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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 20
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"Beginning slowly with the day-to-day life of private eye Kinsey Milhone, the story suddenly shifts to Solana Rojas, introducing readers to a chilling sociopath. Rojas is not her birth name. It is an identity she cunningly stole, an identity that gives her access to private caregiving jobs"--P. [4] of cover.
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In 1946, as London emerges from the shadow of World War II, author Juliet Ashton is having a terrible time finding inspiration for her next book. Then she receives a letter from Guernsey Island, and learns of a unique book club formed on the spur of the moment as an alibi to protect its members from arrest by the occupying Germans during the war. Captivated, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds there will change her life forever.
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Annie's people volume 1
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"Annie Zook--the preacher's eldest daughter--is expected to join the Amish church, but at 20 she is 'still deciding.' Because of the strict rules that guide the Plain community, she must continually squelch her artistic passion, although it has become her solace"--Provided by publisher.
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In 1943, Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiancé in New York to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe. She makes fast friends in training with Dorothy Dunford, a towering Midwesterner with a ferocious wit. Together they are part of an elite group of women, nicknamed Donut Dollies, who command military vehicles called Clubmobiles at the front line, providing camaraderie and a taste of home that may be the only solace before troops head into...
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Lady and lady's maid mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Lady Phoebe Renshaw investigates the murder of an illustrious china manufacturer with the aid of her lady's maid, Eva, who goes undercover at the ceramic works.
9) Cambridge
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
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257 pages ; 22 cm
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Two family sabbaticals across the Atlantic and a brilliant orchestra conductor shape the perspectives of a young woman from 1950s Harvard Square, who develops new ways of thinking about music, love, and art while struggling with feelings of being a perpetual outsider.
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Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 20
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Overseeing her baby, a family wedding and her own approaching 40th birthday celebration amid rumors that a developer has unwanted plans for Finch village, Lori bonds with a warmhearted inventor only to discover his true intentions.
11) Zoli: a novel
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Random House
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
333 p. ; 22 cm.
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As fascism spreads across 1930s Europe, Zoli Novotna, a young Gypsy poet, and her grandfather seek refuge with a clan of Romani harpists, where her fame as a poet leads to a flight to the West as she struggles to find where she truly belongs.
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Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 22 cm
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"In the summer of 1965, Sophie's family becomes the first African Americans to move into their upper middle-class neighborhood in Los Angeles. When riots erupt in nearby Watts, she learns that life and her own place in it are a lot more complicated than they had seemed"--
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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A complete re-imagining of the 1990s television hit Clarissa Explains it All as 20-something Clarissa tries to navigate the unemployment line, mompreneurs, and the collision of two people in love.
14) Age of consent
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Over the course of one year at a Connecticut boarding school and a transformative summer in New York City in the 1980s, three young women negotiate friendship, crushes, parties, privilege, and the sexual interest of older men on the journey from innocence to independence.
15) Ruddy gore
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2006, c1995
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207 pages ; 22 cm.
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Phryne Fisher thwarts one murder on her way to the theatre for the performance of Gilbert & Sullivan's 'Ruddy gore,' when incidents on the stage require her to further intervene and prevent any more murders happening at the theatre.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
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278 pages ; 22 cm
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When Ruby Tooms, the world-weary barmaid she met at Oktoberfest, arrives at her bed-and-breakfast with some unexpected baggage, Judith McMonigle Flynn, after much coercing by her husband, agrees to help Ruby solve the 20-year-old mystery of her mother's murder.
17) Deathless
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Tor
Pub. Date
2011.
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352 p. ; 22 cm.
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Set in an alternate version of St. Petersburg in the first half of the twentieth century, Marya Morevna, a clever child of the revolution, is transformed into the beautiful bride of Koschei the Deathless, a menacing overlord.
18) Audacity
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Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
389 pages : illustration, photographs ; 22 cm
Description
"A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early 20th century in New York."--
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2011
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262 p. ; 22 cm.
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Participating in a community rally to raise funds for World War II troops, first-grade teacher Miss Dimple Kilpatrick enlists the aid of her fellow teachers when a skeleton is found at the edge of a field at the same time an event helper goes missing with the war bond money.
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"December 1926: England unleashes the largest manhunt in its history. The object of the search is not an escaped convict or a war criminal, but the missing wife of a WWI hero, up-and-coming mystery author Agatha Christie. When her car is found wrecked, empty, and abandoned near a natural spring, the country is in a frenzy. Eleven days later, Agatha reappears, claiming amnesia. She provides no answers for her disappearance. That is...until she writes...
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