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When professional house-sitter Lila Emerson witnesses a murder/suicide from her current apartment-sitting job, life as she knows it takes a dramatic turn. Suddenly, the woman with no permanent ties finds herself almost wishing for one. Artist Ashton Archer knows his brother isn't capable of violence--against himself or others. He recruits Lila, the only eyewitness, to help him uncover what happened. Ash longs to paint her as intensely as he hungers...
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Opening in the settlement of Long Grass, Texas-not quite in Kansas, and nearly New Mexico-we encounter the taciturn Wyatt, whiling away his time in between bottles, and the dentist-turned-gunslinger Doc, more adept at poker than extracting teeth. Hailed as heroes for their days of subduing drunks in Abilene and Dodge-more often with a mean look than a pistol-Wyatt and Doc are living out the last days of a way of life that is passing into history,...
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Alex Cross novels volume 19
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
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It's Christmas Eve and Detective Alex Cross is called away from his family to resolve a horrific hostage situation that is spiraling out of control.
64) The dude ranger
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The Dude Rancher, as Ernest Selby is a greenhorn from Iowa who inherits an Arizona ranch from his uncle, only to find himself pitted against a crooked foreman and his band of outlaws. Many are his trials and tribulations. He find himself pitted against a crooked foreman and his band of outlaws.
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 12
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Eleven years after his investigation into the 1995 disappearance of Marie Gesto goes cold, Harry Bosch finally gets a chance to put the case to rest when a man accused of two brutal killings agrees to come clean about several others, including that of Marie Gesto, until Harry discovers that he and his partner had missed a clue in 1995 that could have found the killer and stopped nine other killings.
66) Maine
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The Kellehers' Maine property sits on three acres of sand and pine nestled between stretches of rocky coast. As three generations of Kelleher women descend on the property one summer, each brings her own hopes and fears.
67) The Outsider
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
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"An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories. An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective...
68) Silent treatment
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A medical thriller on a health insurance scam to murder patients who cost too much money. It features Dr. Harry Corbett, a Vietnam War vet, whose wife has died mysteriously. When he discovers that, unknown to him, she was investigating such a racket, he starts a probe of his own and immediately his life is in danger. By the author of Natural Causes.
69) 11th hour
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Women's Murder Club volume 11
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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Lindsay Boxer is pregnant at last! But her work doesn't slow for a second. When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, she discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four of San Francisco's most untouchable criminals. And it was taken from her own department's evidence locker. Anyone could be the killer even one of her closest friends. Lindsay is called next to the most bizarre crime scene she's ever witnesses: two...
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Alex Cross novels volume 13
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IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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Just when Alex thought his life was calming down into a routine of patients and therapy sessions, he finds himself back in the game--this time to catch a criminal mastermind like no other. A spate of elaborate murders in Washington D.C. have the whole East Coast on edge. They are like nothing Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. With each murder, the case becomes increasingly complex. There's only one thing Alex...
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"The people of Cedar Cove know how to celebrate Christmas. Like Grace and Olivia and everyone else, Beth Morehouse expects this Christmas to be one of her best. Her small Christmas tree farm is prospering, her daughters and her dogs are happy and well, and her new relationship with local vet Ted Reynolds is showing plenty of romantic promise. But-- someone recently left a basket filled with puppies on her doorstep, puppies she's determined to place...
72) Sabotaged
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The missing volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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Time-travelers Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child from history, this time Virginia Dare from the Roanoke Colony, but their journey is sabotaged and goes dangerously awry, leaving them in the wrong time period. Includes author's note about the history of Roanoke Colony and Virginia Dare.
73) Family affair
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Keeping a low profile after a painful divorce, Lacey Lancaster spurns the advances of her handsome neighbor, Jack Walker, in spite of their cats' mutual attraction.
74) The Fix
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Amos Decker novels volume 3
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Amos Decker witnesses a murder just outside FBI headquarters. A man shoots a woman execution-style on a crowded sidewalk, then turns the gun on himself. Even with Decker's extraordinary powers of observation and deduction, the killing is baffling. Decker and his team can find absolutely no connection between the shooter - a family man with a successful consulting business - and his victim, a schoolteacher. Nor is there a hint of any possible motive...
75) The rescue
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English garden series (Lori Wick) volume 2
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While caring for her ill father, "the Colonel," Anne meets Robert Weston, who stops by the Gardiner cottage while inspecting his newly inherited estate. When Anne accidentally falls into Robert's arms, her father mistakes the scene and demands honor for Anne. A hasty marriage is arranged. Soon, the Colonel's tales of the event threaten Anne's reputation.
76) The race
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
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Bell has never encountered a case- and an enemy- quite like the one before him now, though. It is 1910, the age of flying machines is still in its infancy, and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first daring aviator to cross America in less than fifty days. He is even sponsoring one of the prime candidates- an intrepid aviatrix named Josephine Frost- and that's where Bell, chief investigator for the Van Dorn Detective...
77) Blood trail
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Joe Pickett novels volume 8
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
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When the call comes in on the radio, Joe Pickett can hardly believe his ears: game wardens have found a hunter dead at a camp in the mountains, strung up, gutted, and flayed, as if he were the elk he'd been pursuing. A spent cartridge and an old poker chip lie next to his body. Suddenly, two previous suspicious hunting accidents are viewed in a new light.
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Faith Ferguson is New York's most in-demand wedding planner, an arbiter of taste for elegant affairs, lavish ceremonies, and exclusive fêtes. She appreciates a simple celebration as much as a dazzling event, for she knows that a dream wedding is not necessarily the most expensive one. As much as Faith enjoys her work, her two failed engagements leave her with no desire to get married herself. She finds fulfillment in her close relationship with her...
79) The Innocent
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Will Robie novels volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
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Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents' disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up.
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"Against All Odds is the wise, moving new novel from Danielle Steel, whose many #1 New York Times bestselling tales have made her one of America's favorite authors"-- Provided by publisher. "The story of a long-widowed proprietor of a top flight haute couture resale shop and her four adult children, who, in their search to find the right partners for themselves, encounter and struggle with some very difficult and modern problems facing young people...