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During a rare white Christmas at Brambledean Court, the widow Elizabeth, Lady Overfield, defies convention by falling in love with a younger man in the latest novel in the Westcott series. After her husband's passing, Elizabeth Overfield decides that she must enter into another suitable marriage. That, however, is the last thing on her mind when she meets Colin Handrich, Lord Hodges, at the Westcott Christmas house party. She simply enjoys his company...
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"Gemma Doyle, a transplanted Englishwoman, returns to the quaint town of West London on Cape Cod to manage her Great Uncle Arthur's Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium. When Gemma finds a rare magazine hidden in the bookshop, she and her friend Jayne set off to find the owner, only to stumble upon a dead body"--Provided by publisher.
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Anne of Green Gables volume 2
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At 'half-past sixteen', Anne is grown up...almost. And when she begins her job as the new teacher at her old schoolhouse, set on inspiring youthful hearts and minds with ideals and ambitions, the real test of her character begins. Along with teaching, she finds herself learning how complicated life can be when meddling in someone else's romance, raising two new orphans at Green Gables - and wondering about the strange behaviour of her childhood enemy,...
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"Detective Esa Khattak is in the midst of his evening prayers when he receives a phone call asking that he and his partner, Detective Rachel Getty, look into the death of a local man who has fallen off a cliff. At first Christopher Drayton's death--which looks like an accident--doesn't seem to warrant a police investigation, especially not from Khattak and Rachel's team, which handles minority-sensitive cases. But it soon comes to light that Drayton...
10) Negative image
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"Axelrod's promising debut introduces a protagonist who will remind readers of Robert Parker's sleuths. The two-part story structure ("Premeditation"and "Post Mortem") also gives readers an Ellery Queen type of opportunity to "help solve" the crime." -Library Journal
When Nantucket homeowner Preston Lomax is killed, everyone on the island could be a suspect. Lomax lived large, owed money, and the word was spreading he was planning to stiff them all...
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"There's never a dull moment for busy, bustling Anne, who's now the mother of five children and has a sixth one on the way. With her visiting aunt, the insufferable Mary Maria, also in the mix--and soon wearing out her welcome--Anne's life is a constant whirl"--www.amazon.ca.
12) Someone to honor
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Lieutenant Colonel Gilbert Bennington accompanies wounded Harry home from the wars with Napoleon, and meets Harry's sister Abigail Westcott, who has learned to enjoy an independent life after accepting the shocking discovery that her parents were not legally married.
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Legendary stage and movie star Sir Nigel Bellingham arrives on Cape Cod to star in a stage production of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Before the play opens, a fundraising afternoon tea is arranged, but when it's time to leave, Sir Nigel has gone missing--only to be found at the bottom of the rocky cliff, dead.
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Hamish DeLuca runs to Boston to rise above his father's expectations. His cousin, Luca Valari, is opening a fashionable nightclub there, with the help of his secretary Regina "Reggie" Van Buren. When a corpse is discovered at the nightclub, Reggie and Hamish start their investigation.
15) The arrangement
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Viscount Darleigh, who was blinded by cannon fire in his very first battle, is suffocating from the well-meaning intentions of his family to find him a wife who will understand about his blindness. Tired of not being allowed to be his own man and having his life controlled by loving but meddling kin, he flees his familial home. He knows Sophia, she is different from other women, and he offers her an "arrangement". They will marry, and if there is...
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"Anne Shirley has left Redmond College and Green Gables behind to begin a new chapter of her life in Summerside. She's soon facing an unexpected challenge, however, in the form of the Pringles--also known as the royal family of Summerside. They quickly let Anne know that she's not the person they had wanted as principal of Summerside High School. But as she settles into her cozy tower room at Windy Poplars, Anne finds she also has great allies in...
17) Only beloved
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From the legendary New York Times bestselling author of Only a Kiss and Only a Promise comes the final book in the rapturous Survivor's Club series-as the future of one man lies within the heart of a lost but never-forgotten love... For the first time since the death of his wife, the Duke of Stanbrook is considering remarrying and finally embracing happiness for himself. With that thought comes the treasured image of a woman he met briefly a year...
18) Only enchanting
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In the fourth novel of New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh's Survivors' Club series, Flavian, Viscount Ponsonby, finds salvation in the love of a most unsuspecting woman...
Flavian was devastated by his fiancée’s desertion after his return home from the Napoleonic Wars. Now the woman who broke his heart is back—and everyone is eager to revive their engagement. Except Flavian, who, in a panic,...
Flavian was devastated by his fiancée’s desertion after his return home from the Napoleonic Wars. Now the woman who broke his heart is back—and everyone is eager to revive their engagement. Except Flavian, who, in a panic,...
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In 1936, Bluet is the last of the Kentucky Blues. In the dusty Appalachian hills of Troublesome Creek, nineteen and blue-skinned, Bluet has used up her last chance for "respectability" and a marriage bed. Instead, she joins the historical Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a librarian, riding up treacherous mountains on a mule to deliver books and other reading material to the poor hill communities of Eastern Kentucky. Along her dangerous...
20) A cold white sun
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Constable Molly Smith investigates the murder of a high school English teacher and begins to wonder if the shooting was a case of mistaken identity.
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