Large Print Books 2009 - Toronto Public Library

Large Print Books 2009
Contents
Introduction
page 3
Fiction
page 9
Mystery
page 51
Romance
page 86
Science Fiction
page 93
Western
page 94
Non Fiction
page 96
Large Print Books in French page 130
Canadian Large Print
page 137
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Large Print Books
Large Print books are complete,
unabridged books designed with large,
clear print on non-glare paper. You can
find Large Print books at most branches
of the Toronto Public Library. New this
year are large print books in French.
Placing Holds for Large Print Titles:
You can place a hold for specific Large
Print titles and have them sent to your
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You can also call Answerline (416-3937131 or TTY only 416-393-7030) to place
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Other collections you may find of
interest:
Described Videos – these videos
contain narration that describes the
action during breaks in the dialogue. You
can find described videos in the TPL
Catalogue under the Subject Heading
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Video recordings for people with
visual disabilities.
Audiobooks - are abridged and
unabridged versions of popular books on
CD or cassettes. These are available in
all branches for anyone to borrow. You
can place holds for audiobooks.
E-books – An ebook or electronic book is
a book you read on a computer. They can
be read in a web browser such as
Internet Explorer. You may need Adobe
Acrobat to read some eBooks but other
than that you will need no special
software.
eAudiobooks – are audiobooks that you
can download. They are digital audio files
you can download and listen to on your
computer and on some portable music
players.
Download books, movies and music
Overdrive – a new way to download
popular books, movies, music and
audiobooks. Enjoy them on your
computer or make them portable for your
MP3 player or PDA.
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You can find ebooks and eaudiobooks at
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Talking Books – unabridged recordings
of popular-interest fiction and nonfiction
books, which have been read aloud.
Talking books are available in DAISY
format, Compact Discs or audiocassettes.
You can use Talking Books if you have a
perceptual disability that prevents or
inhibits you from reading works in their
original format (Section 32.1, Canadian
Copyright Act).
To borrow Talking Books you must fill out
an application form, which you can get at
your branch; on the web page
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dropped off at your library branch.
Other services available at TPL:
Home Library Service: if you are
confined to your home for three months
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or more due to age, illness or injury,
library staff can select and deliver
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library staff select materials for you and
then a friend or family member can pick
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Please contact Home Library Services at
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Large Collections of Large
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S. Walter Stewart
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Barbara Frum
Beaches
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Dawes Road
Deer Park
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Eglinton Square
Elmbrook Park
Evelyn Gregory
Fairview
Forest Hill
Guildwood
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St. James Town
St. Lawrence
Taylor Memorial
Thorncliffe
Weston
Woodside Square
Wychwood
York Woods
Yorkville
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Fiction
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Abbott, Jeff
Collision
The story of two men living
very different lives. A
successful corporate
consultant who is mourning
the murder of his new bride.
The other, a former CIA agent
known only as Pilgrim, whose
current assignment for a
fringe espionage agency is so
treacherous, he doesn’t trust
even his own boss. When they
are thrown together in a
violent, unexpected event, the
two men realize that they
have been framed in an
elaborate setup.
Adiga, Aravind
The white tiger
Balram, the White Tiger, was born in a backwater
village on the River Ganges, the son of a rickshawpuller. He works in a teashop, crushing coal and
wiping tables, but nurses a dream of escape. When
he learns that a rich village landlord needs a
chauffeur, he takes his opportunity, and is soon on
his way to Delhi behind the wheel of a Honda.
Albert, Elisa,
The book of Dahlia
A young Jewish-American woman learns that she has
brain cancer and through a series of flashbacks
examines her wasted life.
Archer, Jeffrey
A prisoner of birth
A man framed for the murder of his best friend seeks
revenge against the four men who put him in
Belmarsh prison, the highest-security jail in the land,
from where no inmate has ever escaped.
Atwell, Sarah.
Through a glass, deadly
After glassblower Emmeline Dowell
befriends troubled newcomer Allison
McBride, she finds Allison's husband
dead in her studio and her carefully
constructed world shattered by the
investigation
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Auster, Paul
Man in the dark
August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his
daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to
come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories,
struggling to push back thoughts about things he
would prefer to forget. As the night progresses,
Brill's story grows increasingly intense, and what he
is so desperately trying to avoid insists on being told.
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Baker, Tiffany
The little giant of Aberdeen County
When Truly Plaice's mother was pregnant, all of
Aberdeen joined in betting how huge the baby boy
would be. The girl who proved to be Truly paid the
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price of her enormity; her father blamed her for her
mother's death in childbirth, and was ill-equipped to
raise this giant child or her polar opposite sister
Serena Jane. When he, too, relinquished his grip on
life, Truly and Serena Jane are separated—Serena
Jane to live a life of privilege as the future May
Queen and Truly to live on the farm.
Balogh, Mary
The ideal wife
When Abigail Gardiner knocks at the
door of Miles Ripley, Earl of Severn,
the last thing she expects is a
marriage proposal. Desperate, she'd
come to this charismatic stranger's
home to plead for her future. Instead
she shocks them both by saying yes.
Her impulsive decision will have
consequences neither she nor her
new husband can foresee.
Barbieri, Heather
The lace makers of Glenmara
Fleeing for Ireland in the wake of a failed
relationship, fashion designer Kate Robinson finds
herself in a coastal Gaelic village and bonds with the
members of a lace-making society, through whom
she finds healing by listening to their stories of loss
and suffering.
Bauermeister, Erica
The School of Essential Ingredients
Follows the lives of eight cooking students and their
teacher in a class that meets in Lillian’s restaurant
kitchen. Over the course of eight months, the lives of
the characters mingle and intertwine, brought
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together by the revealing, sensual, and comforting
nature of what can be created in the kitchen.
Bennett, Vanora
Figures in Silk
Two sisters discover passion during the War of the
Roses—one in the arms of the king, the other in the
world of silk.
Berg, Elizabeth
Home safe
Recently widowed Helen Ames and daughter Tessa
are about to embark on new adventures and change.
Helen is shocked to discover that her mild-mannered
and loyal husband had been leading a double life.
The Ames’s had saved money for a happy
retirement, planned in minute detail, but that money
has disappeared in several big withdrawals by
Helen’s husband before he died.
Binchy, Maeve
Heart and soul
Dr. Clara Casey has been offered the thankless job
of establishing a new underfunded heart clinic in a
community caught between the old and the new
Ireland, and agrees to take it on for a year, despite
pressures from her adult daughters and ex-husband.
She assembles a wonderfully staff devoted to helping
their demanding, often difficult patients. Before long
they establish the clinic as an essential part of the
community, and Clara must decide whether or not to
leave a place where lives are saved, courage is
rewarded, and humor and optimism triumph over
greed and self-pity.
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Bond, Michael
Monsieur Pamplemousse and the French
Solution
When the Director of Le Guide urgently summons for
Monsieur Pamplemousse and his faithful canine
companion, Pommes Frites, it means only one thing
- trouble. Mischief and troubles start when wild
rumors involving the habits of a nun and the
creditability of Le Guide are afloat. Even Pommes
Frites’ name is becoming smeared. Pamplemousse is
on the case but can he solve it before everything is
ruined.
Bondurant, Matt
The wettest county in the world
Based on the true story of Matt
Bondurant's grandfather and two
granduncles. The Bondurant Boys
were a notorious gang of
roughnecks and moonshiners who
ran liquor through Franklin
County, Virginia, during
Prohibition and in the years after.
Driven and haunted, these men
forge a business, fall in love, and
struggle to stay afloat as they
watch their family die, their
father's business fail, and the
world they know crumble beneath
the Depression and drought.
Bowling, Tom
The antigallican
Fishing captain Jean Cotterell is rescued by a French
frigate, The Hortense, off the Grand Banks of Nova
Scotia in May 1794. Life on The Hortense is like
France under the Terror: chaotic, ungovernable, and
obsessed with savage, radical political theories.
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Separated from the French fleet in the Western
Approaches, she is intercepted by two British frigates,
and Cotterell finds himself embroiled in the heat of
battle.
Bradford, Barbara Taylor
Being Elizabeth
At the age of 25, Elizabeth is the youngest executive
in the family business. Now head of the Deravenels
Empire she knows very well the company’s
worldwide reach and influence and is aware of the
buried secrets and sacrifices that were made to see
Deravenels reach the success it is today. Surrounded
by rumors and disloyalty, she finds herself at a
crossroad of choices involving her mind, her heart,
and her destiny. When scandal surrounds the man
she’s loves, Elizabeth discovers how the next
decisions could have deadly and final consequences.
Breen, Susan
The fiction class
Arabella Hicks seems more than qualified to teach
her fiction class on the Upper West Side: she's a
writer herself; she's passionate about books; she's
even named after the heroine in a Georgette Heyer
novel. On the other hand, she's thirty-eight, single,
and has been writing the same book for the last
seven years. When her class takes a surprising turn
and her lessons start to spill over into her weekly
visits to her mother, she suddenly finds she might be
holding the key to her mother's love and, dare she
say it, her own inspiration.
Brockmann, Suzanne.
Into the fire
Battling depression, unemployment, and booze in
the wake of the fatal shooting of his wife Angelina,
Vinh Murphy finds solace in his friendship with
Hannah Whitfield, only to discover that the FBI is
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hunting for a man named Murphy in connection with
the murder of a neo-Nazi leader whose group may
be linked to Angelina's death.
Brooks, Kix.
The adventures of Slim & Howdy
Musicians by trade, Slim and
Howdy have each come to a
figurative crossroads in their lives.
Forced by circumstances to share
a truck, they take to the road in
pursuit of a common goal, to
make it as musicians on the
country music circuit. But it
seems no matter where these two
travel, trouble finds them.
Brookmyre, Christopher
Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks
After Jack Parlabane dies from falling out of a fourstorey window, he recounts the events of his life that
led to his death.
Brown, Dale
Rogue forces
Turkey has launched an invasion of northern Iraq.
The U.S. president wants to put a stop to it, but he
doesn't want to send American troops into the area.
Luckily, Patrick McLanahan is a military contractor
these days and the government asks him to step in.
McLanahan doesn't do anything by half measures,
and soon the president has some serious concerns:
Is McLanahan acting for his country or for himself?
Brown, Sandra
Smoke screen
When newswoman Britt Shelley wakes up to find
herself in bed with Jay Burgess she remembers
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nothing of how she got there - or of how Jay wound
up dead.
Bushnell, Candace
One Fifth Avenue
Following the lives of five very different women all
living in a trendy apartment building in Manhattan's
Upper East Side. It is the tale of female
Manhattanites, who live out, or dream of living out,
their fantasies in the Art Deco tower of One Fifth
Avenue.
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Calderόn, Emilio
The creator’s map
Told from the perspective of José María, a Spanish
architect in Rome, the novel brings to life the
harrowing days surrounding the rise and fall of
fascism as he, along with a passionate young
librarian and an Italian prince, become entangled in
a web of intrigue, love, and deceit involving a fateful
map whose secrets have the power to destroy them.
Cassella, Carol Wiley
Oxygen
Dr. Marie Heaton is an
anesthesiologist at the height of her
profession. Marie has carefully
constructed and constricted her life
according to empirical truths, to the
science and art of medicine. But
when her tried-and-true formula
suddenly deserts her during a
routine surgery, she must explain
the nightmarish operating room
disaster and face the resulting
malpractice suit.
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Cather, Willa
My Antonia
In the late nineteenth century, Ántonia, a fourteenyear-old immigrant girl from Bohemia, and Jim
Burden, a ten-year-old orphan boy, arrive in Black
Hawk, Nebraska, and in teaching each other form a
friendship that will last a lifetime.
Clayton, Meg Waite
The Wednesday sisters
Friendship, loyalty, and love lie at the heart of Meg
Waite Clayton’s beautifully written, poignant, and
sweeping novel of five women who, over the course
of four decades, come to redefine what it means to
be family.
Cliff, Ann.
Yorkshire rose
Disappointed by his daughter's marriage to a mere
working-man, mill owner Caleb Rimmington disowns
her and refuses any contact with his three
grandchildren. They long to meet their grandfather
and cousins. When Caleb dies, this dream becomes
reality. Intense passionate relationships follow with
broken marriages and broken lives.
Cobb, Thomas
Shavetail
Fleeing a shameful past, seventeen-year-old Ned
Thorne joins the U.S. Army and, in 1871, is sent to
the dangerous Arizona territories, where he joins his
captain and a ragtag troop in the search for a
missing woman supposedly kidnapped by the
Apache.
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Cox, Josephine
Songbird
In the riverside town of Bedford, four students can
hear the haunting voice of a woman singing. The
beautiful melody is coming from their neighbour - a
reclusive creature who never opens the door to
anyone or leaves her home in daylight. They have no
way of knowing that the woman next door,
Madeleine Delaney is driven by a dangerous memory
that for over twenty years has controlled her meagre
existence.
Cumming, Charles
The Spanish game
Six years ago, Alec Milius got out of the spy game
after being drummed out by MI5. Now living in exile
in Madrid, quietly and as far under the radar as
possible, Milius keeps a constant eye out for the
enemies he made, hoping to avoid any future
involvement. Yet when a prominent Basque politician
goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Milius
soon finds himself embroiled in another international
conspiracy.
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Dave, Laura
The divorce party
On their 35th anniversary, Gwyn Huntington and her
husband Thomas have invited friends and family to
their Montauk home. Instead of celebrating their
decades-long love, they are toasting their divorce.
This also marks the weekend that their son brings
home his fiancée, Maggie Mackenzie, for the first
time. Maggie thought she was joining a perfect
family, but she is about to reckon with some
uncomfortable truths about the man she wants to
marry.
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Dean, Janet
Courting Miss Adelaide
Small-town spinster Adelaide Crum
longs for a family, but the town
elders refuse to entrust an orphan
to a single woman. Charles Graves
promises to stand by her.
Adelaide's unwavering faith soon
makes him wonder if he can
overcome his bitter past.
Dean, Rebecca
Palace circle
Delia Chandler marries Viscount Ivor Conisborough
just before World War II, becoming part of the
Windsor court. It’s every girl’s dream come true. But
Delia is jolted from her pleasant life when she
realizes, after the birth of her two daughters, that
Ivor chose her only to bear an heir to his estate.
Shortly thereafter, she begins an affair with her
husband’s handsome, titled, and frequently
scandalous best friend.
Delaney, Frank
Shannon
Robert Shannon, a young American hero of the Great
War, finds himself in Ireland after the frightful Battle
of Belleau. Shannon believes he is in Ireland on a
self journey to restore his faith and vocation.
Unfortunately, Robert suffers from shell shock. What
he does not remember is that on his return from the
war, he witnessed startling and lethal corruption in
the Archdiocese of Boston. As a consequence, he has
also been sent to Ireland to secure his silence.
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DeMille, Nelson
The gate house
Though Frank Bellarosa, infamous Mafia don, is long
dead, his son, Anthony, is alive and well, and intent
on two missions, drawing John back into the violent
world of the Bellarosa family, and exacting revenge
on his father's murderer, Susan Sutter.
Desai, Kiran
The inheritance of loss
In the Himalayas, lives a judge with his orphaned
granddaughter when Indian-Nepali insurgency
disrupts everyone's lives.
Deveraux, Jude.
Return to summerhouse
Magic most definitely resides in the
Maine summerhouse where the
mysterious Madame Zoya has granted
the innermost wishes of its visitors. Now,
three women have come to this special
place with one thing in common: a
painful past they would each like to
rewrite.
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Ebershoff, David
The 19th wife
It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently
separated from her powerful husband, Brigham
Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church.
Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a
crusade to end polygamy in the United States. Soon
after Ann Eliza’s story begins, a second exquisite
narrative unfolds – a tale of murder involving a
polygamist family in present-day Utah.
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Elliott, Elissa
Eve: a novel of the first woman
Here is Eve brought to life in a way religion and myth
have
never allowed – as a wife, a mother, and a woman.
With stunning intimacy, Elliott boldly re-imagines
Eve’s journey before and after the banishment from
Eden, her complex marriage to Adam, her troubled
relationship with her daughters, and the tragedy that
would overcome her sons, Cain and Abel.
Enright, Anne
Yesterday’s weather
A collection of short fiction from the winner of the
2007 Man Booker Prize. Enright presents a series of
deeply moving glimpses into the lives of ordinary
men and women struggling with the blonds of love,
family and community in an increasingly disconnect
world.
Enger, Leif.
So brave, young, and handsome
The story of an aging train
robber on a quest to
reconcile the claims of love
and judgment on his life,
and the failed writer who
goes with him.
Epstein, Jennifer Cody
The painter from Shanghai
Based on the true story of the life of the famous
painter Pan Yuliang, Epstein presents a lush,
exquisitely detailed portrait of China during the early
1900s. Yuliang, a child forced into prostitution by her
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opium-smoking uncle, later becomes a celebrated
post-impressionist painter.
Erdrich, Louise
The red convertible
A collection of three dozen short works includes six
previously unpublished pieces and offers insight into
the author's use of plot twists and contrasting
psychological landscapes. Like Faulkner, Erdrich
combines a supple, poetic style with a vividly
realized setting and unforgettable characters, often
setting up complex, interlocking narratives.
Ewan, Chris
The good thief's guide to Amsterdam
Charlie Howard travels the globe writing suspense
novels for a living, about an intrepid burglar named
Faulks. To supplement his income - and to keep his
hand in - Charlie also has a small side business
stealing for a very discreet clientele on commission.
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Farah, Nuruddin
Knots
Returning to her native home in Somalia after being
raised in North America and suffering a failed
marriage, self-reliant Cambara struggles to reclaim
her family's home from a warlord and finds support
from a group of women activists.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The great Gatsby
A young man newly rich tries to recapture the past
and win back his former love, despite the fact that
she has married.
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Flynn, Katie
Sunshine and shadows
Daisy Kildare is poor but her Aunt finds her a
position as a companion to her employers' niece,
Cynthia. There she meets Jake, the chauffeur's son,
and life becomes easier to bear. When Jake goes to
university, Daisy means to follow, but war intervenes
and she starts work at a factory, and falls in love for
the very first time...
Fowler, Therese.
Souvenir
Seventeen years after entering into a marriage
agreement on her family's behalf, Meg Powell is
reunited with her first love, Carson McCay, now a
successful musician, a situation that complicates her
attempts to repair her strained relationship with her
rebellious daughter, Savannah.
Frank, Dorothea Benton
Return of Sullivans Island
New York Times best selling author Dorothea Benton
Frank returns to the setting of her first novel and her
childhood home, a North Carolina beach town, in this
touching Southern novel.
Freely, Maureen
Enlightenment
In October 2005, only a few months after her
Turkish husband is detained and her five-year-old
son distributed to a foster family by US border
patrol, Jeannie Wakefield disappears. She leaves
behind in Istanbul a 57-page letter to M, an
anonymous investigative journalist who Jeannie begs
to write about her plight. The letter tells the story of
Jeannie's first arrival in Turkey 34 years earlier,
when she was a bright-eyed 16-year-old innocent
shimmering with open-hearted idealism. The letter
reveals a convoluted tale of complex political
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intrigue, of retired intelligence operatives and tales
Turkish teenage radicals willing to die for their right
to speak out against the humanitarian outrages. It
is a grim and heartbreaking history of first loves
shattered and best friends betrayed, and M finds
herself, against her will, tangled in Jeannie's
narrative.
