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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Between a Book and a Hard Place comes the latest Devereauxs Dime Store Mysteryand it packs a bite.Opening up a dime store in her hometown of Shadow Bend, Missouri, Devereaux “Dev” Sinclair thought shed left the wilds of city life behind her. But shes about to discover that even rural life can be beastly. . . Handsome private investigator Jake Del Vecchio has rented the office space on the second floor...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When Liss and the Scottish Heritage Appreciation Society get snowed in during a gathering for the Robert Burns Night Supper, old grudges and whiskey heat up the atmosphere. Then a tartan-covered body is discovered in a storage room, and Liss helps her friends sort out the facts before more tempers--and lives--are lost.
Author
Series
Material witness mystery volume 4
Publisher
Polyester Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Polyester Monroe, quirky amateur sleuth and proud owner of the most colorful fabric store in San Ladron, California, unravels the threads of a new mystery in TULLE DEATH DO US PART.
"When the historic Waverly House is transformed into a wedding venue, the town buzzes with excitement. An out-of-town couple with the loosest of local ties has adopted them as their own. But amidst the celebration, tragedy strikes as a guest is found dead in the chapel...
47) Coming home
Author
Series
Chesapeake diaries volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After years of seclusion, widower and former FBI agent Grady Shields returns to his hometown for his sister's wedding and gets a second chance at love when he meets Vanessa Keaton, a boutique owner who is on the run from her past.
Author
Series
Fool novels volume 2
Language
English
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"Venice, a long time ago. Three prominent Venetians await their most loathsome and foul dinner guest, the erstwhile envoy from the Queen of Britain: the rascal-Fool Pocket.This trio of cunning plotters--the merchant, Antonio; the senator, Montressor Brabantio; and the naval officer, Iago--have lured Pocket to a dark dungeon, promising him an evening of spirits and debauchery with a rare Amontillado sherry and Brabantio's beautiful daughter, Portia....
49) Salamis
Author
Series
Publisher
Caezik SF & Fantasy/Shahid Mahmud Publisher
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In 306 BC, the small, free, and independent polis of Rhodes is trying to stay neutral between the local great powers, each ruled by one of Alexander the Great's marshals: Asia Minor, controlled by one-eyed Antigonos, and the Egypt of Ptolemaios. Antigonos' son, Demetrios, comes to Rhodes seeking an alliance against Ptolemaios. The Rhodians, who trade a lot with Egypt, refuse his offer.Menedemos and Sostratos take the Aphrodite to Egypt for business......
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela about an embattled young woman's coming of age during the Mahdist War in nineteenth-century Sudan. The latest novel by "versatile prose stylist" (New York Times) Leila Aboulela is an enchanting story of the years leading up to the British conquest of Sudan in 1898, and a deeply human look at the tensions between Britain and Sudan, Christianity and Islam,...
Author
Series
House of Falconer volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the highly anticipated second book in the House of Falconer saga. James Lionel Falconer has risen quickly from a mere shop worker to being the right-hand man of Henry Malvern, head of the most prestigious shipping company in London. With Malvern's daughter Alexis running away to the country after a terrible tragedy and refusing to return, James' ascent to head of the company seems...
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Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Travel along the Silk Road to medieval China with Marco Polo as your guide. Meet the warlord Kublai Khan and sail through pirate-infested seas in search of riches beyond measure. Including booklets, foldouts, and maps, as well as excerpts from The Travels of Marco Polo, this beautifully illustrated volume illuminates the adventures of history's greatest storyteller.
56) Dragon keeper
Author
Series
Rain Wilds chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Guided by the great blue dragon Tintaglia, a tangle of serpents fights its way up the Rain Wild River to the cocooning grounds. But the creatures which emerge from the cocoons are a travesty of the powerful, shining dragons of old; some cannot fly, others are stunted or deformed. To save the dragons, a band of dragon keepers, hunters and chroniclers must attend them if they are to find their true home--the legendary Elderling city of Kelsingra.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Luanne Ireland's fiance is found murdered at their proposed wedding venue, Merry Wilkinson resolves to restore peace and calm to the community of Rudolph even if it means putting herself in the crosshairs of a killer.
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