Alamosa Public Library

The Store: Jacob and Megan Brandeis have gotten jobs with the mega-successful, ultra-secretive Store. Seems perfect. Seems safe. But their lives are about to become anything but perfect, anything but safe. Especially since Jacob and Megan have a dark secret of their own. They're writing a book that will expose the Store-a forbidden book, a dangerous book. And if the Store finds out, there's only one thing Jacob, Megan and their kids can do: run for...

Nate the Great follows the clues to find his lost dog, Sludge, in a department store.

Rob Gordon is the owner of a semi-failing record store in Chicago whose long-time girlfriend has just walked out on him. In order to figure out where things went wrong (and why he can't commit), he examines his past relationships with other women.

When the former owner of her Amish specialty shop is murdered, and the man her employee Esther is sweet on stands accused of the crime, Claire Weatherly becomes the go-between for Detective Jakob Fisher and his former community to catch the real killer.

This Christmas, Emily Merkle is working in the toy department at Finley's, the last family-owned department store in New York City. And her boss is none other than Jake Finley, the owner's son. For Jake, holiday memories of brightly wrapped gifts, decorated trees and family were destroyed in a Christmas Eve tragedy years before.

Workaholic Henrietta Wegner can feel her edge beginning to dull in middle age. Once the company's hottest mergers and acquisitions executive, Henri can see the ambitious and impossibly young up-and-comers gunning for her job. When her boss makes it clear she'll be starting the New Year unemployed unless she can close a big deal before the holidays, Henri impulsively tells him that she can convince her aging parents to sell Wegner's, their iconic Frankenmuth,...

When murder disrupts Heavenly, Pennsylvania, a small town in the heart of Amish country, gift shop owner Claire Weatherly and Detective Jakob Fisher must find the not-so-simple truth.

"Teddy Phillips never thought she would still be spending every day surrounded by toys at almost thirty years old. But working at a vintage toy store is pretty much all she has going on in her life after being unceremoniously dumped by her longtime boyfriend. The one joy that she has kept is her not-so-guilty pleasure: Everett's Place, a local children's show hosted by Everett St. James, a man whom Teddy finds very soothing ... and, okay, cute. Teddy...

When Cam Jansen and her friend eric go to the music store at the mall for the latest CD by the Triceratops Pops band, Cam uses her photographic memory to foil a crime.

Describes Gran's store and the goings-on there in humorous, cumulative fashion.