 | The Secret of Lost Things: A Novel
Release Date: March 6, 2007A missing manuscriptA young woman's voyage of discoveryAnd the curious bookshop where it all begins...In this charming novel about the eccentricities and passions of booksellers and collectors, a captivating young Australian woman takes a job at a vast, chaotic emporium of used and rare books in New York City and finds herself caught up in the search for a lost Melville manuscript.Eighteen years old and completely alone, Rosemary arrives in New York from Tasmania with little more than her love of books and an eagerness to explore the city she’s read so much a...
 |  | Baseball Cat (Big Mike Mystery/Garrison Allen)
Release Date: June 1, 1997| Series: Big Mike Mystery/Garrison Allen Bookstore owner-turned-amateur sleuth Penelope Warren and her feline sidekick, ""Big Mike"" Mycroft, investigate when the owner of the Arizona Coyotes, a semi-professional baseball team, is killed by a blow from a baseball bat during the annual Empty Creek, Arizona, Elizabethan Festival." ...
|  | Jeff Bezos: Amazon.com Architect (Publishing Pioneers)
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|  | The Seven Stairs: An Adventure of the Heart
Release Date: May 15, 1989Memoir ...
|  | Complete Guide to Starting a Used Bookstore: Old Books into Gold
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|  | Mary Anne And The Haunted Bookstore (The Baby-Sitters Club Mystery)
Publication Date: April 1, 1998| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | The Goodbye Body (Claire Malloy Mysteries, No. 15)
Release Date: April 4, 2006Claire Malloy runs a bookstore in the normally quiet college town of Farberville, Arkansas-an enterprise which provides the verging-on-meager living for her and her deeply sarcastic teenage daughter Caron. So when emergency work forces Claire and Caron to abandon their apartment for a few weeks, they are in no financial position to put themselves up in style and Claire is thrilled to accept a customer's offer to let them stay at her well-stocked, well-equipped palatial home while she is traveling.Of course, nothing is ever that easy. No sooner do Claire and Caron e...
|  | Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut
Publication Date: June 2004The entertaining story of the first five years of Amazon.com, recounted by employee number 55. "Americans with an eye cocked toward the markets were asked to believe that Amazon, a two-year-old bookseller, was worth more than the combined values of Sears and US Steel."—from Amazonia James Marcus was hired as a senior editor at Amazon.com in 1996, giving him a ringside seat for the company's explosive rise and dismal wallet-busting swoon. Now—as the e-commerce giant makes an astonishing comeback—he tells all. Unlike the recent crop of dot.com memoirs,...
|  | amazon.com - Get Big Fast : Inside the Revolutionary Business Model That Changed the World
Release Date: April 5, 2000In Amazon.com Jeff Bezos built something the world had never seen. He created the most recognized brand name on the Internet and became one of the richest men in the world. He was recently named Time magazine's Person of the Year and was crowned "the king of cybercommerce."Yet for all the success and all the media exposure, the inside story of Amazon.com has never really been told. In this revealing, unauthorized account of Amazon's astounding rise, Robert Spector, journalist and bestselling author, gives us the fastpaced, behind-the-scenes true story of the compan...
|  | Fatal Shadows
Publication Date: May 9, 2007Adrien English Mystery Series #1Someone's out to get Los Angeles bookseller Adrien English. His best friend has been viciously murdered, now he's getting weird phone calls and sinister gifts from a mysterious "admirer." The cops think he's trying to divert suspicion from himself-with the exception of sexy and homophobic homicide detective Jake Riordan. Is Riordan really such a great detective--or does he have a few secrets of his own? Is his offer to help Adrien on the level or is he out to nail his favorite suspect -- to the wall? ...
|  | Hound: a novel
Publication Date: September 1, 2009"Death was, after all, the way Henry made his living."A bookhound, Henry Sullivan buys and sells books he finds at estate auctions and library sales around Boston and often from the relatives of the recently deceased. He’s in his late thirties, single, and comfortably set in his ways. But when a woman from his past, Morgan Johnson, calls to ask him to look at her late husband’s books, he is drawn into the dark machinations of a family whose mixed loyalties and secret history will have fatal results.Hound, the first novel featuring Henry Sulliv...
