women booksellers

When a deputy asks for help with a wedding proposal and a man connected to his future wife is found dead, Nora Pennington and her fellow readers investigate the connection to the woman's past and the secret she is hiding from everyone.

"August 1939: London prepares for war as Hitler's forces sweep across Europe. Grace Bennett has always dreamed of moving to the city, but the bunkers and drawn curtains that she finds on her arrival are not what she expected. And she certainly never imagined she'd wind up working at Primrose Hill, a dusty old bookshop nestled in the heart of London. Through blackouts and air raids as the Blitz intensifies, Grace discovers the power of storytelling to unite her community in ways she never dreamed--a force that triumphs over even the darkest nights of the war"--Provided by publisher.

Roger Mifflin travels with his book wagon through the countryside of England in 1915, bringing enlightenment to the people and having adventures.

In 1962, Kitty Miller is a single, thirty-eight-year-old woman who enjoys running a bookstore with her best friend. But in her dreams, she becomes Katharyn Andersson, a married mother of three young children. At first, she thinks her nighttime forays into the life she thought she always wanted are just a product of a vivid imagination. But the lines between dreams and reality begin to blur, and Kitty isn't sure which world is real and in which one she belongs.

"Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone like Sara, who traveled all the way from Sweden just to meet her pen pal, Amy. When she arrives, however, she finds that Amy's funeral has just ended. Luckily, the townspeople are happy to look after their bewildered tourist--even if they don't understand her peculiar need for books. Marooned in a farm town that's almost beyond repair, Sara starts a bookstore in honor of her friend's memory. All she wants is to share the books she loves with the citizens of Broken Wheel and to convince them that reading is one of the great joys of life.But she makes some unconventional choices that could force alot of secrets into the open and change things for everyone in town"--Provided by publisher.

"Follows a woman in the 1960s who wrestles to reconcile her daily life as a single bookstore owner with the alternate reality she suddenly begins to dream about each night, in which she is a happily-married wife and mother"--Provided by publisher.