Barbara Rosenblat
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On a morning in 1924, a young woman rises from the floor of her family's small home in Belorussia to find her parents and her husband slaughtered beside her and her infant daughter, Sophie, missing. When her aunt tells her the baby is dead, Lillian emigrates to America. She is working as a seamstress at the Yiddish Theater and enjoying caf society when a cousin arrives and insists that her daughter is still alivein Siberia.Lillian cannot stop dreaming...
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A Great War has ended, but evil still casts a long shadow over a violence-scarred land. One woman -- an adventurer and archaeologist with a brilliant mind -- must now confront a dreadful adversary more fiendish and formidable than any she has ever encountered. But by doing so, she may be feeding the flames of a devastating firestorm that threatens the fragile lives of the tender and innocent.
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Marta Richter, a lawyer with the all-female firm Rosato & Associates, is hours away from winning an acquittal for millionaire businessman Elliot Steere, when she learns he has lied to her and is really guilty of murder, but her efforts to find evidence to convict her own client are thwarted by her boss Benedetta Rosato, who has a better plan for dealing with their crooked client.
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New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels has captivated readers worldwide with her heart-stirring stories of love and family, friendship and renewal. With Listen to Your Heart, she spins the unforgettable tale of a young woman who might be falling for a match made in heaven. . .
Listen To Your Heart.
With her beloved mother gone, her twin sister about to be married, and no hint of Mr. Right on the horizon, Josie Dupré is lonesome. Luckily,...
7) Ill wind
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Anna, a ranger at the Mesa Verde National Park, finds herself in danger when she investigates the death of a fellow ranger.
8) Affair
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Matchmaker Charlotte Arkendale finds herself in need of a new man-of-affairs who can also serve as a bodyguard after one of her clients is murdered, possibly by a man Charlotte recommended. But when she hires Baxter St. Ives to fill the position, she discovers she must also guard her heart.
9) Mystique
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Lady Alice and Sir Hugh strike a bargain--she will help him recover the treasured stone he seeks in return for enough money to allow her to live independently. But Hugh, recognizing in Alice the wife he has longed for, makes her agree to a temporary betrothal, hoping it will turn into the real thing.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 23
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Amelia Peabody and her family arrive in Egypt in 1911 for their annual excavation and to celebrate the wedding of Amelia's niece Lia to David, an Egyptian artist; but Amelia's attention is diverted from the dig when David is accused of selling ancient artifacts, and she must work fast to clear his name.
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Miami attorney Gail Conner has her own practice and a wonderful new fiance, Anthony Her happiness is put in jeopardy when she discovers her Cuban-born fiance is tied to her first client through his past involvement in a revolutionary movement, which threatens to destroy his family and Gail's future.
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New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan must put her PI skills to the ultimate test when she falls into the crosshairs of a psychopath who knows everything about her. For the past fifty years on the birth date of Edgar Allan Poe, a person wearing a cloak has placed three roses and a half bottle of cognac on the writer's gravesite. PI Tess Monaghan has never witnessed the event. But when John P. Kennedy, an eccentric antiques...
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New York Times Bestseller Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan-first introduced in the classic Baltimore Blues- must track down a missing wife and unravel the secrets in her marriage that led her to flee. "A hair raising ride."- Boston Globe Mark Rubin's family is missing-and the police won't get involved because all the evidence indicates that his wife left willingly. So the successful Baltimore furrier...
14) Stitches in time
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When an antique quilt mysteriously appears at the shop where Rachel works, it has an ominous effect on her. The evil that appears to emanate from the quilt threatens to destroy Rachel and the people she cares about.
16) Houses of stone
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English professor Karen Holloway searches for the true identity of an unknown author, tracking the provenance of the manuscript to Virginia's historic Tidewater region.
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• Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year’s exploration on foot in the author’s own neighborhood in Tinker Creek, Virginia. In the summer, Dillard stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. She tries to con a coot; she collects pond water...18) Slightly shady
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Amanda Quick, best-selling author of Regency-era romances, has won many awards for her works including the New York Times best-selling Wicked Widow. Each work transports fans into a richly detailed world of intrigue and desire. There are now over 25 million copies of her books in print. Besieged by gambling debts, a desperate gentleman purchases a diary as a tool for blackmail. But he does not live to carry out his plans. He is murdered, and the diary...
19) The wild child
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Dominic Renbourne agrees to take his twin brother Kyle's place at Warfield Manor, where he is to woe Lady Meriel Grahame, the wealthy heiress Kyle intends to marry, but Dominic never dreamed he would fall in love with the beautiful but sad young woman who is trying to escape from a world that terrifies her.
20) The search
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K-9 search and rescue worker Sarah Patrick is strong-armed by John Logan into helping him find the sole survivor of his top-secret facility's slaughtered staff, and and she soon finds herself at risk of being the next victim.