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2010
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Indulged society girl Dainty Prescott is having a "sorry, rotten, no-good day." First, she discovers her boyfriend kissing her boss's young wife. Then she's arrested after a minor traffic stop - in her Porsche with the DBUTNT plates - by a disillusioned Fort Worth policeman. When the boss offers Dainty a deal for evidence against his wife, and her father cuts off her funds, the Debutante Detective Agency is born.
62) Down river
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"In the churning water, she felt her future slipping away...Attending a corporate retreat at a remote resort in Alaska, Lisa Vaughn is plunged into the frigid rapids of the Wild River. Swept away, battered and alone, she has been left for dead. Lodge owner Mitch Braxton knows something is terribly wrong when Lisa fails to turn up for a private meeting to clear the air and close the book on their broken engagement. Embarking on a heroic search that...
63) Down to the Wire
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2010
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On the heels of his first standalone novel "Don't Tell a Soul," the acclaimed author of the Andy Carpenter mystery series returns with an explosive new thriller.
65) The last surgeon
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Dr. Nick Garrity, a vet suffering from PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder, spends his days and nights dispensing medical treatment from a mobile clinic to the homeless and disenfranchised in D.C. and Baltimore. Psych nurse Gillian Coates wants to find her sister's killer. She does not believe that Belle Coates, an ICU nurse, took her own life, even though every bit of evidence indicates that she did, every bit save one. Together, Nick and Gillian...
66) Live To Tell
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On a warm summer night in one of Boston's working class neighborhoods, an unthinkable crime has been committed: Four members of a family have been brutally murdered. Murder-suicide? Or something worse? Danielle Burton is a survivor, a dedicated nurse whose passion is to help children at a locked-down pediatric psych ward. But she remains haunted by a family tragedy that shattered her life nearly twenty-five years ago. When D.D. Warren and her partner...
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c2010
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Adopted as an infant, Jane Aaron longs to know the identity of her birth mother and why she gave her up. So she's come to Cedar Springs, the small Texas town where she was born, for answers. Handsome ad executive Asher Price recently lost his wife in a terrible car crash. When he hires Jane as nanny for his two children, sparks fly. As Jane falls in love with Asher and his children, secrets emerge that may be more than anyone can bear.
68) Painted ladies
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Spenser had a simple job-protect an art scholar during a ransom exchange for a stolen painting. No one was supposed to die. But the scholar had secrets no one knew, and uncovering them will endanger Spenser as well.
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2010
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It is 1917 in the South Dakota Badlands and the summer has been hard. Rachel and Isaac DuPree had left Chicago fourteen years ago to stake their claim. Isaac, a former Buffalo Soldier, is fiercely proud: black families are rare in the West, and black ranchers even rarer. But it hasn't rained in months, the cattle are bellowing with thirst, and supplies have dwindled. Struggling to feed her family, Rachel is isolated by more than just geography. She...
70) Promise me
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2010
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"Beth Cardall has a secret. For eighteen years, she has had no choice but to keep it to herself, but on Christmas Eve 2008, all that is about to change. For Beth, 1989 was a year marked by tragedy. Her life was falling apart: her six-year-old daughter, Charlotte, was suffering from an unidentifiable illness; her marriage transformed from a seemingly happy and loving relationship to one full of betrayal and pain; her job at the dry cleaners was increasingly...
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2010
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Katherine Ashley, the daughter of a poor country squire, happily secures an education and a place for herself in the Tudor court of Henry VIII. As a dying favor to the doomed Anne Boleyn, Kat becomes governess and surrogate-mother to the young Elizabeth Tudor ... ultimately emerging as the lifelong confidante to Queen Elizabeth I.
72) Secret whispers
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2010
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On the eve of her graduation from an exclusive private school, shy wallflower Semantha Heavenstone is caught in a whirl of scandal and betrayal. Now, she's returned to the grand Kentucky mansion where painful memories of her mother and her older sister, Cassie, are as potent as newly mown bluegrass. It seems no matter where she goes, Semantha is haunted by a voice from the grave -- spiteful, domineering Cassie, whose taunts and manipulations seem...
73) Silent killer
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2010, c2009
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Eighteen months after her husband's unsolved murder, Cathy Cantrell has returned to her Alabama home, eager to build a new life for herself and her son. But pieces of her past are everywhere - including Jackson Perdue, the town's deputy sheriff. The spate of recent deaths - each victim burned in the same horrifying manner as her husband - leave Jack and Cathy in no doubt that a serial killer is at work. (Bestseller)
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2010
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At the ripe old age of thirty-two, former wild child Isabel 'Izzy' Spellman has finally agreed to take over the family business. And the transition won't be a smooth one. First among her priorities as head of Spellman Investigations is to dig up some dirt on the competition, slippery ex-cop Ricky Harkey. Next, faced with a baffling missing-persons case, Izzy hires an actor friend to go under-cover as a butler. Meanwhile, Izzy is being blackmailed...
75) Split image
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What initially appears to be a low-level mob hit takes on new meaning when a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise Beach. Jesse Stone and private investigator Sunny Randall team up to solve two cases involving the gunshot murder of Petrov Ognowski and a religious cult holding an 18-year-old girl against her will.
76) Still missing
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2010
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On the day she was abducted, Annie O'Sullivan, a 32-year-old realtor, had three goals--sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van as she's about to leave, Annie thinks it just might be her lucky day after all. Interwoven with the story of the year Annie spent as the captive of a psychopath in a remote mountain cabin,...
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2010
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It was only because Leelee Satterfield had adored her husband since the tenth grade that she agreed to leave Memphis to follow his dream of managing an inn in Vermont. But when Leelee is left swindled and snowbound, she's forced to confront the true depth of her Southern grit in this foreign town. Readers will rejoice in the hilarious antics, colorful cast of characters, and heartfelt moments in Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'easter.
78) Wicked all day
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2010
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Miss Zoë Armstrong is beautiful charming rich - and utterly unmarriageable. She may be the ton's most sparkling diamond but a true-love marriage seems impossible. So Zoë has embraced her role as a flirt and mischiefmaker.... As dark and cynical as Zoë is lively the brooding Marquess of Mercer has always known they would be the worst possible match... until his scapegrace brother does the unthinkable and winds up betrothed to Zoë. (Bestseller)
80) Caleb's crossing
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Once again, the author takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, she has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of the story is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless...
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