegant heir to a coffee plantation, is always seen, but only has eyes for Esme. Their world is turned upside down when the strange ghost of an old-world nobleman begs Esme to take his letter from New York City to a haunted coffee farm in Brazil, to reunite him with his lost love of a century ago. Bringing sinister tidings...
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Growing up, Kaylie Flynn was shuffled from foster home to foster home before being welcomed into Winton and May Wise's family. It was May who taught Kaylie the comfort of home, and the healing power of baking the perfect brownie. Years later, May leaves Kaylie the money she needs to open her own cafe in the charming Victorian they once shared. Now back in Hope Springs, Kaylie's determined to finally make all her dreams a reality--and unearth answers...
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Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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Agotada después de pasar décadas luchando en batallas sangrientas, Viv, una orco bárbara, decide que es hora de colgar su espada y comenzar una nueva vida, una que le brinde alegría a ella misma y felicidad a los otros. Su nuevo objetivo la lleva a dirigirse hacia las calles de Thune, donde planea abrir la primera cafetería que haya visto la ciudad, sirviendo una bebida que ninguno de los ciudadanos ha probado antes. Pero emprender un nuevo negocio...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Six Mysteries Are Brewing in Small-Town Kansas The coffee shop on the corner of First and Main in Oak Grove, Kansas, seems to attract a series of mysterious events. Or perhaps it is the six women who frequent the shop for book club who are magnets for trouble. . . . Morgan Butler, owner of the Coffee Perk, finds a project worker hanged at her shop. Penny Parson finds a gun in one of her beehives. Evelyn Kliff discovers a dead church meal organizer....
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