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A novel for everyone, Shelve Under C is a big, leaning stack of humor, heart, stray cat hairs, old book dust, mystery, family drama, longing, and hope. Used bookshops often have a cat or two roaming the aisles, sleeping on the shelves, or sleeping on the customers. Here is a novel all about one bookshop and its resident cats, Stomper and Buglit; and about Kris, a 12-year-old boy who apprentices in the shop. Kris is a little bit like the cats: he's a foster child getting used to a new family, and the cats are being fostered in the bookshop for the local shelter.

The O’Malleys have fostered dozens of cats in their bookshop over the past several years, but a new arrival named Regular is unlike any of their previous feline guests. This is Regular’s tale, but it is also Mack and Mavis O’Malley’s. It is about two “finds of a lifetime”: Kris, their young apprentice, opens a box to reveal a book that may be so valuable that it could make national headlines, and the O’Malleys discover something even more wonderful that will change their lives forever.

Book four of the Turning Pages series begins with a visit to the Cumber family farm during the 1970s and 1980s, where corn, chickens, romance, friends, and relations blend into a background story not to be missed.

Lumi and Nolan's romance continues in this moving, fun, sexy and heartwarming story of self-discovery and the next steps after those first declarations of love. While healing from an accident, Lumi uncovers fascinating ledgers kept by a circuit-traveling musician/songwriter/poet starting in 1879. What she reads in these diaries is astounding. If she can somehow prove the claims, the revelations could change what is known of a famous author’s writings and historians’ views of his reputation forever.

Lumi Leski moves back to her Indiana hometown to open an antique shop after 10 lonely years away. Maddy, an older neighbor with a Victorian home full of magnificent antiques, often shows off her vintage stereoscope cards and viewer. One day she is horrified to find an additional five disturbing, homemade cards. They depict upsetting scenes that trigger vague yet terrifying flashbacks for Maddy, who won't report what may be a threat to the police in case she is guilty of some crime she has forgotten.

After Kris and Matt purchase old books at an estate auction for the O’Malleys, a mystery is born. Someone is desperate to get what the bookshop owners have in their possession - something worth a fortune. But what is it? Mack and Mavis O’Malley haven’t a clue as to what makes the books so valuable or even which books from the auction they could be. Darla, the record shop owner, makes a startling discovery of her own - one that could change Kris’ life forever.