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Cooking the Books: Read or Alive by Nora Page

By Doreen Sheridan

February 16, 2022

As a librarian and bibliophile, septuagenarian Cleo Watkins could not be more proud of her book dealer beau Henry Lafayette for bringing the Georgia Antiquarian Book Society Fair to their small southern town of Catalpa Springs. Her main concern now that the fair is underway is in making sure that she doesn’t spend too much…

Cooking the Books: Better Off Read by Nora Page

By Doreen Sheridan

February 9, 2022

When the Catalpa Springs library suffers severe storm damage, septuagenarian librarian Cleo Watkins consoles herself with the thought that at least she can still distribute books to the residents of her Georgia town via the bus they’d recently converted to a bookmobile. Never mind that Mayor Jeb Day seems more eager to shut down the…

Cooking the Books: Read On Arrival by Nora Page

By Doreen Sheridan

July 17, 2019

Seventy-something-year-old librarian Cleo Watkins is too well-bred to have a nemesis, but if she did, it would probably be the irrepressible Dixie Honeycutt. For the past four decades, Cleo has been trying to get Dixie to return one very, very overdue book to the Catalpa Springs Public Library. But Dixie has outfoxed her at every…

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