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It's the spring of 1864, and times are hard in Washington County, Arkansas, especially for thirteen-year-old Travis Ford. He hasn't…
heard from his father, a sergeant in the Second Arkansas Cavalry, in months. His mother is struggling to make ends meet on the family farm and abandoned sawmill near Poison Spring. All Travis really wants to do is to follow his passion--make up adventure stories in the style of Alexandre Dumas. But the Civil War keeps getting in his way. Since his mother hails from Illinois and has Abolitionist leanings, Anna Louella Ford and her children find themselves alone, and they are about to become even more isolated. 2017.
Jemima Hutton is determined to escape her old life. Her failing jewellery business, however, is making it difficult to survive--until…
Ben Davies offers to stock her handmade products in his guitar shop. But when Jemima learns that Ben used to be the front man of a hugely popular rock band, she can't help but wonder why he left behind an apparently successful life. And it turns out that Ben is just as curious about Jane, so no one's secrets are safe. 2013.
The Pemkowet Visitors Bureau has always promoted paranormal tourism - even if it has downplayed the risks. It helps that…
the town is presided over by Daisy Johanssen, who as Hel’s liaison is authorized by the Norse goddess of the dead to keep Pemkowet under control. But a new predator is on the prowl, and this one thrives on nightmares. But even as the creature is racking up innocent victims, a greater danger looms on Pewkowet’s horizon. 2014.
Louisa is shocked when millionaire Luke Devereaux re-enters her life - he's been absent since their steamy one-night stand months…
ago. She's even more surprised when the pregnancy test he demands comes back positive. Louisa no longer wants Luke in her life, but he offers her a tempting proposal - a marriage of financial stability and many more sleepless, pleasure-filled nights. 2010.
This novel finds Gabriel Tauhou, leader of the Silver Dragons, smitten by the beguiling May Northcott. Possessing an unusual ability…
to disappear into the shadows, May, however, has little time for love as she evades Otherworld law and hunts a mysterious blackmailer. 2009.
When her sister-in-law Poppy is found murdered, amateur sleuth Aurora Teagarden teams up with Poppy's boyfriend, a local police detective,…
to solve the case, in spite of complications caused by their own past relationship. Sequel to "Last scene alive". 2011.
Christmas is here and Hannah's shop, The Cookie Jar, is hopping. The holiday season loses a little luster, however, when…
a local businessman is discovered dead in his office. Now it's up to Hannah to find the killer and restore some yuletide joy. Includes recipes. 2009.
After university researchers create an artificial poltergeist, the team leader suspects someone is faking the phenomena. When a student is…
murdered, PI Blaine Harper is asked to investigate. Stepping into the spirit world, she realizes the haunting may be very real. But that doesn't necessarily mean a ghost did the killing. Sequel to "Greywalker", followed by "Underground". 2008.
Octogenarian author Vidal revisits and continues the memoir begun in “Palimpsest”, reminiscing about his deceased friends, family, and lover. He…
also critiques his own critics and discusses politics, cinema, celebrities, and current events. 2006.
When Poison leaves her home in the marshes of Gull to retrieve the infant sister who was snatched by the…
fairies, she and a group of unusual friends survive encounters with the inhabitants of various Realms, and Poison herself confronts a surprising destiny. Junior High. 2006.
Stephanie Plum is back in town, along with her sidekick Lula, her Grandma Mazur, and an ever-widening cast of freaks,…
criminals, deranged felons, and lunatics looking for love. And just when Stephanie thinks her life can't get any more complicated, in walks the mysterious Diesel. A man who seems to show up at the most inconvenient moments. This time, he's the instigator for Stephanie's new adventure, which involves camping in the Pine Barrens with Lula, and perhaps even a sighting of the Jersey Devil. 2009.