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Galchen, Rivka
Atmospheric disturbances
When Dr. Leo Liebenstein’s wife disappears, she
leaves behind a single, confounding clue: a woman
who looks, talks, and behaves exactly like her or
almost exactly like her and even audaciously claims
to be her. While everyone else is fooled by this
imposter, Leo knows better. Certain that the original
Rema is alive and in hiding, Leo embarks on a
quixotic journey to reclaim his lost love.
Gardiner, Meg
The Dirty Secrets Club
San Francisco forensic psychiatrist
Jo Beckett doesn’t cut open victims’
bodies. She dissects their lives. It’s
her professional duty to determine
why the dead get dead. This time
around, Beckett just might be in
over her head.
Garwood, Julie.
Fire and ice : a novel
A feisty woman must form an alliance with the man
she most fears to trust to save both of their lives.
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Gee, Sue
Reading in Bed
Georgia and Dido have been best
friends for long time. Together, they
have seen their fair share of life’s
challenges. They have turn to each
other in good times and in bad. But
life’s unexpected dramas may be too
much to handle when both
experience crisis.
Gill, Elizabeth
Sweet Wells
An atmospheric saga set in north-east England.
Maddy Grant is a country girl, living on the fells
above the small town of Sweet Wells in the Durham
dales, where her family has lived for hundreds of
years. But unbeknown to her, Maddy’s beloved home
was sold to one Jonas Ward, who has good reason to
hate her family. She finds out when her father dies,
and Jonas evicts Maddy and her mother from the
house . . .
Glass, Julia
I see you everywhere
Glass's tale of two sisters, one who wants nothing
but the best in life, the other who lives on the edge,
is a refreshing look at the bonds of sisterhood.
Connected no matter how great the distance
between them, the sisters' relationship is analyzed in
dramatic detail.
Goudge, Eileen
Domestic affairs
Betrayal tears apart childhood friends when Abigail’s
mother, the housekeeper for Lila’s wealthy family, is
summarily banished. Twenty-five years later Abigail
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is a celebrity cookbook author and Lila, a socialite
who has suffered a tragic reversal of fortune,
approaches her for a job. Abigail gives her a job as
her housekeeper.
Graff, Laurie
The shiksa syndrome
Jewish Manhattan publicist Aimee Albert seeks
companionship with a nice Jewish man, and falls for
Josh Hirsch, a gorgeous man who mistakes her for a
shiksa and who has a different attitude toward
Judaism than she does. But as Aimee begins to
discover that her identity isn’t as easily traded as a
pair of Jimmy Choos, she must decide if having the
man of her dreams is worth the price of giving up so
much of who she is.
Graham, Heather
The death dealer
As a killer obsessed by Poe's tales selects his victims
from members of a literary society devoted to the
writer, Genevieve O'Brien, fearing that her mother
will be next, enlists the aid of P.I. Joe Connolly to
stop the murders.
Greeley, Andrew M.
Irish tweed
Nuala Anne and her daughter have taken up karate
to fight off schoolyard bullies who are harassing the
family, while their incredibly shy nanny, Julie, is
courted by a new fellow. Nuala Anne’s husband,
Dermot, pores over a memoir of a famine refugee
whose family died of a mysterious fever, looking for
clues into the cause of the illness.
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Greer, Andrew Sean
The story of a marriage
It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful young housewife,
finds herself living in the Sunset District in San
Francisco, caring not only for her husband's fragile
health, but also for her son, who is afflicted with
polio. Then, one Saturday morning, a stranger
appears on her doorstep and everything changes.
Guillou, Jan
The Road to Jerusalem
For power. For passion. For glory.
The epic story of the knights
templar.
Gulland, Sandra
Mistress of the sun
The author of the internationally acclaimed Josephine
Bonaparte trilogy returns with another irresistible
historical novel, this one based on the life of Louise
de la Vallière, who, against all odds, became one of
the most mysterious consorts of France's Louis XIV,
the charismatic Sun King.
Guterson, David
The other
Guterson tells the disturbing story of a friendship
that takes two young men down widely diverging, if
ineluctably intertwined, paths. One will lead to death,
the other regret.
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Hammond, Diane
Hannah’s dream: a novel
For forty-one years, Samson Brown has been caring
for Hannah, the lone elephant at the down-at-theheels Max L. Biedelman Zoo. Sam rejoices when
smart, compassionate Neva Wilson is hired as the
new elephant keeper. But Neva quickly discovers
what Sam already knows: that despite their loving
care, Hannah is isolated from other elephants and
her feet are nearly ruined from standing on hard
concrete all day. Neva and Sam hatch a plan to send
Hannah to an elephant sanctuary—just as the zoo's
angry, unhappy director launches an aggressive
revitalization campaign that spotlights Hannah as the
star attraction.
Harbison, Elizabeth M
Secrets of a shoe addict
Abbey, Tiffany, and Loreen are each in need of
thousands of dollars. Sandra has the perfect idea.
It’s fast, it’s easy, it’s legal, and it’s the secret that
kept her shoe addiction alive. Sandra, a phone-sex
operator, introduces the three PTA moms with
various money troubles to the lucrative job of the
phone "actress."
Harper, Sandra A.
High tea
Running a formal English tea room in an ultra-trendy
Los Angeles neighborhood, middle-aged proper
British lady Margaret Moore prepares for a visit by an
influential critic and finds her efforts challenged by
her daughter's abrupt decision to move, difficulties
with her ex, and her longing for her home country, in
a tale complemented by traditional recipes.
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Harris, Robert
The Ghost
Adam Lang was Britain's longest serving and most
controversial prime minister. Leaving the world of
politics, he hides out in wintry Martha's Vineyard to
finish his much sought-after, potentially explosive
memoir, for which he accepted one of history's
largest cash advances. His ghostwriter suddenly and
mysteriously disappears and later washes up, dead,
on the island's deserted shore. When his new
ghostwriter arrives, it’s not long for him to realize
that the ex-prime minister is not just a charismatic
politician who made a few mistakes but a man with a
dark, tortured and haunting past.
Hemingway, Ernest
A farewell to arms
The unforgettable story of an
American ambulance driver on the
Italian front and his passion for a
beautiful English nurse.
Hershon, Joanna
The German bride
In 1865, a secret affair with the artist hired by her
German Jewish father to paint his daughters'
portraits forces Eva into a quick marriage and drives
her to leave Berlin to seek a new life on the frontier
of the American Southwest.
Higgins, Jack
A darker place
The defection of famous Russian writer and exparatrooper Alexander Kurbsky appears to be a
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victory for Western interests until it is revealed that
Kurbsky is a secret agent out to infiltrate British and
American intelligence. He does not care what he has
to do or where he has to go...or whom he has to kill.
Holm, Stef Ann
All the right angles
Construction is a guys' game but Architect Francesca
Moretti has always been taught to aim high, work
hard and finish what you start. So when she heads
up the family construction business to see a highprofile project through to completion, there is no
question of bailing out. She will have to prove she's
just as comfortable in steel-toed work boots as in
peep-toe heels.
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Johnson, Denis
Tree of smoke
The lives of Skip Sands, a spy-intraining engaged in psychological
operations against the Vietcong,
and brothers Bill and James
Houston, young men who drift out
of the Arizona desert into a war,
intertwine in a novel of America
during the Vietnam War.
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Kelman, Judith.
Backward in high heels
Trying to pull her life together again after her
husband leaves her for his twenty-three-year-old
mistress, Maggie looks to her family and friends for
help, but finds it from a most unlikely source.
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Kerr, Peter
The gannet has landed
Doogie O'Mara, a young Scottish veterinary student,
takes a
year off his studies following the death of his parents.
He works as a tour rep in Africa, with hopes of
finding time to study the wildlife too. Instead, he
finds himself thrust into the madcap package tour
business, and the nearest thing to wildlife appears to
be the hordes of rowdy holidaymakers pouring off
the gannets (charter planes) from the UK.
Kincaid, Greg
A dog named Christmas
Discovering that a local shelter is looking for
temporary homes for their dogs over the Christmas
holidays, Todd, a developmentally challenged young
man, persuades his reluctant family to take in a
special canine named Christmas, who teaches an
entire community a lesson in the transforming power
of love and goodwill.
Kneale, Matthew
When we were Romans
Nine-year-old Lawrence is the man of his family. He
watches over his mother and his willful little sister
Jemima. He is the one who keeps order, especially
when his mother decides they must leave their life in
England behind because of threats from Lawrence's
father. But their new life in Rome does not go as
planned. Short of money and living off of his
mother's old friends—all who seem to doubt her
story—Lawrence soon realizes that things are not
what they seem.
King, Stephen
Just after sunset
Call it dark, call it twilight, it's the time when human
intercourse takes on an unnatural cast, when nothing
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is quite as it appears, when the imagination begins
to reach for shadows as they dissipate to darkness
and living daylight can be scared right out of you.
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Lair, Jessica
Wings of sorrow
Scarborough, 1938. Jane is unhappy with
her life spent at Home and sees an
opportunity to escape when Nell invites her
to visit her family. Nell’s friends Simon and
Ewan accept Jane as one of their own, but
the threat of war soon alters their
friendships irreparably. Simon and his ship
are involved in mine sweeping, Ewan joins
the air force and—feeling frustrated at their
helplessness—Nell and Jane join the Land
Army so that they can do something
positive for the war effort while remaining
together. It is only when both girls fall for
the same man that the strength of their
friendship is pressed to its limits.
Le Carré, John
A most wanted man
A half-starved young Russian man in a long black
overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg in the dead of
night. He has an improbable amount of cash hidden
in a purse around his neck and he says his name is
Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights
lawyer, is determined to save Issa from deportation.
Soon her client's survival becomes more important
to her than her own career or safety.
Lindsey, Johanna.
No choice but seduction
The daughter of Sir Anthony Malory has been
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kidnapped, and it falls to Captain Boyd Anderson to
rescue her. But when he finds the girl, she's already
been rescued. So he and the rescuer, a young
American woman, set out to find and punish the
kidnapper.
Lofts, Norah
A calf for Venus
The Coffee House was a warm, brightly lit place. The
serving girls were pretty, and the men who visited
the rooms seemed polite enough. But still there were
whispers, ugly disquieting rumours about what
happened at night when the big oak door was closed.
Lofts, Norah
The concubine
Against common sense and the urgings of his most
trusted advisors, Henry defied all, blindly following
his passion for Anne. Anne's ascent to the throne
elevates her from lady-in waiting to the highest
position a woman could attain, but her life spirals out
of control when Henry is driven to desperate acts of
betrayal and violence.
Lofts, Norah
Michael and all angels
In the autumn of 1817, the arrival
of the Ipswich coach and its
occupants — a strange, ill-assorted
company — changed the lives of
those who lived at the Fleece Inn
forever.
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Lustbader, Eric
Robert Ludlum’s the Bourne deception: a new
Jason Bourne novel
After Bourne is ambushed and nearly killed while in
Indonesia, he fakes his death to take on a new
identity and mission to find out who is trying to
assassinate him. In the process, Bourne begins to
question who he really is and what he would become
if he no longer carried the Bourne identity.
Lustbader, Eric Van
First Daughter
When Jack McClure’s daughter, Emma is tragically
dies, he dives deeper into his work as a top ATF
agent. As his life continues to fall apart, he receives
a call for help from his old friend Edward
Carson. Carson is about to be the President of the
United States and his daughter, Alli, has been
kidnapped. Because Emma McClure was once Alli’s
best friend, Carson turns to Jack, the one man he
can trust to go to any lengths to find his daughter
and bring her home safely. Surprisingly, the search
for Alli leads Jack on a road toward reconciliation.
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Macomber, Debbie
A Cedar Cove Christmas
Mother-to-be Mary Jo Wyse arrives in Cedar Cove on
Christmas Eve, searching for her baby's father.
David Rhodes had said he'd be in town. But he isn't.
Which leaves Mary Jo stranded, pregnant and alone?
And there's no room at the local inn. When Mary Jo
goes into labor that night, a young man named Mack
McAfee, a paramedic, comes to her rescue, just as
her brothers, the three Wyse men show up in town.
The people of Cedar Cove join them in celebrating
the birth of baby Noel.
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Mansell, Jill
An Offer You Can’t Refuse
Lola has no intention of accepting when her
boyfriend Dougie's snobbish mother offers her
£10,000 to break up with him. Then she discovers a
secret that makes her think again. Dougie would
probably have broken up with her in the long run,
and this way she can help one of the people she
loves most in the world. Ten years later, though,
when Lola meets Dougie again, her feelings for him
are as strong as ever. But she broke Dougie's heart and he's about to discover that she was paid to do it.
She can never tell him the truth, so can she get him
back?
Markoe, Merrill
Nose down, eyes up
At forty-seven, Gil is the world's oldest twenty-twoyear-old man. Gil has been dating Sara, an animal
communicator, long enough to converse freely with
all four of his dogs (especially Jimmy, the alpha).
When Jimmy learns Gil isn't his biological father, he
demands to meet his birth mother, a dog owned by
Gil's remarried ex-wife. A series of setbacks beset
the duo, and the tribulations provide lessons in life,
love and finding happiness.
McCleary, Kathleen
House and home
Devastated by the loss of her beloved home in the
wake of a painful divorce, coffee shop owner and
mom Ellen Flanagan finds herself in an unexpected
relationship with the husband of a shrewish woman
who has bought the house.
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McKevett, G. A.
Poisoned tarts
As Halloween approaches, P.I.
Savannah Reid finds herself kneedeep in tricks and treats when a
member of The Skeleton Key
Three, a celebutante clique, goes
missing, and the wealthy host of
the annual Halloween bash is
murdered.
Michaels, Fern
Collateral damage
The donor lists of both the Republicans and the
Democrats have been hacked, and personal
information about thousands of people has been
stolen. This time there’s an added bonus for bringing
the thieves to justice: a presidential pardon for
the Sisterhood.
Michaels, Fern
Fast track
Relieved to be settling back in the United States
after an enforced exile, the ladies of the Sisterhood
must decide if they are prepared to take on a
dangerous task, a job that could reward them
beyond their wildest dreams or cause them to lose
everything.
Miller, Rebecca
The private lives of Pippa Lee
What part of our selves do we hide away in order to
have a stable, prosperous life? Pippa Lee has just
such a life in place at age fifty, when her older
husband, a retired publisher, decides that they
should move to a retirement community outside New
York City. Pippa is suddenly deprived of the
stimulation and distraction that had held everything
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in place. She begins losing track of her own mind;
her foundations start to shudder, and gradually we
learn the truth of the young life that led her finally to
settle down in marriage — years of neglect and
rebellion, wild transgressions and powerful defiance.
Moules, Joan M.
It’s one of ours
Anna and Joe Putts's daughter was born on
September 3, 1939—just as the air first sirens wailed
throughout London. Eight months later Joe was in
the army, and like so many other young wives and
mothers Anna concentrated all her love and attention
on her child. A traumatic experience on the one
occasion when she did go out for her own pleasure
has repercussions she could never have imagined.
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Neggers, Carla
The angel
Folklorist Keira Sullivan is convinced that an isolated
ruin on the Irish coast conceals the ancient Celtic
stone angel for which she has been searching. But
then the ruin collapses on her, and the man who
rescues her must soon protect them both from a
depraved killer.
Neggers, Carla
Cold pursuit
A prominent ambassador is killed in Washington,
D.C. and hours later his stepdaughter vanished in
the mountains of New England. Can Secret Service
agent Jo Harper and Elijah Cameron, with his
military training and mountain rescue experience,
find the missing teen. Elijah believes she may be on
the run.
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O’Flynn, Catherine
What was lost
A lost little girl with a notebook and toy monkey
appears on the CCTV screen of the Green Oaks
shopping centre, evoking memories of a young girl,
Kate Meaney, missing for twenty years. Kurt, a
security guard with a sleep disorder and Lisa, a
disenchanted deputy manager at Your Music,
together become entranced by the little girl they
keep glimpsing on the security cameras. As Kurt and
Lisa’s after-hours friendship grows in intensity, it
brings new loss and new longing to light.
Olsson, Linda
Sonata for Miriam
Embarking on a journey that ranges from New
Zealand to Poland, and then Sweden, Anker not only
uncovers his parents' true fate during World War II,
but he also finally faces the consequences of an
impossible choice he was forced to make twenty
years before—a choice that changed the trajectory of
his life.
O’Neil, Joseph
Netherland
A story that gives a flawlessly drawn
picture of a little-known New York as
well as a story of much larger and
brilliantly achieved ambition: the grand
strangeness and fading promise of
twenty-first-century America from an
outsider's vantage point and the
complicated relationship between the
American dream and the particular
dreamers.
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Palmer, Michael
The Second Opinion
Struck down by a hit-and-run driver, one of the
world’s most respected doctors lies comatose in the
ICU unit of Boston’s Beaumont Clinic. No one thinks
he will survive. Two of his children believe treatment
should be stopped. But his daughter Thea refuses to
give up hope—and begins to suspect a cover-up.
When a late-night hospital intruder is identified as a
professional killer, Thea is convinced her father’s
accident was no accident—and someone plans to
finish the job.
Patterson, Richard North
Eclipse
Damon could never forget Marissa Brand Okari, his
one-time great love. Her husband, Bobby Okari, is a
freedom fighter in a corrupt west African nation —
one that’s being torn apart by global lust for its vast
supply of oil. Now, she’s in trouble…and Damon
decides to do everything in his power to help her.
Petterson, Per
Out stealing horses
In 1948, when he is fifteen, Trond spends a summer
in the country with his father. The events — the
accidental death of a child, his best friend's feelings
of guilt and eventual disappearance, his father's
decision to leave the family for another woman —
will change his life forever.
Petterson, Per
To Siberia
Petterson's raw, poetic novel follows the intense
kinship and agonizing separation of a brother and
sister in World War II-era Denmark.
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Piazza, Tom,
City of refuge : a novel
Uprooted from their New Orleans
homes by Hurricane Katrina, the
Donaldson and Williams families
- one black, the other white make their way to Houston and
share disparate experiences
trying to rebuild their lives.
Picardie, Justine
Daphne
Folding biographical details of its real-life heroine,
Daphne de Maurier, into a page-turning plot, Daphne
is a deftly crafted literary mystery: a tale of
obsession and possession, of stolen manuscripts and
forged signatures, of love lost and love found.
Plain, Belva
Crossroads
Cassie must take in one-year-old Gwen, who has no
one else to care for her. As the years pass, Cassie
will raise Gwen as her own, and a little girl who lost
everything will flourish in a world of privilege and
opportunity.
Proulx, Annie
Fine just the way it is: Wyoming stories 3
In Annie Proulx's third installment of Wyoming
Stories, she presents a collection of works focused
on American generational struggles in the West.
Pioneer homesteaders facing drought and debt give
way to modern-day hippies trying to lose themselves
in the vanishing wilderness, in nine stories that
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range in tone from crude cowboy humor to
heartbreaking American tragedy.
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Ragen, Naomi
Sotah
The compelling story of a beautiful young woman in
Jerusalem's ultra-religious Jewish enclave who is
accused of committing the most unforgivable sin:
adultery. Before she can even defend herself, she is
banished from her husband and child and forced to
leave the country. Sent to New York, she must find a
way to reconcile faith with freedom.
