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Aurora Teagarden mysteries volume 6
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English
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On returning home from a party, sleuthing librarian Aurora Teagarden of Georgia finds visiting niece Regina missing, Regina's husband slain with a hatchet, and their baby hidden under a bed.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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When her niece Cat travels to a wedding in Italy, Isabel agrees to fill in at Cat's delicatessen. She takes note of a customer named Ian, who is avoiding chocolate--doctors say it's bad for the new heart he recently recieved. Ian is haunted by memories he can't quite place, prompting Isabel to wonder if his new heart may be the cause. Always keenly interested in matters of the heart, Isabel investigates and discovers some rather surprising truths....
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 22
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English
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Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in the unsettling pursuit of a serial sniper who leaves no incriminating evidence except fragments of copper. The shots seem impossible, yet they are so perfect they cause instant death. The victims appear to have had nothing in common, and there is no pattern to indicate where the killer will strike next. First New Jersey, then Massachusetts, and then the murky depths off the coast of South Florida, where Scarpetta...
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""Mallery beautifully illustrates the power of female friendship and the importance of reaching for one's dreams."—Publishers Weekly Beloved bestselling author Susan Mallery brings readers an emotional, witty, and heartfelt story that explores the nuances of a broken family’s complex emotions as they strive to become whole in this uplifting story of human frailty and resilience. Finley McGowan is determined that the niece she’s raising will...
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"From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer"--
"Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor National Bestseller • Wall Street Journal Bestseller • USA Today Bestseller An NPR Book of the Year Finalist for the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards From the bestselling author...
6) Little night
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English
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Estranged from the sister who refused to testify against an abusive husband, Clare pursues a quiet life as a nature blogger in Manhattan only to be approached by her niece, Grit, with whom she confronts a painful shared history.
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Schuler sisters volume 1
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English
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"Passion, redemption, and a battered old suitcase full of secrets: the New York Times-bestselling author of A Hundred Summers returns with another engrossing tale of lost love and female ambition that crosses generations. Manhattan, 1964. Vivian Schuyler, newly graduated from Bryn Mawr College, has recently defied the privilege of her storied old Fifth Avenue family to do the unthinkable for a budding Kennedy-era socialite: break into the Mad Men...
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Blood brothers volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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You can't escape the past . . .Noni is desperate. Her infant niece has been kidnapped, and the only person who can save her is a private detective with too many secrets to count--and more enemies than he can name. A man who walked away from Noni without any warning a year ago, a man who broke her heart. But with Talia's life on the line, Noni needs his help now more than ever--and this time, she won't take no for an answer . . .The moment Denver Jones...
10) The companion
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Lizzie Martin mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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Bobbie Faye novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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14) Don't back down
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English
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"The first in a brand-new romantic suspense series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Sharon Sala that'll get your heart racing. Army veteran Cameron Pope arrives back in Jubilee, Kentucky, for the first time in years. He barely has time to catch his breath when he becomes embroiled in a race of life or death for his little niece and a deadly hunt for the human traffickers who are destroying the peace of his mountain town. When he's...
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Maggy Thorsen mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Uncommon Grounds coffeehouse owner Maggy Thorsen is full of good intentions when she attempts to return Mocha, a lost chihuahua who jumped out in front of her car, to her owners. But a trip to the Satterwites house and meeting their dog-sitter give Maggy a bad feeling and leads to an even worse discovery. Can she solve another deadly puzzle?
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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When she gets word that her old flame has been arrested for art theft and forgery, seventysomething influencer Gloria Rose decides to go on the run but her plan is complicated when the nieces she raised are thrown into crises of their own.
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Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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When Hattie receives an SOS call in Paris from her eleven-year-old niece, the decision to return to Canada is slam-dunk easy, because she's just been dumped by her boyfriend. But when she arrives back, her sister, Min, is on her way to the psychiatric ward, and Hattie is left to take care of Min's children, Thebes and Logan. When she realizes that this may become a permanent arrangement, Hattie hatches a plan. Without much more than an old address...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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"A great husband and kids ... that's how Meg Montgomery has always seen her future. Her present ... well, it looks a little different. Then suddenly she's guardian to her baby niece. And while the circumstances aren't ideal, Meg's determined to give Charlotte the home she deserves. That may be hard to achieve when Charlotte's uncle Russell comes back to town. Because Russell is also Meg's almost ex-husband. The distance between them has done nothing...
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Ethnic eats mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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After flopping as a personal chef to a Hollywood movie star, jobless Laurel Inwood finds herself humbled in Hubbard, Ohio, helping her aunt Sophie run her restaurant. Much to Laurels dismay, Sophies Terminal at the Tracks is not the cozy bistro her aunt would have had her believeits a run-down greasy spoon in an old railroad station. To save the dingy diner, Laurel cooks up a plan to feature alternating ethnic cuisine as specials. But first theres...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"All her life Vera has felt like a stranger in the old and drafty farmhouse she arrived in as a five-year-old refugee from East Prussia in 1945, and yet she can't seem to let it go. 60 years later, her niece Anne suddenly shows up at her door with her small son -- Anne has fled the trendy Hamburg neighborhood she never fit into when her relationship implodes. Vera and Anne are strangers to each other, but have much more in common than they think....
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