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The Dancing sun: a celebration of Canadian children
By Jan Andrews. 1981
Mauvaises manières: [22 nouvelles de mystère et suspense
By Mary Higgins Clark, Roxane Azimi. 1997
Deadly anniversaries: celebrating 75 years of Mystery Writers of America
By Marcia Muller. 2020
Mystery Writers of America presents a collection of crime and mystery stories from some of the best contemporary authors, all…
of whom have been invited to put their own unique spin on what it means to recognize a certain day or event every yearWhen a stranger comes to town
By Michael Koryta. 2021
"Exceptional... This is the best kind of anthology, consistently excellent and inventive." -Publishers Weekly, starred review The latest Mystery Writers…
of America story collection, featuring terrifying tales of encounters with strangers from some of the top bestsellers and award winners in crime fiction It's been said that all great literature boils down to one of two stories—a man takes a journey, or a stranger comes to town. While mystery writers have been successfully using both approaches for generations, there's something undeniably alluring in the nature of a stranger: the uninvited guest, the unacquainted neighbor, the fish out of water.Bookshop mysteries: Five bibliomysteries by bestselling authors
By John Harvey. 2021
Dead Dames Don't Sing by John Harvey: Looking for a big payday but finding big trouble instead, ex-London-cop-turned-private-investigator Jack Kiley…
attempts to uncover the true origins of a controversial, pseudonymously written pulp novel. The Travelling Companion by Ian Rankin: A young Scotsman in Paris is drawn into a shocking mystery that resides within the pages of an unpublished manuscript allegedly penned by Robert Louis Stevenson. Mystery, Inc. by Joyce Carol Oates: When an obsessive collector of bookstores discovers a charming new shop, he decides he must have it at any cost-even if he has to commit murder. Remaindered by Peter Lovesey: For some nefarious reason, the widow and former associates of a slain gangster are determined to keep the Precious Finds Bookstore open following the unfortunate demise of the shop's owner. The Book Thing by Laura Lippman: Private investigator Tess Monaghan must help the irascible proprietor of a Baltimore children's bookstore keep her business afloat by unmasking an elusive and utterly ingenious book thiefGalway Bay
By Mary Pat Kelly. 2011
1839. Soon after Honora Keeley is accepted to the convent, she meets Michael Kelly and they fall in love. As…
the Great Starvation sweeps across Ireland, they struggle to feed their growing family. Then, an opportunity to immigrate to America is offered to them. Conflict follows the family. Some violence. 2009Unknown man #89: A Novel
By Elmore Leonard. 1993
Detroit process server Jack Ryan's skill at finding his targets lands him a different kind of assignment. He is hired…
to find a missing stockholder--who turns out to be a very dangerous man. Ryan is soon in way over his head. Strong language, some violence, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 1977Turning pages: my life story
By Lulu Delacre, Sonia Sotomayor. 2018
The first Latina Supreme Court justice, Sonia Sotomayor, recalls the formative influence of books in her life. She explores how…
her love of literature provided her with the inspiration to realize her dreams. For grades 2-4. 2018Have you seen Luis Velez?: a novel
By Catherine Ryan Hyde. 2019
Teenager Raymond leads a lonely life, shuttling between the homes of his divorced parents. Millie, an elderly blind woman who…
lives in his mother's building, asks him if he has seen the man who was her caretaker. He starts helping Millie, and looking for the missing Luis Velez. 2019Maria Kallio: Books 8-11 (Maria Kallio #8)
By Owen F. Witesman, Leena Lehtolainen. 2017
Four mysteries, translated from 2017-2019, featuring detective Maria Kallio. Includes Below the Surface, The Nightingale Murder, Derailed, and Where Have…
All the Young Girls Gone, in which--after three immigrant Muslim girls go missing--the body of a fourth girl is found in the snow, strangled with her headscarf. Originally published in Finnish from 2003-2010. Violence and strong language. 2019The big book of rogues and villains (Vintage crime/Black Lizard)
By Otto Penzler. 2017
Anthology of seventy-three mystery stories that focus on the criminals rather than the detectives. The collection's scope begins with Victorian…
entries, such as Bram Stoker's "Dracula's Guest," and continues up through modern times, including Loren D. Estleman's "The Black Spot."Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2017Bravo!: poems about amazing Hispanics
By Margarita Engle, illustrations by Rafael Lopez. 2017
Bibliomysteries: crime in the world of books and bookstores
By Otto Penzler. 2017
A collection of fifteen original mystery stories involving the world of books. Includes entries by Jeffery Deaver, C. J. Box,…
Reed Farrel Coleman, Thomas H. Cook, Loren D. Estleman, Laura Lippman, Anne Perry, John Connolly, and Nelson DeMille. Strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sex. 2017Manhattan mayhem: New Crime Stories from Mystery Writers of America
By Mary Higgins Clark, Jeffery Deaver, T. Jefferson Parker, Lee Child, Thomas H. Cook. 2015
Mystery Writers of America presents seventeen crime stories by its members that are set in different parts of New York…
City. Contributors include Lee Child, Nancy Pickard, Margaret Maron, Thomas H. Cook, Ben H. Winters, T. Jefferson Parker, S. J. Rozan, and Jeffrey Deaver. Some violence and some strong language. 2015The book itch: freedom, truth & Harlem's greatest bookstore (Carolrhoda Picture Books)
By Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, R. Gregory Christie. 2015
A fictional account of the National Memorial African Bookstore, which was founded by Louis Michaux in the 1930s. While working…
in his family's landmark Harlem bookstore, young Louis Michaux Jr. learns the power of books and meets famous men like Malcolm X. For grades K-3. 2015Horrors of History: Books 1-4 (Horrors of History)
By T. Neill Anderson. 2013
Four stories featuring historical disasters. In City of the Dead, the fate of the residents of Galveston, Texas hangs in…
the balance as floodwaters rise during the great hurricane in 1900. Also includes Ocean of Fire, People of the Plague, and Massacre of the Miners. For grades 5-8. 2015Separate is never equal: Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation
By Duncan Tonatiuh. 2014
Recounts how young Sylvia Mendez and her brothers wanted to go to the school closest to their new home in…
California but were told they must attend a Mexican school. Their family organized, sued, and helped end segregation in the state. For grades 2-4 and older readers. 2014African stories
By Doris Lessing. 2014
Nobel Prize winner Lessing spent twenty-five years in Africa, writing about the land and people she loved. This collection, originally…
published in 1964 and long out of print, gathers all of her short stories set on the continent and includes four stories never before anthologized. 1964The best American noir of the century (Best American (TM))
By James Ellroy, Otto Penzler. 2011
Thirty-nine selections of short noir fiction, written between 1923 and 2007, by such authors as Mickey Spillane, Jim Thompson, Patricia…
Highsmith, Joyce Carol Oates, and Tom Franklin. In Elmore Leonard's "When the Women Come Out to Dance," a stripper hires a widow to have her husband murdered. Violence, strong language, and descriptions of sex. 2010Mumbai noir (Akashic Noir)
By Altaf Tyrewala, Jerry Pinto, Sonia Faleiro, Avtar Singh, Annie Zaidi, Namita Devidayal, Kalpish Ratna, Riyaz Mulla, Paromita Vohra, Devashish Makhija, Abbas Tyrewala, Ahmed Bunglowala, Smita Harish Jain, R. Raj Rao. 2012
The most populous city in India--previously known as Bombay--is the setting for this anthology of fourteen crime stories. In "Justice,"…
Riaz Mulla shows how an ordinary businessman can turn into a bomb-planting extremist. Strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sex. 2012