Ragen, Naomi
The sacrifice of Tamar
As the wife of a young Rabbi, Tamar's status is
assured. But her staid life crashes around her when
she is raped. Humiliated and confused, she refuses
to risk the stigma that would result from telling the
truth, only to find herself pregnant and unsure who
the father is. Faced with impossible choices, Tamar
turns to her best friends from childhood.
Ramsay, Frederick
Choker
Nick Reynolds, his pilots rating barely a month old,
drops off the radar at night over the Chesapeake Bay.
No trace of the plane is found in the Bays murky
waters. Ike Schwartz is approached by Charlie
Garland, an old CIA friend, to look into the
disappearance. Ikes wide-eyed entry into a simple
missing persons case catapults him into an
international thriller with intimations of terrorism
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Read, Miss
Summer at Fairacre
After a long winter of red noses and wet mittens,
summer is a welcome time for Miss Read and her
downland village friends. Joseph Coggs finds a
temporary home in the schoolhouse while his mother
is in the hospital. Miss Read's friend Amy
mysteriously disappears. Perhaps most difficult of all,
Mrs. Pringle, the grumpy school cleaner, is unable to
work because the pain in her bad leg flares up.
Read, Miss
Winter in Thrush Green
In the follow-up to Thrush Green, the arrival of a
stranger in the village stirs ripples of speculation and
interest.
Rhodes, Elvi
A house by the sea
Now that her husband Peter is gone, Caroline lives
comfortably. On an impulse, she decides to sell the
family home in Bath and move to a large and
dilapidated house by the sea. This is a story about
challenges and fulfillment, and of finding love in the
most unexpected ways.
Rice, Luanne
The letters
Sam and Hadley West are both trying in their own
ways to survive after the unthinkable loss of their
only son in Alaska. Sam goes to the arctic wilderness
to find the place where Paul died. Hadley rents a
cottage off the Maine coast where she begins to
paint again. At opposite ends of the country, waiting
for their divorce to be finalized, they begin to
exchange letters, missives filled with longing and
truths they've never before voiced, as they recall
their marriage and begin to rediscover the reasons
they fell in love in the first place.
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Richmond, Michelle
No One You Know
Twenty years have past and the death of
Lila, a top math student from Stanford,
remains unsolved. After Ellie receives a
notebook that contained her sister’s
deepest thoughts she begins the search
for Lila’s killer. Her journey reveals the
stories and lies that strangers, lovers
and families tell and the secrets we keep
even from ourselves.
Roberts, Nora
The pagan stone
In the conclusion to the "Sign of Seven" trilogy,
three women and three men merge their powers to
battle the ultimate evil, proving that friendship,
family, love, and passion is much stronger than the
looming darkness.
Rosenberg, Joel C
Dead heat
As the presidential campaign narrows into a dead
heat, the Secret Service learns of a catastrophic plot
to assassinate one of the candidates - but which one,
and can the terrorists be stopped in time?
Rosenfelt, David
Don't tell a soul
On New Year’s Eve, at their neighborhood pub just a
few minutes before midnight, things in Tim Wallace’s
life go from bad to worse. “Can you keep a secret? A
really big one?” a drunken stranger asks him. Before
Tim can say anything or turn away, the man
confesses to a months-old murder, even offering as
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proof the location of the woman’s body. “Now it’s
your problem,” he says and walks away.
Rowland, Laura Joh.
The secret adventures of Charlotte Brontë
Upon learning that she has been falsely accused of
plagiarism, the normally mild-mannered Charlotte
Brontë sets off for London to clear her name. But
when she unintentionally witnesses a murder,
Charlotte finds herself embroiled in a dangerous
chain of events that forces her to confront demons
from her past.
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Sakey, Marcus
Good people
Deeply in debt after years of failed
fertility treatments, Tom and Anna
Reed believe that they have a second
chance when their reclusive tenant
dies, leaving $400,000 stashed in his
kitchen. But the Reeds soon discover
that he had been a criminal who had
betrayed some of the most dangerous
men in Chicago.
Sarvas, Mark
Harry, Revised
Harry Rent, a guilt-ridden, down-on-his-luck widower,
tries to reinvent himself following his wife's untimely
death. His emotional journey takes him from his own
solipsistic and outrageously misdirected fantasies
about an obsidian-haired, twenty-two-year-old
waitress at his local greasy spoon, to the tenuous
beginnings of an actual, personal transformation.
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Schwarz, Christina
So long at the fair
In the summer of 1963 a plot for revenge destroys a
career, a friendship, and a family. The consequences
of the scandalous event continue to reverberate,
touching the next generation.
Scott, Manda
The Crystal Skull
In a spellbinding blend of history,
myth, and science, bestselling
novelist Scott unleashes a thriller
that sweeps from the secrets of the
Mayans to the court of a sixteenthcentury queen to a shattering endtimes prophecy.
Sefton, Maggie
Dyer consequences
Kelly Flynn is eager to renovate the alpaca ranch
she's just bought, but someone else has different
ideas for keeping her busy, which seem to include
slashing tires, cracking windshields, and covering the
walls of her cottage with red paint. Then her local
yarn shop, House of Lambspun, is trashed and a
young woman is found dead in the basement,
drowned in a tub of dye. As disturbing incidents
continue to pile up, Kelly knows she must try to pick
up the stitches of these crimes before a killer strikes
again.
Shaw, Danielle
A fabric of dreams
Working in the costume department at the Alexandra
Theatre, the lives of Anna, Madge, Beattie, Gavin
and Fudge are woven and fashioned together like a
richly embroidered tapestry. Unfortunately, while
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their friendship and support for each other remains
intact, their fabric of dreams is torn to shred when
they learn the theatre is to close.
Shreve, Anita
A Change in Altitude
Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few
months
when they set off on what they hope will be a great
adventure-a year living in Kenya. Margaret quickly
realizes there is a great deal she doesn't know about
the complex mores of her new home, and about her
own husband.
Shreve, Anita.
Testimony : a novel
At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is
about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual
acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on
videotape.
Sickels, Noëlle
The medium
Helen Schneider, a 13-year-old school
girl, discovers she has remarkable powers
as a medium after she has a vision of a
New Jersey neighbour caught in a fire. As
Helen matures, her ability to
communicate with the dead and see the
future sets her at odds with her fiancé,
Billy Mackey, and eventually arouses the
interest of the U.S. military during WWII.
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Helen must decide whether to use her
psychic gift to do what she thinks is right
or to bow to the opposition of skeptics like
Billy.
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Silverwood, Roger
Find the lady
A blind woman is found murdered in the South
Yorkshire town of Bromersley. Three witnesses swear
they saw a woman in a blue dress flee the scene
minutes before a body is found. Enquiries reveal that
a picture of the missing woman, whose likeness was
painted 60 years earlier, is discovered in the house
of an acquaintance of the victim.
Smith, Tom Rob
The secret speech
It’s 1956 and Khrushchev’s speech criticizing Stalin’s
brutality frees many former prisoners and starts a
wave of brutal reprisals against Soviet bureaucrats.
Fraera, the leader of a vicious gang, has demanded
the release of her husband, a priest who was put in
prison by MGB officer Leo Demidov, but it’s clear her
mission is also to cause Demidov deep psychological
suffering. She’s fixated on revenge.
Steel, Danielle
Matters of the heart
Journeying to London to do a shoot of one of the
world's most celebrated writers, Soho photographer
Hope Dunne is attracted by Finn O'Neill's boyish
charm and accepts his invitation to his isolated Irish
estate, where gaps in his history and confusing lies
raise Hope's suspicions.
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Stewart, Sally
Over the sea to Skye
A charming story of coming home.
Against both their wills, fate throws
restless Canadian Iain Macrae and
the beautiful Louise Maitland
together in the land of their
ancestors.
Stoneham, Julia
Muddy boots and silk stockings
It is 1943 and England is at war. When Alice Todd is
abandoned by her husband, she must find a means
to provide for herself and her young son. She takes a
position as hostel warden at an old Devonshire
farmhouse, in charge of ten volunteer land girls. She
discovers that every girl has a story, and some have
rather dark secrets.
Strohmeyer, Sarah.
Sweet love
Recently fired from her influential television reporting
job and struggling to raise a teenage daughter alone,
Julie Mueller finds renewal in her relationships with
women family members and in a dessert cooking
class, where she reconnects with an old flame.
Sutcliffe, William
Whatever Makes You Happy
Three suburban moms who have long been friends
decide to show up unannounced at the homes of
their thirty-something layabout sons. Their goal: to
swoop in and set things right. The result: a hilarious
mix that will resonate with mothers who can’t turn a
blind eye and their adult sons who can’t quite get it
together.
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Thompson, Grace
Time to move on
Seranne Laurence is furious when her mother
announces she is to marry the latest in a long line of
unsuitable men-friends. She soon realises that she
hasn't the right to interfere in her mother's life, but
that means she has to leave the Victoria-style
tearooms she and her mother run together. She
moves to the small, Welsh village of Cwm Derw, and
there she finds many new friends including Luke,
who risks his own life to rescue her.
Thompson, Mike
Curse of Al Capone's gold
Andy Larson, a maverick North Dakota police officer
who has no problem ripping off criminals, enlists four
friends to hijack a truckload of bootleg alcohol
coming in from Canada. The caper turns ugly when a
shootout leaves all four bootleggers and one of
Larson's friends dead. The remaining hijackers
quickly discover that their haul includes thousands of
dollars of gold coins belonging to Al Capone. Hiding
his extracurricular activities from his colleagues on
the force, Larson scrambles to stay ahead of
Capone's enforcers and avoid scrutiny from his own
department.
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Unger, Lisa
Black out
Annie Powers managed to escape her past as an
accomplice to a brutal serial killer by staging a false
death and assuming a new identity. She is living a
new life in a Florida suburb with a loving husband
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and daughter. Her world turns upside down, when
her past sudden wants to be involved with her
future.
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Wander, Fred
The seventh well
Wander, who died in Vienna in 2006 at the age of
ninety, was a survivor of some twenty concentration
camps, but it was not until the death of his only
daughter in 1970 that recollections finally poured
forth in this harrowing work of fiction.
Weir, Alison.
The Lady Elizabeth
A look at the life of Elizabeth I before
she became queen and the powerful
figures which dominated her life,
including the ever-present ghost of her
mother, Anne Boleyn, who was executed
by Henry. She will learn early that the
adult world contains many threats that
have to be negotiated if she is to keep
her heart and her head.
Wells, Melinda
Killer mousse : A Della Cooks Mystery
When the first live airing of In the Kitchen with Della
results in murder, Della, discovering that her Killer
Mousse is indeed deadly, must prove that she did not
deliberately poison her delectable concoction, which
is no easy task.
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Wells, Rebecca
The crowning glory of Calla Lily Ponder
Calla Lily Ponder bursts into life—
guided by Moon Lady, a protective
feminine force—where she thrives
in her small Louisiana town until
the end of her first love pushes her
to Cresent City, where she
discovers she has the power of
"healing hands" to change lives and
end pain, including her own.
Mystery
A
Albert, Susan Wittig
The tale of Briar Bank: the cottage tales of
Beatrix Potter
When Mr. Wickstead turns up dead under a tree
limb, the villagers of Sawrey become convinced that
his suspicious death is due to the treasure he had
discovered last spring. Beatrix Potter sets out to
unravel the case.
Andrews, Donna
Cockatiels at seven
Reluctantly agreeing to baby-sit for her friend
Karen's toddler son Timmy, Meg Langslow ends up
with the child when Karen turns up missing and
Karen's apartment is been broken into, all the while
coping with her eccentric family, her personal
investigation into Karen's disappearance, and some
very dangerous people interested in Timmy.
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Atherton, Nancy
Aunt Dimity Slays the Dragon
Everyone's favorite supernatural detective steps in to
thwart unchivalrous deeds at a Renaissance fair.
Atwell, Sarah
Pane of Death
Glassblower Emmeline Dowell finds
herself accused of murder after a
priceless stained glass collection is
stolen and the owner is killed. And
since the police chief is also her
boyfriend, she needs to crack the case
fast--before their relationship is
permanently shattered. Includes
recipes and glassblowing trivia.
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Baker, Deb
Dolly departed
When doll restoration artist Gretchen Birch finds the
owner of a dollhouse shop murdered, she winds up in
the thick of a mystery of miniature proportions.
Bannister, Jo
Closer still
Although she has been trying to put her work,
running a one-woman detective agency, on hold
while she cares for her new son, Brodie soon learns
that taking time off is not as easy as it sounds. Not
only does the baby have a rare disease that may
leave him blind, his father, Detective Superintendent
Jack Deacon, is going after the nastiest crook in
town, Joe Loomis, who quickly retaliates by
threatening Brodie and the baby.
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Barrett, Lorna.
Murder is binding
When fellow bookstore owner Doris Gleason is
murdered, Tricia Miles discovers that someone
wanted to get their hands on a rare cookbook in
Doris's possession and that the locals believe that
someone is her.
Beaton, M.C.
Death of a witch
Hamish Macbeth senses a dark cloud of evil hanging
over the Highland village of Lochdubh. He learns that
a newcomer, Catriona Beldame, is regarded as a
witch and various men have been seen visiting her.
Hamish himself is charmed by her until he finds out
she has been supplying dangerous potions. At first
the villagers won't listen to him, saying that the
loveless Hamish has turned against all women.
Beaton, M. C.
A spoonful of poison
Elderly Mrs. Andrews blithely jumps to
her death off the tower of Saint Odo
the Severe during a church charity
event in the Cotswolds village of
Comfrey Magna. The cause; LSDlaced jam. Agatha joins the local
authorities in the investigation, which
focuses on the six women who
contributed jam to the church fete.
Benn, James R.
Billy Boyle
Billy Boyle, a young Boston Irish cop, has just made
detective when war is declared. His mother wangles
a job for him on the staff of a general married to her
distant cousin Mamie. But “Uncle Ike” turns out to be
General Dwight D. Eisenhower; his headquarters are
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in London which is undergoing the Blitz, and he has
a special assignment for Billy: to be his personal
investigator, to catch a spy who threatens the
success of Operation Jupiter, the impending invasion
of Norway.
Benn, James R.
The first wave: A Billy Boyle World War II
mystery
Lieutenant Billy Boyle reluctantly accompanies Major
Samuel Harding in the first boat to land on the
shores of Algeria during the Allied invasion.
American black marketeers in league with the enemy
divert medical supplies to the Casbah, leading to
multiple murders that Billy must solve while trying to
rescue the girl he loves, a captured British spy.
Bernhardt, William
Nemesis: The Final Case of Eliot Ness
In the 1930s Eliot Ness, the famous treasury agent
who helped convict Al Capone, accepts a highranking public safety position in Cleveland, where
the discovery of a dismembered torso soon plunges
the city into a state of terror. As the body count rises,
Ness pours more energy and manpower into his
investigation, desperately trying to live up to his
larger-than-life reputation.
Bishop, Claudia
The Case of the Ill-Gotten Goat
When a randy milk inspector is found dead in 400
gallons of goat milk, veterinarian Austin McKenzie
and his wife Madeline will have to cull a killer from a
herd of suspects. And along the way, the vet might
just save some bleating hearts.
Black, Benjamin
The silver swan
Quirke, the irascible, formerly hard-drinking
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pathologist, ought to know better than to let his
curiosity get the best of him. Yet when an
acquaintance comes to him about his beautiful young
wife's apparent suicide, Quirke's "old itch to cut into
the quick of things’ is roused again.
Box, C. J.
Blood trail
In the wake of an elk hunter's grisly
murder, Wyoming game warden Joe
Pickett is directed by the governor to
investigate the relevance of a
mysterious poker chip found at the
crime scene.
Bowen, Rhys
A royal pain
A hilarious mystery featuring penniless aristocrat
Lady Georgie. The Queen of England has concocted a
plan in which Georgie is to entertain a Bavarian
princess and conveniently place her in the playboy
Prince's path, in the hopes that he might finally
marry. But queens never take money into account.
Georgie has very little, which is why she moonlights
as a maid. Now she must draw up plans and in the
mists of her planning turns up a body in the
bookshop.
Brightwell, Emily
Mrs. Jeffries holds the trump
Successful local Michael Provost has no enemies, yet
he is found dead off the Chelsea Vestry Wharf. With
the help of her staff, Mrs. Jeffries dives into an
investigation that leads to an earlier crime and even
more questions.
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Buchanan, Edna
Legally dead
U.S. Marshal Michael Venturi of the Witness
Protection Program relocates a mobster, now a
government witness, to a small rural town after
creating a new identity for him. The man proves to
be a monster unleashed on an unsuspecting
community. The results are tragic. To make amends
Venturi leaves the Marshals Service and assembles a
team of close confidants to secretly create new
identities for innocent men and women whose lives
have been ruined through no fault of their own —
people who really deserve fresh starts in new lives.
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Camilleri, Andrea
The paper moon
Inspector Salvo Montalbano is hoping for a quiet day
at his Vigàta office when a visitor, the beguiling
Michela Pardo, implores him to help her track down
her missing brother, Angelo. Montalbano
accompanies Michela to Angelo's apartment, where
they find her brother's gunshot-blasted corpse in a
compromising position. Montalbano later discovers a
possible link between the murder and a series of
drug overdoses whose victims include a popular
senator.
Carter, Sammi.
Peppermint twisted : a candy shop mystery
In Paradise, Colorado, Abby Shaw, the owner of
Divinity candy shop, finds herself in a sticky situation
when Felicity Asbury, the obnoxious director of the
annual arts festival, is murdered and she becomes
the prime suspect
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Choi, Susan
A person of interest
Choi mines the psychology and life
of an innocent man suspected of a
terrorist's crimes.
Clark, Carol Higgins
Twanged
Sleuth Regan Reilly is hired as a bodyguard for
singer Brigid O’Neill. Brigid posses a magical Irish
fiddle said to curse whoever takes it out of Ireland.
Still, Brigid brings it to the Hamptons where her
band will perform. Soon after they arrive at their
host’s estate, a party guest is found floating
facedown in the pool. Is the curse of the fiddle real?
Is there a murderer in the house?
Clark, Cassandra
Hangman Blind
The stellar debut novel in a new mystery series
features a brilliant and brave medieval abbess, in
this work set in 1382 Yorkshire, England.
Clark, Mary Higgins
Dashing Through the Snow
In Branscombe, N.H., novelist Nora Regan Reilly and
her PI daughter, Regan Reilly, and their close friends
Alvirah and Will Meehan, track down a missing
employee of Conklin's Market who is connected with
a $160 million lottery and the winnings.
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Cleland, Jane K.
Antiques to die for
When a friend turns up dead just hours after
confiding a secret to her, New Hampshire antiques
appraiser Josie Prescott investigates the murder,
struggling to solve the crime while dealing with the
victim's bereaved sister and a mysterious hidden
treasure.
Coleman, Reed Farrel
Redemption Street
Moe Prager, a retired New York
City cop-turned-wine shop owner
is lured into the mystery of a 1966
hotel fire by a long-grieving
brother.
Cook, Robin
Foreign body
During a study break, UCLA medical student Jennifer
Hernandez is shocked to learn that her grandmother
died during surgery in New Delhi. Desperate to find
out why, she uncovers several other unexplained
deaths.
Craig, Philip R.
