When Kelly Walsh, the woman her ex-husband left her for, is murdered, bookstore owner and bibliotherapist Nora Pennington and The Secret, Book, and Scone Society seek justice for Kelly amidst gossip and suspicion.

In seventeenth-century London, Meg, who has little interest in cooking, needlework, or other homemaking skills, dreams of becoming a bookseller and someday inheriting her widowed father's book store.

From master storyteller Carlos Ruiz Zafón, author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Wind, comes The Angel’s Game—a dazzling new page-turner about the perilous nature of obsession, in literature and in love.

“The whole of Barcelona stretched out at my feet and I wanted to believe that, when I opened those windows, its streets would whisper stories to me, secrets I could capture...

When their grandfather buys a bookstore at auction in New Orleans, the Alden children help clean it up and discover that several people seem to be obsessed with the store and its contents.

Mary organizes an exhibit of baseball memorabilia at the town hall and then discovers that valuable items have been replaced with forgeries.

Mary is all set-up and ready to sell some books when a snowstorm hits and turns a fictional mystery weekend into a real-life drama.

As mystery bookshop owner Mary Fisher looks for clues about the true ownership of a grist mill that has been in her sister Betty's late husband's family for centuries, she hears rumors about an old murder and finds clues that point to answers no one wants to believe.

The irascible A.J. Fikry, owner of Island Books, the only bookstore on Alice Island, has already lost his wife. Now, a rare book, has been stolen from right under his nose in the most embarrassing of circumstances. The store itself, it seems, will be next to go. One night upon closing, he discovers a toddler in his children's section with a note from her mother pinned to her Elmo doll: "I want Maya to grow up in a place with books and among people...

Mary investigates the possible connection between a boat's distress call, the disappearance of a museum laptop, and the fact that several of Ivy Bay's prominent citizens have had their bank accounts cleaned out. Inlcudes an interview with Elizabeth Adams, a recipe for Mary's hot chocolate and From the Guideposts archives.

"'There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even remedies--I mean books--that were written for one person only...A book is both medic and medicine at once. It makes a diagnosis as well as offering therapy. Putting the right novels to the appropriate ailments: that's how I sell books.' Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes...