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1) Blue fire
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A bride is swept up in family secrets and the blood diamond trade when she returns to South Africa in this novel by a New York Times–bestselling author.
When Chicagoan Susan Hohenfield brings her new husband, Dirk, to her childhood home in Cape Town, it’s with the innocence of a young girl. She remembers only the beauty of South Africa—and the pain of being abandoned by her father. Now, with a new...
When Chicagoan Susan Hohenfield brings her new husband, Dirk, to her childhood home in Cape Town, it’s with the innocence of a young girl. She remembers only the beauty of South Africa—and the pain of being abandoned by her father. Now, with a new...
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"The Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That is until the head of the household, Aristide, is murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection. Suspicion naturally falls on the old man's young widow, fifty years his junior. But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward, fiancé of the late millionaire's granddaughter."--The publisher.
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When Ryan proposed to Maggie at his sister's wedding, joy and fierce disappointment warred in her heart. After all, who liked to be "the one he might as well settle down with?" Maggie vowed to loosen the reins Ryan kept on his passion and force him to admit he loved her.
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"At last, Mary Lynn and Jackson Scoville are living the life they've dreamed about. The two small town bumpkins from Round O, South Carlonia, have made a fortune selling little gems of lowcountry real estate Jackson inherited and are now living in the heart of Charleston, carefully working their way up the social ladder in hopes of giving theur daughters the sterling lives they never had. But the long-forgotten God of Mary Lynn's childhood seems to...
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Southern sewing circle mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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When the lead actress of Warren Shoemaker's new movie, which is being shot in their town, is found murdered and suspicion falls on a member of their sewing circle, Tori Sinclair must piece together to truth to catch a killer and keep their group from being ripped apart.
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"Gentleman Seeks Housekeeper. Must be willing to travel. Desperate for another life away from Philadelphia, headstrong and beautiful Mariah Cooper answers an advertisement for a housekeeper at the other end of the continent. Waiting in California is the most breathtaking-- and arrogant-- man she has ever met-- and he'd like nothing better than for Mariah to go back home! Logan Yates has run Destiny, the family ranch, since he was a boy. He doesn't...
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"Siblings Billa and Ed share their beautiful, grand old childhood home in rural Cornwall. With family and friends nearby, and their living arrangements free and easy, they seem as contented as they can be. But when postcards start arriving from a sinister figure they thought belonged well and truly in their pasts, old memories are stirred. Why is he contacting them now? And what has he been hiding all these years?"--
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition. Large print edition.
Physical Desc
430 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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"The town of Eureka, Colorado, has gone through some financial hard times, but spring promises to be a time of rebirth in more ways than one"--
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Mistletoe collection volume 1
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English
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"Tired of spending the holidays alone since her bitter divorce three years ago, Elise accepts a proposition from a man in her building to be a pretend couple until Christmas. As the charade progresses, her badly broken heart begins to mend, but secrets threaten to destroy the emerging relationship"--
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"When Andy Griffith went to Hollywood in 1960 to film a TV pilot about a small-town sheriff, his friend Don Knotts called to ask if his sheriff could use a deputy. Together, Sheriff Andy Taylor and Deputy Barney Fife elevated The Andy Griffith Show from a folksy sitcom into a timeless study of human friendship. The program was fiction, but the friendship was powerful and real."--Book jacket.
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Dexter volume 0
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English
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"Dexter faces a murder charge for a crime he did not commit. His only chance for freedom lies with his brother, Brian, who has a dark plan to prove Dexter's innocence. But the stakes are deadly, and the epic showdown that lies in Dexter's path may lead, once and for all, to his demise"--
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2015.
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"Facing foreclosure on her California home, widowed Kylie Wayne is grateful to accept her aging aunt Muriel's offer to come back to small-town Branding Iron, Texas, and help out on the ranch. But when an early storm rolls in, Kylie's dream of a perfect Christmas for her kids is blown away with the unexpected snow. Comfort and joy seem unlikely, unless a certain long, tall Texan with a bad boy's charm can rope some holiday cheer..."--jkt.
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Adrian Monk novels volume 19
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"Monk and Natalie have finally settled into a new office routine. Now they just need to work things out with their neighbors--a print shop run by hippies whose music leaks through the walls, driving Monk nuts. But the detectives soon have a more serious conflict to deal with: Captain Stottlemeyer's new lieutenant, A.J. Cartledge--a man of limited skills whom Monk finds insufferable. Even the presence of Lieutenant Cartledge won't keep Monk and Natalie...
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A moving and powerfully dynamic World War II novel about two American journalists and an Englishman, who together race the Allies to Occupied Paris for the scoop of their lives. Normandy, 1944. To cover the fighting in France, Jane, a reporter for the Nashville Banner, and Liv, an Associated Press photographer, have endured enormous danger and frustrating obstacles--including strict military regulations limiting what women correspondents can do.
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2015.
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"A heartwarming story that celebrates how life-changing friendships can be found in all seasons of life. The sprawling lake home Lynn Lundberg built with her husband has been an epicenter of joyful family life, from summer holidays spent around the water, to cookies baked in the kitchen with grandchildren in the fall. But since her husband's sudden passing two years ago, Lynn has been lost in the grief and solitude she feels without him at home. She...
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Mystery with recipes volume 12
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Murder's surely on the menu when Bernie and Libby Simmons agree to make pierogies for abusive director Ludvoc Zalinsky. Zalinsky pours money into his Alice in Wonderland production at the Blue House arts center in Longely, N.Y., but buys only resentment. On opening night, someone steals the $2 million Chinese teapot he insisted be a prop. And the thief--or another miscreant--hotwires an electric kettle, fatally shocking Zalinsky. Daughters of retired...
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"In 1938 in England with the arrival of World War II, Cavendon Hall will face its biggest challenge yet--one that will push the aristocratic Inghams and the loyal Swann family who have served them for centuries to protect each other and the villagers, and reveal their true capacity for survival and rebirth"--
20) The children
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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A wealthy but unconventional New England family of four stepsiblings struggles to come to terms with their legacy and the myths they have built their lives upon during a lavish family wedding that exposes long-standing resentments and unfortunate truths.
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