Vineyard chill: a Martha's Vineyard mystery
With two friends in trouble and his own family
receiving threats, J.W. Jackson must summon all of
his investigative skills to try to restore order to his
beloved Vineyard Island home, where fishing and
good food should always take precedence over
murder.
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Crais, Robert
Chasing darkness: an Elvis Cole novel
Its fire season and the hills of Los Angeles are
burning. When the police and fire department
personnel rush door to door in a frenzied evacuation
effort, they discover the week-old corpse of an
apparent suicide. But the gunshot victim is less
gruesome than what they find in his lap. In his lap
lies a photo album of seven brutally murdered young
women, one woman for each of the past seven
years.
Crawford, Isis
A catered Halloween: a mystery with recipes
Sisters Bernadette and Libby Simmons are thrilled
they've been asked to cater a haunted house
fundraiser. But they soon discover that ghosts aren't
the only unwanted guests when a murderer strikes.
Crosby, Ellen
The Bordeaux betrayal
Ellen Crosby's third tale of suspense set amid the
vines of Virginia wine country involves a twohundred-year-old bottle of Bordeaux that Thomas
Jefferson may have purchased for George
Washington and is turning out to be a wine to die
for.
Cutler, Judith
Shadow of the past
Rector Tobias Campion is delighted to welcome the
widowed Lady Chase as his parishioner, but she
harbours a secret sorrow: her son is missing,
presumed dead. Then the family’s governess,
disappears on the very day that the body of a
stranger is found in a local river. When it transpires
that the man might have been bringing news of the
missing son, Tobias seeks to uncover the truth.
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Davis, Krista
The Diva Runs Out of Thyme
Few can compete with Natasha Smith when it comes
to entertaining, but her childhood rival, Sophie
Winston, certainly tries. Natasha may have stolen
the spotlight—and Sophie’s husband—but Sophie is
determined to rob her of the prize for the
Stupendous Stuffing Shakedown. She just needs the
right ingredient. But Sophie’s search for the perfect
turkey takes a basting when she stumbles across a
corpse. And when the police find her name and
photo inside the victim’s car, Sophie will have to set
her trussing aside to solve the murder—or she’ll be
serving up prison grub.
De Jonge, Peter
Shadows still remain
After investigating the disappearance of a beautiful
and envied college student, detective Darlene O'Hara
is unable to let go when the young woman is found
murdered and the case is turned over to homicide,
risking her career in order to pursue a secret parallel
inquiry.
Deaver, Jeffery
The bodies left behind
Arriving at a deserted lake house to investigate an
aborted call to police, Deputy Brynn McKenzie walks
into the middle of a heinous crime and is forced to
flee, along with a terrified young woman, into the
surrounding forest to escape the perpetrators.
Brynn, a tough cop with a difficult past, and Michelle,
a pampered city girl, must learn to pool their
resources and use their wits to survive the relentless
pursuit of professional killers.
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Delaney, Vicki
Valley of the lost
When a young woman turns up dead of a heroin
overdose, her three-month-old baby by her side,
Probationary Constable Molly Smith and Sergeant
John Winters find clues that the death may not have
been accidental, while conflict over a neighboring
resort development begins to rip apart the close-knit
British Columbia community.
Dracup, Angela.
The burden of doubt
When consultant anesthetist Moira Farrell is found
stabbed to death, shock reverberates amongst her
medical colleagues. At the same time, rumors start
to leak out regarding the professional incompetence
of Moira's clinical director. Was Moira about to blow
the whistle on him? Was that sufficient reason for
him to silence her forever?
Dunn, Carola
Black ship
It is 1925 and the Honorable Daisy
Dalrymple, her husband Alec Fletcher
and their recent twins move to a new,
large house on the outskirts of London.
Set in a small circle of houses with a
communal garden, it seems like the
idyllic setting - that is, until a murder
victim turns up under the bushes of the
communal garden.
Dunnett, Kaitlyn
Scone cold dead
When the Scottish dance troupe she once had
belonged to arrives in Moosetookalook, Maine, Liss
MacCrimmon, throws a reception in their honor. She
finds her world spinning out of control when murder
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crashes the party, leaving company manager Victor
Owens dead.
Durgin, Doranna
Scent of danger: a Dale Kinsall mystery
Told from the viewpoints of veterinarian Dale Kinsall
(Nose for Trouble) and his Beagle, Sully, this canine
cozy involves a mysterious and deadly virus that
threatens people important to Kinsall.
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Evanovich, Janet
Fearless fourteen
Personal vendettas, hidden treasure, and a monkey
named Carl will send bounty hunter Stephanie Plum
on her most explosive adventure yet.
Evans, Mary Anna
Findings
The discovery of a mysterious, fabulous emerald
leads to murder when intruders break into the home
of a close friend of archaeologist Faye Longchamp,
but when Faye launches her own investigation; she
finds that her field notes are also missing.
Ewan, Chris
The Good Thief’s Guide to Paris
Charlie Howard—mystery writer and professional
thief—is flush with the success of his Paris bookreading when he agrees to show a novice how to
break into an apartment. The next day, Charlie's
hired to steal an ordinary-looking oil painting—from
the same address.
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Fairbanks, Nancy
Turkey flambé
Food writer Carolyn Blue's book launch goes up in
smoke when her turkey flambé results in two flaming
birds getting tossed out the window - leading to a
young woman's death. Now she has to restore her
reputation and find out who sabotaged her poultry
party.
Ferris, Monica
Thai die
As full-time owner of the Crewel World needlework
shop and part-time sleuth, Betsy Devonshire has
become skilled at weaving suspicious threads. But
when one of her regulars unwittingly becomes
involved in a deadly delivery of exotic antiquities,
Betsy fears something is seriously warped.
French, Tana
The likeness
Transferred out of Dublin's Murder
squad at her own request, she
vows never to return. That is, until
her boyfriend, Detective Sam
O'Neill, calls her one beautiful
spring morning, urgently asking her
to come to a murder scene in the
small town of Glenskehy. It isn't
until Cassie sees the body that she
understands Sam's insistence.
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Gardner, Lisa
Say goodbye
Kimberly’s caught in a web more lethal than any
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spider’s, and the more she fights for answers, the
more tightly she’s trapped. What she doesn’t know is
that she’s close—too close—to a psychopath who
makes women’s nightmares come alive, and if he
has his twisted way, it won’t be long before it’s time
for Kimberly to.
George, Elizabeth
Two of the deadliest: new tales of lust, greed,
and murder from outstanding women of
mystery
A volume of twenty-three original
crime tales by forefront women
authors features themes of lust
and greed, in a collection that
includes contributions by such
individuals as Laura Lippman,
Marcia Muller, and Carolyn Hart.
Glazer, Melissa.
The cracked pot
When the body of a new potter with a mysterious
past is found in Carolyn Emerson's raku firing pit,
she calls upon her studio's pottery club, The Firing
Squad, to dig up evidence and crack the case.
Grace, Margaret
Mayhem in miniature
Between creating a miniature Victorian room box for
the holiday auction and teaching crafts at an upscale
retirement home, Geraldine Porter comes to the aid
of one of her students, 87-year-old Sofia Muniz, who
is accused of murdering the home's gardener.
Grafton, Sue
"A" is for alibi : a Kinsey Millhone mystery
Laurence Fife was a slick divorce lawyer and slippery
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ladies' man. Until someone killed him. The jury
believed that it was his pretty young wife Nikki, so
they sent her to prison for eight years. Now, Nikki's
out on parole and Kinsey Miihone's in for trouble.
Graham, Heather
Deadly night
Aidan Flynn, a private investigator and eldest of the
Flynn brothers, scoffs at the rumors the New Orleans
plantation his family has inherited is haunted. After
he finds a human bone on the grounds, Aidan is
joined by the tarot card reader Kendall Montgomery
to uncover the truth.
Greenlaw, Linda
Fisherman's bend
Hoping for a respite after the events of Slipknot,
former big-city detective Jane Bunker has an
unexpected encounter with the dark underworld of
her sleepy Maine coastal community when a dark
secret from the past strikes close to home.
Greenwood, Kerry
Death by water
A series of jewellery thefts is targeting the first-class
passengers on P&O ocean liners. Phryne Fisher is
just the person to mingle seamlessly with the upper
classes and take on a case of theft on the high seas
off New Zealand.
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Hammett, Dashiell
The Maltese falcon
A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly
shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of
ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat
man named Gutman, and Brigid O’Shaughnessy, a
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beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties
shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients
of Dashiell Hammett’s coolly glittering gem of
detective fiction, a novel that has haunted
generations of readers.
Harris, C.S.
Where Serpents Sleep: A Sebastian St. Cyr
Mystery
Fourth in the moody and atmospheric historical
mystery series starring a troubled but compelling
antihero, Where Serpents Sleep finds Hero and
Sebastian racing against time to stop a killer whose
ominous plot threatens to shake the nation to its
very core.
Harris, Charlaine
Three bedrooms, one corpse
Deciding if she wants to go into real
estate becomes a life-or-death choice for
former librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden.
The naked corpse is discovered at her first
house showing. And when a second body
is found in another house for sale, it
becomes obvious that there is a very cool
killer at large in Lawrenceton, one who
knows a great deal about real estate-and
maybe too much about Roe.
Harris, Rosemary
The big dirt nap: a dirty business mystery
When Paula Holliday's friend Lucy asks her to tag
along on an all-expense-paid junket to the Titans
Hotel, it seems like a good idea. Paula even manages
to squeeze a few bucks and a byline out of the local
paper for writing an article on the rare titan arum, or
corpse flower, that's just about to bloom at the hotel.
Then her friend is detained, a would-be suitor is
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found with a gaping hole in his head, and the flower
refuses to bloom ...
Harris, Rosemary
Pushing up daisies : a dirty business mystery
When landscaper Paula Holliday stumbles upon a
mummified corpse on the overgrown property of a
wealthy dowager's estate, she joins forces with an
ex-colleague, an aging rocker, and a secretive
Mexican laborer to solve the crime.
Hartman, Honor
The unkindest cut
A recent widow with a passion for the game of
bridge, Emma Diamond joins her friends on a trip to
the Texas hill country for a bridge retreat that is
playing host to two contentious bridge instructors —
and bitter rivals —one of whom turns up dead,
forcing Emma to put her remarkable sleuthing
talents to work.
Hechtman, Betty,
Hooked on murder
When Molly Pink, a bookstore event coordinator, is
accused of murdering the leader of the weekly
crochet group at Shedd & Royal Books and More,
she, while unraveling the clues, decides to take up
crocheting to catch the real killer.
Hill, Suzette A.
Bones in the belfry
Francis Oughterard was the contented vicar of
Molehill when he accidentally strangled a lady
parishioner. A sleazy art dealer gave him an alibi,
and Maurice—his victim's cynical cat—and Bouncer—
a neighbour’s dog—rescued him from police
suspicion. Now he is called upon to return the favour
by storing stolen paintings in the church belfry. The
intrigue mounts as hapless F.O. bumbles through
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confrontations. Maurice and Bouncer each contribute
their version of events.
Hitchcock, Jane Stanton
Mortal friends
When the latest victim of the "Beltway Basher" is
found in the woods of Montrose Park, Reven Lynch's
favourite jogging spot, she reconsiders her running
route, but also meets the smooth, enigmatic
Detective Gunner who is convinced the murderer is a
society bigshot hiding in plain sight. But he is out of
his element in Reven’s world of embassy dinners and
symphony balls. Reven agrees to give him the inside
information he needs, only to discover that the
prominent skirt-chasing businessman for whom she's
fallen tops Gunner's shortlist of suspects.
Hooper, Kay
Blood sins
As they investigate a series of
brutal murders, Noah Bishop's
Special Crimes Unit teams up with
Haven, the civilian agency he
helped launch, to take on the
Church of the Everlasting Sin and
its charismatic leader, the Reverend
Samuel.
Howard, Linda,
Death angel
Second chances, unexpected romance, and
unrelenting action combine when bad girls can wake
up and trust their hearts, bad guys can fight for
what’s right . . . and dying just might be the only
way to change one’s life.
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Isleib, Roberta.
Preaching to the corpse
Dr. Rebecca Butterman, a psychologist and advice
columnist, must put her stellar analytical skills to
good use when a church member and the leader of a
search committee charged with finding a new
assistant pastor is murdered.
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Johansen, Iris.
Silent thunder
Assigned the task of creating a schematic of a
recently purchased Russian nuclear submarine that is
slated for museum exhibition, architect Hannah
Bryson enlists the help of her brother, Connor, who
discovers a mysterious message behind a panel
before he is brutally murdered.
Johnson, Norma Tadlock
Donna Rose and the roots of evil: a Cedar
Harbor mystery
Donna Galbreath assumed that her beloved Cedar
Harbor would return to its peacful existence after she
and neighbour Cyrus Bates solved the murder of Lyle
Corrigan. But when the town’s inept police chief,
William Donniker, dies suddenly from Monkshood,
the same poison used on Corrigan, Donna and Cyrus
find themselves drawn into the investigation.
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Karp, Larry
The king of ragtime
Scott Joplin wants to secure his place
in musical history before he dies.
He’s written a musical drama, and
his piano student, Martin
Niederhoffer has convinced him to
try to get Irving Berlin to publish and
produce the work. The next day,
Niederhoffer walks into his office and
finds Joplin crouched over the bloodsoaked body.
Kellerman, Faye.
The Mercedes coffin
When a billionaire heiress connects a recent highprofile murder to an unsolved killing from fifteen
years earlier, LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker
schedules an interview with a detective from the first
case, only to learn of the man's suspicious suicide,
which prompts his collaboration with his wife and
daughter to solve the case.
Kelner, Toni L.
Without mercy
Someone's killing off the former cast members of
'70s sitcom Kissing Cousins. After Tilda's nostalgic
article "Curse of the Kissing Cousins" in Entertain
Me! mentions the curious deaths of two former cast
members, the murder of a third suggests that
someone is killing of the show’s cast one at a time.
Kingsbury, Kate
Ringing in Murder
This season, Cecily has a surprise for her guests:
gorgeous Christmas crackers handmade for the
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Pennyfoot. But when a mysterious fire breaks out in
an upstairs room, it kills the Christmas mood—and
two guests. Now Cecily's dead-set on solving this
mystery before another deadly present turns up.
Knight, Alanna
Destroying angel
The autumn of 1897 began well, but within days
Rose McQuinn lost two precious things - her fiancé,
Jack Macmerry, and her elusive dog, Thane. Her
stubborn refusal to give up her job as Lady Detective
cost her the man whose love she had taken for
granted. And now it seems that Thane's real owners
have been found. But when Rose tries to return the
hound she is called upon to discover the identity of a
blackmailer and thief. The family's tragic past colours
Rose's search for the truth and plunges her into ever
more dangerous waters.
Koontz, I. Michael,
Under cloak of darkness : the story of John
Apparite
After being recruited by an ultrasecret organization
whose existence is known only to elite D.C. brass
and whose religion "is to kill or be killed," Apparite
undergoes weeks of rigorous training that includes a
butcher shop massacre of Mafiosi selling scandalous
photos of his hero, J. Edgar Hoover.
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Lake, Deryn
Death in Hellfire
When John Rawlings is asked to investigate the
secret Hellfire Club and its infamous debaucheries,
he is intrigued. The disreputable Sir Francis
Dashwood is believed to be involved, as well as some
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illustrious members of the British aristocracy. Is John
putting himself in danger by trying to find out the
truth?
Lakin, Rita.
Getting old is to die for
Taking a trip north with her sister and her Florida
pals, Gladdy Gold, Florida's oldest living private
detective, finds herself in hot water when her friends
go undercover to nab a crook, and her boyfriend reopens a decades-old case: the murder of her
husband.
Land, Jon
The Seven Sins: the tyrant ascending
Michael Tiranno has made millions by mastering the
intricate world of high finance, and is now the owner
of Las Vegas' The Seven Sins resort. When an
enemy from the past threatens to undermine
everything he has built, his dark history must now be
uncovered. Together, they must tear open painful
scars in Michael’s heart and soul to discover the true
identity of their unknown foe.
Langley-Hawthorne, Clare
The serpent and the scorpion
It is 1912, and headstrong, independent Ursula
Marlow has taken control of her father's textile mills
while as a suffragette she tries to advance the role of
women in society. On a business trip in Egypt, she
witnesses the murder of a new friend, the wife of a
Russian financier; back in England, the body of a
young woman is found in the rubble of Ursula's new
factory, destroyed by a fire.
Lavene, Jim and Joyce Lavene
The Telltale Turtle: A Pet Psychic Mystery
Mary Catherine Roberts has a rare gift: she can
communicate with animals. A former Hollywood pet
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psychic and four-time widow, the flamboyantlydressed radio host is ready to settle down in her old
hometown …and maybe hunt around for husband
number five. But when a flash of telepathy leads her
to a bloody crime scene, she gets mixed up in the
murder of a wealthy society matriarch. And the only
witness to the crime is Tommy, the victim's pet
turtle...
Lavene, Joyce
Perfect poison
When drowned bodies start surfacing with an
unusual plant caught in one of the victims' hair,
forensic botanist and detective's widow Peggy Lee is
on the case.
Lindsay, Frederic
The stranger from home
Escaping to America from the turmoil of her life back
in
Edinburgh, DI Jim Meldrum’s daughter, Betty, is
swept off her feet by a handsome man from back
home. Handsome and rich, but still a mystery, has
Betty married a monster? Meanwhile, back in
Edinburgh, Jim Meldrum is feeling the strain of
working on a high profile case. A businessman’s wife
is missing and, Jim suspects, has become a victim of
foul play. As Meldrum investigates the businessman’s
past, he uncovers facts that seem to connect this
case to a number of unsolved rapes…
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Lovesey, Peter.
The secret hangman
Widowed Inspector Peter
Diamond is being pursued by a
secret admirer even as he
pursues a serial killer.
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Maffini, Mary Jane
The Cluttered Corpse
When Charlotte Adams agrees to help Emmy Lou
Rheinbeck organize her stuffed animal collection, she
never imagines she'll find herself fending off
pranksters whose shenanigans lead to murder.
Malliet, G. M.
Death of a cozy writer: a St. Just mystery
Millionaire Sir Adrian Beauclerk-Fisk announces a
secret elopement with the beautiful Violet, who was
once suspected of murdering her husband. Within
hours, eldest son and appointed heir, Ruthven is
found cleaved to death by a medieval mace. Soon
after Detective Chief Inspector St. Just is brought in
to investigate, Sir Adrian himself is found slumped
over his writing desk with an ornate knife thrust into
his heart.
Maron, Margaret
Death’s half acre
A murder will pull Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff's
Deputy Dwight Bryant into the middle of a bitter
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dispute between farmers and developers and force
them to confront some dark realities.
McInerny, Ralph
The wisdom of Father Dowling
Fans of McInerny's Father Dowling novels will
welcome this collection of 15 short stories featuring
the compassionate priest of St. Hilary's church in Fox
River, Ill., and such beloved supporting characters as
his feisty indispensable housekeeper, Marie, and his
friend, police captain Phil Keegan.
Meier, Leslie
Christmas cookie murder
Lucy Stone finds a new mystery to solve when
Christmas in Tinker's Cove turns deadly during the
annual Cookie Exchange. Tucker Whitney, recently
accused of stealing Lee Cummings' cookie recipe, is
found murdered.
