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A young woman discovers a cache of heirlooms in an abandoned safe deposit box: bundles of handwritten letters, photographs, expired passports, both American and Italian, and twenty-two leather boxes, each holding a priceless piece of jewelry. Drawn to the mysterious woman in the photographs, Jane digs deeper into the woman's luxurious, golden life and the older, dashing man who occupies her pictures and letters. The details are both glamorous and...
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Two strangers unite to save an innocent child—and perhaps the world—in this romantic thriller by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of No Way Out.
When Manhattan editor Dani Arnold she impulsively comes to the aid of a lost child, she finds herself plunged into a mystery more dangerous than anything she's ever read—or anything on the city streets—with an enigmatic stranger who threatens
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Pocket Books
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English
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On leave from his Highland regiment, Captain Liam Lockhart heads for London in order to reclaim his family's ancient treasure, a stolen heirloom that could save his ancestral estate, and meets beautiful socialite Ellen Farnsworth.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Julia Baxter's wedding veil, bequeathed to her great-grandmother by a mysterious woman on a train in the 1930s, has passed through generations of her family as a symbol of a happy marriage. But something tells her that even the veil's good luck isn't enough to make her marriage last forever. Panicked, she escapes to the Virgin Islands to clear her head. Her grandmother Babs, still grieving her husband's death, decides to move into a retirement community--...
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Series
Edilean series volume 5
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Historian Gemma Ranford and Colin Frazier must work together to find the Heartwishes stone that's been missing for over one hundred years -- and with an international thief also on the hunt, the clock is ticking. Because in the wrong hands, no one named Frazier will ever be safe.
7) Going to pot
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
First US edition.
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338 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"S.C. Perkins's Fatal Family Ties is the captivating second mystery in the Ancestry Detective series, in which Texas genealogist Lucy Lancaster deals with murders in both the past and present. Lucy is just about to tuck into a plate of tacos at her favorite Austin joint, Big Flaco's, when she gets an unexpected visit from her former-and least-favorite-co-worker. Camilla Braithwaite hasn't gotten much friendlier since the last time Lucy saw her, but...
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Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
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349 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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As collections curator for Old World Wisconsin, Chloe delights in losing herself in antiques and folk traditions. When her friend's historic house is broken into, and a grisly murder takes place on the museum grounds, Chloe is drawn in to a case of plain, old-fashioned murderous greed.
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
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415 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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"When Margo's niece becomes a runaway bride --taking with her a family heirloom--her mother offers Margo fifty grand to retrieve her spoiled daughter and the invaluable property she stole. Together with the jilted and justifiably crabby fiancé, Margo sets out in a borrowed 1955 red MG on a cross-country chase and finds herself along the way"--
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2019.
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English
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"Judith inherited all the Kratt family had to offer -- the pie safe, the copper clock, the murder that no one talked about. She's presided over the house quite well, thank you very much, admittedly with some help from her companion, Olva. But her wayward younger sister suddenly returns home after decades, sparking an inventory of all that belongs to them. Set in the hard-luck cotton town of Bound, South Carolina -- which the Kratts used to rule but...
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
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viii, 293 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"The residents of Llanelen are brimming with excitement. Antiques Cymru, a regional take on the popular national TV show, is coming to the Welsh town and people are flocking from miles around, hoping their attic treasures turn out to be worth a fortune. On the day of filming, quiet local sheep farmer Haydn Williams brings a generations-old long-case clock for evaluation, while the woman he's always admired from afar, Catrin Bellis, turns up with a...
15) The imperfects
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English
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"The Millers are far from perfect. Estranged siblings Beck, Ashley and Jake find themselves under one roof for the first time in years, forced to confront old resentments and betrayals, when their mysterious, eccentric matriarch, Helen, passes away. But their lives are about to change when they find a secret inheritance hidden among her possessions--the Florentine Diamond, a 137-carat yellow gemstone that went missing from the Austrian Empire a century...
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