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Garden Squad volume 4
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Lilly Jayne typically spends the harvest season baking festive pies and crafting colorful wreaths to enter in the library's annual fundraising contest. But this year, autumn opens on a somber note when beloved local theater owner Leon Tompkin dies unexpectedly. His memorial sets the scene for a mini reunion of The Goosebush Players' best and brightest alumni, including Hollywood star Jeremy Nolan... until someone plucks Jeremy from the spotlight-permanently....
2) Olive, again
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Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine. Whether with a teenager coming to terms with the loss of her father, a young woman about to give birth during a hilariously inopportune moment, a nurse who confesses a secret high school crush, or a lawyer who struggles with an inheritance she does not want to accept, the unforgettable Olive will continue to startle us, to...
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Garden Squad volume 2
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It's August in Goosebush, Massachusetts, and go-getter retiree Lilly Jayne and her youthful senior pals show no sign of slowing down during the lazy days of summer. But when murder mows over a pesky local, could a Garden Squad member be nurturing a deadly second act?
While Lilly digs into a town beautification project, her friend Tamara O'Connor has greater concerns than well-pruned geraniums. The real-estate firm owner hasn't been shy about blaming...
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"Mrs. Loretta Plansky, a recent widow in her seventies, is settling into retirement in Florida while dealing with her 98-year-old father and fielding requests for money from her beloved children and grandchildren. Thankfully, her new hip hasn't changed her killer tennis game one bit. One night Mrs. Plansky is startled awake by a phone call from a voice claiming to be her grandson Will, who desperately needs ten thousand dollars to get out of a jam....
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Garden Squad volume 3
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When a newspaper reporter who was digging up dirt on Goosebush's most notable family is murdered, Lilly and her Garden Squad must weed out a killer and save the Fall Festival.
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Penelope Kite novels volume 2
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Set amidst the gorgeous backdrop of Provence, Serena Kent’s second book in the deliciously entertaining Penelope Kite series finds the amateur sleuth romantically linked with the mayor of St. Merlot and dashing to solve the murder of an expat artist—perfect for fans of Peter Mayle and Agatha Christie.
After an eventful first few months in Provence, it seems Penelope is finally settling into her delightful new life,
8) Tante Eva
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"The story of a woman in Berlin and her American niece, a pair bound together and driven apart by loves, desires, frustrations, and addictions. East Berlin, a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Eva, a retired nurse living in poverty in a slum-like apartment block, makes it through her day on a combination of stimulants and sleeping pills, wine and brandy. She waits for visits from her married lover and makes occasional attempts at contact...
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Jane Darrowfield mysteries volume 1
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"Jane Darrowfield is a year into her retirement, and she's already traveled and planted a garden. She's organized her photos, her recipes, and her spices. The statistics suggest she has at least a few more decades ahead of her, so she better find something to do ... After Jane helps a friend with a sticky personal problem, word starts to spread around her bridge club--and then around all of West Cambridge, Massachusetts--that she's the go-to girl...
11) Knot on her life
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While quilter Martha Rose awaits the birth of her granddaughter, a neighborhood girl appears at her door with a mystery that can't be pinned down…
Martha's eager to finish the baby quilt she's making for her new granddaughter, but she scraps those plans when a young girl rings her doorbell begging for help. Poppy Halaby, the foster child of Martha's neighbor, is an orphan whose parents were murdered by a killer who was never caught. When Poppy's...
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Going from complacent retiree to penniless widow in a matter of weeks, Poppy Harmon has no real skills. With nothing left to lose she opens the Desert Flowers Detective Agency with her two best friends, Violet and Iris. And she convinces her daughter's handsome boyfriend, Matt, to pose as the face of the agency. Working for a client desperate to retrieve priceless jewelry burglarized from an aging actress at the Palm Leaf Retirement Village, Poppy...
13) Finding grace
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"A struggling family, already on the verge of disintegration, faces new challenges that will test their faith in God and each other"--www.imdb.com.
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"Has Martha's fellow quilter and dear friend Birdie Watson become unraveled? Birdie and her new husband have decided to join the Mystical Feather Society, a spiritist group living on a commune in the mountains of Ojai, California. Before her free-spirited friend makes a huge mistake, Martha organizes a surprise visit to check out the commune. While white-robed members conduct a seance in a glass yurt, their leader--Royal St. Germain--is nowhere to...
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In tracing her ancestry, quilter Martha Rose discovers a ritzy half-sister, a stash of family secrets, and a decades-old mystery that only she can unravel...
Martha Rose is shocked to find she has a half-sister, especially one so different from her. Giselle Cole is wealthy, widowed, and lives a glamorous life in West Los Angeles. At least her grandmother was a quilter! But Giselle can't answer Martha's many questions about their father-he disappeared...
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Cast in her first role since the 1980s, Poppy has never been more rattled or unprepared on a film set. It's an embarrassing but necessary cover to keep an eye on client Danika Delgado, a rising starlet and social media influencer with a large following including a dangerous stalker who won't disappear. The leading lady's fame is growing, and so are the threats against her life ... Unfortunately for Poppy, there's more to fear than flubbed...
17) A cryptic clue
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"Sixty-year-old Jane Hunter, forced into early retirement from her job as a university librarian, is seeking a new challenge to keep her spirits up and supplement her meager pension. But as she's about to discover, a retiree's life can bring new thrills and new dangers. Cameron 'Cam' Clewe, an eccentric 33-year-old collector, is also seeking something; an archivist to inventory his ever-expanding compendium of rare books and artifacts. Jane's thrilled...
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Martha is all set to get married when she finds out Crushers first marriage hadnt been annulled like he thought. His wife is back in the country saying she wants to stay married. Right after she arrives, she is kidnapped which leads to a search all across the country.
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