Montanari, Richard
Badlands
Philadelphia detectives Jessica Balzano and Kevin
Byrne are assigned to investigate the two-year-old
killing of Caitlin O'Riordan, whose body is found in a
desolate area of the city. Their only clue leads them
into a diabolical game with a depraved killer known
only as Mr. Ludo, who may be responsible for a
series of disappearances from the city streets.
Morris, Gilbert
The mermaid in the basement
It's London, 1857, and everything is at stake for
Serafina Trent. When her brother's most recent
female dalliance, a beautiful actress, is found
murdered, all evidence points to him. Especially
since the actress had just rejected him in a most
public manner. Now everyone believes Clive is
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headed for the gallows. Everyone, that is, but
Serafina.
Mulgray, Helen and Morna Mulgray
Under suspicion
When a Customs and Revenues Officer on the brink
of exposing a huge money-laundering outfit is
murdered in Tenerife, there is only one team capable
of ensuring Operation Canary Creeper's continuance
and success. DJ Smith must use all of her cunning
and experience to trap the devious Ambrose
Vanheusen. Her greatest asset, however, comes in
the moth-eaten shape of her Persian cat Gorgonzola,
since Vanheusen's one weakness is his love of the
breed.
Muller, Marcia
Burn out
Traumatized by a recent life-or-death
investigation, Sharon McCone flees to
her ranch in California's high desert
country to contemplate her future. A
chance encounter with a troubled, highly
secretive Native American woman begins
to haunt her dreams. Even though she is
determined not to investigate anything
during her stay, McCone is drawn into
the plight of the young woman and her
dysfunctional family.
Myers, Amy
Murder in hell's corner
Veterans of the Battle of Britain gather in a Kentish
country hotel the site of a murder in the 1970s,
where a popular war hero met an unexplained death.
Convinced there is a story here, Georgia and Peter
investigate, and find a train of events that will lead
to a second murder, as the passion of the past and
present boil over.
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Oliver, Teagan
Obsidian
As a Special Investigative Officer for the U.S. Coast
Guard, Jamie Rivard is used to getting answers. He
handles high-profile, possibly volatile investigations
daily, but when his best friend is killed during a
undercover gun smuggling operation off the coast of
Maine, Jamie is determined to find the answers
about his friend's death that no one wants to give
him.
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Page, Katherine Hall
The Body in the Ivy: A Faith Fairchild Mystery
Faith Fairchild thought she landed her dream job
when she was asked to plan a private college reunion
on an isolated New England island. But when the
true reason for the get-together is revealed, she
soon realizes she is living in a nightmare. Barbara
Bailey Bishop lost her twin sister thirty years ago in
apparent suicide. She planned the reunion to seek
the truth about her sister’s murder.
Parker, Robert B.
Rough weather
A hurricane-level storm hinders a
kidnapping, and Spenser goes on a
search for the man responsible.
The infamous Gray Man, who has
both helped and hunted Spenser in
the past.
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Patterson, James
Run for your Life
Detective Mike Bennett is trying to spare New York
City from the wrath of The Teacher. A calculating
killer who is taking on New York’s elite, killing the
powerful and the arrogant. His message is clear:
remember your manners or suffer the consequences!
Penny, Louise.
The cruelest month : a Three Pines mystery
When the quiet town of Three Pines is rocked by a
killing during an impromptu Easter seance at a local
haunted house, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is
confronted by a web of baffling questions as he
searches for a killer.
Perry, Anne
A Christmas grace
Leaving her husband and two children behind, Emily
makes the long journey to an all-but-forgotten town
in the county of Connemara, on the western coast of
Ireland. She soon discovers that a tragic legacy
haunts the once close-knit community.
Pronzini, Bill
Fever: a nameless detective novel
Nameless told Mitchell Krochek that he’d do
whatever he could to find his missing wife,
Janice. She had a growing gambling problem and ran
away from home before. A few days after her safe
return home, Janice is missing again, but this time
Mitchell is the prime suspect in her disappearance.
Pronzini, Bill
Schemers: a Nameless detective novel
The investigation was relatively simple: a
multimillionaire rare books collector had reported the
theft of eight volumes, worth a half million dollars.
From a locked library. To which he has the only key.
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The books were all crime fiction and suspense—a
locked room mystery about mysteries.
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Quinn, Spencer
Dog On It: A Chet and Bernie Mystery
Meet Chet, the wise and lovable canine narrator of
Dog on It, who works alongside Bernie, a down-onhis-luck private investigator. Chet might have
flunked out of police school, but he's a detective
through and through.
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Rankin, Ian
Knots & crosses
While investigating a series of gory killings of young,
innocent girls, Edinburgh police detective John
Rebus, a former member of Britain's elite SAS,
discovers his own ties to the killer and is brought up
against his own memories, which hold the key to
unraveling the case.
Reed, Mary
Seven for a secret
John spends his nights in conversation
with the solemn-eyed little girl depicted
in a mosaic on his study wall. He never
expected to meet her in a public square
or afterwards find her red-dyed corpse
in a subterranean cistern. Who was
she? He begins a personal quest, to
find the reality behind the confidante
he thought existed only in his own
imagination.
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Robb, J. D.
Salvation in death
The priest at a Catholic funeral mass brings the
chalice to his lips and falls over dead. When
Detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas confirms that the
consecrated wine contained potassium cyanide, she's
determined to solve the murder of Father Miguel
Flores, despite her discomfort with her surroundings.
Robinson, Peter
All the colors of darkness
When a man is discovered hanging by his neck in the
forest, Inspector Banks is called in from his vacation.
And as he digs deeper, it becomes clear that the
killer is not finished with his ghastly work.
Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor
The cheater
Lily Forrester finds herself in yet another mix of
bizarre circumstances that lead her onto the trail of a
vicious criminal mind. Along the way we meet: FBI
Agent Mary Stevens who is tracking a killer who
murders cheating husbands; Bryce Forrester, Lily’s
husband, who calls her from a Las Vegas jail where
he’s been arrested for attempted rape; and Anne
Bradley, Bryce’s accuser, who, like Lily, is a woman
with an eerie past. The trail leads back to an online
service that provides alibis for cheating spouses and
into a thick web of deception that puts both Lily’s
and Mary’s lives in jeopardy.
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Royal, Priscilla
Forsaken soul
The summer of 1273 is peaceful for most
of England except in the village of Tyndal
where Martin has been poisoned at the
local inn. Martin had enough enemies.
The killer could be anyone. But soon
bodies multiply. Suspects disappear. No
one likes the direction the evidence
points, but God’s justice must be
rendered, even for the most forsaken
souls.
Rozan, S.J.
The Shanghai moon
Estranged from fellow P.I. Bill Smith, Lydia Chin is on
a case tracking stolen jewels dating back to World
War II. The Shanghai Moon, one of the world's most
sought-after gems, may be part of stolen stash.
Before Lydia can act, a coworker is murdered, Lydia
is fired from the case, and Bill Smith finally
reappears on the scene. Now Lydia and Bill must
unravel the truth about the Shanghai Moon and the
events that surrounded its disappearance sixty years,
if they are to stop more killings and uncover the
truth.
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Sedley, Kate
The Green Man
Summer, 1482. An English army invades Scotland in
order to put King James the Thirds renegade
younger brother, the Duke of Albany, on the Scottish
throne. Albany insists his old acquaintance, Roger
the Chapman, be a member of his personal
bodyguard. But during the march northwards, a
series of sinister events, centered around the cult
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figure of the mythical Green Man, makes Roger
question Albany’s true motive for requesting his
presence…
Seewald, Jacqueline
The inferno collection
Kim Reynolds, a college reference librarian, suddenly
finds herself embroiled in mystery when her friend
Lorette dies unexpectedly. The police dismiss
Lorette's demise as a suicide because of the drugs
found in her blood, but she's been clean a long time.
Then there are the literary-based death threats.
Kim's own psychic powers are matched by those of
police detective Mike Gardner, and together they try
to discover the circumstances behind Lorette's death.
Siger, Jeffrey
Murder in Mykonos
Homicide detective Andreas Kaldis leaves his Athens
job to take over as chief of police on Mykonos, an
island paradise for the party crowd. When the body
of a young woman, showing all of the signs of a
ritual murder, is found in a church crypt, Kaldis is
placed squarely in the middle of a high-profile
investigation. More bones in the crypt reveal that a
serial killer has been operating on the island for
years. Now it is a race against time as another young
woman vanishes.
Simon, Clea
Probably Claws
When cats start getting sick, feline-loving freelance
writer Theda Krakow suspects an accident is to
blame. But her shelter-owning rocker buddy Violet
claims the contaminated kibble was poisoned, and
when Theda starts looking at shelter politics shefinds
a litter of suspects.
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Stanley, J.B.
Stiffs and swine
The whole purpose of the Supper
Club is for its five members to lose
weight. They are invited to be guest
judges at the forty-seventh annual
Hudsonville Hog Festival. They can't
resist the offer; they'll get back to
their diets after the barbecue. All
goes well until one of the barbecue
contestants is found dead, and one
of the flab five is accused of the
murder.
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Thayer, Terri
Old maid’s puzzle
After her mother's unexpected death last year,
computer-techie-turned-novice-quilter Dewey
Pellicano is learning to love her new inherited role as
proprietress of Quilter Paradiso. But when a dead
body turns up in the alley outside the store, it scares
off customers and threatens to sink an already
precarious bottom line. To make matters worse,
Dewey's resentful QP employee (who's also her
sister-in-law) is undermining her at every turn, and
now a con artist is preying on her long-time
customers.
Truman, Margaret
Murder inside the Beltway: a Capital crimes
novel
President Burton Pyle is running for re-election. His
opponent, consummate politician Robert Colgate, is
expected to easily defeat Pyle, whose administration
has been rife with corruption and scandal. Colgate,
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though, is not without cracks in his slick exterior.
Rumours swirl about his failing marriage and various
dalliances. The campaign has morphed into one of
the most distasteful and nasty in memory.
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Upson, Nicola
An expert in murder: a new mystery featuring
Josephine Tey
Traveling to London in 1934 to celebrate the
triumphant final week of her play Richard of
Bordeaux, popular writer Josephine Tey is caught up
by the murder of a fellow train passenger, in a case
that raises the suspicions of Detective Inspector
Archie Penrose.
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Waddell, Dan
The blood detective
A closer look at the corpse reveals that what looked
at first glance like superficial knife wounds on the
victim’s chest is actually a string of carved letters
and numbers, an index number referring to a file in
city archives containing birth and death certificates
and marriage licenses. Family historian Nigel Barnes
is put on the case when Police investigation fails to
yield results.
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Webb, Betty
The anteater of death
If Lucy, the pregnant giant anteater
from Belize, didn't kill the man
found dead in her enclosure, who
did? California zookeeper Teddy
Bentley must find the real murderer
before her furry friend is shipped
off to another zoo in disgrace.
Wentworth, Patricia
The key
It's nearing the end of WWII, and Michael Harsh has
been working for the government on a secret project
for years. Finally he is ready to hand over the
formula. But the next morning he is dead. It looks
like suicide. Only Miss Silver knows it's murder.
Wingfield, R. D.
A killing Frost
On a rainy night in Denton, Detective Inspector Jack
Frost is called to the site of a macabre discovery in
the woods - that of a human foot. Meanwhile a
multiple rapist is on the loose, the local supermarket
reports poisoned stock and a man claims to have cut
his wife up into little pieces, yet can't recall where he
hid them.
Woods, Stuart
Hot mahogany
Barton Cabot is the older brother of Stone
Barrington's sometime ally, CIS boss Lance Cabot.
Barton is suffering from amnesia and that is a
dangerous thing considering his career was in army
intelligence and he is full of top secret information.
Barton shows an interest in antiques, but Stone soon
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discovers Barton and some of his acquaintances are
hiding more than just a few bogus antiques.
Romance
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Adams, Jennie
To love and to cherish
When Jack left Australia a year ago, Tiffany thought
she'd lost him for good. But in truth, Jack loved
Tiffany too much to share the painful secret of his
illness. He went away to cope the only way he knew
how - alone.
Anders, Toni.
Never let me go
When Adam informed Chloe his career would always
come first, she left the practice for a position far
away in the Cotswolds. There, she attracted the
attention of Benedict, a handsome young artist.
Afraid that he had lost Chloe forever, Adam begged
her friend, Betty, the only person who knew her
whereabouts, to help him.
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Ashworth, Heidi
Miss Delacourt speaks her mind
When the dowager Duchess of Marcross
insist he accompany her niece, Ginny, into
the country for the day, Sir. Anthony is
appalled. Ginny, who thinks little of the
fashionable Sir Anthony, is as eager to be
done with the chore as he, but before
they arrive at their destination, they are
stranded by highwaymen and launched
into an adventure. Forced into each
other’s company, Ginny begins to sense
the passionate nature beneath Sir
Anthony’s mask, while his exasperation
with Ginny turns into admiration of her
wit and charm.
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Benjamin, Zelda
Chocolate secrets
When the Martinelli family chocolate shop display
goes up in flames at a Brooklyn street fair, fate
throws Alex Martinelli and Mike Simone together.
Alex, an ER nurse with a penchant for horoscopes,
has several valid reasons not to get involved with
Mike, a New York City firefighter. An alliance
between a true water sign and a fire sign was
unlikely. Even worse is the connection to the man
who stole her grandfather’s secret chocolate recipe.
But the sexy hero always seems to show up when
she needs him.
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Bretton, Barbara
Just desserts
Hayley Goldstein has been offered the chance of a
lifetime: to bake a cake for a world-famous rock star.
But she's shocked to discover that she's actually the
aging rocker's long-lost daughter. With her world
turned upside down, Hayley will need help letting
down her guard and hanging onto the things that
matter most. And the rocker's lawyer, Finn Rafferty,
may just be the man for the job.
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Cook, Jacquelyn.
Sunrise
In the 1850's Anne Tracy, a smart and well-educated
young woman from the stifled but elegant world of
Macon, Georgia, made a polite marriage with an
older, wealthy merchant, William Butler Johnson.
The unlikely pairing blossomed into a romantic and
devoted marriage. The Butlers' wide travels through
1850's Europe inspired them to return to Macon and
build an incredible Italiente mansion. Anne's
privileged life was soon tested by tragedy and war.
Her journey from bitter heartbreak to renewed faith
and forgiveness created a powerful legacy far greater
than money.
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Drake, Shannon
The Pirate Bride
On a mission of vengeance, Red Robert, a feared
pirate who is actually a woman masquerading as a
man, rediscovers her femininity when she is
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shipwrecked on a desert isle with a dashing captain
until the arrival of their common enemy.
Drake, Shannon
The queen's lady
Lady Gwyneth Macleod has staked her
fortune and her reputation to help Mary,
Queen of Scots take her rightful place on
the throne. But her struggle to guide the
reckless, defiant queen has put her at
perilous odds with Rowan Graham, a laird
dangerously accomplished in both passion
and affairs of state.
DuVall, Nell
Train to yesterday
Penny Barton is a railroad heiress slumming as a
marketing director for Hyper Trans, an Ohio
company working in high-speed rail. During an
outdoor promotional photo shoot set to look like
1855, her antique steam train passes through a
tunnel, and Penny suddenly meets a man she thinks
is an actor in 19th-century garb. He is Fletcher
Dawe, a Coshocton, Ohio, dry goods merchant who
has invested in the nascent railroad of 1855. He and
Penny are smitten, but when they later try to find
each other and can't.
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Hooper, Kay
Something's different
Restless and imaginative, mystery writer Gypsy
Taylor was used to following her muse. Her nomadic
lifestyle was perfectly suited for her creative work
but not for lasting relationships. That left her new
next-door neighbor Chase Mitchell only four months
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to change Gypsy's life before she moved on forever.
The handsome architect wants to build a life for both
of them, but first he'll have to solve the passionate
mystery of this one-of-a-kind woman, a mystery not
even Gypsy herself can unravel.
Hutchinson, Patricia
Passport to fear
Rose and Ray, two young women travelling by ship
from India to England are alike in appearance. Both
orphans, Ray is wealthy, while Rose has lived on her
wits. Ray has a heart condition and is going to
England to her guardian. When she dies Rose takes
on the other girl's identity. Rose then becomes a
victim of her new guardian's greed and her life is
threatened. Can she yet find love and happiness?
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Johansen, Iris
Tempest at sea
An idealist and activist, Jane Smith stole aboard Jake
Dominic’s yacht one warm Miami night as part of an
antinuke protest. But in her earnestness Jane hadn’t
fully considered the consequences if she got caught
or that her act of principled vandalism would end
with her serving as Dominic’s part-time prisoner and
cabinmate. For the next two months she would
accompany this successful, sexy but darkly brooding
man aboard the Sea Breeze as they sailed around
the Gulf of Mexico from one exotic port of call to
another. Danger, close escapes, and erotic
adventure await, but nothing can be more
unexpected than their romantic destination.
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Kleypas, Lisa
Seduce Me at Sunrise
Kev Merripen has longed for beautiful
Winnifred Hathaway ever since her family
rescued him from the brink of death when he
was just a boy. Because of his mysterious and
unknown past, he has always refused to
submit into his temptations for her. Before
long, Win and Kev are separated by a
devastating twist of fate. When the two are
reunited, Win returns to find that Kev has
hardened into a man who will deny love at all
costs. Meantime, an attractive, seductive
suitor has set his sights on Win. It’s now or
never for Kev to make his move.
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Lofts, Norah
A rose for virtue
When Hortense Beauharnais’ mother married
Napoleon Bonaparte, she inherited the life of the
French court. In her attempt to retain her
individuality, Hortense finds herself married to
Napoleon’s brother Louis. But, her heart belongs to
Charles de Flahaut. Unwilling to cross her
stepfather, Hortense must wait and see if time will
take her to her lover.
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Oliver, Marina
The accidental marriage
Julia goes with her sister Fanny and her husband Sir
Frederick and to Vienna as governess to her nieces.
There, the congress which is to settle the fate of
Europe after the Napoleonic wars is gathering. She
meets the attractive Sir Carey Fitzhugh, who has left
his young fiancée, Angelica, behind in England with
plans to return for a spring wedding. When Fanny
sets off for home, Julia and her maid follow in
another, slower coach. But there is an accident to
Julia's coach in Bavaria. She loses all her belongings
and is penniless, a long way from home. How will
she resolve her problem and who will help?
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Roberts, Nora
The winning hand
In one exraordinary moment, Darcy Wallace was
transformed from being down-on-her-luck into a
millionaire sharing candlelight dinners with Robert
MacGregor Blade. Mac was the most seductive man
she ever met - though he certainly wasn't the
marrying kind.
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Thomas, Mavis
Smile of a stranger
When Ruth Stafford joins her mother at the Sea
Winds Hotel, she has misgivings about Cecily
Stafford's imminent marriage to Willard Enderby.
Ruth suspects he has designs on her mother's recent
legacy. If so, she is determined to unmask him!
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Wood, carol
Time Enough
Dr. Ben Buchan is willing to give Dr. Kate Ross a
chance as a locum in his practice. When Kate finds
herself attracted to Ben she convinces herself that he
is still grieving for his wife.
Science Fiction
Patterson, James
The dangerous days of Daniel X
Fifteen-year-old Daniel has followed in his parents'
footsteps as the Alien Hunter, exterminating beings
on The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma, but
when he faces his first of the top ten outlaws, the
very existence Earth and another planet are at stake.
