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In 1962, Jackie Hart moves from Boston to Florida, with her family. Wanting something fulfilling to do, she starts a reading club and hosts a local late-night radio show as "Miss Dreamsville." The conservative, segregated town loves Miss Dreamsville, but doesn't know what to make of Jackie. Her book club welcomes everyone - even a black woman, a gay man, and a convict - who found there what had so far eluded them: a place in the world.
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Sure, it would've been easy killing Two Diamond Joe with a second shot. But Jeston Nash only wants his prize horse back from the man, and a fast trail out of the New Mexico badlands. Together again with Quiet Jack, Nash is on a hunt that will take him through unforgiving terrain, a tangle of firebrand beauties, and even into a lawman's trust -- before squaring off with the most ruthless pack of gunmen ever to rule the desert frontier.
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As Leia prepares for her Christmas Eve wedding to Bane, she discovers her younger sister Eva is missing -- and learns that she must call off the wedding or she'll never see Eva again. Leia hands back Bane's ring with a coldness that makes him believe it -- until he overhears her telling her parents what's really going on. Bane vows to help find Eva, but assures Leia that the wedding will remain off since she didn't trust him enough to tell him the...
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General George S. Patton, Jr. died under mysterious circumstances in the months following the end of World War II. For almost seventy years, there has been suspicion that his death was not an accident--and may very well have been an act of assassination. "Killing Patton" takes readers inside the final year of the war and recounts the events surrounding Patton's tragic demise, naming names of the many powerful individuals who wanted him silenced.
6245) South of hell
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With one phone call from a man he barely recalls meeting years ago, South Florida detective Louis Kincaid heads to the Michigan town of his college days to reopen a disturbing cold case, and finds himself confronting his own painful past secrets.
6246) Summer at seaside cove
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After her half-sister, Laurel, steals her boyfriend, Janie Newman leaves New York and humiliation behind for a quiet summer in Seaside Cove, North Carolina. But the cozy beach cottage she booked turns out to be a rundown bungalow. Worse, her drama-prone mother, angst-ridden niece, and newly dumped Laurel all follow her there. With her ramshackle cottage this crowded, Jamie wonders if she'll ever have a chance at finding love again.
6247) Grace takes off
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"A trip to Italy's Tuscan countryside is a dream come true for Grace Wheaton, curator and manager of Marshfield Manor, until her boss becomes the target of a murderer"--
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The true story of an American doctor and his family in Paris, and his heroic espionage efforts during World War II. Exclusive Avenue Foch was Paris's hotbed of spies, secret police, informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when the couple at number 11--American physician Sumner Jackson and his Swiss-born wife Toquette--joined the French resistance, they knew the stakes were extraordinarily high. They would be risking not only their own lives but that...
6249) Drowning Barbie
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Investigating the murder of a violent drug addict, Ike Schwartz works to track down the victim's missing daughter for important clues in a case that is complicated by a second murder, the input of former colleagues and his drawn-out engagement with Ruth. (mystery & detective). Simultaneous.
6252) Afloat
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Dark waters are rising... There's sabotage lurking in the waters of Eagle's Talon, an elite floating community designed by gifted architect Vance Nolan. There's also something else in the water -- a mysterious presence friendly to some and hostile to others. And when disaster strikes, not even the saboteur expects it to be the first in a series of crushing blows. Stranded by a flood and surrounded by unnatural darkness, a limping band of residents,...
6254) On heaven and Earth: Pope Francis on faith, family, and the church in the twenty-first century
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Shares conversations between the pope and a rabbi and biophysicist on such religious and social issues as God, fundamentalism, atheism, abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, same-sex marriage, and globalization.
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Joseph Michael Ballista - "Joey Ballistic" to his mob buddies - knows most of the ways to make an illegal buck, and he's in trouble again. But his crafty lawyer is determined to free him by getting all his previous convictions set aside, beginning with one for attempted murder. She hires Detroit private detective Amos Walker to investigate the old crime. Walker's first problem? The intended victim was Barry Stackpole, his only true friend.
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"On the first Tuesday in October, Rosa Hartung is returning to her job as minister for social affairs following a year's leave of absence--granted after the dramatic disappearance of her twelve-year-old daughter. Linus Bekker, a mentally ill young man, confessed to her killing, but is unable to remember where he buried the various parts of her dismembered corpse, leaving Rosa with no choice but to try to move on without closure. The same day Rosa...
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Married to a man twice her age, quickly widowed, and a mother at only fourteen, Margaret Beaufort is determined to turn her lonely life into a triumph. She sets her heart on putting her son on the throne of England regardless of the cost to herself, England, and even her son. Disregarding rival heirs and the overwhelming power of the York dynasty, she names him Henry, like the king; sends him into exile; and pledges him in marriage to her enemy Elizabeth...