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Lily Bard mysteries volume 1
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English
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Lily Bard is a loner. Other than the day-to-day workings of her cleaning and errand-running service, she pays little attention to the town around her. But when her landlord is murdered, Lily is singled out as the prime suspect, and proving her innocence will depend on finding the real killer in quiet, secretive Shakespeare.
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Lily Bard mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
2001
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English
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Welcome back to the sleepy little town of Shakespeare, Arkansas, where secrets come to hide. Lily Bard has joined a group therapy session, determined finally to face her past. It sounds positively enlightening, until the murder of a fellow member sends a warning. But who was the message meant for? Why? And who's next to fall victim to a killer's head games?
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Lily Bard mysteries volume 3
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English
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Even in a sleepy Arkansas town, the holidays can be murder.
Lily Bard is going home for the holidays. More comfortable in baggy sweats than bridesmaid's frills, Lily isn't thrilled about attending her estranged sister's wedding. She has moved to Shakespeare, Arkansas, to start a new life, cleaning houses for a living, trying to forget the violence that once nearly destroyed her. Now she's heading back to home and hearth—just in time for murder.
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Lily Bard is going home for the holidays. More comfortable in baggy sweats than bridesmaid's frills, Lily isn't thrilled about attending her estranged sister's wedding. She has moved to Shakespeare, Arkansas, to start a new life, cleaning houses for a living, trying to forget the violence that once nearly destroyed her. Now she's heading back to home and hearth—just in time for murder.
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Lily Bard mysteries volume 2
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English
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In Shakespeare, Arkansas, a body builder is found dead in a gym, a barbell across his throat. Lily Bard, who pumps iron in the same gym, sets out to find the killer, her profession--cleaning lady-- giving her access to many homes.
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"The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a 'good crop'." Thus begins from author John Grisham, a story inspired...
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2024.
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English
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"It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardized by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue."--
7) Unleashed
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Series
Wolf Springs chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Orphaned Kat McBride, nearly seventeen, must leave California to live with her grandfather in small-town Arkansas, where she is drawn into a paranormal world of feuding werewolf clans.
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Lily Bard mysteries volume 4
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English
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Anthony Award-winning author Charlaine Harris' fourth entry from her Lily Bard mystery series is a critically acclaimed gem. Trying to keep a low profile as a cleaning lady, Lily gets sucked into a murder investigation when one of her clients is killed in an apparent tryst gone bad. ". quirky characters fully rendered in quick strokes will hold readers as surely as the complex resolution in this cozy on the bleeding edge of noir."-Booklist
12) The dirty South
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"It is 1999, and someone is slaughtering young black women in Burdon County, Arkansas. But no one wants to admit it, not in the Dirty South. In an Arkansas jail cell sits a former NYPD detective, stricken by grief. He is mourning the death of his wife and child, and searching in vain for their killer. He cares only for his own lost family. But that is about to change. Witness the becoming of Charlie Parker."--
14) The witness
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English
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"A brand new novel--and a stunning new heroine--from the #1 New York Times bestselling author"--
15) Hooked on you
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Maple Falls novels volume 1
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English
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"Riley McAllister left Maple Falls, Arkansas hoping to make it big in New York as a mixed media artist. When her grandmother breaks a leg sliding into third base at a church softball game, Riley plans to convince her grandmother to sell the family yarn shop and retire. Hayden Price's chance to make it out of Maple Falls ended when he blew out his pitching arm during a minor league game. Stuck at the family hardware store, he's coaching the softball...
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"This ... debut novel tells the ... story of a rescue dog that helps a struggling young outsider make peace with the past"--Amazon.com.
Tragedy sent Addie Andrews fleeing from Chicago to the shelter of an unexpected inheritance-- her beloved aunt's somewhat dilapidated home in Eunice, Arkansas, population very tiny. She's got an elderly next door neighbor who perplexingly dances outside in his underwear, a house needing more work than she has money,...
17) Ozark dogs
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[2023]
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English
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"After his son is convicted of capital murder, Vietnam War veteran Jeremiah Fitzjurls takes over the care of his granddaughter, Joanna, raising her with as much warmth as can be found in a junkyard outfitted to be an armory. He teaches her how to shoot and fight, but there is not enough training in the world to protect her when the dreaded Ledfords, notorious meth dealers and fanatical white supremacists, come to collect on Joanna as payment for a...
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Shy Elyse McCord, the biological daughter of a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde, turns into a mighty warrior when a dog is being mistreated and charges into a perilous situation. Reporter Andrew Stone has been fearless since his wife was murdered, determined to use his Texas Ranger upbringing to find her killer and clear his own name. But when he sees Elyse in the hands of a pistol-wielding maniac, he blows his cover and goes to her rescue. When painful...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Orphaned at eleven, Mary Grace Dobbs was forced to live with her Bible salesman uncle, wheelchair-bound aunt, and a cousin who tortured and killed small animals. At school, a bully made her life a nightmare. Everything changed when a newcomer to town became her only best friend, and changed a second time when that friend and another classmate vanished two months later, never to be seen again. Now she's the first female sheriff of her Arkansas town,...
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