Patterson, James and Ned Rust
Daniel X: Watch the Skies
All's quiet in the small town of
Holliswood, the television sets
aglow in every home. But not all is
as perfect as it seems. A terrifying
villain has just arrived in town,
with the goal of throwing it into
chaos and filming the
pandemonium for his latest
interstellar reality television show.
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Western
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Bounds, Sydney J.
Savage rides west
Railroad baron Lew Preston fears his
daughter Barbara might be kidnapped
on her journey to marry his associate
Jerry Crowther, so Savage, Pinkerton's
toughest agent, is hired to escort her
by rail from Chicago to California.
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Estleman, Loren D.
The branch and the scaffold
Five-time Spur Award-winning Estleman delivers a
fascinating depiction of the life of Isaac Parker, the
West's legendary Hanging Judge. Inheriting a corrupt
court and a lawless territory, Parker immediately put
the residents on notice by publicly hanging six
convicted felons at one time. For the next two
decades, his stern and implacable justice brought
law and order to the West and made him plenty of
enemies.
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L’Amour, Louis
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour:
The Crime Stories
The sixth volume of collected short stories of Louis
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L’Amour. L’Amour takes us beyond the frontier with
thirty-three gripping stories of crime, sports, and the
murky world where the two often meet.
L’Amour, Louis
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour:
The Frontier Stories
The fifth volume of collected short stories of L’Amour
set on the American frontier. These stories take us
across a bold, beautifully rendered landscape where
strangers may come to trust-or kill-one another;
where old scores haunt new lives and the wrong
choice leaves unwitting victims.
L'Amour, Louis,
The strong shall live
L’Amour tells of the real heroes of the frontier, the
survivors for whom hanging tough was as natural as
drawing breath.
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Nelson, Willie
A tale out of luck
Country legend Willie Nelson makes his fiction debut
with an action-packed western set in the semifictional town of Luck, Texas.
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Non-Fiction
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Agin, Brent
Healthy Aging for Dummies
Explains how people can embark on a
healthy lifestyle that will enable them to
feel young, both mentally and physically,
even as they’re getting older. It covers tips
and advice on choosing the ideal physician;
starting an exercise program; learning to
meditate; taking the right vitamins and
herbs; dealing with or preventing heart
disease, cancer, and dementia; replacing
negative thinking with positive thinking;
and building memory and learning skills.
Allingham, Henry
Kitchener’s Last Volunteer
Henry Allingham is the last British serviceman alive
to have volunteered for active duty in the First World
War and is one of very few people whocan directly
recall the horror of that conflict. In Kitchener's Last
Volunteer, he vividly recaptures how life was lived in
the Edwardian era and how it was altered irrevocably
by the slaughter of millions of men in the Great War,
and by the subsequent coming of the modern age.
Andersen, Christopher P.
Somewhere in heaven : the remarkable love
story of Dana and Christopher Reeve
Examines the unique partnership of Christopher and
Dana Reeve and the romance, faith, and fortitude
that defined it.
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Anderson, Joan,
The second journey : the road back to yourself
Describes the melee of family and professional
responsibilities that threw the lifestyle consultant
author's own life into chaos, documenting the
intervention staged by her friends and family
members that convinced her to take the same advice
she gives to her clients.
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The best travel writing
True Stories from around the world.
Baer, Robert
The devil we know: dealing with the new
Iranian superpower
Baer looks at Iran's unchecked growth as a hidden
superpower, discussing the threat it will soon pose to
the United States and the rest of the world.
Baigent, Michael
Racing Toward Armageddon: The Three Great
Religions and the Plot to End the World
Bestselling author and controversial religious theorist
Baigent discusses the conspiracy of religious
extremists in the Holy Land and their efforts to bring
about the end of the world in the current timeline.
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Bailey, F. Lee
When the husband is the suspect
From Sam Sheppard to Scott Peterson – the public’s
passion for spousal homicide.
Bird, John
The 10 Keys to Success
Describes how to be successful in
whatever we choose in just ten easy
steps. Based on the idea that success is
about deciding what you want, working
out what is important to you and then
going out to grab it.
Boser, Ulrich
The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the
World’s Largest Unsolved Art Theft
One museum, two thieves, and the Boston
underworld — the story behind the lost Gardner
masterpieces and the art detective who swore to get
them back.
Bradley, James
The imperial cruise
In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched
Secretary of War William Taft, his gun-toting
daughter Alice and a gaggle of congressmen on a
mission to Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea.
There, they would quietly forge a series of
agreements that divided up Asia. At the time,
Roosevelt was bully-confident about America's future
on the continent. But these secret pacts lit the fuse
that would-decades later-result in a number of
devastating wars: WWII, the Korean War, the
communist revolution in China. One hundred years
later, James Bradleyre traces that epic voyage and
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discovers the remarkable truth about America's vast
imperial past-and its world-shaking consequences.
Browne, Sylvia
All Pets Go to Heaven: The Spiritual Lies of the
Animals We Love
World-famous spiritual guide and psychic Sylvia
Browne explains the role of our pets on the Other
Side: how living animals see spirits, pets purpose in
our lives, how we will see our deceased pets in the
afterlife, how animals fit into creation, and more.
Browne, Sylvia.
End of days : predictions and prophecies about
the end of the world
Addresses the most daunting and difficult predictions
about the human race, commenting on all the End of
Days prophecies and offering insight into what can
be done to prevent a catastrophe of biblical
proportions.
Brzezinski, Matthew
Red moon rising: sputnik and the hidden
rivalries that ignited the space age
Brzezinski, recounts the dramatic behind-the-scenes
story of the fierce battles on earth that preceded and
followed the launch of Sputnik on October 4, 1957.
He takes us inside the Kremlin, the White House,
secret military facilities, deep-cover safe houses, and
the halls of Congress to bring to life the Russians and
Americans who feared and distrusted their
compatriots at least as much as their superpower
rivals.
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Canellos, Peter S.
Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy
Peter S. Canellos and his team of Boston Globe
reporters magnificently capture the life, historic
achievements and personal redemption of Ted
Kennedy. Drawing heavily from candid interviews
with the Kennedy family and inner circle, Last Lion
captures magnificently the life and historic
achievements of Ted Kennedy.
Carter, Jimmy
We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan
That Will Work
Jimmy Carter argues that the
present moment is a unique time
for achieving peace in the Middle
East and offers a bold plan to do
just that.
Chandler, Charlotte.
Not the girl next door : Joan Crawford, a
personal biography
Charlotte Chandler's fascinating and intimate portrait
includes interviews with Crawford; her first husband,
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; Bette Davis; and Myrna Loy,
and is perhaps her finest biography yet.
Chandler, Charlotte
She always knew how: Mae West a personal
biography
Actress, playwright, screenwriter, and iconic sex
symbol Mae West created a scandal—and a
sensation—on Broadway with her play “Sex” in 1926.
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Sentenced to ten days in prison for obscenity, she
went in a convict and emerged a star. In 1930s
Hollywood she saved Paramount Studios from
bankruptcy. Her screenplays included some
notorious one-liners that have become part of
Hollywood lore, but behind the clever quips was
Mae's deep desire to see women treated equally with
men.
Clairmont, Patsy
All cracked up
With her trademark humor and tenderness,
Clairmont tells inspirational stories of women's
brokenness and healing to help readers realize that
they're not alone in their struggles.
Cohen, Adam
Nothing to Fear: FDR’s Inner Circle and the
Hundred Days that Created Modern America
From New York Times editorial board member Adam
Cohen, a revelatory account of the personal
dynamics that shaped FDR' sinner circle and a
political narrative of the hundred days that created
modern America.
Cooper, Helene.
The house at Sugar Beach : in search of a lost
African childhood
At once a deeply personal
memoir and an examination of
a violent and stratified country,
Cooper tells of tragedy,
forgiveness, and transcendence
with unflinching honesty and a
survivor's gentle humor.
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Coren, Stanley
The Modern Dog: A Joyful Exploration of How
We Live
with Dogs Today
Dogs are invented creatures — invented by humans,
who have been shaping the lives of these fourlegged companions for more than 14,000 years.
However, we often forget that, just as dogs live in
our world, we live in theirs. The Modern Dog is a look
at our co-evolution, interpreting both canine and
human points of view, by Dr. Stanley Coren, the
most consistently popular author of dog books ever.
Curtis, Tony
American prince: a memoir
He dreamed to be in movies. He was the Golden Boy
of the Golden Age. The prince of the silver screen.
Dashing and debonair, Tony Curtis arrived on the
scene in a blaze of bright lights and celluloid. His
good looks, smooth charm, and natural talent earned
him fame, women, and adulation. Elvis copied his
look and the Beatles put him on their Sgt. Pepper
album cover. But the Hollywood life of his dreams
brought both invincible highs and debilitating lows.
Now, in his captivating, no-holds-barred
autobiography, Tony Curtis shares the agony and
ecstasy of a private life in the public eye.
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Dallek, Robert
Harry S. Truman
Traces the thirty-third president's unlikely rise to
power and his role in bringing America into the
nuclear age, covering his perspectives on civil rights,
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his clashes with Douglas MacArthur over the conduct
of the Korean War, and his reelection in 1948.
De Blasi, Marlena
That summer in Sicily: a love story
Marlena de Blasi writes of the magnificent if
somewhat ruined castle in the mountains of Sicily
that she finds, accidentally, one summer while
traveling with her husband, Fernando. There de Blasi
is befriended by Tosca, the patroness of the villa, an
elegant and beautiful woman-of-a-certain-age who
recounts her lifelong love story with the last prince of
Sicily descended from the French nobles of Anjou.
Dobbs, Michael
One minute to midnight
An eye-opening study of the 1962
Cuban missile crisis offers an
hour-by-hour chronicle of the
tense standoff between the U.S.
and the Soviet Union over the
placement of missiles in Cuba,
offering an in-depth analysis of
the events and personalities
involved that reveals how close
the world actually came to all-out
nuclear war.
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Earley, Pete
Comrade J: the untold secrets of Russia's
master spy in America after the end of the Cold
War
A remarkable true story of the man who ran Russia's
post cold war spy program in America. Spymaster,
defector, double and triple agent, this is a direct
account of what the man known only as Comrade J
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did in the United States after we all assumed the
spying was over and of what Putin and Russia
continue to do today.
Eden, Clarissa
Clarissa Eden: a memoir: from Churchill to Eden
An honest memoir of extraordinary times. Clarissa
Eden shares how life is when you are the wife of the
most important man in Britain.
Edwards, Marilyn,
The Coach House cats
Edward’s study of the relationship between humans
and their feline companions and in particular the cats
who now share their lives with her husband and
herself in a village amidst the Cumbrian fells.
Eliot, Marc
Reagan: The Hollywood Years
Ronald Reagan was one of the most powerful and
popular American presidents. The key to
understanding his political success and the
remarkable likability and effortless charisma
that made it possible is hidden in his early years as a
Hollywood movie star.
Evans, Colin,
Blood on the table : the greatest cases of New
York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
A behind-the-scenes study of the work
of New York City's Office of the Chief
Medical Examiner looks at some of the
most important and unusual cases the
OCME has handled since its inception in
1918, ranging from political intrigue and
high-profile murder cases to vicious
gang wars and the September 11th
terrorist attacks.
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Felner, Kevin
COPD for Dummies
Recognize the signs of chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease and take advantage of the latest treatments.
Fiennes, Sir Ranulph
Mad, bad and dangerous to know: the
autobiography
Ranulph Fiennes has traveled to the most dangerous
and inaccessible places on earth. In the process he
nearly died on several occasions, lost nearly half his
fingers to frostbite, and raised millions of pounds for
charity. He discovered the lost city of Ubar in Oman
and attempted to walk solo and unsupported to the
South Pole. He was the first man to reach both poles
by surface travel and the first to cross the Antarctic
Continent unsupported. In 1993 Her Majesty the
Queen awarded him the Order of the British Empire
for "human endeavor and charitable services." An
elite soldier, an athlete, a mountaineer, and a
renowned explorer, Fiennes describes in his own
words his incredible journey through life.
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Fleming, Jeanne
Isn't it their turn to pick up the check? :
Dealing with all of the trickiest money
problems between family and friends--from
serial borrowers to serious cheapskates
From the writers of the witty and
enormously popular Do the Right Thing
column in "Money Magazine" and on the
CNN/Money Web site comes an
entertaining and advice-packed look at
the embarrassing, annoying, sometimes
comic, often emotionally charged moneyrelated dilemmas that everyone faces with
the people they’re close to.
Friedman, Thomas L
Hot, flat, and crowded: why we need a green
revolution--and how it can renew America
Examines America's surprising loss of focus and
national purpose since 9/11 and the global
environmental crisis, and shows how the solutions to
these two problems are linked-- we can restore the
world and revive America at the same time.
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Garcia, Joaquin
Making Jack Falcone: an undercover FBI agent
takes down a mafia family
Documents the true story of an undercover FBI
agent who assumed the role of a mobster in order to
infiltrate the Gambino crime syndicate. His account
describes how he was groomed within the mafia
itself to understand its operations and attitudes.
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Gillespie, Marcia
Maya Angelou: a glorious celebration
An unusual and irresistible look at Maya Angelou's
life as well as her myriad interests and
accomplishments by the people who know her best,
her long-time friends Marcia Ann Gillespie and
Richard Long, and her niece Rosa Johnson Butler.
Features over 150 sepia portraits, family
photographs, and letters.
Gilman, Susan Jane
Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven
In her hardcover debut, bestselling author Susan
Jane Gilman describes a very different kind of backpacking trip to China in which she and her college
friend set out to conquer the world only to be
conquered by it.
Goldhammer, Catherine
Winging It: Dispatches from an (Almost) Empty
Nest
For every woman on the verge of
becoming an empty nester
comes this wry, insightful
chronicle of rediscovering oneself
at midlife. With wit, charm, and
rare honesty, "Winging It"
chronicles Goldhammer’s journey
of self-discovery through one of
life’s most universal transitions.
Graham, Billy
Led to Believe: Inspiring Words from Billy
Graham &
Personal Stories from Those Whose Lives He
Touched As Rev. Graham tells in his own words
about his personal faith journey, his call to “faith in
action” comes alive in the true experiences of people
who were changed by him. Led to Believe is a unique,
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personal portrait of one main’s purpose and his
lasting impact on the world.
Guarnere, William
Brothers in battle, best of friends : two WWII
paratroopers from the original Band of Brothers
tell their story
A firsthand account of the wartime experiences of
two soldiers portrayed in the series Band of Brothers
pays tribute to the lasting bond forged between
comrades in arms and their roles with Easy Company
during D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, and the
capture of Berchtesgaden.
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Hall, Barbara
The Music Teacher
The Music Teacher is a penetrating and richly
entertaining look into the heart and mind of a
woman who has failed both as an artist and as a wife.
Hamer, Bob
The last undercover: the true story of an FBI
agent's dangerous dance with evil
Bob Hamer is a 26-year veteran of the FBI. In
undercover operations Hamer posed as everything
from a drug dealer to an aging pedophile. His last
and hardest undercover assignment was infiltrating
NAMBLA, the North American Man/Boy Love
Association. Looking back on a career, Bob tells us of
the challenges he endured and overcame as he
stared the dark side of humanity in the face. It is
rare for an agent to serve undercover long-term, but
he made a career out of a job that can completely
consume and destroy a man. Remarkably, through
all of this Bob found a way to remain true to his
faith, and always put his family before his work.
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Hamilton, George
Don't mind if I do
Don't let that tanned, handsome, charming surface
fool you. Beneath the bronzed façade is a
mischievous mind with a wicked wit. George
Hamilton doesn't miss a thing. With a front row seat
for classic Hollywood's biggest secrets and scandals,
George has the intelligence, heart, and unflappable
spirit to tell his story, and the story of Tinseltown's
heyday, with great good humor and delicious candor,
as only he can.
Hari, Daoud.
The translator : a tribesman's memoir of Darfur
Daoud Hari lost a way of life in
Darfur. But amidst the carnage and
turmoil, he found a new calling. As a
Zaghawa tribesman in the Darfur
region of Sudan, Daoud Hari grew up
racing camels, attending weddings
and playing games. But in 2003,
helicopter gunships swooped down
on Darfur's villages and shattered
that way of life for ever.
Hastings, Michael
I lost my love in Baghdad: a modern war story
A Newsweek war correspondent describes the
relationship he shared with his late fiancé while
working in Baghdad's Green Zone, the brutal
violence they witnessed, and the abduction attempt
that ended his fiancé's life.
Hawks, Tony.
A piano in the Pyrenees : the ups and downs of
an Englishman in the French mountains
Hawks buys a house in the French Pyrenees. It was
an impulsive purchase, but for Hawks, who seems to
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live his life from one impulse to the next, it’s
situation normal . . . and situation hilarious.
Hazan, Marcella
Amarcord, Marcella Remembers: The
Remarkable Life Story of the Woman Who
Started Out Teaching Science in a Small Town
in Italy, but Ended Up Teaching America How to
Cook Italian
The food publishing event of the season: Beloved
teacher and bestselling cookbook author Marcella
Hazan tells how a young girl raised in EmiliaRomagna became America’s godmother of Italian
cooking.
Hess, Elizabeth
Nim chimpsky : the chimp who would be human
Nim Chimpsky was raised like a human child and
taught American Sign Language while living with his
"adoptive family" in their Manhattan town house.
Then the study's funding ended, and Nim’s problems
began. Exiled from the people he loved, caged and
rotated in and out of various facilities, Nim’s
humanlike qualities and ability to converse with and
charm everyone he met proved to be his salvation.
Horwitz, Tony,
A voyage long and strange : rediscovering the
New World
A chronicle of the period in
American history between
Columbus's discovery of the New
World and Jamestown's founding
evaluates the dramatic voyages and
first-contact experiences of
numerous European adventurers in
search of such elusive treasures as
gold, the fountain of youth, and
potential religious converts.
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Humphrys, John.
In god we doubt : confessions of a failed
atheist
Throughout the ages believers have been persecuted
- usually for believing in the 'wrong' God. So have
non-believers who have denied the existence of God
as superstitious rubbish.
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Isaacson, Rupert
The Horse Boy: A Father’s Quest to Heal His
Son
Rupert Isaacson is a life-long horseman who
dreamed of sharing his passion with his son, Rowan.
When Rowan was diagnosedwith autism, Rupert was
devastated. Would they ever be able to communicate,
much less go for a ride?
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Jarvis, Cheryl
The Necklace: Thirteen Women and the
Experiment that Transformed their Lives
The story of Jonell, her friends, and a $37,000
necklace they bought together and nicknamed
'Jewelia' after the late, great Julia Child. What
started as a simple agreement to share a beautiful
piece of jewelry quickly grew into so much more: a
study in friendship and the power of sharing
something with a group, the promise of adventure
and the meaning of leaving a legacy for your family
and community, an exploration of our consumer
culture, and our desire for material things.
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Kalish, Mildred Armstrong.
Little heathens : hard times and high spirits on
an Iowa farm during the Great Depression
Recounted in a luminous narrative filled with
tenderness and humor, Kalish’s memoir of her
childhood shows how even the bleakest of times can
seem like "quite a romp." Filled with recipes and
how-to tips, she portrays a world of hardship
tempered by kinship, kindness, and simple
pleasures.
