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"Called: A Memoir is about Mark's experiences as a corporate dropout from Madison Avenue who then begins working with homeless young people, and how their strength, spirit and courage--despite incredible odds--inspires all readers looking for some sliver of hope in humanity today. This book illustrates through eye-opening stories his conclusion that all young people, even when the odds are stacked against them, have the ability to achieve a life of...
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Soon after returning to her childhood home in Vermont to care for her mother who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, Kate Cypher learns about a recent murder that is similar to one thirty-one years earlier in which her friend Del was the victim, and as she investigates, surprising details about the community begin to unfold.
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Henry and Tess, once part of a quartet of college art majors who called themselves the Compassionate Dismantlers, find their lives unraveling when Suz, a member of the group who died ten years earlier during one the Dismantler's twisted experiments, seems to be haunting their daughter.
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Bubbles Yablonsky mysteries volume 4
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In the newest installment in Strohmeyer's wacky mystery series, Bubbles Yablonsky, everyone's favorite flaky hairdresser/reporter/amateur sleuth, attempts to solve a sticky homicide and uncover possible corruption at the highest levels of the steel industry.
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Bubbles Yablonsky mysteries volume 2
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In her second rollicking adventure, spandex-wearing, cleavage-baring Bubbles goes undercover in Amish country. Includes Dutch country beauty recipes as well as a rip-roaring collection of characters.
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Hildegard of Bingen volume 1
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"The Greenest Branch is based on the true story of Hildegard of Bingen, Germany's first female physician and one of the few women to attain that position in medieval Europe."--page 4 of cover.
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Hildegard of Bingen volume 2
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The Column of Burning Spices is based on the true story of Hildegard of Bingen, Germany's first female physician and one of the few women to attain that position in medieval Europe.
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Silent girls volume 1
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Frank Rath thought he was done with murder when he turned in his detective's badge to become a private investigator and raise a daughter alone. Then the police in his remote rural community of Canaan find an '89 Monte Carlo abandoned by the side of the road, and the beautiful teenage girl who owned the car seems to have disappeared without a trace. Soon Rath's investigation brings him face-to-face with the darkest abominations of the human soul.
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Bubbles Yablonsky mysteries volume 5
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Bubbles Yablonsky investigates the murder of a high school principal, but her investigation is threatened by nosy cops, a needy ex-husband, and a marriage-minded boyfriend.
10) A peculiar grace
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Hewitt Pearce, a blacksmith living in his family's Vermont home, finds his quiet life disturbed by a troubled young woman and the knowledge that the woman he has always loved has recently been widowed.
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"Raised to be obedient by a stern grandmother in a blue-collar town in Massachusetts, Rosie accepts a scholarship to art school in New York City in the 1980s. One morning at a museum, she meets a worldly man twenty years her senior, with access to the upper crust of New England society. Bennett is dashing, knows that 'polo' refers only to ponies, teaches her which direction to spoon soup, and tells of exotic escapades with Truman Capote and Hunter...
12) Chat
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"When a wintertime car accident leaves his mother and brother seriously injured, Joe Gunther takes a leave of absence to attend to them and investigate the cause of the crash"--Provided by publisher.
13) Borderlines
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Detective Joe Gunther is on temporary assignment in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. The discovery of a man's body may indicate the involvement of a back-to-nature cult. Juggling personal problems, disputes between state and local police, animosity between townies and cult members and an increasing number of homicides, Joe moves as fast as he can to solve the crimes.
14) Bubbles ablaze
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Bubbles Yablonsky mysteries volume 3
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Bubbles Yablonsky travels to an abandoned coal mine on a tip from her boss, but when she arrives, instead of a hot story, she finds the love of her life knocked unconscious next to a murder victim, leading her on a chase through coal country for a killer who wants her to be his next victim.
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2024.
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"The stories in Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart are about the abomination that resides within us all. That churning, clawing, ravenous yearning: the hunger to be held, and seen, and known. And the terror, too: to be loved too well, or not enough, or for long enough. To be laid bare before your sweetheart, to their horror. To be recognized as the monstrous thing you are.
Two teenage girls working at a sinister roadside attraction called the Eternal...
16) Occam's razor
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The discovery of an apparently homeless man's body in downtown Brattleboro leads Detective Joe Gunther and his squad to investigate possible suspects from the down-and-out types in a local bar to gubernatorial candidates in Montpelier.
17) The invited
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"In 1924, a young mother, Hattie Breckenridge, is hanged from a tree in her yard by the town mob, accused of a crime that was actually committed by her daughter. Nearly a century later, a young married couple, Helen and Nate abandon the comforts of suburbia to begin the ultimate, aspirational do-it-yourself project: building the house of their dreams on the same forty-four acres of rural land where Hattie once lived. When they discover that this charming...
18) Bellows Falls
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Joe Gunther is seconded to the neighboring town of Bellows Falls to investigate harassment allegations against a fellow officer. What begins as a seemingly open-and-shut case comes to look more and more like a frame job as Gunther doggedly pursues the truth, and soon he finds himself feeling around the edges of a statewide drug distribution network. As always, Vermont itself is a major character in Mayor's writing, with Bellows Falls standing in for...
19) Kindred spirits
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The Ladies' Society for the Conservation of Martinis--once dissolved under life-shattering circumstances and now reunited again after the death of one its members--discovers a letter that reveals a shocking secret and a final wish that will send the women on a life-changing journey ... proving that nothing is more powerful than the will of a true girlfriend and a good, strong martini.
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In Brattleboro, Vermont, Lieutenant Joe Gunther juggles several cases, all of which turn out to be connected. There is the murder of a girl runaway, the disappearance of a local activist, the death of a homeless man, and the strangling of a woman due to die anyway. By the author of The Dark Root.
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