Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious...

From Susan Wittig Albert, the New York Times bestselling author of A Plain Vanilla Murder, comes a tightly crafted novel that juxtaposes the disappearance of a rare, remarkably illustrated 18th-century herbal with the true and all-too-human story of its gifted creator, Elizabeth Blackwell. Herbalist China Bayles' latest adventure takes her to the mountains of North Carolina, where her friend Dorothea Harper serves as the director and curator of the...

"The rare book world is stunned when a reclusive collector, Adam Diehl, is found on the floor of his Montauk home: hands severed, surrounded by valuable inscribed books and original manuscripts that have been vandalized beyond repair. Adam's sister, Meghan, and her lover, Will-- a convicted if unrepentant literary forger-- struggle to come to terms with the seemingly incomprehensible murder. But when Will begins receiving threatening handwritten letters,...

"San Francisco book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright's latest project is for the birds, but it may have her running for her life. Brooklyn's friend Ian runs the Covington Library, which is hosting an exhibit featuring John James Audubon's massive masterpiece, Birds of America, currently on loan from an Arab sheik. During the gala celebrating the book, she is approached by Jared Mulrooney, the president of the National Birdwatchers Society, who...

In the first novel of Beth Wiseman's new Amish Bookstore series, a rare, old book may hold answers to a present-day romance-- An unrequited romance and a rare book . . . Yvonne Wilson makes the trek from Texas to Indiana with just one goal in mind: to convince Amishman Jake Lantz to sell her client a rare book from his collection. But Jake is as strong-willed as Yvonne. On the eve of his grandfather’s death, Jake vowed never to sell the book,...

... [Brooklyn Wainwright] decides to find out who sold [a rare first edition of Beauty and the beast] so she can return it to its rightful owner ... She believes a rare book dealer can assist her, but when she arrives at his shop, she finds him murdered ... With the help of her handsome boyfriend, Derek Stone, Brooklyn must unravel the murder plot--before she ends up in a plot herself ...--Page 4 of cover.

Brooklyn Wainwright is attending the Edinburgh Book Fair when her ex shows up an original copy of a scandalous text that should change history and humiliate the British monarchy.

Barcelona, 1957. Daniel Sempere y su amigo Fermin, los heroes de La Sombra del Viento, regresan de nuevo a la aventura para afrontar el mayor desafio de sus vidas. Justo cuando todo empezaba a sonreirles, un inquietante personaje visita la libreria de Sempere y amenaza con desvelar un terrible secreto que lleva enterrado mas de dos decadas en la oscura memoria de la ciudad. Al conocer la verdad, Daniel comprendera que su destino le arrastra irremediablemente...

Un amanecer de 1945 un muchacho es conducido por su padre a un misterioso lugar oculto en el corazon de la ciudad vieja: El Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados. Alli, Daniel Sempere encuentra un libro maldito que cambiara el rumbo de su vida y le arrastrara a un laberinto de intrigas y secretos enterrados en el alma oscura de la ciudad. Un misterio literario ambientado en la Barcelona de la primera mitad del siglo XX, desde los ultimos esplendores...

Chas. Johnson & Sons has been a family operation for three generations--grandfather, father and son. But when it comes time for Gabe Johnson to take the reins of the business, the world of books has changed, and the combination of the internet and inner city rents forces the store to close. But instead of folding his hand, Gabe decides to risk everything he has and reopen the shop--and, in a sense restart his life--in a small town on the shores of...