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• The Invisible Library

  Cogman, Genevieve,

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  The first entry in Cogman's debut fantasy series follows the adventures of feisty spy Irene. She's employed by the mysterious organization known as the Library, which exists across space and time, to find unique works of fiction across alternate…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Body in the Library

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

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  A woman's body is found in the library of Gossington Hall. What the young woman was doing in the quiet village of St. Mary Mead is precisely what Jane Marple means to find out. Amid rumors of scandal, Miss Marple baits a clever trap to catch a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lions of Fifth Avenue

  a Novel

  Davis, Fiona, 1966-

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  This latest from Davis opens in the early 1900s with the enterprising wife of the NYPL superintendent involved in everything from Greenwich Village's new bohemia to the fight for suffrage. But she's especially worried about book thefts from the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Name of the Rose

  Eco, Umberto

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  In 1327, finding his sensitive mission at an Italian abbey further complicated by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William of Baskerville turns detective, penetrating the cunning labyrinth of the abbey and deciphering coded manuscripts for clues.

• Summer Hours at the Robbers' Library

  a Novel

  Halpern, Sue,

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  The unlikely friendship between a middle-aged woman trying to start over and an intelligent, unusual teenage girl that blossoms when she's assigned community service in her local library.

• The Library at Mount Char

  Hawkins, Scott

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  After she and a dozen other children found them being raised by "Father," a cruel man with mysterious powers, Carolyn and her "siblings" begin to think he might be God; so when he dies, they square off against each other to determine who will…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Library at the Edge of the World

  a Novel

  Hayes-McCoy, Felicity,

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  Librarian Hanna Casey, who has returned to her Irish hometown after discovering her English husband's infidelity, drives the mobile library van among the villages of the Finfarran Peninsula. But all is not sunshine in this beautiful, remote region.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• By Its Cover

  A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

  Leon, Donna,

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  Investigating the thefts of rare book pages from a prestigious Venetian library, Commissario Guido Brunetti is stymied by numerous possible suspects and the murder of a seemingly harmless theologian.

• The Borrower

  a Novel

  Makkai, Rebecca

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  Children’s librarian Lucy Hull is surprised when Ian Drake asks for her help in reading books his bigoted mother has forbidden him. His parents force him to attend “anti-gay” classes and Ian is desperately unhappy. But when Lucy finds him camped out…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Starless Sea

  Morgenstern, Erin,

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  A follow-up to The Night Circus; grad student Zachary Ezra Rawlins discovers a mysterious book containing loyal acolytes, captive lovers, key seekers, and, surprisingly, the story of his childhood. Following enigmatic clues, he is led to a doorway…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dewey

  the Small-town Library Cat Who Touched the World

  Myron, Vicki

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  Uplifting NYT bestseller about an abandoned kitten named Dewey, whose life in a library won over a farming town.

• The Library Book

  Orlean, Susan

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  Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a mesmerizing and compelling book that manages to tell the broader story…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Library of Lost and Found

  Patrick, Phaedra

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  A shy librarian whose kind heart is often exploited receives a mysterious book of fairy tales from the beloved grandmother she believed dead and embarks on a perspective-changing journey of astonishing family secrets.

• The Paris Librarian

  a Hugo Marston Novel

  Pryor, Mark, 1967-

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  Hugo Marston investigates the death of a friend at the American Library in Paris and discovers a mystery dating back to World War II.

• The Shadow of the Wind : Cemetary of Forgotten Books Novel

  Ruiz Zafón, Carlos, 1964-

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  Barcelona, 1945--just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an…Read moreRead more of this annotation