|  | 2005 Guide to Literary Agents (Guide to Literary Agents)
Publication Date: August 2004| Series: Guide to Literary Agents For many aspiring writers, the first step to getting published is getting their foot in the door, a step made considerably more simple with the assistance of an agent. The 2005 Guide to Literary Agents provides the essentials to connecting writers with an advocate for their work, sharing: More than 400 listings for literary and script agents, independent production companies and publicists and more; Crucial advice, from recognizing a scam to mastering fees to understanding one's rights when working with an agent; Advice from a v...
|  | The King's Gold: An Old World Novel of Adventure (Red Lion)
Release Date: May 13, 2008| Series: Red LionOne look at the centuries-old document she receives from a mysterious stranger is all it takes to plunge Lola Sanchez—a brilliant bibliophile and owner of the Red Lion bookshop—into the adventure of an already adventurous lifetime. The ancient writings tell of a stolen fortune in Montezuma's gold—and of the thief's transformation from conquistatore to alchemist . . . to werewolf. Riches beyond imagining possibly await the stalwart globe-trotter who can solve the intricate riddles hidden in the artifact's crumbling pages. But a...
|  | Beyond the World of Pooh: Selections from the Memoirs of Christopher Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh Collection)
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|  | The Bookwoman's Last Fling: A Cliff Janeway Novel
Publication Date: May 9, 2006In another enthralling bestseller by "master yarn spinner" (Chicago Sun-Times) John Dunning, rare book dealer and relentless private eye Cliff Janeway unravels a deadly plot marked by stolen classics and stable secrets. When wealthy horse trainer H. R. Geiger dies, Denver bookman Cliff Janeway encounters the legacy of the man's wife, Candice, a true bookwoman who left behind an assortment of rare first-edition children's books. Sent to assess the collection, Janeway soon finds that several titles are missing, replaced by cheap reprints -- while other hugely expen...
|  | Used Book Lovers Guide to the Mid Atlantic Sta (Used Book Lover's Guide Series)
Publication Date: September 1993| Series: Used Book Lover's Guide Series Updated May, 1998. A user friendly guide to over 1,100used, out-of-print and antiquarian book dealers in New York, NewJersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware. Includes 24 city, regional andstate maps. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | Santa, Baby (Harlequin Blaze)
Publication Date: December 1, 2009| Series: Harlequin Blaze (Book 510) Sometimes a good girl needs to be naughty When bookshop owner Caron Avery dresses up as Marilyn Monroe for a charity ball, she decides that for once in her life she'll let her inhibitions go. Before she knows it, Caron is living a night of fantasy with sexy millionaire Baxter Remington in hot pursuit. And what a night it is. Sizzling, red-hot, and sensual, Baxter can't believe he's fallen under the adorable blonde's...er...brunette's spell. But with the scandal going on in his life, he knows he should let her go before sh...
|  | Buying Books Online: Finding Bargains and Saving Money at Booksense Stores, Amazon's Marketplace, and Other Online Sites
Publication Date: December 2, 2002There may not be a more practical addition to the library of any book lover, parent, or college student this year than Stephen Windwalker's Buying Books Online: Finding Bargains and Saving Money with Booksense Stores, Amazon Marketplace, and Other Online Sites.Windwalker is the longtime bookseller who wrote the book on Amazon Marketplace and online bookselling with his recent bestselling entrepreneurship title Selling Used Books Online: The Complete Guide to Bookselling at Amazon's Marketplace and Other Online Sites, one of the top 20 small business titles o...
|  | A Multitude of Sins
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|  | A Diet to Die for (Claire Malloy Mysteries, No. 5)
Publication Date: November 1989Claire Malloy believes there is just one thing better than chocolate...and it's not jumping a round in an aerobics class. Nonetheless, she gets roped into accompanying a chubby heiress named Maribeth to Faberville, Arkansas's hottest new fitness center. Personally, Claire thinks the best way for Maribeth to lose 160 unnecessary pounds would be to dump her abusive husband. But while Claire's teenage daughter Caron unsuccessfully tries every fad diet she can find (as long as it doesn't mean cutting out pizza), Claire has to admit Maribeth's commitment to diet, wo...
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