Stephanie Plum has a way of attracting danger, lunatics, oddballs, bad luck...And mystery men. And no one is more mysterious…
than the unmentionable Diesel. He's back and hot on the trail of a little man in green pants who's lost a giant bag of money. Problem is, the money isn't exactly lost. Stephanie's Grandma Mazur has found it, and like any good Jersey senior citizen, she's hightailed it in a Winnebago to Atlantic City and hit the slots. With Lula and Connie in tow, Stephanie attempts to bring Grandma home, but the luck of the Irish is rubbing off on everyone: Lula's found a job modeling plus-size lingerie. Connie's found a guy. Diesel's found Stephanie. And Stephanie has found herself in over her head with a caper involving thrice-stolen money, a racehorse, a car chase, and a bad case of hives. Plum Lucky is an all-you-can-eat buffet of thrills, chills, shrimp cocktail, plus-size underwear, and scorching hot men. It's a between-the-numbers treat no Evanovich fan will want to miss! 2008.
Mysterious men have a way of showing up in Stephanie Plum's apartment. When the shadowy Diesel appears, he has a…
task for Stephanie-and he's not taking no for an answer. Annie Hart is a "relationship expert" who is wanted for armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. Stephanie needs to find her, fast. Diesel knows where she is. So they make a deal: He'll help her get Annie if Stephanie plays matchmaker to several of Annie's most difficult clients. But someone wants to find Annie even more than Diesel and Stephanie. Someone with a nasty temper. And someone with "unmentionable" skills. Does Diesel know more than he's saying about Annie Hart' Does Diesel have secrets he's keeping from Stephanie and the two men in her life-Ranger and Morelli' With Stephanie Plum in over her head, things are sure to get a little dicey and a little explosive, Jersey style! 2007.
Dr. David Marquette seemingly just snapped one night. His defense team claims paranoid delusions caused by schizophrenia drove him to…
slaughter his entire family. But the state suspects that Marquette's insanity defense is being fabricated to disguise murders that were cold-blooded and calculated. And the evidence appears to be mounting that Marquette may be responsible for other unsolved murders around the state as well--murders that bear the frightening signature of a serial killer. It's Julia's first murder trial and her first insanity defense, and the stakes are incredibly high. If convicted, Marquette faces the ultimate penalty--death. If found insane, he could walk free. To bring a killer to justice, Julia will have to journey into the mind of madness herself, and go on a personal journey back into her own past--a past she has struggled for fifteen years to forget. 2015, c2009.
On her first day as adjunct professor at Ivy Green College, Victoria Trumbull recognizes the stench emanating from her classroom…
as more than just dead mice. Brownie, the groundskeeper's mangy mutt, soon discovers a second body hiding beneath a cluster of poison ivy. The stakes have never been higher for Ivy Green, which is on the brink of losing already-lukewarm support from its accredited partner, Cape Cod University. Thackery Wilson, the founder of Ivy Green, worries that the bad publicity from the murders will obliterate the financial and academic support the tiny college and its dependent students desperately need. As the bodies continue to pile up, all tenure committee members, Victoria and Brownie find themselves hunting a serial killer and trying to save the college. 2015.
A train ride through an isolated area of Ontario, from Cochrane to Moosonee on the southern tip of James Bay.…
Includes the history of the area, from the Cree settlement through to the Hudson's Bay Company fur-trading days and the building of the railroad. For junior high readers. 1988.
Fraser traces the lives of three people who are experiencing the late 20th century from very different perspectives. One is…
a travel agent who hates to travel, another is an entrepreneurial punk-rocker who trafficks in refugees, and the third is a disillusioned chiropractor who travels to bone caches all over the world. They, their ancestors, and their descendents relate their tales. Some strong language and descriptions of sex. 1995.
To explain the late Woolworth heiress' adult behaviour, the author describes Hutton's lonely childhood and fragile self-image. Despite her beauty…
and wealth, she was anorexic, volatile and a self-destructive woman. Some strong language. 1984.
Victim of a frame-up and just out of prison, Luke Adam meets spirited Jane, whose husband was blinded by renegade…
Indians after striking gold. She persuades Luke to help relocate the mine. Some strong language. 1975.