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Marlow Murder Club volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It's been an enjoyable and murder-free time for Judith, Suzie and Becks - AKA the Marlow Murder Club - since the events of last year. The most exciting thing on the horizon is the upcoming wedding of Marlow grandee, Sir Peter Bailey, to his nurse, Jenny Page. Sir Peter is having a party at his grand mansion on the river Thames the day before the wedding, and Judith and Co. are looking forward to a bit of free champagne. But during the soiree, there's...
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English
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"Over the last few years, prominent people--a retired diplomat, beloved basketball coach, the CEO of an empire--have died in a series of fluke accidents and shocking suicides. There's no apparent connection, no signs of foul play. Behind it all is a powerful group of women, the Sophie Foundation, who meet over wine and cheese to review files of men who behave very, very badly, and then mete out justice. Jessa Hall jumped at the mysterious, exclusive...
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Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Series
Paradise Valley volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Widows Club's most outgoing member, Hattie Schrock, when her cousin bets her she can't help Paradise Valley's most difficult man learn to be happier, tackles the challenge head-on only to discover that Christian Beachy is more complicated-and appealing-than she thought.
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Series
Debutantes (Jennifer Lynn Barnes) volume 2
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
While spending a summer at the family lake house, eighteen-year-old Sawyer finally learns the full truth about her complicated family.
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"Molly Pink has become a yarnaholic. She shares her obsession with her crochet group in Tarzana, California. However, the real problem on their hands these days is a murder with a unique weave that casts suspicion on one of their own..."--p. [4] of cover.
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
One of the founding members of the Good Buy Girls, a group of coupon-clipping discount divas, Maggie Gerber, after a fellow member is accused of murder, must repurpose her bargain-hunting skills to put the real killer behind bars.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Encompassing two generations and a rich blend of Chinese and American history, the story of four struggling, strong women also reveals their daughter's memories and feelings.
In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender,...
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Molly sets up a series of classes where the Tarzana Hookers can pass on their skills to others but Sheila, the teacher of the most popular seminar, is getting stage fright. To ease Sheila's fears, the Hookers plan a practice class at CeeCee's mansion, but before the lesson begins they stumble upon a dead body in the apartment above CeeCee's garage.
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Series
Wantons of Waverton volume 1
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Widowed Lady Sylvia Elton is out to save young ladies from the terrible fate of love and marriage. Her former husband has retained his reputation as an honorable and loving man in death, but Sylvia has privately mourned his lies and infidelity. Joined by two equally scorned and cast-off friends, Sylvia establishes the Mismatch Society. With each new liberated member, the scandalous circle wreaks havoc on the romantic prospects of London's frustrated...
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Publisher
Alcove Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
When Keira first receives her breast cancer diagnosis, she never expects to end up joining a running group with three women she's only just met. Totally blind-sided, all she can think about is how she doesn't want to tell her family or step back from work. Nor does she want to be part of a group of fellow cancer patients. Cancer is not her club. And yet it's running - hot, sweaty, lycra-clad running in the company of brilliant, funny women all going...
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Series
Southern sewing circle mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Tori Sinclair has found a sense of home with the Sweet Briar Ladies Society Sewing Circle. During their get-togethers, she can relax with her sewing and listen in on Sweet Briar's latest gossip. Bet when the town is chosen to be the setting of Warren Shoemaker's movie, the sewing circle gets cought up in bigger drama. With dreams of stardom, everyone is hoping to be cast as an extra - which lucky Tori is. But fame has its price, as they learn when...
Author
Publisher
Nobrow
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The lascivious ladies of the Mean Girls Club have been raising a riot around town, and the cops are onto them. Prepare for a mad-dash of boozing, skull-busting, and general mid-century mayhem as they deliver a swift stiletto-stab to the crotch of the patriarchy.
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