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It's Halloween in New Orleans. Ava and Carmela overhear an argument between Jekyl Hardy and Brett Fowler just minutes before they find Fowler's dead body. After another victim is discovered--who also had an unfriendly relationship with Jekyl--Carmela is convinced someone is framing her friend.
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Four high school friends spend a summer in northern California to sort out their love lives. Cassie, unlucky in love, falls for a biker. Julie, who married her high school sweetheart too young, wonders if the spark is gone from her marriage. Marty feels trapped in a loveless marriage and is contemplating an affair. Beth, a successful doctor, struggles with health problems and her attraction to a coworker. This summer, teetering on the threshold of...
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"Gabriel Callahan has lost everything that mattered. All he wants is solitude on an isolated mountain estate. Instead, he gets a neighbor. Vibrant, no-nonsense Nic Sullivan is Eternity Springs' veterinarian, and she has an uncanny plan to lure this talented architect back to the world of the living. First with a dog, next with a renovation project, and, finally, with a night of passion that ends with a surprise. Now a man still raw from tragedy must...
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"Ruby Rhodes at the Cut 'n' Curl has some news. Her son, Tulane, who set out to find fame and fortune in the big, wide world outside of Last Chance, is back, and he's brought a young lady with him. Sarah is a sweet girl from Boston who does PR for Tulane's stock-car team. The Ladies' Auxiliary can't wait to start matchmaking and introduce Sarah to Reverend Ellis. But Ruby is convinced Sarah's tired of being a good girl--and no one is better at breaking...
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"It's the spring of 1938 and no longer safe to be a Jew in Vienna. Nineteen-year-old Elise Landau realizes her only means of escape is to advertise her services as a domestic servant in England. Fate brings her ad to the attention of Christopher Rivers, handsome scion of the aristocratic Rivers family and master of Tyneford. An anxious Elise arrives at Tyneford and immediately falls under its spell. When Christopher's young son, Kit, returns home,...
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Her husband's suicide left Nora MacKenzie alone. His shady Wall Street dealings left her penniless. Nora's one chance to wring some dignity out of the sham she's been living is to retreat to the only possession she still has, a mountainside farm in Vermont. The locals think she's a princess on a back-to-nature kick, but Nora's serious about learning to farm--if she can figure out where to begin.
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"An unidentified corpse turns up near the Italian town of Vigàta, a place known for its soil rich with potter's clay. Meanwhile, a woman files a missing persons report for the disappearance of her husband, a Colombian man with Sicilian origins who turns out to be related to a local mobster. Then Inspector Montalbano remembers the story from the Bible--Judas's betrayal, the act of remorse, and the money for the potter's field, where those of unknown...
36) The survivor
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Mattie has faced more in her twenty-three years than she ever imagined possible. Having successfully battled cancer, she{u2019}s ready to reenter the world with hopes for her future. But while she was in and out of hospitals, other Amish girls her age were courting and finding the men they would marry. The only man who{u2019}s ever made her heart beat faster is Graham Weaver, her best friend, who has always been there to comfort her, in good times...
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"When teenager Allison Glenn is sent to prison for a heinous crime, she leaves behind her reputation as Linden Falls' golden girl forever. Her parents deny the existence of their once-perfect child. Her former friends exult her downfall. Her sister, Brynn, faces whispered rumors every day in the hallways of their small Iowa high school. It's Brynn--shy, quiet Brynn--who carries the burden of what really happened that night. All she wants is to forget...
40) Autumn winds
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In Willow Ridge, Missouri, widowed Miriam Lanz is relentlessly pursued by Amish Bishop Knepp in courtship, while running her beloved cafe. When a handsome but rootless blacksmith comes to town, she must listen to God and her heart to find the happiness she longs for.
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