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"From the beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes a new short story collection: half spy stories, half tales of revenge, all highlight the kinder, funnier, and gentler side of espionage and retribution. In this dual collection of short stories, Alexander McCall Smith brings his trademark humor and warmth to inventive tales of spying and vengeance. In one story, a spy dropped deep into enemy territory manages to disguise himself--quite...
2) Overkill
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Former Super Bowl MVP quarterback Zach Bridger hasn't seen his ex-wife, Rebecca Pratt, for years--not since their volatile marriage imploded--so he's shocked to receive a life-altering call about her. Rebecca has been placed on life support after a violent assault, and he--despite their divorce--has medical power-of-attorney. Zach is asked to make an impossible choice: keep her on life support or take her off of it. Buckling under the weight of the...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"In this propulsive debut novel from the host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie, a journalist uncovers her hometown's dark secrets when she becomes obsessed with the unsolved murder of her childhood neighbor-and the disappearance of another girl twenty years later. You can't ever know for sure what happens behind closed doors .... Everyone from Wakarusa, Indiana, remembers the infamous case of January Jacobs, who was discovered in a ditch...
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Twin boys grow up in the same family, in the same town. Dramatically different, they become bitter enemies, even as children: one good, one bad. One leaves his peaceful hometown, but when all else fails, the prodigal son returns, twenty years later. The reunion of brothers, sweet and healing at first, exposes shattering revelations of good and evil. #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel tells a brilliant, suspenseful story of suspicion,...
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Publisher
Classic Editions
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Baron Cahorn receives a letter from Arsene Lupin, the gentleman burglar: master of a thousand disguises, scourge of country-houses and fashionable drawing-rooms, and nemesis of Detective Ganimard. The missive explains that Lupin has taken a fancy to various items of the baron's art and antiquities collection - with the exception of the large Watteau and the Louis XVI chatelaine, the authenticity of which appear to be 'exceedingly doubtful' - and requests...
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"No woman on the trek to Texas was more mysterious than Lydia Langston. No man was more stubborn than Ross Coleman ... and both were running from the past. Lydia had vowed no man would ever take away her pride, while Ross Coleman stayed true to his wife, who had died in childbirth, the woman who had given him his son. Yet Lydia and Ross would find themselves together, fighting the same enemy and the same dangerous emotions building inside them ......
8) Another dawn
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Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
[2014], ©1985
Language
English
Description
When her wedding to local businessman Grady Coleman is shattered by scandal, fiercely independent, passionate Banner Coleman is driven by the distress into the arms of Jake Langston, foreman of the River Bend Ranch.
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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When shy Miss Eliza Balfour married the austere Earl of Somerset, 20 years her senior, it was the match of the season - no matter that he was not the husband Eliza wanted. Now, ten years later, Eliza is widowed. Suddenly, she is left titled, rich and, for the first time in her life, utterly in control of her own future. She's always lived by society's conventions, but now, Eliza has resolved to do as she wants. And what she wants is to head to Bath...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When Christopher Thomas, a ruthless curator at San Francisco's McFall Art Museum, is murdered and his decaying body is found in an iron maiden in a Berlin museum, his wife, Rosemary, is the primary suspect, and she is tried, convicted and executed. Ten years later, Jon Nunn, the detective who cracked the case, is convinced that the wrong person was put to death. In the years since the case was closed, he's discovered a web of deceit and betrayal surrounding...
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Series
Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 21
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2014]
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IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
Trenton, New Jersey's favorite used car dealer, Jimmy Poletti, was caught selling a lot more than used cars out of his dealerships. Now he's out on bail and has missed his date in court--and bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is looking to bring him in. Leads are quickly turning into dead ends, and all too frequently into dead bodies. Even Joe Morelli, the city's hottest cop, is struggling to find a clue to the suspected killer's whereabouts. To top things...
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Series
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Nola McCollum is the most desirable girl in Arthur's class, and he is thrilled when they become friends. But Arthur wants far more than friendship. Unfortunately, Nola has a crush on the wrong Moses, Arthur's older brother, Frank, who is busy pursuing his own love interest and avoiding the boys' father, a war veteran with a drinking problem and a penchant for starting fights. When a sudden tragedy rocks the family's world, Arthur struggles to come...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"1873. At an abandoned ch�ateau on the outskirts of Paris, a dark s�eance is about to take place, led by acclaimed spiritualist Vaudeline D'Allaire. Known worldwide for her talent in conjuring the spirits of murder victims to ascertain the identities of the people who killed them, she is highly sought after by widows and investigators alike. Lenna Wickes has come to Paris to find answers about her sister's death, but to do so, she must embrace...
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Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Warren has the opportunity to live with a female roommate, he instantly agrees. It could be an exciting change. Or maybe not. Especially when that roommate is the cold and seemingly calculating Bridgette. Tensions run high and tempers flare as the two can hardly stand to be in the same room together. But Warren has a theory about Bridgette: anyone who can hate with that much passion should also have the capability to love with that much passion....
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Series
[Eleanor Roosevelt mystery] volume 8
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
While hosting Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov's visit to the White House, Eleanor Roosevelt investigates the murder of a secretary from the Executive Wing.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It's a long way from a Christmas tree farm in North Carolina to a certain street corner in Greenwich Village, but Kerry Tolliver agrees to make the trek and live in a tiny camper with her older brother out of family loyalty. Selling Christmas trees at the family's stand on the sidewalks of New York, Kerry is startled to find herself beginning to feel at home in this quirky little corner of the city and succumbing to the charms of Patrick and his...
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Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
As one of the world's preeminent experts on the famed 20th-century composer Frederick Delaney, Bern Hendricks knows everything there is to know about the man behind the music. When Mallory Roberts, a board member of the distinguished Delaney Foundation and direct descendant of the man himself, asks for Bern's help authenticating a newly discovered piece, he jumps at the chance. With the help of his tech-savvy acquaintance Eboni, Bern soon discovers...