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Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"While business is booming at the ScotShop in Hamelin, Vermont, proprietor Peggy Winn doesn't have time to toast her good fortune thanks to her hot-tempered, fourteenth-century Scottish companion. Being thrust into the modern world hasn't been easy for Dirk, but Peggy is at her wit's end trying to keep the ghostie galoot in line. But when the local police chief finds the body of Peggy's friend Karaline's college professor in a deserted mountain cabin,...
22) Jessie
Author
Series
Big sky dreams volume 3
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
As a single mom and the sole proprietor of Token Creek's general store, Jessie lives day to day with her hands full and her heart broken. When the husband who abandoned her returns to town claiming he's a man changed by faith, he sets out to prove his commitment and his love.
23) Yule be dead
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Katie Bonner, local sleuth and manager of Artisans Alley, has received shocking news that Afternoon Tea proprietress Vonne Barnett was found dead in a wrecked car. However, Vonne didn't die in the crash. She was killed by blunt force trauma to the head and she was pregnant. The suspects are many but the clues are few and the murderer is closing in on Katie as she investigates.
24) Chai another day
Author
Series
Publisher
Seventh Street Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Seattle Spice Shop owner Pepper Reece probes murder while juggling a troubled employee, her mother's house hunt, and a fisherman who's set his hook for her. As owner of the Spice Shop in Seattle's famed Pike Place Market, Pepper Reece is always on the go. Between conjuring up new spice blends and serving iced spice tea to customers looking to beat the summer heat, she finally takes a break for a massage. But the Zen moment is shattered when she overhears...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
First in a new series. Dev Sinclair is the happy new owner of an old-fashioned shop in her small Missouri town. But if she doesn't focus on finding the killer of her ex's fiance, this five-and-dime owner may find herself serving 25-to-life. Original.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When Poly Monroe was little, she loved playing in her family's textile store. But after a fatal family tragedy, Land of A Thousand Fabrics was boarded up and Poly never expected to see the inside again. Now, as inheritor of the long-shuttered shop, she's ready to restore the family business. However her two new kittens, Pins and Needles, aren't the ones causing a snag in her plans... Not everyone wants Poly back in San Ladrón, especially a powerful...
Author
Series
Eternity Springs novels volume 12
Publisher
St Martins Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
After a devastating betrayal, Claire Branham packs up the pieces of her life, along with a twenty-million-dollar secret, and moves to Eternity Springs. She opens a specialty shop -- Forever Christmas -- and, with the help of a surprise romance with the town's sexy new handyman, Claire's heart begins to heal. Until her past comes knocking.
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian, an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Opening an old-fashioned five-and-dime shop in her small Missouri hometown has been a great change for Devereaux "Dev" Sinclair. But when she hosts a reading group there, she learns that bad writing can mean life or death. To keep her new business in the black, Dev opens her shop to local clubs. But in the first meeting of the Stepping Out Book Club, the speaker storms out after members attack his poetry's sexism and scorn for small towns. Later that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
'Tis the season to be jolly, but in Moosetookalook, Maine, Christmas cheer is in short supply due to a snowless winter that's keeping skiers and shoppers at a distance. Lisa has a plan involving Tiny Teddies, the hot toy of the season-- which turns out to be a toy to die for...
30) License to dill
Author
Series
Pickled and preserved mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After her fiancé left her, Piper came to Cloverdale to rebuild her life and open up her shop, Piper{u2019}s Picklings, to sell pickles and preserves. When her ex decides to drop in for a visit just as things are heating up between her and a local Christmas tree farmer Piper finds herself in a jam. But there are other visitors to worry about. An Italian soccer team is set to play the Cloverdale All-Stars in an exhibition game. Their manager, Raffaele...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents Shakespeare's dark comedy about young lovers and a Jewish money lender who demands a pound of flesh in payment for a debt. Includes explanatory notes on facing pages, scene-by-scene plot summaries, a key to famous lines and phrases, a modern perspective essay, and an introduction to the play and the language of Shakespeare.
32) Bread of angels
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Purple . The foundation of an influential trade in a Roman world dominated by men. One woman rises up to take the reins of success in an incredible journey of courage, grit, and friendship. And along the way, she changes the world. But before she was Lydia, the seller of purple, she was simply a merchant's daughter who loved three things: her father, her ancestral home, and making dye. Then unbearable betrayal robs her of nearly everything. With only...
Author
Series
Pomegranate catalog volume no. A137
Publisher
Pomegranate
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When a bee wrangler is bludgeoned, Let It Bee honey shop owner Wren Johnson makes it her beeswax to solve the crime in Nancy Coco's second Oregon Honeycomb Mystery... For the picturesque town of Oceanview on the Oregon Coast, May brings blossoming fruit trees and the annual UFO festival. As Aunt Eloise tries out alien costumes on their Havana brown cat Everett, Wren is off to meet with a bee wrangler, her go-to guy for local fruit tree honey. But...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Poor and illiterate, Bhima had faithfully worked for the Dubash family, an upper-middle-class Parsi household, for more than twenty years. Yet after courageously speaking the truth about a heinous crime perpetrated against her own family, the devoted servant was cruelly fired. The sting of that dismissal was made more painful coming from Sera Dubash, the temperamental employer who had long been Bhima's only confidante. A woman who has endured despair...
Author
Series
Fool novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Venice, a long time ago. Three prominent Venetians await their most loathsome and foul dinner guest, the erstwhile envoy from the Queen of Britain: the rascal-Fool Pocket.This trio of cunning plotters--the merchant, Antonio; the senator, Montressor Brabantio; and the naval officer, Iago--have lured Pocket to a dark dungeon, promising him an evening of spirits and debauchery with a rare Amontillado sherry and Brabantio's beautiful daughter, Portia....
38) Game : Splendor
Publisher
JD Editions/Space Cowboys
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Players take on the role of a rich merchant during the Renaissance. Players choose tokens, purchase development cards, earns bonuses, and receive visits from noblemen in order to earn prestige points. Games ends when a player reaches 15 prestige points.
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Returning home to Shadow Bend, Missouri, where she hopes to launch her new line of cupcakes, Kizzy Cutler finds her plans derailed by the strange death of her assistant and several attempts on her own life, which makes her realize that someone is not so sweet on her return.
Series
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A charming isekai comedy about an unremarkable merchant summoned to another world to be a hero...or maybe just hang out. Banaza, a young merchant, is summoned to an unfamiliar world to become a legendary hero! But his unimpressive stats disqualify him, and Banaza isn't sent home, but exiled to the edge of a monster-filled forest. Fortune takes a turn when his first battle bumps him to Level 2-and his previously NPC-grade stats leap to infinity! Banaza...
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