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Series
Virgil Flowers mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
A long-needed fishing trip gets interrupted when Virgil Flowers receives a call to investigate a murder at a nearby women-only resort in northern Minnesota. As he inquires about the woman's death, Flowers uncovers a shocking web of jealousy and deceit.
2) True colors
Author
Language
English
Description
In a small Washington town, the Grey sisters once-solid world is broken apart by jealousy, passion, and betrayal until one of their family is arrested and tried for murder.
3) Jealous
Author
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Narwhal and Jelly volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
An exuberant Narwhal and a skeptical Jelly test the waters of adding a new friend to their pod when they meet Otty, a super-adventurous otter who triggers relatable feelings of jealousy in Jelly in spite of their shared love of waffles.
6) Glamourpuss
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Glamourpuss loves being the center of attention. So when an unwelcome guest (a dog, no less!) steals the spotlight with some tasteless bow-wowing and undignified tail-wagging, Glamourpuss worries that she's going to fall out of fashion. Is there room for only one superstar in this mansion? When Glamourpuss makes her most majestic move to find out, the result is pure purrfection.
Author
Series
Tufa novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Kera Rogers, a young woman of the mysterious Tufa, disappears while hiking the woods of Cloud County. It appears she was attacked by an unusually large wild boar, but things are never simple when they involve the Tufa, descendants of otherworldly fae beings. Kera's boyfriend Duncan mourns her death, but he is also consumed by jealousy when he discovers she had another lover. While local hunters look for the boar, Duncan seeks revenge.
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Language
English
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Description
New to Cincinnati, where her father is now coach of the University basketball team, eighth-grader Aurora (called Rory) finds herself isolated by the heated team rivalries--especially when it turns out her new friend Abby's father has a mysterious feud with Rory's father that threatens her new friendship.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1939 Hollywood, Josephine Tey, when a shocking act of violence on the set of Hitchcock's Rebecca reawakens the shadows of the past, teams up with DCI Archie Penrose and together, they follow a trail of clues that echoes Rebecca's timeless themes of obsession, jealousy and murder.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
From the leading lady's liaison to the harassment of an aging juvenile lead -- there's never a dull moment, darling, at the Vulcan Theatre. But vanity and hysterics, suspicion and superstition, brandy and jealousy, are upstaged by a death on opening night. Was it really suicide? Or a macabre encore to a long-ago murder in the same backstage room? Scotland Yard's Inspector Alleyn sets to work assembling a cast of suspects for the final curtain.
13) Looker: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this taut, thrilling debut, an unraveling woman, unhappily childless and recently separated, becomes fixated on her neighbor -- a beautiful, famous actress. The unnamed narrator can't help noticing, with wry irony, that though she and the actress live just a few doors apart, they are separated by a chasm of professional success and personal fulfillment. When an interaction with the actress at the annual block party takes a disastrous turn, what...
14) Frozen stiff
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Death is never pretty, and deputy coroner Mattie Winston's latest case is no exception. But this victim certainly was strikingly beautiful--before someone stuck that knife into her chest. Mattie knows everyone in the charmingly small town of Sorenson, Wisconsin, so the deceased is definitely a stranger from out of town. If a woman this attractive had moved into town, the news would have surely hit the gossip mill in record time. So what was the victim...
Author
Language
English
Description
At Bristol High they were an elite clique known as the Five Firsts: Amanda, Bailey, Carmen, Delta and Zora. At a pre-graduation party just before the end of senior year,Tanner Stahd, the school daredevil, led a group down an embankment toward the river. One student was barely rescued in time to save his life. Carmen rushed to save him, but wasn't so lucky. Her sudden death was mourned; rumors of foul play swirled, but the tragedy is ruled an accident....
16) Ash and quill
Author
Series
Great library volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone and Paper and Fire unite to save the Great Library of Alexandria from itself in this electrifying adventure in the New York Times bestselling series. Hoarding all the knowledge of the world, the Great Library jealousy guards its secrets. But now a group of rebels poses a dangerous threat to its tyranny ... Jess Brightwell and his band of exiles have fled London, only to find themselves imprisoned in...
17) Amal unbound
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Language
English
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Description
"Twelve-year-old Amal's dream of becoming a teacher one day is dashed in an instant when she accidentally insults a member of her Pakistani village's ruling family. As punishment for her behavior, she is forced to leave her heartbroken family behind and go work at their estate. Amal is distraught but has faced setbacks before. So she summons her courage and begins navigating the complex rules of life as a servant, with all its attendant jealousies...
Author
Series
Hagenheim volume 3
Language
English
Description
Sophie desperately wants to get away from her stepmother's jealousy, and believes escape is her only chance to be happy. Then a young man named Gabe arrives from Hagenheim Castle, claiming she is betrothed to his older brother, and everything twists upside down. This could be Sophie's one chance at freedom -- but can she trust another person to keep her safe? Gabe defied his parents Rose and Wilhelm by going to find Sophie, and now he believes they...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The crumbling friendship between writer Lita and entrepreneurial Adam is compromised by unexpected jealousies over each other's romantic entanglements, stolen blog posts and a premature offer to sell a new self-help book.
20) The Summer sail
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Touchstone trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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