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Appetite for Murder
harly Poisson, chef-owner of La Fermette in upstate New York, has a weakness for oyster mushrooms. While foraging for the fungi one morning, he digs up a decidedly unappetizing corpse. With a murder mystery underfoot, the once-sleepy town becomes a bubbling hot compote of danger and intrigue. And when the murderer proves intrigue. to be as elusive as Charly's beloved mushrooms, the chef is faced with a situation as delicate as a chocolate souffle -- and more deadly than a cranky food critic
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Act of Violence
The market town of Mickleburgh has successfully hidden the secrets of its inhabitants for generations, but the casual murder of a man trying to prevent vandalism shatters the perfect veneer. The aftermath of the violent death produces unexpected reactions between partners and friends.
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Hidden Fires
n a Texas of cattle and railroads, family dynasties and ambitious schemers, Sandra Brown's classic historical romance brings readers a riveting story... The moment preacher's daughter Lauren Holbrook walked into the Texas mansion, she suspected she had been tricked. Instead of becoming wealthy Olivia Lockett's secretary, the matriarch presented her with a scandalous offer: to marry, in name only, the Lockett dynasty's heir -- playboy rebel Jared Lockett. Lauren could not know Olivia's real motive, but she was achingly aware of her feelings for Jared. Now, in spite of terrible risks, she had to trust her reckless husband -- and fight to make their marriage as strong as her love. Preacher's daughter Lauren Holbrook thinks that she is going to work for wealthy Olivia Lockett as a secretary. Instead, the matriarch makes Lauren a scandalous offer to marry her son in name only. Jared, the heir to the Lockett dynasty, is a known playboy rebel. Lauren, achingly aware of her feelings for Jared, marries him. But will Lauren's love for Jared be strong enough to make the risky marriage work?
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Listen To The Silcence
After her father's death, San Francisco P.I. Sharon McCone finds a document that raises questions about her birth. The stunned investigator embarks on a search for answers, yet from Montana's Flathead Reservation to northern California, all she finds is an impregnable wall of lies and evasion. Now she must solve the greatest mystery of her life--who she really is.
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Legacies
OF A FAMILY DIVIDED BY HATRED, AND A PASSION TWO PEOPLE COULD NOT FORGET Debutante Diane Parmalee was a U.S. Army officer's daughter; Lije Stuart was the handsome Harvard educated son of the part-Cherokee Stuart clan. Nothing, not even their different worlds, seemed able to stop their love--except a tragic legacy. The wealthy Stuart family burned with the memory of the government's forced march of the Cherokee on the Trail of Tears. Now, as the nation exploded in civil war, Lije's family split in a violent feud, driving Lije to do the one thing Diane could not forgive--fight for the South. At his father's side, Lije was riding away on a journey of blood and sorrow, perhaps forever. The lovers' only hope was another legacy: a passion strong enough to reunite them before betrayal and death claimed their hearts...
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GETTING BACK
Stifled and frustrated by company policy, Daniel jumps at the chance to go on a wilderness challenge in the Australian Outback. However, when he arrives he realises that the corporation does not intend for him to survive the trip.
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STORM TRACK
In North Carolina at the end of August it is the height of hurricane season. Stan Freeman is working on a school project. He wants to track one via the weather radio from its beginning through to when it dwindles back to a mild tropical storm. The weather isn't cooperating, though. The storms build, then dwindle away before they become destructive. Judge Deborah Knott is at home in Colton County. She is hearing cases in her home courtroom before and after the Labor Day break. On Saturday she joins the softball game between the sheriff's department and the local lawyers. She is sitting on the bench beside Jason Bullock when he receives a phone call from his wife. Lynn tells him she is up in Virginia shopping with her sister. The next morning, Lynn Bullock is found strangled in a local hotel. Some clues are found around the body. They lead to men who have been part of Lynn's life in the past year or so. One of them is Deborah's cousin and ex-law partner, Reid Stephenson. The Judge tries to stay out of the case, but the sheriff is a childhood friend. She is able to be kept up on the findings and gossip. Meanwhile, Hurrican Fran is coming up the coast.
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Guide To Becoming Rich Without Cutting Up Your Cre
Why cutting up your credit cards won't make you rich A popular TV personality often says, "Take out your credit cards and cut them into pieces." While that is sound advice for people who are not financially responsible, it is inadequate advice for anyone who wants to become rich or financially free. In other words, just cutting up your credit cards will not make you rich. What does make you rich is financial education...unfortunately a type of education we do not receive in school. If a person has a solid financial education, they would know that there are two kinds of debt.
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Wish You Well
David Baldacci has always delivered great stories, authentic characters, and thought-provoking ideas since he burst on the literary scene with Absolute Power. Now this versatile writer movingly evokes the charms of rural America as he makes us believe in the great and little miracles that can change lives-or save them. Wish You Well Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes-and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on their great-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains. Suddenly Lou finds herself coming of age in a new landscape, making her first true friend, and experiencing adventures tragic, comic, and audacious. But the forces of greed and justice are about to clash over her new home...and as their struggle is played out in a crowded Virginia courtroom, it will determine the future of two children, an entire town, and the mountains they love.
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Fat Tuesdday
Burke Basile is a cop with nothing left to lose. Responsible for his partner's death, his marriage and his career over, he focuses on his nemesis, Pinkie Duvall, a flamboyant attorney who helps killers evade justice. Burke's shocking revenge centers around kidnapping Remy, the lawyer's trophy wife. But Burke hasn't planned on the electric attraction he'll feel for this desperate woman, who rose from the slums of New Orleans to marry a man she can never love. Nor could he have ever predicted the fierce duel that will explode amid the Mardi Gras madness, as the clock ticks toward midnight on Fat Tuesday.....when all masks are stripped away, and Burke must confront his own ugly secret.