Kantar, Edwin B
Bridge for Dummies
A step-by-step explanation of the fundamentals of
the game in terms you can understand. It walks you
through the different aspects of bridge, featuring
real-life examples, so that you can feel comfortable
with the basics before you ever start to play.
Katz, Jon
Izzy & Lenore: two dogs, an unexpected
journey, and me
Humorous and deeply moving, Izzy & Lenore is a
story of a man confronting his past, embracing the
blessings of his current life, and rediscovering the
meaning of friendship, family, and faith. Katz shares
an uplifting tale of love, compassion, and the rich
and complex relationships between dogs and their
humans.
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Kershaw, Alex
Escape from the deep: the epic story of a
legendary submarine and her courageous crew
By October, 1944, the U.S. Navy
submarine "Tang" was legendaryshe had sunk more enemy ships,
rescued more downed airmen, and
pulled off more daring surface
attacks than any other Allied
submarine in the Pacific. And then,
on her fifth patrol, tragedy struckthe "Tang" was hit by one of her
own faulty torpedoes. The survivors
of the explosion struggled to stay
alive in their submerged "iron
coffin" one hundred-eighty feet
beneath the surface.
Koontz, Dean
Bliss to You: Trixie’s Guide to a Happy Life
Bestselling author Dean Koontz says that his dog,
Trixie, changed his life and --as told to Dean
Koontz—Trixie once again shares her inspiring
outlook on life and reveals the eight steps that
anyone can take to achieve not merely happiness,
but bliss.
Korda, Michael
With wings like eagles : a history of the Battle
of Britain
An in-depth history of the pivotal World War II battle
draws on the firsthand perspectives of pilots, ground
crews, and commanders on both sides, in an account
that places the campaign against a backdrop of the
political forces that shaped it.
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Krakauer, Jon
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat
Tillman
Irrepressible individualist and iconoclast Pat Tillman
walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract in
May 2002 to enlist in the United States Army. Deeply
troubled by 9/11, he felt a strong moral obligation to
join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two
years later, he died on a desolate hillside in
Afghanistan. Krakauer delivers a stunning, eloquent
account of a remarkable young man’s haunting
journey.
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Leeds, Regina.
One year to an organized life : from your
closets to your finances, the week by week
guide to getting completely organized for good
From establishing a file system and cleaning up a
work desk to managing emails and planning an
efficient meeting, informative tips and useful
techniques are presented in this helpful guide to
sorting out disarray, managing time more effectively,
and reducing stress through organization.
Leuchtenburg, William E.
Herbert Hoover
Catapulted into national politics by his heroic
campaigns to feed Europe during and after World
War I, Herbert Hoover—anengineer by training—
exemplified the economic optimism of the 1920s. As
president, however, Hoover was sorely tested by
America’s first crisis of the twentieth century: the
Great Depression. Renowned New Deal historian
William E. Leuchtenburg offers a frank, nuanced
portrait of Hoover, and shrewdly assesses his policies
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and legacy in the face of one of the darkest periods
in American history.
Lindbergh, Reeve
Forward from here: leaving middle age and
other unexpected adventures
Reeve Lindbergh reflects upon
entering a new stage in life,
turning sixty, the period her
mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
once described as "the youth of
old age."
Loch, Sydney, Susanna de Vries, and Jake de Vries
To hell and back: the banned account of
Gallipoli
Sydney Loch’s The Straits Impregnable, an account
of his war experiences, was originally published in
1915, but later Australian military censors forced the
withdrawal of the book. The edition includes a
biography of Loch written by Susanna and Jake de
Vries.
Lopez, Steve.
The soloist : a lost dream, an unlikely
friendship, and the redemptive power of music
A portrait of gifted violinist Nathaniel Ayers traces his
education at Juilliard, his struggles with
schizophrenia, the factors that led to his
homelessness in Los Angeles, his friendship with the
author, and the author's efforts to improve the
musician's life.
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Lucado, Max
3:16 : the numbers of hope
If you know nothing of the bible, start here. If you
know everything in the bible, return here. The heart
of the human problem is the heart of the human.
God’s treatment is prescribed in John 3:16.
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Manthey, Karen
Crocheting for dummies
Whether you’re a first-time crocheter or looking to
expand your skills, Crocheting For Dummies shows
you how to choose the right tools, create basic
stitches, and finish off your work. This hands-on
guide provides step-by-step instructions and fullcolor photos that make it fun and easy to master the
basics as well as more advanced techniques.
McGraw, Phillip C.
Real life: preparing for the 7 most challenging
days of your life
Dr. Phil McGraw prepares oneself to confront what he
believes are the seven most common critical days
that you or a loved one are likely to face. This book
helps make it possible for you to be there for
yourself or to be the calm in the middle of the storm
for someone you love when any of these difficult
days arrive.
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McManus, Patrick F.
Kerplunk! : stories
Nostalgic, philosophical and
funny, these anecdotes reaffirm
McManus's reputation as an
American classic with folksy,
wise depictions of country life.
Montville, Leigh
The mysterious Montague: a true tale of
Hollywood, golf, and armed robbery
John Montague was a boisterous enigma. He had a
bagful of golf tricks, on and off the course. He could
knock a bird off a wire from 170 yards, and when the
big man arrived in Hollywood in the early 1930s, he
quickly became a celebrity among celebrities. He
played golf with everyone from Howard Hughes to
Babe Ruth and his close friend Bing Crosby, whom
he famously beat with only a rake, a shovel, and a
bat. Yet strangely Montague never entered a
professional tournament, and he never allowed his
image to be captured on film. When a photographer
snapped his picture with a telephoto lens, police in
upstate New York recognized him as a fugitive
wanted for armed robbery. As Montague was
indicted, hordes of national media descended and
turned a star-studded legal carnival into the most
talked about trial of its day.
Moore, Mary Tyler
Growing Up Again: Life, Loves and Oh Yeah,
Diabetes
Actress Mary Tyler Moore's account of living her life
with diabetes, from dealing with it in Hollywood to
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becoming an activist and fundraiser to find a cure,
offering along the way practical information for
families dealing with Type 1 diabetes.
Mundy, Liza
Michelle
Using interviews with her subject's
family and friends, as well as the
periodical record, Washington Post
reporter Liza Mundy presents this
comprehensive look at Michelle
Obama and her relationship with
Barack Obama.
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Nicholson, Virginia.
Singled out : how two million women survived
without men after the First World War
In 1919, a generation of young women discovered
that there were, quite simply, not enough men to go
round. This book is about those women, and about
how they were forced, by a tragedy of historic
proportions, to stop depending on men for their
income, their identity and their future happiness.
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O’Brien, Stacey
Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of
an Owl and His Girl
Written with the same heartwarming sentiment that
made the memoir Marley & Me a runaway bestseller,
biologist and owl expert Stacey O'Brien chronicles
her rescue of an adorable, abandoned baby barn
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owl—and their astonishing and unprecedented
nineteen-year life together.
O'Neill, Gilda
East End tales
O'Neill shares her memories and personal
recollections of growing up in the East End of London.
It was a time of unbelievable hardship and
devastating change, yet also of great pride, kindness,
courage, resilience and humour.
O'Neill, Gilda
The good old days : poverty, crime, and terror
in Victorian London
O’Neill explores the teeming underbelly dwelling in
the fog-bound streets, rat-infested slums, common
lodging houses, boozers, penny gaffs and brothels in
the heart of the greatest empire that the world has
ever seen, revealing that Victoria’s was actually a
most unruly reign.
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Patterson, James
The Murder of King Tut
Novelist James Patterson teams up
with non-fiction writer Martin Dugard
to uncover the mystery shrouding the
death of Tutankhamun, commonly
known as King Tut. Ever since Tut's
tomb was discovered in 1922, many
scholars have speculated on the boy
king's fate. Patterson and Dugard
utilize modern technology, including
X-rays and other forensic data, in an
attempt to solve a 3,000-year-old
mystery.
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Pausch, Randy
The last lecture
Randy Pausch, a professor at Carnegie Mellon, didn't
have to imagine a last lecture, since he had recently
been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture
he gave wasn't about dying. It was about
overcoming obstacles, enabling the dreams of
others, of seizing every moment. It was about living.
Piper, Don
Heaven is Real: Lessons on Earlthy Joy – from
the Man
Who Spent 90 Minutes in Heaven So how should we
spend our time on Earth? Don Piper, the Minister of
Hope who spent 90 minutes in Heaven, brings us
God's message.
Price, Marjorie
A gift from Brittany: a memoir of love and loss
in the French countryside
Price, an artist living in 1960s New York City in her
20s, traveled to France in search of an outlet for her
artistic creativity. Price is soon in a fervid romance
with Yves, a Frenchman and artist, whom she
married. Not long after the birth of their daughter,
Danielle, Yves against Price's protests bought half a
hamlet in a bucolic corner of Brittany, and Price was
left with the arduous task of rehabilitating their
seven broken-down farmhouses. Price forms an
unlikely friendship with her neighbor Jeanne, a
villager in her late 60s who becomes her mentor,
teaching her, above all else, self-sufficiency while
Price introduces her new companion to the art world
and city life.
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Ramsay, Gordon
Humble Pie
Gordon Ramsay shares his life as the world's most
famous and infamous chef. Ramsay discusses his
difficult childhood and family, his failed first career as
a footballer and his kitchen life.
Ramsland, Katherine
True Stories of C.S.I.: The Real Crimes Behind
the Best Episodes of the Popular TV Show
Katherine Ramsland follows the
evidence and revisits some of the
most absorbing episodes of the
phenomenally popular C.S.I.
television franchise, and explores
the real-life crimes that inspired
them.
Reichl, Ruth
Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She
Taught Me Along the Way
Bestselling author Ruth Reichl examines her
mother's life, giving voice to the universal
unarticulated truth that we are grateful not to be our
mothers.
Roizen, Michael F. and Mehmet C. Oz
You being beautiful
A guide to looking and feeling beautiful discusses the
connection between health and beauty while
outlining scientifically valid recommendations for skin
care, diet, stress management, alleviating pain, and
achieving happiness
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Rule, Ann
Mortal danger and other true cases
Only Ann Rule, who unknowingly worked alongside
the smart and charming Ted Bundy, America's most
notorious serial killer could lend her razor-sharp
insight into these cases of the spouse, lover, family
member, or helpful stranger who is totally trusted
but whose lethally violent nature, though masterfully
disguised, can and will kill.
Russo, Richard
A healing touch: true stories of life, death, and
hospice
A Pulitzer-Prize winning writer and five other authors
recount end-of-life moments that cover a wide
spectrum of human experience in a study that
proves that the close of life need not be filled with
darkness when hospice help is available.
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Santopietro, Tom
Sinatra in Hollywood
A critical assessment of the iconic
Hollywood star's film career seeks to
separate his acting achievements from
his work as a recording artist, in an
account that includes commentary by
Sinatra on his movies, coverage of his
relationships with Ava Gardner and Mia
Farrow, and discussions of his alleged
mafia ties.
Scar, Maggie
September songs: the good news about
marriage in later years
In this well-researched and eminently readable
study, journalist Scarf looks into the lives of married
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people between the ages of 50 and 75, inquiring how
their partnerships have changed, been renegotiated,
reframed and refreshed as increased longevity has
added up to three decades to the span of an average
marriage.
Scotti, R. A.
Vanished smile: the mysterious theft of Mona
Lisa
On August 21 in 1911, the Da Vinci's Mona Lisa
vanished from the Louvre in Paris. The prime
suspects? Cubist poet Guillaume Apollinaire and his
good friend Pablo Picasso, an avant-garde artist. R.
A. Scotti presents a thrilling and well-detailed
account of the mysterious theft and its aftermath.
Servan-Schreiber, David
Anticancer: a new way of life
A radical synthesis of science and personal
experience that advocates a sea change in the way
we understand and confront cancer When David
Servan- Schreiber, a dedicated scientist and doctor,
was diagnosed with brain cancer, it changed his life.
Confronting what medicine knows about the illness,
the little known workings of the body’s natural
cancer-fighting capacities, and his own will to live,
Servan-Schreiber found himself on a fifteen-year
journey from disease and relapse into scientific
exploration, and finally to health.
Shatner, William.
Up till now : the autobiography
In this touching and very funny autobiography of the
Star Trek star, Shatner reveals the man behind these
unforgettable moments, and how he's become the
worldwide star and experienced actor he is today.
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Shimoff, Marci
Happy for no reason: 7 steps to being happy
from the inside out
An approach to being happy. One that doesn't
depend on achievements, goals, money,
relationships, or anything else "out there." This lifechanging book provides a powerful, proven 7-step
program that will enable you to be happier right
now, no matter where you start.
Slater, Nigel.
Eating for England : the delights &
eccentricities of the British at table
An entertaining, detailed and somewhat tongue-incheek observation of the British and their food, their
cooking, their eating and how they behave in
restaurants, with chapters on " amongst other things
" dinner parties, funeral teas, Indian restaurants,
dieting and eating whilst under the influence.
Smith, Alicia Marie
50 plus one tips for going green
Simple changes can make a hug difference.
Remodeling and recycling can go together.
Go from disposable to durable!
Snyderman, Nancy L.
Medical Myths That Can Kill You: and the 101
Truths That Will Save, Extend, and Improve
Your Life
Discover the simple, everyday things that affect wellbeing, and get the information you need to revitalize
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your body, maintain your longevity, manage your
care, and possibly even save a life—yours.
Spencer, Irene
Shattered dreams : my life as a polygamist's
wife
Irene Spencer did as she felt God commanded in
marrying her brother-in-law Verlan LeBaron,
becoming his second wife at age 16. The dramatic
story of her life, and her escape to an outside world
for which she was little prepared, reveals how far
religion can be stretched and abused and how one
woman and her children found their way to truth and
redemption.
Sullenberger, Chesley
Highest Duty: My Search for What Really
Matters
Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger became one of
the most recognized men in America when he landed
US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River in
January of 2009, narrowing averting disaster. Now,
in this gripping memoir, the pilot New York City
Mayor Michael Bloomberg dubbed “Captain Cool”
recounts not just the details of that harrowing five
minute and eight second flight, but also the lifetime
of flight training leading up to it, and the intriguing
aftermath of the incident.
Summers, Judith.
My life with George : what I learned about joy
from one neurotic (and very expensive) dog
Life for Judith Summers and her son seemed
relentlessly bleak. Then George bounced into their
lives. A loving Cavalier King Charles Spaniel with
film-star looks, George re-awoke their joie de vivre.
Living with George had its drawbacks. He was a fulltime job and as expensive to run as a Ferrari.
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Taraborrelli, J. Randy
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
From New York Times-bestselling author Taraborrelli
comes this explosive, revelatory, and surprisingly
moving biography of the most enduring icon in
popular American culture.
Taylor, Jill Bolte
My stroke of insight: a brain scientist’s
personal journey
A brain scientist recounts her
experience with a massive stroke,
where she observed her own mind
completely deteriorate to the point that
she could not walk, talk, read, write, or
recall any of her life, all within four
brief hours. Taylor describes her
discovery of differences in the left and
right side of the brain and the steps
she took over a period of eight years to
recover her health.
Thompson, Flora.
Over to Candleford
The second part of the Lark Rise to Candleford
trilogy. Laura is growing up, and the family's
boundaries are extending beyond Lark Rise to
include Candleford.
Thompson, Harry
Penguins stopped play : eleven village
cricketers take on the world
It seemed a simple enough idea at the outset: to
assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on
each of the seven continents of the globe.
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Trout, Nick.
Tell me where it hurts : a day of humor,
healing, and hope in my life as an animal
surgeon
A veterinary surgeon offers his perspective on a
typical day in his life, presenting anecdotes about
pets and their owners and the unique blend of
cutting-edge technology, old-fashioned instinct, and
caring that comprise veterinary medicine today.
V
Vowell, Sarah
The Wordy Shipmates
To this day, America views itself as a
Puritan nation, but author Vowell
investigates what that means—and
what it should mean. What was this
great political enterprise all about?
Who were these people who are
considered the philosophical,
spiritual, and moral ancestors of our
nation? What Vowell discovers is
something far different from what
their uptight shoe-bucklesand- corn
reputation might suggest.
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Walsh, George
50 Plus One Great Books You Should Have Read
(and Probably Didn’t)
A masterpiece of information for educated individuals
who want to expand their horizons, and a fascinating
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look at the beliefs and teachings of some of the
greatest minds throughout the centuries.
Walsh, Peter
Does this clutter make my butt look fat? : An
easy plan for losing weight and living more
Peter Walsh believes that the secret to
successfully losing weight is to forget
about calorie counting and weekly weighins. Instead you need to focus on how,
why, and where you eat. When it comes
to clearing clutter (the fat in our homes) it
isn't about the stuff itself, it's about the
life you want to live. The same is true for
losing weight: It's not about the pounds;
it's about living the life you deserve in the
body you want.
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Zaslow, Jeffrey
The girls from Ames: a story of women and a
forty-year friendship
They formed a special bond growing up in the small
town of Ames, Iowa. As young women, they moved
to eight different states yet managed to maintain an
extraordinary friendship that would carry them
through college and careers, marriage and
motherhood, dating and divorce, the death of a child,
and the mysterious death of the eleventh member of
the group. Their remarkable story, which captures
what it was like to go from girlhood in the sixties to
middle age in the millennium, is a testament to the
deep, enduring bonds of women.
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Zimbardo, Philip and John Boyd
The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time
That Will Change Your Life
In a remarkable book that does for time what Blink
did for snap judgments, New York Times-bestselling
author Zimbardo and research partner Boyd combine
scientific and popular psychology, self-help advice,
and social commentary into a big think guide for
living today.
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ROMANS
D'amour et d'ombre : roman
Allende, Isabel | 2009
Eva Luna
Allende, Isabel. | 2008
Relations inquiétantes : roman
Arnothy, Christine, 1930- | 2008
Reines du faubourg , Les
Benzoni, Juliette. | 2008
Si joli monde, un : roman
Bern, Stéphane. | 2008
Se résoudre aux adieux
Besson, Philippe, 1967- | c2007
Danse d'une nuit d'été
Binchy, Maeve. | 2008
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Le Rameur de reves
Blanc, Jean-Noël, 1945- | 2003
Dans le silence de l'aube
Bourdin, Françoise, 1952- | 2009
Marie LaFlamme. Tome 1,2 et 3
Brouillet, Chrystine, 1958- | 2008
Arrête ton cinéma!
Buron, Nicole de. | 2008
Et vogue la gondole! : roman
Buron, Nicole de. | 2009.
L'innocence
Chevalier, Tracy | 2007.
Le roman de George et Martha
Clark, Mary Higgins. | 2008
La petite fille de monsieur Linh
Claudel, Philippe, 1962- | 2006
Rapport de Brodeck, Le : roman
Claudel, Philippe, 1962- | 2008
Royaume de mon père, le. Tome 1 and Tome 2
Cliff, Fabienne, 1924- | 2007
Echo Park. Tome 1 and Tome 2
Connelly, Michael, 1956- | 2008
Chaussure sur le toit, La : roman
Delecroix, Vincent, 1969- | 2007
En avant toutes : roman
Dorin, Françoise. | 2008
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Les accommodements raisonnables
Dubois, Jean-Paul, 1950- | c2009.
