diff --git a/backend/Cargo.lock b/backend/Cargo.lock
index 0959f77..9b4ede0 100644
--- a/backend/Cargo.lock
+++ b/backend/Cargo.lock
@@ -421,6 +421,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "axum-extra",
  "booksman-orm",
  "clap",
+ "dotenvy",
  "entity",
  "error-chain",
  "itertools",
diff --git a/backend/api/Cargo.toml b/backend/api/Cargo.toml
index 80f7c6e..a129148 100644
--- a/backend/api/Cargo.toml
+++ b/backend/api/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ entity = { path = "../entity" }
 axum = "^0.5"
 axum-extra = { version = "^0.3", features = ["spa"] }
 clap = { version = "^3", features = ["derive"] }
+dotenvy = "0.15.0"
 error-chain = "0.12.4"
 log = "^0.4"
 reqwest = {version = "0.11.11",  features = ["json"]}
diff --git a/backend/api/src/lib.rs b/backend/api/src/lib.rs
index 646ce1d..9b15187 100644
--- a/backend/api/src/lib.rs
+++ b/backend/api/src/lib.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ use axum::{
     response::IntoResponse,
     routing::{get,post},
     Json, Router,
-    extract::{Extension, Form, Path, Query},
+    extract::{Extension, Form, Path},
 };
 use axum_extra::routing::SpaRouter;
 use clap::Parser;
@@ -15,12 +15,13 @@ use tower::ServiceBuilder;
 use tower_http::cors::CorsLayer;
 use tower_http::trace::TraceLayer;
 use booksman_orm::{
-    sea_orm::{Database, DatabaseConnection, ActiveValue},
+    sea_orm::{Database, DatabaseConnection},
     Mutation as MutationCore, Query as QueryCore,
+    BookAndMeta,
 };
 use itertools::Itertools;
-use std::iter::Peekable;
 use ::entity::entities::{book,book_author,book_person,book_place,book_subject,book_time,book_isbn};
+use std::env;
 
 #[derive(Deserialize, Serialize, Debug, Clone)]
 struct BookUI {
@@ -118,6 +119,15 @@ pub async fn main() {
     // enable console logging
     tracing_subscriber::fmt::init();
 
