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81) Downtown
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1994
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The year is 1966, a time of innocence, possibility, and freedom. And for Atlanta, the country, and one woman making her way in a changing world, nothing will be the same . . . After an airless childhood in Savannah, Smoky O'Donnell arrives in Atlanta, dazzled and chastened by this hectic young city on the rise. Her new job as a writer with the city's Downtown magazine introduces her to many unforgettable people and propels her into the center of momentous...
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On an early morning in November, a couple boards a private plane bound for Geneva, flying into a storm. Soon after, it simply drops off the radar, and its wreckage is later uncovered in the Alps. Among the disappeared is Matthew Werner, a banking insider at Swiss United, a powerful offshore bank. His young widow, Annabel, is left grappling with the secrets he left behind, including an encrypted laptop and a shady client list. As she begins a desperate...
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Marshall Cavendish Cuisine
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Cook Japanese with Tamako is a collection of 54 recipes for simple yet tasty Japanese-style meals suitable for the whole family, from soups and salads that can be quickly and easily put together, meat and seafood dishes that are both hearty and comforting, and desserts that will brighten any table. Insightful short stories and heart-warming anecdotes on daily family life accompany the recipes, making this book perfect for anyone looking to go beyond...
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Henrie O volume 4
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
Sleuth Henriette O'Dwyer, a widow in her sixties, receives a tip that her husband's death was not an accident. He was a newsman who officially died in a fall on the Hawaiian estate of a rich woman. Henriette flies to Hawaii to investigate the relationship. By the author of Death in Lover's Lane.
85) The bad break
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Prospect Park Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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When a cardiologist is found murdered, new reporter Riley Ellison is assigned not only to write his obituary, but to cover the murder investigation as well, but she soon begins to investigate the crime herself, a situation that puts her in the killer's crosshairs.
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2017.
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"In the masterful follow-up to the runaway hit All the Missing Girls--a "fiendishly plotted thriller" (Publishers Weekly)--a journalist sets out to find a missing friend, a friend who may never have existed at all. Confronted by a restraining order and the threat of a lawsuit, failed journalist Leah Stevens needs to get out of Boston when she runs into an old friend, Emmy Grey, who has just left a troubled relationship. Emmy proposes they move to...
87) Double wide
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Publisher
Brash Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
After fastball phenom Prospero Stark's baseball career craters in a Mexican jail, he retreats to a trailer park in the scorching Arizona desert. He lives in peaceful anonymity with a collection of colorful outcasts until someone leaves his former catcher's severed hand on his doorstep. Beautiful, hard-living reporter Roxanne Santa Cruz, who keeps a .380 Colt and a bottle of Chivas in her car, joins Stark to help him uncover his friend's fate, a dangerous...
89) Act of betrayal
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Britt Montero volume 4
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
1996
Description
When Miami crime reporter Britt Montero reports a missing teenager, she discovers that the case may be related to a string of unsolved disappearances. As Britt delves into the baffling case, an old mystery opens new wounds: she unexpectedly meets two men who knew her deceased father-who was executed long ago in a Cuban jail. Through them, Britt learns that he left a diary identifying the man who betrayed him. But the diary isn't easily possessed:...
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Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2012
Description
"Seattle, 1933. Vera Ray kisses her three-year-old son, Daniel, good night and reluctantly leaves for work. She hates the night shift, but it's the only way she can earn enough to keep destitution at bay. In the morning--even though it's the second of May--a heavy snow is falling. Vera rushes to wake Daniel, but his bed is empty. His teddy bear lies outside in the snow. Seattle, present day. On the second of May, Seattle Herald reporter Claire Aldridge...
91) Dying for mercy
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A fabled estate becomes a twisted puzzle involving secrets and murder, in this fast-paced thriller featuring the KEY News sleuths introduced in "It Only Takes a Moment" and "When Day Breaks."
92) American drifter
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Forge
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
A young veteran of the US Army, River Roulet is struggling to shake the horrors of his past. War is behind him, but the memories remain. Desperate to distract himself from the images haunting him daily, River abandons the world he knows and flees to the country he's always dreamed of visiting: Brazil. Rio de Janeiro is everything he hoped for and more. In the lead-up to Carnaval, the city is alight with music, energy, and life. With a few friends...
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Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2017]
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When Kitty's latest assignment for the New York Sentinel Ladies' Page takes her to Westfield Hall, she expects to find an orderly establishment teaching French and dancing-but there's more going on at the school than initially meets the eye. Tragedy strikes when a student named Elspeth is found frozen to death in Central Park. The doctors proclaim that the girl's sleepwalking was the cause, but Kitty isn't so sure. Determined to uncover the truth,...
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In the summer of 1940, ambitious young American journalist Ruby Sutton gets her big break: the chance to report on the European war as a staff writer for Picture Weekly news-magazine in London. She jumps at the chance, for it's an opportunity not only to prove herself, but also to start fresh in a city and country that know nothing of her humble origins. But life in besieged Britain tests Ruby in ways she never imagined. Although most of Ruby's new...
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Cotten Stone mystery volume 2
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
2006
Description
"A 5,000-year-old crystal tablet is unearthed among the ruins of an ancient civilization in the cloud-shrouded Peruvian Andes. Inscribed upon its surface are cryptic glyphs revealing a secret that affect everyone on Earth...Only one person can solve the clue and decipher the message for the world--Cotten Stone, the daughter of an angel"--Back cover.
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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"In 2000, Gabriel Lambert is a celebrated painter who hides a dark secret. Sophie Cass, a journalist struggling to begin her career and with a family connection to Lambert, is determined to find the truth about his past and the little known story of the real Casablanca."--
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Bubbles Yablonsky is back in Agatha Award winner Sarah Strohmeyer's second book of the Bubbles series. Bubbles goes undercover in an Amish community to investigate a friend's disappearance-which means she has to leave behind her beloved makeup and halter tops. Steve Stiletto, Bubbles' quirky mother and her too-smart-for-her-own-good daughter return for more fun in this outrageous mystery.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Johanna Morrigan (aka Dolly Wilde) has it all: she is nineteen, lives in her own flat in London, and writes for the coolest music magazine in Britain. Her star is rising, just not quickly enough for her liking. Then John Kite, Johanna's unrequited love, has an album go to number one. Suddenly John exists on another plane of reality: that of the Famouses, a world of rabid fans and VIP access. Johanna lacks the traditional trappings of fame (famous...
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