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"In 1970, Willie Traynor comes to Clanton, Mississippi, in a Triumph Spitfire and a fog of vague ambitions. Within a year, the twenty-three-year-old finds himself the owner of Ford County's only newspaper, famous for its well-crafted obituaries. While the rest of America is in the grips of turmoil, Clanton lives on the edge of another age--until the brutal murder of a young mother rocks the town and thrusts Willie into the center of a storm. Daring...
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Alex Cross novels volume 13
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Just when Alex thought his life was calming down into a routine of patients and therapy sessions, he finds himself back in the game--this time to catch a criminal mastermind like no other. A spate of elaborate murders in Washington D.C. have the whole East Coast on edge. They are like nothing Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. With each murder, the case becomes increasingly complex. There's only one thing Alex...
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Already hobbled by a nasty tumble off a ladder, Jacobia Tiptree finds her life further complicated by the disappearance of a foul-minded curmudgeon, whose corpse turns up sandwiched between the walls of her cellar.
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Margaret Simon likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are pink. She's just moved from New York City to the suburbs and is anxious to fit in with her new friends. They swear they'll tell each other everything - from first bras, first kisses, first periods - everything. But some things are just too private to talk about, even with your friends, and especially when you're the new girl. Lucky for Margaret, she's got someone...
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During World War II, a girl makes an unbreakable connection with a boy sheltering in her family's Tuscan villa, where the treasures of the Uffizi Galleries are hidden. A moving coming-of-age story about the power of art in wartime, based on true events--Provided by publisher.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 29
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Sharon McCone investigates when Caro Warrick, a woman acquitted for the murder of her best friend, is discovered brutally beaten close to home.
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Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious-during a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. More than a hundred years later, this tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and the drug that unleashes his evil, inner persona-the loathsome, twisted Mr. Hyde-has lost none of its ability to shock. Its realistic police-style narrative...
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Ben Kincaid novels volume 5
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Oklahoma lawyer Ben Kincaid, assigned to defend a black man accused of a ten-year-old murder, finds a link to a missing boy and a child molester.
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In this new mystery set in the Patty Hearst era of radical black nationalism and political abductions, a black ex-boxer self-named Uhuru Nolica, the leader of a revolutionary cell called Scorched Earth, has kidnapped Rosemary Goldsmith, the daughter of a weapons manufacturer, from her dorm at UC Santa Barbara. If they don't receive the money, weapons, and apology they demand, "Rose Gold" will die - horribly and publicly. So the FBI, the State Department,...
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Set in New Orleans in the years after the Civil War, John Bell Hood, arguably one of the most controversial generals of the Confederate Army-- and one of its most tragic figures--struggles with his inability to admit his failures until those who taught him to love, and to be loved, transformed him.
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After moving with their widowed mother to the home in the woods near Concord, Wisconsin, nine-year-old Caroline Quiner, who grows up to become the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and her brothers and sisters try to adjust to their new neighborhood and new stepfather.
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In 1959, Haruko marries the Crown Prince of Japan and becomes the first nonaristocratic woman to enter the Japanese monarchy, where she is met with cruelty and suspicion by the Empress, who tries to control Haruko at every turn.
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Anne Blythe's youngest high-spirited daughter, 15-year-old Rilla, captures in her diary, the poignant story of how WW1 affected the lives of the people of Glen St. Mary, Canada. The premonition of Walter, Rilla's brother - of the Piped Piper coming down the rainbow valley with a shadowy host behind him, came true, when news of the war was announced. Soon, every able-bodied man young and old volunteered. How many would return? "Walter died for Canada-I...
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Medieval/Song series volume 6
Medieval song volume 6
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Medieval song volume 06
Medieval song volume 6
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Medieval song volume 06
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Handsome young knight Sir Bishop of Lythe, ordered by the king to marry Merryn de Gay, thus securing the Penwyth lands and putting an end to talk of the curses said to have claimed the lives of Merryn's first four suitors, decides to take his time and woo the lovely young woman, but he soon finds himself beset by dreams of an unknown witch and wizard.
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"Zacriah is imprisoned within the city of Lilioira which is firmly under the control of Gordex. Separated from Hadrian and his allies, he tries to deal with a darkness that grows within him. A new, deadly power. Heart Magick. The Druid will stop at nothing to retrieve the final Dragori to complete his ultimate plan of raising his kin once again. And all it takes is one failed rescue mission to set the wheels of doom in motion. Time is not on the side...
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The year is 1853, and the Habsburgs are Europe’s most powerful ruling family. With his empire stretching from Austria to Russia, from Germany to Italy, Emperor Franz Joseph is young, rich, and ready to marry. Fifteen-year-old Elisabeth, “Sisi,” Duchess of Bavaria, travels to the Habsburg Court with her older sister, who is betrothed to the young emperor. But shortly after her arrival at court, Sisi finds herself in an unexpected dilemma:...
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Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed. Bleak House defies a single description. It...
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Anansi books volume 4
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Anansi the Spider steals Hyena's magic stick so he won't have to do the chores, but when the stick's magic won't stop, he gets more than he bargained for.
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