+
+    dotenvy::dotenv().ok();
+    let db_url = env::var("DATABASE_URL").expect("DATABASE_URL is not set in .env file");
+
+    let conn = Database::connect(db_url)
+        .await
+        .expect("Database connection failed");
+    //Migrator::up(&conn, None).await.unwrap();
+
     let app = Router::new()
         .route("/api/search_openlibrary", get(search_openlibrary))
         .route("/api/delete/:id", post(delete_book))
@@ -125,6 +135,7 @@ pub async fn main() {
         .route("/api/create", post(create_book))
         .merge(SpaRouter::new("/assets", opt.static_dir))
         .layer(ServiceBuilder::new().layer(TraceLayer::new_for_http()))
+                .layer(Extension(conn))
         .layer(
             // see https://docs.rs/tower-http/latest/tower_http/cors/index.html
             // for more details
@@ -207,29 +218,62 @@ async fn list_book(
     let books = QueryCore::find_books_plus_meta_in_page(conn,1,5)
         .await
         .expect("could not list books");
-let res: Vec<BookUI> = (books.0).iter()
-    .group_by(|x| (x.id, x.title.clone()) ).into_iter().peekable()
+
+    let mut data_grouped: Vec<(i32,Vec<BookAndMeta>)> = Vec::with_capacity(5);
+    for (key, group) in &books.0.into_iter().group_by(|x| x.id) {
+    data_grouped.push((key, group.collect()));
+    }
+ 
+let mut res: Vec<BookUI> = Vec::with_capacity(5);
+ for (id,group) in data_grouped.into_iter() {
+    let bookui = BookUI{
+        id,
+title: group.clone().into_iter().map( |u| u.title).next().unwrap(),
+open_library_key: group.clone().into_iter().map( |u| u.open_library_key).next(),
+edition_count: group.clone().into_iter().clone().map(|u| u.edition_count).next(),
+first_publish_year: group.clone().into_iter().clone().map(|u| u.first_publish_year).next(),
+median_page_count: group.clone().into_iter().clone().map(|u| u.median_page_count).next(),
+goodread_id: group.clone().into_iter().clone().map(|u| u.goodread_id).next(),
+description: group.clone().into_iter().clone().map(|u| u.description).next(),
+cover: group.clone().into_iter().clone().map(|u| u.cover).next(),
+location: group.clone().into_iter().clone().map(|u| u.location).next(),
+time_added: group.clone().into_iter().clone().map(|u| u.time_added).next(),
+rating: group.clone().into_iter().clone().map(|u| u.rating).next(),
+comments: group.clone().into_iter().clone().map(|u| u.comments).next(),
+author_name: Some(group.clone().into_iter().map(|u| u.author_name).collect()),
+person: Some(group.clone().into_iter().map(|u| u.person).collect()),
+place: Some(group.clone().into_iter().map(|u| u.place).collect()),
+subject: Some(group.clone().into_iter().map(|u| u.subject).collect()),
+time: Some(group.clone().into_iter().map(|u| u.time).collect()),
+isbn: Some(group.clone().into_iter().map(|u| u.isbn).collect()),
+ 
+    };
+    res.push(bookui);
+ }    
+/* let mut res: Vec<BookUI> =  (books.0).iter()
+    .group_by(|x| (x.id, x.title.clone()) ).into_iter()
         .map(|((id,title), group )| BookUI{
 id,
 title,
-open_library_key: group.map( |u| u.open_library_key).peek(),
-edition_count: group.clone().map(|u| u.edition_count).next(),
-first_publish_year: group.clone().map(|u| u.first_publish_year).next(),
-median_page_count: group.clone().map(|u| u.median_page_count).next(),
-goodread_id: group.clone().map(|u| u.goodread_id).next(),
-description: group.clone().map(|u| u.description).next(),
-cover: group.clone().map(|u| u.cover).next(),
-location: group.clone().map(|u| u.location).next(),
-time_added: group.clone().map(|u| u.time_added).next(),
-rating: group.clone().map(|u| u.rating).next(),
-comments: group.clone().map(|u| u.comments).next(),
-author_name: Some(group.map(|u| u.author_name).collect()),
-person: Some(group.map(|u| u.person).collect()),
-place: Some(group.map(|u| u.place).collect()),
-subject: Some(group.map(|u| u.subject).collect()),
-time: Some(group.map(|u| u.time).collect()),
-isbn: Some(group.map(|u| u.isbn).collect()),
+open_library_key: group.map( |u| u.open_library_key.clone()).next(),
+edition_count: group.map(|u| u.edition_count).next(),
+first_publish_year: group.map(|u| u.first_publish_year).next(),
+median_page_count: group.map(|u| u.median_page_count).next(),
+goodread_id: group.map(|u| u.goodread_id.clone()).next(),
+description: group.map(|u| u.description.clone()).next(),
+cover: group.map(|u| u.cover.clone()).next(),
+location: group.map(|u| u.location.clone()).next(),
+time_added: group.map(|u| u.time_added.clone()).next(),
+rating: group.map(|u| u.rating).next(),
+comments: group.map(|u| u.comments.clone()).next(),
+author_name: Some(group.map(|u| u.author_name.clone()).collect()),
+person: Some(group.map(|u| u.person.clone()).collect()),
+place: Some(group.map(|u| u.place.clone()).collect()),
+subject: Some(group.map(|u| u.subject.clone()).collect()),
+time: Some(group.map(|u| u.time.clone()).collect()),
+isbn: Some(group.map(|u| u.isbn.clone()).collect()),
         }).collect();
+  */
 return Json(res);
   //  "success"
 }
diff --git a/backend/orm/src/query.rs b/backend/orm/src/query.rs
index a647bcc..d5312e0 100644
--- a/backend/orm/src/query.rs
+++ b/backend/orm/src/query.rs
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ use ::entity::entities::{book,book_author,book_person,book_place,book_subject,bo
 use sea_orm::*;
 //use sea_query::Expr;
 
-#[derive(FromQueryResult)]
+#[derive(FromQueryResult,Clone)]
 pub struct BookAndMeta {
     pub id: i32,
     pub open_library_key: String,