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6261) 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.
6262) 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...
6264) 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.
6267) 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,...
6270) 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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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...
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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...