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Bookstore cafe mysteries volume 3
Bookstore café mystery volume 8
Bookstore Cafe Mystery
Bookstore café mystery volume 11
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Bookstore café mystery volume 8
Bookstore Cafe Mystery
Bookstore café mystery volume 11
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English
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"Bookstore-café owner Krissy Hancock is stepping out from behind the counter to take part in the first annual Pine Hills, Ohio, marathon. But with a killer close by, she may soon be running for her life . . . It's a brutally hot day in Pine Hills, and Krissy Hancock would love to be sitting in a shady spot and sipping her favorite iced coffee. Instead, she's lacing up her sneakers for a marathon--and swiftly regretting it. Especially when she finds...
2) Bicycle bash
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Etta the elephant receives an invitation to the Bicycle Bash from her aunt, who has a surprise waiting for Ella!
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. Well before the founding of the NAACP and other twentieth-century pillars of the civil rights movement, tens of thousands of Black leaders organized state and national conventions across North America. Over seven decades, they advocated for social justice and against slavery, protesting state-sanctioned...
Author
Series
Kitty Norville series volume 10
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
At the First International Conference on Paranatural Studies in London, Kitty must deal with vampires, werewolves and supernatural beings galore.
7) Rivals
Author
Series
American royals volume 1
Language
English
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Description
In an alternate America, Beatrice, now queen, and her sibilings Samantha and Jefferson struggle to untangle their personal lives and settle into their new political roles while the country hosts the world's monarchs at the League of Kings conference.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
[Twenty-fifth Anniversary edition].
Language
English
Description
A mixture of fantastical rock opera and horror movie spoof. A couple of ordinary kids have car trouble one dark and rainy night and knock on the door of a looming gothic mansion. They are stunned to learn that they have stumbled into an ongoing convention of kinky characters, hosted by Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a mad scientist from the planet Transsexual.
9) An address memorial of Alexander H. Vinton, Edward A. Washburn, Samuel Osgood, and William Rudder
Author
Series
Genealogy and local history volume LH4311
Pub. Date
1881.
Language
English
10) Necropolis
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Santiago Gamboa showcases throughout his first novel Necropolis the talent and inventiveness that have earned him a reputation as one of the leading figures in his generation of Latin American authors.
Upon recovering from a prolonged illness, an author is invited to a literary gathering in Jerusalem that turns out to be a most unusual affair. In the conference rooms of a luxury hotel, as war rages outside, he listens to a series of extraordinary...
11) Skios: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The great master of farce turns to an exclusive island retreat for a comedy of mislaid identities, unruly passions, and demented, delicious disorder.
On the private Greek island of Skios, the high-paying guests of a world-renowned foundation prepare for the annual keynote address, to be given this year by Dr. Norman Wilfred, an eminent authority on the scientific organization of science. He turns out to be surprisingly youthful, handsome, and charming-quite...
12) The pros of cons
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Three girls become fast friends when brought together by a random mix-up in the hotel lobby playing host to three separate conventions.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
An academic finds himself contemplating the unthinkable in a "tour de force" psychological thriller.
Pascal Mercier's critically acclaimed debut novel, Night Train to Lisbon, became an international bestseller and the basis for a film starring Jeremy Irons. Now, in Perlmann's Silence, Mercier delivers a deft psychological portrait of a man striving to get his life back on track in the wake of his beloved wife's death.
Philipp Perlmann, prominent...
Author
Series
Penny Brannigan mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The fifth in this enchanting Welsh series which has been likened to the work of Dorothy Cannell and M. C. Beaton Spa owner and habitual amateur sleuth Penny Brannigan finds herself at a clerical conference at Gladstone's Library in North Wales. Also attending as a guest speaker is her boyfriend, DCI Gareth Davies, there to give a talk on theft prevention. But behind the ornate red sandstone façade of this most respectable of Victorian buildings,...
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English
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Description
"Shannon's good friend and retired tech billionaire, Raphael Nash, is loving his new retired life but he can't stay unoccupied for too long. He's started the Marigold Foundation that helps fund small companies and individuals who do humanitarian work around the world. It's an exciting time in Lighthouse Cove as Raphael hosts the first ever global conference inviting big thinkers from every area of industry to give presentations on eco-living. Raphael's...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Krissy Hancock and her pals are taking a coffee break-leaving their bookstore-café in Pine Hills, Ohio, and heading to a convention. But this road trip will be more dangerous than they expected …
Coffee lovers are gathering from far and wide at the hotel, and Krissy, Rita, and Vicki are excited. But some of the attendees may need to switch to decaf, as a public argument breaks out soon after they check in and then a flavor competition leads to...
Author
Series
Me vs. the multiverse volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Meade Macon attends Me Con, a convention where he meets different versions of himself from across the multiverse"--
19) Dog symphony
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Boris Leonidovich, a North American professor who specializes in the history of prison architecture, has been invited to Buenos Aires for an academic conference. He's planning to present a paper on Moscow's feared Butyrka prison, but most of all he's looking forward to seeing his enigmatic, fiercely intelligent colleague (and sometime lover) Ana again. As soon as Boris arrives, however, he encounters obstacle after unlikely obstacle: he can't get...
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