D'un silence à l'autre. Tome 1, Le temps des
orages
Duff, Micheline, 1943- | c2009
Paradis conjugal : roman
Ferney, Alice. | c2009.
Baisers de cinéma : roman
Fottorino, Eric. | 2008
La porte des enfers
Gaudé, Laurent. | c2009
Mille soleils splendides
Hosseini, Khaled. | 2008
Millenium 1- Les hommes qui n'aimaient pas les
femmes
Larsson, Stieg, 1954-2004. | 2008
Millenium 2- La fille qui rêvait d'un bidon
d'essence et d'une allumette
Larsson, Stieg, 1954-2004. | 2009
Millenium 3 - La reine dans le palais des
courants d'air
Larsson, Stieg, 1954-2004. | 2009
Chant de la mission, le : roman
Le Carré, John, 1931- | 2008
Alabama song : roman
Leroy, Gilles, 1958- | 2008
Canapé rouge, Le : roman
Lesbre, Michèle. | 2008
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Enfant de l'amour, Un
Lessing, Doris May, 1919- | 2007
Chaleur du sang
Némirovsky, Irène, 1903-1942. | 2007
Ni d'Ève ni d'Adam : roman
Nothomb, Amélie. | 2008
4 fers au feu
Patterson, James, 1947- | 2008
Bénédictin pas ordinaire, Un
Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995. | 2008
Fort de l'eau : roman
Picouly, Daniel, 1948- | 2008
Cap-au-Renard
Portal, Louise. | 2007
Joyaux du soleil, Les
Roberts, Nora. | 2008
Coeur de la mer, Le
Roberts, Nora. | 2008
Larmes de la lune , Les
Roberts, Nora. | 2008
Le refuge de l'ange
Roberts, Nora. | 2009
Mary l'Irlandaise
Rouy, Maryse, 1951- | 2008
Rêveuse d'Ostende, La
Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel. | 2008
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Crimes en direct : roman
Sheldon, Sidney. | 2001
Cailloux bleus, Les : roman
Signol, Christian, 1947- | 2008
Les menthes sauvages : roman
Signol, Christian, 1947- | c2009.
Les vacances de Maigret
Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989. | 2008.
Le bal
Steel, Danielle. | 2009
Impossible
Steel, Danielle. | 2007
Miracle : roman
Steel, Danielle. | 2008
Princesse
Steel, Danielle. | c2008
Rançon
Steel, Danielle. | 2006.
Sœurs et amies
Steel, Danielle. | 2008
La grosse femme d'à côté est enceinte
Tremblay, Michel, 1942- | c2007
Thérèse et Pierrette à l'école des Saints-Anges
Tremblay, Michel, 1942- | 2009
Années du silence, Les. Tome 1 à 6
Tremblay-D'Essiambre, Louise, 1953- | 2006 -2008
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La fille de Joseph
Tremblay-D'Essiambre, Louise, 1953- | 2009.
La traque
Troyat, Henri, 1911-2007. | 2007
La fiancée de l'ogre
Troyat, Henri, 1911-2007. | 2008
NOUVELLES
Mon père, ce géant : nouvelles
Aznavour, Charles | 2008
Sept contes du pays d'en face
Moustaki, Georges. | 2008
DOCUMENTAIRES/BIOGRAPHIES
Je serai la princesse du château
Boissard, Janine. | 2008
La maison de l'été
Cauvin, Patrick. | 2008
Barbara
Chaix, Marie, 1942- | 2008
Les années
Ernaux, Annie, 1940- | 2008
Où on va, papa?
Fournier, Jean-Louis | 2009
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Sourde, muette, aveugle : histoire de ma vie
Keller, Helen, 1880-1968. | 2008
Un arc-en-ciel dans la nuit : récit
Lapierre, Dominique. | 2008.
Callas, La
Ruggieri, Eve. | 2008
Pavarotti
Ruggieri, Eve. | c2008.
La tectonique des sentiments
Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel. | 2008
Vie , Une
Veil, Simone. | 2008
Chateau de verre, Le
Walls, Jeannette. | 2008
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Allen, Charlotte Vale, 1941Dream train
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Allen, Charlotte Vale, 1941Dreaming in colour
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Allen, Charlotte Vale, 1941Fresh air
Mothers -- Death -- Fiction.
Allen, Charlotte Vale, 1941Gentle stranger
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Allen, Charlotte Vale, 1941Mixed emotions
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Allen, Charlotte Vale, 1941Painted lives
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Allen, Charlotte Vale, 1941Pieces of dreams
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Allen, Charlotte Vale, 1941Somebody's baby
Snow believes she has everything she wants – then
her mother confesses to Snow that she was stolen as
an infant.
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Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939Alias Grace
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Murder -- Canada -- History -- 19th century -Fiction.
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939Blind assassin
ON ORDER
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939Bluebeard's egg
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Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939Bodily harm
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939Good bones and simple murders
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Atwood, Margaret.
Oryx and Crake
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Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939The robber bride
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Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939Wilderness tips
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Balogh, Mary.
A certain magic
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Balogh, Mary
A chance encounter
Balogh, Mary.
A Christmas promise
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Balogh, Mary.
Dancing with Clara
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Balogh, Mary
The ideal wife
When Abigail Gardiner knocks at the door of Miles
Ripley, Earl of Severn, the last thing she expects is a
marriage proposal. Desperate, she'd come to this
charismatic stranger's home to plead for her future.
Instead she shocks them both by saying yes. Her
impulsive decision will have consequences neither
she nor her new husband can foresee.
Balogh, Mary.
More than a mistress
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Balogh, Mary.
One night for love
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Balogh, Mary.
The secret pearl
A tale of temptation and seduction, of guarded
hearts and raw emotion...and of a love so powerful it
will take your breath away....
Balogh, Mary
Simply love
Anne Jewell is a teacher haunted by a scandalous
past…until she meets a man who teaches her the
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most important lesson of all: nothing is simple when
it comes to love.…
Balogh, Mary
Simply perfect
Having resigned herself to life without love, Claudia
Martin is drawn to Joseph, the Marquess of
Attingsborough, who is willing to defy convention
and break every rule in society to make her his.
Balogh, Mary.
Simply unforgettable
The heroine and the man who seduces her with a
passion no woman could possibly forget.…
Balogh, Mary
Slightly Dangerous
Christine Derrick is intrigued by a handsome
duke…all the more so when he invites her to become
his mistress.
Balogh, Mary.
Slightly sinful
Alleyne Bedwyn is cut off from his past--only to find
his future with a sinfully beautiful woman he will risk
everything to love.
Balogh, Mary.
Slightly tempted
Morgan Bedwyn discovers that true love is a
temptation no woman can—or should—resist.
Balogh, Mary
Thief of dreams
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Bates, Judy Fong, 1949Midnight at the dragon cafe
Su-Jen Chou, a Chinese immigrant growing up in
1950s Ontario, finds herself shouldering the weight
of her mother's hopes and dreams as her isolated
family attempts to forge a life for themselves in a
small town
Beresford-Howe, Constance
The book of Eve
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Beresford-Howe, Constance.
The marriage bed
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Berton, Pierre, 1920Klondike : the last great gold rush, 1896-1899. -Nonfiction 971.91 B
Blunt, Giles
By the time you read this
Algonquin Bay is rocked by an unusual number of
suicides, including the wife of Detective John
Cardinal, but a string of hateful anonymous notes
leads him to suspect that her death had been a
homicide, despite the disbelief of his colleagues.
Brock, Veronica Eddy, 1926The valley of flowers a story of a TB sanitorium
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Callaghan, Morley, 1903The loved and the lost
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Cameron, Anne, 1938Daughters of Copper Woman
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Cheetham, Mark A. (Mark Arthur), 1954Alex Colville : the observer observed
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Painters -- Canada Biography
Chiasson, Anselme.
The seven-headed beast and other Acadian tales
from Cape Breton
Island collected by Anselme Chiasson ; translated by
Rosie Aucoin Grace.
Tales -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island.
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Christiano, Kevin J.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau : reason before passion
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Trudeau, Pierre Elliott.
Prime ministers -- Canada -- Biography
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Dagg, Mel, 1941The women on the bridge.
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Darnton, Kate
Peter Jennings : a reporter's life
A collection of personal reminiscences, reflections,
and observations celebrating the life of journalist
Peter Jennings. It documents his Canadian
upbringing, lifelong pursuit of knowledge, devotion to
family, seminal journalism career, and untimely
death from cancer in 2005.
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Davies, Robertson, 1913The cunning man
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Davies, Robertson, 1913Leaven of malice
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Davies, Robertson, 1913Murther & walking spirits
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De la Roche, Mazo, 1879-1961.
The building of Jalna
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Del La Roche, Mazo
Centenary at Jalna
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De la Roche, Mazo,
Finch's fortune
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De la Roche, Mazo, 1879-1961.
Jalna
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De la Roche, Mazo,.
Mary Wakefield
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De la Roche, Mazo, 1879-1961.
The master of Jalna
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Morning at Jalna
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Doyle, James, 1937Stephen Leacock : the sage of Orillia
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Humorists, Canadian -- Biography.
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Field, Sandra.
The right man
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Fielding, Joy.
The deep end
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Fielding, Joy.
Don't cry now
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Fielding, Joy.
The first time
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Fielding, Joy.
Kiss Mommy goodbye
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Fielding, Joy.
Missing pieces
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Fielding, Joy.
The other woman
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Fielding, Joy.
Puppet
The life of a young defense attorney is thrown into
turmoil
when she has to defend her disturbed, estranged
mother.
Fielding, Joy.
See Jane run
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Fielding, Joy.
Tell me no secrets
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Findley, Timothy.
Famous last words : a novel
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Forrester, Helen.
By the waters of Liverpool
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The latchkey kid
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Forrester, Helen.
Lime Street at two
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The Liverpool Basque
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Liverpool (England) -- Social life and customs.
Forrester, Helen.
Liverpool Daisy
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Forrester, Helen.
Madame Barbara
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Forrester, Helen.
Minerva's stepchild
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Forrester, Helen.
The moneylenders of Shahpur
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Forrester, Helen.
Mourning doves
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Forrester, Helen.
Three women in Liverpool
Forrester, Helen.
Twopence to cross the Mersey
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Forrester, Helen.
Yes, mama
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Frey, Cecelia.
The love song of Romeo Paquette
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Gillen, Mollie.
The wheel of things : a biography of L.M.
Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables
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Green, Grace.
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A bittersweet promise
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Green, Grace.
Brannigan's baby
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Green, Grace.
The wedding promise
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Gruen, Sara.
Water for elephants
Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski
remembers his time in the circus as a young man
during the Great Depression, and his friendship with
Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie,
the elephant, who gave them hope.
Gulland, Sandra
Mistress of the sun
The author of the internationally acclaimed Josephine
Bonaparte trilogy returns with another irresistible
historical novel, this one based on the life of Louise
de la Vallière, who, against all odds, became one of
the most mysterious consorts of France's Louis XIV,
the charismatic Sun King.
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Haffner, Margaret.
Snowblind
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Hailey, Arthur.
Airport
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Hailey, Arthur
Detective
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Hailey, Arthur.
The evening news
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Hailey, Arthur.
The final diagnosis
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Hailey, Arthur
Hotel.
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Hailey, Arthur.
In high places
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Hailey, Arthur.
The moneychangers
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Hailey, Arthur.
Overload
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Hailey, Arthur.
Strong medicine
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Wheels
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Hébert, Anne.
Les chambres de bois : roman
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Hospital, Janette Turner, 1942Oyster
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Houston, James A., 1921Spirit wrestler James Houston. -Large Print FICTION HOU
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Jiles, Paulette
Stormy weather
In desperation, the Stoddard women place their last
hopes for salvation in a wildcat oil well that eats up
what little they have left . . . and on the back of late
patriarch Jack's one true legacy, a dangerous
racehorse named Smoky Joe. And Jeanine, the
fatherless "daddy's girl," must decide if she will
gamble it all . . . on love.
Jones, Dennis, 1945Rubicon One Dennis Jones ; [maps by John
Kazmierowski]. -Large print FICTION
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Kelly, Nora.
In the shadow of King's
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Kinsella, W. P.
Born Indian
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Kinsella, W. P.
Dance me outside
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Laurence, Margaret.
The diviners
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Laurence, Margaret.
The stone angel
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Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944.
Sunshine sketches of a little town
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MacDonald, Ann-Marie, 1958Fall on your knees
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MacLennan, Hugh, 1907Barometer rising
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MacLennan, Hugh, 1907Two solitudes
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MacLeod, Alistair
The lost salt gift of blood: collected stories
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MacLeod, Alistair
No great mischief
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MacNeil, Robert, 1931Burden of desire
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -Fiction.
McKinnon, K. C.
Dancing at the Harvest Moon
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Michaels, Anne, 1958Fugitive pieces
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
Mitchell, W. O. (William Ormond), 1914According to Jake and the kid: a collection of new
stories
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Mitchell, W. O. (William Ormond), 1914Jake and the kid
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Mitchell, W. O. (William Ormond), 1914Who has seen the wind
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Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942.
Anne of Avonlea
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Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942.
Anne of Green Gables
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Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942.
Anne of the island
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Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942.
Emily of New Moon
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Moore, Brian, 1921The colour of blood
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Moore, Brian, 1921Lies of silence
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Moore, Brian, 1921The lonely passion of Judith Hearne
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Moore, Brian, 1921The magician's wife
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Moore, Brian, 1921No other life
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Moore, Brian, 1921The statement
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Morgan, Bernice
Random Passage
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Morrell, David.
Fireflies
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Ewing's sarcoma -- Patients -- Canada -- Biography.
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Mowat, Farley.
And no birds sang
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Mowat, Farley.
World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, Canadian
Mowat, Farley.
The boat who wouldn't float
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Newfoundland -- Description and travel.
Mowat, Farley.
Born naked
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Mowat, Farley -- Childhood and youth.
Canada -- Social life and customs.
Mowat, Farley.
The dog who wouldn't be
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Dogs.
Mowat, Farley.
Never cry wolf
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Animal behavior.
Munro, Alice.
Dance of the happy shades : stories
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Short stories, Canadian.
Munro, Alice.
Friend of my youth : stories
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Short stories, Canadian.
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Munro, Alice
Lives of girls & women
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Munro, Alice.
The view from Castle Rock : stories
A compilation of short fiction journeys from the
Scotland of the author's own family heritage and a
ship en route to the New World, to a family odyssey
from Illinois to Canada and in and around Lake
Huron.
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Nadel, Ira Bruce.
Leonard Cohen : a life in art
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Cohen, Leonard, 1934- -- Biography.
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Oke, Janette, 1935The bluebird and the sparrow
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Oke, Janette, 1935A gown of Spanish lace
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Oke, Janette, 1935Heart of the wilderness
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Oke, Janette, 1935Love finds a home
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Oke, Janette, 1935Love takes wing
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Oke, Janette, 1935Love's enduring promise : the sequel to Love comes
softly
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Oke, Janette, 1935Love's enduring promise
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Oke, Janette, 1935Love's long journey
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Oke, Janette, 1935Love's unending legacy
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Oke, Janette, 1935Love's unfolding dream
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Oke, Janette, 1935Nana's gift
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Oke, Janette, 1935The red geranium
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Oke, Janette, 1935The tender years
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Oke, Janette, 1935When comes the spring
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Ondaatje, Michael, 1943Anil's ghost
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Ondaatje, Michael, 1943Divisadero
Ondaatje unravels a haunting story that ranges from
northern California to central France, introducing
characters who become part of our own lives.
Ondaatje, Michael, 1943Elimination dance = La danse eliminatoire
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Ondaatje, Michael, 1943The english patient
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Orange, John.
Farley Mowat : writing the squib
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Farley Mowat : writing the squib
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Page, P. K. (Patricia Kathleen), 1916Hologram : a book of glosas
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Canadian poetry -- 20th century.
Penny, Louise.
The cruelest month : a Three Pines mystery
When the quiet town of Three Pines is rocked by a
killing during an impromptu Easter seance at a local
haunted house, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is
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Penny, Louise.
Dead cold
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache unravels a dead
woman's past and discovers a history of secrets and
enemies. But Gamache has enemies of his own. As a
bitter wind blows into the village, something even
more chilling is sneaking up behind him...
Penny, Louise.
Still life
Locals are convinced a murder was no more than a
tragic hunting accident, but Inspector Armand
Gamache uncovers something more sinister.
Proulx, Annie.
The shipping news
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Family -- Newfoundland -- Fiction.
Pullinger, Kate.
The last time I saw Jane
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Reichs, Kathy
Bones to ashes
The cold case of a missing Quebec girl becomes a
very personal quest for Brennan when she discovers
that the bones in question probably belong to a
childhood friend - a figure of fascination and
sophistication who suddenly disappeared from
Brennan's life at the age of 15.
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Reichs, Kathy.
Break no bones
Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan is spending
two weeks in May on a barrier island where,
excavating a prehistoric site, she finds one of the
bodies isn't so ancient.
Reichs, Kathy.
Cross bones
Tempe plunges into an international mystery as old
as Jesus, and centered on the controversial
discovery of Christ's tomb.
Reichs, Kathy.
Déjà dead
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Richards, David, 1953Soldier boys
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Riel Rebellion, 1885 -- Fiction.
Robinson, Peter
All the colors of darkness
When a man is discovered hanging by his neck in the
forest, Inspector Banks is called in from his vacation.
And as he digs deeper, it becomes clear that the
killer is not finished with his ghastly work.
Rooke, Leon.
Shakespeare's dog : a novel
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Fiction.
Ross, Catherine Sheldrick.
Alice Munro : a double life
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Munro, Alice -- Biography.
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Rubio, Mary, 1939Writing a life : L.M. Montgomery
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Sapergia, Barbara, 1943Foreigners
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Shields, Carol.
The box garden
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Shields, Carol.
Dressing up for the carnival
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Shields, Carol.
Jane Austen
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Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
Shields, Carol.
Larry's party
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The republic of love
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Shields, Carol.
Small ceremonies
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The stone diaries
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Shields, Carol.
Various miracles
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Short stories, Canadian.
Symons, R. D. (Robert David), 1898-1973.
Many patrols : reminiscences of a game officer
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Wilson, Ethel
Swamp Angel
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Wright, Eric, 1929-.
Always give a penny to a blind man : a memoir
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Wright, Eric, 1929Buried in stone
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Wright, Eric, 1929Buried in stone : a Mel Pickett mystery
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Wright, Eric, 1929Death of a hired man
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Wright, Eric, 1929Death of a Sunday writer
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Wright, Eric, 1929Death on the rocks
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Wright, Eric, 1929A fine Italian hand : an Inspector Charlie Salter
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Wright, Eric, 1929
The kidnapping of Rosie Dawn : a Joe Barley mystery
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Wright, Eric, 1929The night the gods smiled
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Wright, Eric, 1929A question of murder
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Wright, Eric, 1929A sensitive case
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Wright, Laurali, 1939Acts of murder : a Karl Alberg mystery with
Cassandra Mitchell
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Wright, Laurali, 1939Among friends
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Wright, Laurali, 1939A chill rain in January
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Wright, Laurali, 1939Fall from grace
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Wright, Laurali, 1939Sleep while I sing
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Wright, Laurali, 1939The suspect
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