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Women of faith volume 10
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Naomi, widowed eight years earlier, is faced with loss again when her adult son is killed in an automobile accident, and decides to move from New England to her hometown in South Carolina, accompanied by her daughter-in-law Ruth, where both are welcomed into a large and loving family that helps them deal with their grief.
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Murder never takes a holiday-as husband-and-wife sleuths Belle Graham and Rosco Polycrates discover when they tackle five crimes hidden in crossword puzzles In "The Proof of the Pudding," Belle and Rosco interrupt their Vermont holiday to solve a crossword that's a recipe for murder. Pennsylvania Dutch Country is the setting for "A Partridge in a Pear Tree" as Rosco helps a college buddy crack a case of foul play concealed in a puzzle. "Mum's the...
3) Bounce
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Thirteen-year-old Evyn's world is turned upside-down when her father, widowed since she was a toddler, suddenly decides to marry a woman with six children, move with Ev and her brother from Maine to Boston, and enroll her in private school.
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Homer Kelly mysteries volume 11
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Mary Kelly is troubled by the apparently accidental death of a folksinger slated to perform in the Christmas revels at Harvard's Memorial Hall, and when more male participants in the annual gala, led by beloved director Sarah Bailey, are found dead, Mary is sure her suspicions are correct.
5) Steeplechase
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Homer Kelly mysteries volume 18
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A search for a missing church leads Homer to a century-old mystery Somehow, against all odds, Homer Kelly has become famous. After decades toiling in academic obscurity, the Harvard professor has a book on the bestseller list. To capitalize on his sudden fame, Homer's editor demands another book, and fast. Homer is working on Steeplechase, a tour of churches in and around his little patch of Massachusetts, and at his editor's request he goes searching...
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2023.
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"One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community -- an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil. But how could this be? How could Nathaniel Hawthorne have so perfectly...
8) Baby Blue
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In western Massachusetts in 1976, still grieving and guilt-ridden over her father's drowning, twelve-year-old Blue is dealt another blow when her older sister, Star, runs away to escape their stepfather's violence against their mother.
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For fans of Debbie Macomber and Elin Hilderbrand, Jean Stone's "lovingly rendered" (Booklist) Vineyard novels are heartwarming beach reads set on beautiful Martha's Vineyard, featuring bestselling mystery author and Vineyard Inn proprietor Annie Sutton as she makes a fresh start on the island she's come to call home.
There's no place like home. Especially when home is an island paradise in full bloom . . .
With her wedding only weeks away,...
11) Good and dead
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Homer Kelly mysteries volume 6
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"A Joan Kahn book." Homer Kelly, ex-lieutenant detective for Middlesex County, investigates when too many parishioners from Old West Church are ending up in the cemetery.
12) Tourist season
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Trapped alone in her fiancé's family 'cottage' as a hurricane bears down on Mariners Island, Ismay Chalmers, as she prepares for the storm, discovers some disturbing items hidden in a closet that have her questioning everything she knows about the seemingly perfect Windsor family--especially her fiancé.
13) The Dante game
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Homer Kelly mysteries volume 8
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Sleuthing Harvard professor Homer Kelly has come to Italy to teach at the struggling American School for Florentine Studies. What starts innocently as "the Dante Game" takes a sinister turn--when the school's Italian maid and her lover are found, quite dead, on the school grounds.
15) The dream
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Crosslyn Rise trilogy volume 1
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Jessica is prepared for the bittersweet challenge of saving her family's home--but she isn't prepared to add insult to injury by sharing the project with a man she loathed. Yet, Carter Malloy refuses to back away from the job. Rebuilding Crosslyn Rise will offer him more than just an exciting opportunity. It's a chance to win Jessica's forgiveness and make amends for the past.
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Since a tragedy she cannot remember, thirteen-year-old Louise has changed her name, given up gymnastics, moved in with her grandparents, and locked her feelings inside but through her friends Reni and Hen and notes from a secret admirer she begins to find herself again.
19) Still as death
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Sweeney St. George mysteries volume 4
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While tracking down a missing artifact, a piece of Egyptian funerary jewelry that has vanished from the collection of a Harvard art museum, art history professor Sweeney St. George discovers that a student intern had died suspiciously while doing research on the gem shortly after it had been given to the museum.
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