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14726) The lady on my left
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
Alison Read was orphaned as a small child and became the ward of antiques dealer Paul Aylmer. As Alison matured, so did her love for Paul, a man who had never made the slightest romantic overture toward her. How could she get the man who had been a loving father to Alison the girl, to realize that Alison the woman had very grown-up feelings toward him?
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"In the early 1980s, farmers were suffering through the worst economic crisis to hit rural America since the Great Depression. Land prices were down, operating costs and interest rates were up, and severe weather devastated crops. Instead of receiving assistance from the government as they had in the 1930s, these hardworking family farmers were threatened with foreclosure by the very agency that Franklin Delano Roosevelt created to help them. Desperate,...
14729) Withering Heights
Author
Series
Ellie Haskell mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
A cousin asks Ellie to investigate some strange events that are happening at a house in the Yorkshire moors. Ellie agrees, taking along her husband and housekeeper, and upon arrival they find that the cook mysteriously fell down the stairs and a visiting vicar keeled over dead after drinking a cup of tea.
14731) Killing time
Author
Series
Oliver Colfax series volume 1
Pub. Date
c1988
Description
Marshall Bluff Luton sets out looking for vengeance, but onhis way to Texas he must get past a professional gunslinger hired to keep him away.
14733) Fairest: a memoir
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Description
"A heartrending immigrant memoir and a uniquely intersectional coming-of-age story of a life lived in duality and the in-between, and how one navigates through race, gender, and the search for love"--Provided by publisher.
14734) Mainely Power
Author
Series
Goff Langdon Mainely mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Was Harold Dumphy killed to cover up something at the nuclear power plant where he was the head of security?
This is what Harold's widow asks Goff Langdon, private detective, to find out. Langdon is a laid back, slacker detective, happy with his work, friends, and way of life in the town of Brunswick, Maine. To compliment his income in small town Maine's scarce private detective market, Langdon also owns and operates a mystery bookstore named after...
14736) See now then
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
In See Now Then, Jamaica Kincaid's first novel in ten years, a marriage is revealed in all its joys and agonies. This piercing examination of the ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness unfolds gracefully, and Kincaid inhabits each of her characters, a mother and father and their two children living in a small village in New England, as they move between the present, the past, and the future.
14737) Just one thing
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"On Monday nights at the Corner Bar, artist Lexie McCain and Sam the bartender learn that, with good beer and a trusted friend, sharing just "one thing" might lead to the one thing they both thought was lost forever: love"--
14738) Gunsmoke Masquerade
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Because of reports of a potential range war in Peñasco County, U.S. Commissioner Guilford dispatches Deputy U.S. Marshal Ed Church to the area. After arriving in Agua Verde by stagecoach and renting a horse to ride to the troubled area, Church disappears. At the same time, Mike Sternes, foreman of Frank Bishop's Crescent B cattle ranch, is in town to meet Frank's daughter, Cathy, who was traveling on the same stagecoach as Church. Also in town is...
14739) Glow of death
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Description
Delightedly appraising a genuine Tiffany lamp for a wealthy Rocky Point couple, Josie Prescott is dismayed when the wife is subsequently killed and she discovers that both the identity of the victim and the story about the Tiffany lamp were carefully constructed lies.
14740) A Warmth in Winter
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Holidays and holy days overlap as the angels work overtime on the island of Heavenly Daze. Vernie Bidderman, owner of the Mooseleuk Mercantile, is flabbergasted when the phone rings with a message from her husband Stanley, who went bowling twenty years ago and never came home. Seventy-year-old Salt Gribbon, the cantankerous lighthouse keeper, is living with a secret - two of them, in fact: his grandchildren. As December draws to a close, will Vernie...