Eliza Foss
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials.
It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death.
The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent...
It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death.
The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent...
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English
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"Two lifelong friends, a bartender and a pastor, decide to trade places the week before Christmas and end up finding love along the way in this delightful novel from the queen of holiday stories, #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Peter Rhinehart and Hank Meyer are best friends, but their lives couldn't be more different. Peter is a local pastor who is dedicated to his community. He spends his time visiting the flock, attending...
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English
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"Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy was the incandescent life force of the fabled Kennedy family, her father's acknowledged "favorite of all the children" and her brother Jack's "psychological twin." She was the Kennedy of Kennedys, sure of her privilege, magnetically charming and somehow not quite like anyone else on whatever stage she happened to grace. The daughter of the American ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Kick swept into Britain's aristocracy...
4) 212: a novel
Author
Series
Ellie Hatcher novels volume 3
Language
English
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When a student is murdered following a series of threatening messages posted on a college gossip site, NYPD detectives Ellie Hatcher and J.J. Rogan are assigned the case. As they dig deeper, however, they discover the victim was only one of many--and the killer isn't finished.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before nineteen men and women had been hanged and an 80-year-old man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes A Sorceress Comes to Call--a dark reimagining of the Brothers Grimm's "The Goose Girl," rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic. *The hardcover edition features a foil stamp on the casing and custom endpapers illustrated by the author.* Cordelia knows her mother is . . . unusual. Their house doesn't have any doors between rooms--there are no secrets in this house--and...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family's estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate -- along with a nine-figure fortune and the complicated legacy of being a McTavish -- pass...
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English
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The first thoroughly researched biography of Meryl Streep -- the "Iron Lady" of acting, nominated for nineteen Oscars and winner of three -- that explores her beginnings as a young woman of the 1970s grappling with love, feminism, and her astonishing talent.--Baker & Taylor.
Author
Series
Ellie Hatcher novels volume 2
Language
English
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When fresh-faced college student Chelsea Hart is found murdered in East River Park, her wavy blond hair brutally hacked off, NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher catches the case--and finds herself under the watchful eye of a psychopath eager to add the prideful young female detective to his list of victims.
10) Poisonous
Author
Series
Max Revere novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"Romantic suspense bestseller Allison Brennan returns with her next riveting thriller featuring investigative reporter Max Revere"--
"Teen-aged Internet bully Ivy Lake fell off a cliff and few people cared... except her mentally-challenged eighteen-year-old step-brother, Tommy. He loved her in spite of her cruelty. He's distraught and doesn't understand why his blended family is falling apart. After a year, the police still have no answers: Ivy could...
Author
Series
Max Revere novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Maxine Revere, a nationally renowned investigator of cold cases, looks into the suspicious suicide of an old friend in an attempt to clear his name in the killing of Max's best friend thirteen years earlier, when they were all high school students.
Author
Series
Max Revere novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Investigative reporter Maxine Revere has a theory: that the five New York City murders for which Adam Bachman is being tried are just part of his killing spree. In probing the disappearance of a retired couple who vanished the prior summer, Max uncovers striking similarities to Bachman's MO and develops a theory that Bachman wasn't working alone. Max wins a coveted pre-trial interview with the killer, whose disarming composure in the face of her questions...
13) Shattered
Author
Series
Max Revere novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Over a span of twenty years, four boys have been kidnapped from their bedrooms, suffocated, and buried nearby in a shallow grave. Serial killer or coincidence? That's the question investigative reporter Maxine Revere sets out to answer when an old friend begs her to help exonerate his wife, who has been charged with their son's recent murder. But Max can do little to help because the police and D.A. won't talk to her--they think they have the right...
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Pub. Date
2016
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English
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One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2016
One of NPR's 10 Best Books of 2016
"Heartachingly relevant...the Eleanor Roosevelt who inhabits these meticulously crafted pages transcends both first-lady history and the marriage around which Roosevelt scholarship has traditionally pivoted." — The Wall Street Journal
The final volume in the definitive biography of America's greatest first lady.
“Monumental...
One of NPR's 10 Best Books of 2016
"Heartachingly relevant...the Eleanor Roosevelt who inhabits these meticulously crafted pages transcends both first-lady history and the marriage around which Roosevelt scholarship has traditionally pivoted." — The Wall Street Journal
The final volume in the definitive biography of America's greatest first lady.
“Monumental...
15) Abandoned
Author
Series
Max Revere novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Investigative reporter Max Revere has cracked many cases, but the one investigation she's never attempted is the mystery from her own past. Her mother abandoned her when she was nine, sending her periodic postcards, but never returning to reclaim her daughter. Seven years after the postcards stop coming, Martha Revere is declared legally dead, with no sign of what may have happened to her. Until now. With a single clue--that her mother's car disappeared...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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A bold and deeply researched biography of a complicated cultural icon
When Helen Gurley Brown published Sex and the Single Girl in 1962, it sold more than two million copies in just three weeks, presaging the self-help boom and helping to usher in the unapologetic self-affirmation of second wave feminism. Brown declared that it was okay, even imperative, to enjoy sex outside of marriage; that equal rights for women should...
When Helen Gurley Brown published Sex and the Single Girl in 1962, it sold more than two million copies in just three weeks, presaging the self-help boom and helping to usher in the unapologetic self-affirmation of second wave feminism. Brown declared that it was okay, even imperative, to enjoy sex outside of marriage; that equal rights for women should...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In this rare collaborative effort, more than 20 of today's top authors-including R.L. Stine, Lisa Scottoline, and Jeffery Deaver-team up to create a thrilling crime caper filled with betrayal, vengeance, redemption, greed, and love. Rosemary Thomas was put to death for murdering her husband. Now, 10 years later, a memorial service is held for her-and one who attends is the guilt-ridden detective responsible for Rosemary's sentencing. What happens...
18) The Artist's Way
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Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Without The Artist's Way, there would have been no Eat, Pray, Love.” —Elizabeth Gilbert
The Artist’s Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist’s life. Still as vital today—or perhaps even more so—than it was when it was first published one decade
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