bookstores

When twelve-year-old Nick runs away from his uncle's in the middle of a blizzard, he stumbles onto a very opinionated bookstore. He also meets its guardian, the self-proclaimed Evil Wizard Smallbone, who calls Nick his apprentice and won't let him leave, but won't teach him magic, either. It's a good thing the bookstore takes Nick's magical education in hand, because Smallbone's nemesis the Evil Wizard Fidelou and his pack of shape-shifting bikers are howling at the borders. Smallbone might call himself evil, but compared to Fidelou, he's practically a puppy.

After her boyfriend leaves her, twenty-something Scarlett Gardner tries to keep the Palm Trees and Page Turners bookshop in Southern California afloat with her only employee, Evelyn Maxwell. Then a customer is found dead and it turns out she left a small fortune to Scarlett. Now Evelyn's husband, police detective Steve Maxwell of the Oceanside Police, believes Scarlett is a prime suspect. To clear her name, Scarlett must find out just how she is connected to the victim.

Identical twin sisters Alex and Hanna are the owners of the Murder and Mayhem bookshop that sells their famous poison-themed Killer Chocolates. As Alex is preparing for Christmas, her elderly friend Jane tells her that a real murderer from a true-crime show is in town. Then Alex arrives at Jane's house and discovers her dead body near a box of Killer Chocolates. Now Alex is a suspect because she is a beneficiary in Jane's will. Alex sets out to find the real killer and prove her innocence. Includes recipes.

Twin sisters Hanna and Alex, who together run the Murder and Mayhem book and chocolate shop, find their volunteer work at their local Christmastime high school reunion event turn serious when they discover an old classmate's dead body. That classmate, it turns out, had been hitting on Hanna only hours before, and, worse, was killed by a nutcracker figure the sisters had been admiring at the party. Now, Hanna is a prime suspect in a murder case, and only Alex and their sleuthing canine companion, Watson, can clear her name and find the real killer.

Phoebe Winchester is adjusting to her new life in Raven Creek, Washington, where she runs the bookstore and tea shop, the Earl's Study, out of the Victorian manor she inherited from her dearly departed Aunt Eudora. In addition, she's learning to master her recently discovered magical powers, but when she discovers a dead body at an estate sale, Phoebe doesn't know how much more she can handle. She enlists the help of an old friend and private investigator, Rich, to clear her name and solve the murder.

William Wyatt Orser's life is turned upside down after his mother has a stroke, but the socially awkward, word-loving twelve-year-old finds glimmers of hope when he discovers friends who share his love of wordplay and books.

Tells the story of Lewis Michaux who built a bookstore in Harlem despite widespread opposition.

"Nothing will stop Madeline Moore from taking over her family's independent bookstore after college. Nothing, that is--until a chain bookstore called Prologue opens across the street and threatens to shut them down. Madeline sets out to demolish the competition, but the guy who works over at Prologue seems intent on ruining her life. Not only is he taking her customers, he has the unbelievable audacity to be...extremely cute. But that doesn't matter. Jasper is the enemy and he will be destroyed. After all--all's fair in love and (book) war"--From the publisher's web site.

"Weary of keeping house for her bachelor brother, Helen McGill impulsively purchases a mobile bookshop. Parnassus on Wheels traces her winsome adventures throughout New England as a traveling bookseller. The story's sequel, The Haunted Bookshop, unfolds in a Brooklyn store that attracts a nefarious plot as well as a budding romance"--Provided by publisher.

"After his father returns from treatment for addiction, highschooler Vish -- lover of metal music and literature -- is uncertain what the future holds. It doesn't help that everyone seems to know about the family's troubles, and they stand out doubly as one of the only brown families in town. When Vish is mistaken for a relative of the weird local bookseller and attacked by an unsettling pale man who seems to be decaying, he is pulled into the world of the occult, where witches live in television sets, undead creatures can burn with a touch, and magic is mathematical"--Provided by publisher.