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"Enlightenment meets On the Road in this witty, insightful novel." -The Boston Sunday Globe
When his sister tricks him into taking her guru on a trip to their childhood home, Otto Ringling, a confirmed skeptic, is not amused. Six days on the road with an enigmatic holy man who answers every question with a riddle is not what he'd planned. But in an effort to westernize his passenger-and amuse himself-he decides to show the monk some "American...
3) Montana sky
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1996
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English
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Willa, Tess, and Lilly Mercy find that their father's will requires the three of them to live together on his Montana ranch for one year before any of them can inherit anything.
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Caterina Pellegrini, a musicologist with a doctorate in Baroque opera, takes a job in her hometown of Venice, Italy, in order to examine two trunks believed to contain the papers of a once-famous italian Baroque composer, a man well connected with the church but was caught up in a scandal in 1694.
6) Legacies
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1998
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English
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Dr. Alicia Clayton, a pediatrician who works with children who have AIDS, turns to the mysterious Repairman Jack for help when she inherits a house that her repulsive half-brother wants desperately to take away from her.
10) Amethyst dreams
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Hallie Knight is invited to Topsail Island by the ailing Nicholas Trench who wants her to try and find out what happened to his grandaughter Susan, a dear college friend of Hallie's who disappeared two years earlier, but there are people who are not pleased to have Hallie around and soon she begins to fear her own life is in danger.
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With over 7 million copies of her books in print and a name that consistently appears on the New York Times, USA Today and other national bestseller lists, Brenda Joyce's novels are imbued with rich sensuality, haunting suspense and characters whose worlds become your own. Now, Brenda Joyce delivers a richly crafted contemporary novel set in the exclusive world of the British aristocracy, where secrets remain hidden at all costs, and where one woman...
12) The good sister
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English
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Jennifer and Catherine-sisters who have inherited equal shares of power in Pegasus Satellite Services, one of the biggest communications empires in the world-could not be more different. While Catherine is an extraordinary beauty whose looks attract the most handsome and powerful men, her sister is a plain-Jane, no-nonsense gal who prefers running the company to walking the red carpet.
But Jennifer's aversion to the spotlight becomes secondary after...
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Viking
Pub. Date
1996
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English
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Lori's plans for a second honeymoon in England go astray when her workaholic husband is delayed at the last minute. To make matters worse, her father-in-law Willis volunteers to accompany her, only to disappear minutes after their arrival, sending Lori on a backroads search that leads to scandal.
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Viking
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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Lori Shepherd volunteers at the Radcliffe Infirmary, hoping to bring a little good cheer to the patients, but when one of the patients Lori has befriended dies, Lori finds herself drawn into a mystery and searching for a possible killer.
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Ever since the death of his father, poor Fellworth Dolphin has slaved away as a waiter to support his miserly, cold-hearted mother. When his mother suddenly dies, Fellworth is shocked to discover that she has left him a sizable inheritance. Confused, Fell teams up with Maggie, a plain girl with a similar background, to investigate the source of the riches. But what they find is a closet full of skeletons. Is it really possible Fell's father was involved...
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Katherine Givens, following the wishes of her friend Annie who has died of ovarian cancer at the age of fifty-six, calls together four other women who have been important in Annie's life, and together they travel across the country sprinking Annie's ashes in designated places, and reevaluating their own lives and choices.
20) The obsession
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1997]
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English
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Beatrice Steel, the oldest of four daughters, has become increasingly domineering in the years since her mother's death, maintaining a tight hold over her role as mistress of the family home, but everything changes when her father is killed, and Beatrice plots to protect what she believes to be her rightful heritage.
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