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Two women with nothing in common--except the need for a friend and a fresh start. When Amish-born Lydia Ann Raber and Southern belle Caroline DeMarco discover a shared history of loss, the unlikely duo decides to open a gift shop in beautiful Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Lydia Ann is surprised to find herself drawn to handsome woodworker Simon Zook. When God offers her a second chance at love and family, will she take it? Or will the secret Simon...

After twelve years in Mexico, loner Johnny Barrol was back at the Lazy B Ranch. In his pocket was $200,000 - more than enough to buy the spread his cousin Gaylord had practically abandoned. However, Johnny didn't know that Gaylord had other plans for selling the rancjh - a scam that would net him millions of dollars. For Gaylord and his gang Johnny Barrol is nothing but trouble, so they decide to kill him. But cornering the wary drifter is easier...

The classic tale of a fervent courtship between an American heiress and a dashing British earl from #1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Alexander Feel the pea through this bed and win the heart of the man you'll wed. A true American princess, Cecily White stood to inherit her father's business empire. And with the twentieth century right around the corner, the independent beauty had no intention of marrying some foreign nobleman seeking...

For a small-town girl with a big dream in 1955, there is no address more glamorous than New York's Barbizon Hotel. Laura, a patrician beauty from Smith, arrives in its vaunted halls to work at Mademoiselle for the summer. Her hopelessly romantic roommate Dolly comes from a working-class upstate town to attend secretarial school. Vivian, a brash, redheaded British bombshell with a disregard for the hotel's rules, rounds out the unlikely trio of friends....

From Agatha Christie's favorite American author-creepy correspondence from a Manhattan mansion puts an amateur sleuth on the trail of a killer. Take one grand house, stuff it with staff, and make it home to several generations. If they send their sons to Oxford and occasionally knock each other off, you've got a country-house murder mystery, the delight of classic English crime fiction. But if the boys are at Yale, odds are that you're reading its...

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When 60,000 dollars are taken from the bank at Cheyenne Wells, two of the raiders are killed, and the third, Vance Brady, serves a prison sentence. However, the money was never recovered. On release from jail, Brady decides to help the widows of the two dead men by sharing the money. But he soon runs foul of a bounty hunter.

When a colleague extends his summer vacation, Inspector Salvo Montalbano is forced to stay in Vigàta and endure the August heat. Montalbano’s long-suffering girlfriend, Livia, joins him with a friend — husband and young son in tow — to keep her company during these dog days of summer. But when the boy suddenly disappears into a narrow shaft hidden under the family’s beach rental, Montalbano uncovers something terribly sinister. As the inspector...

In Wolf Brand, the ordinarily peaceful River Junction community is divided into factions. The ranchers are divided in their sympathies toward the farmers the railroad promised to sell land to for five dollars an acre and the railroad is now changing the terms of the land settlement, charging the farmers three times the original price. The situation becomes explosive when two railroad marshals are shot. In Doom Patrol, the owners of the J Bar C,...