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"Seven Stones of Power. No one knows when they were created or by whom, each said to represent one of the Seven Deadly Sins. For centuries, treasure hunters have been eager to possess the Stones, undeterred by their corrupting nature. The list is long-Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Napolean, to name a few. Now the Stones have found their way to Salem, Massachusetts, and so has Gerwulf Grimoire, adding himself to this rogues' gallery of power seekers....
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On a beach, Boston journalist Theresa Osborne finds a bottle thrown up by the sea with a love letter from a man to his dead wife. Theresa, a divorcee searching for love, is so moved by it she tracks the man to his yacht in North Carolina and a romance follows. By the author of The Notebook.
4) The Ghost
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With a wife he loves and an exciting London-based career, architect Charles Waterston's life seems in perfect balance. Nothing prepares him for the sudden end to his 10-year marriage - or his unwanted transfer to his firm's New York office. Christmas is approaching when Charlie leaves New York, heading to Vermont to ski. But a sudden snowstorm strands him in a small Massachusetts town. There Charlie meets an elderly widow who offers to rent him her...
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"Daughtie Winfield is outspoken in her support for the rights of others, from the mill girls threatening a strike over pitiful working conditions to the immigrants living on the other side of town. So she is unprepared for the hostility aroused by her growing friendship with Liam Donohue, an Irish artisan. As dissension and upheaval threaten the textile industry, Daughtie longs for peace - in her work and within her heart"--The publisher.
6) Remember me
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A tale of the occult. In her mansion on Cape Cod, Menley Nichols is grieving the death of Bobby, her two-year-old-son killed at a railroad crossing. For company she has her infant daughter, Hannah. Suddenly Menley hears Bobby calling to her. By the author of I'll Be Seeing You.
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"Dazzling her patrons with scrumptious cupcakes at her Salem, Massachusetts, bakery, Elizabeth Tucker continues to fall for the irresistible Diesel, who protects her from a villain who is seeking mystical stones tied to the seven deadly sins"--Provided by publisher.
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Eighth-grade star quarterback Nate Brodie's family is feeling the stress of the troubled economy, and Nate is frantic because his best friend Abby is going blind, so when he gets a chance to win a million dollars if he can complete a pass during the halftime of a New England Patriot's game, he is nearly overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed.
10) Hide
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Detective D. D. Warren novels volume 2
Detective D.D. Warren volume 2
Detective D.D. Warren novel volume 2
Detective D.D. Warren volume 2
Detective D.D. Warren novel volume 2
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A policeman investigates the discovery of six mummified corpses at an abandoned mental hospital, one of which is wearing a necklace that belongs to a woman who has been on the run all of her life.
11) Echo Lake
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Heather Sloan has landed her dream job--the renovation of Vic Scarlatti's stately 1912 country home overlooking the icy waters of Echo Lake in Knights Bridge, Massachusetts. It's the perfect project for the family business, but for once, Heather is in charge. Diplomatic Security Service agent Brody Hancock left Knights Bridge at eighteen, a few steps ahead of arrest and the wrath of Heather's older brothers. Though Brody had never planned to return,...
13) Hardline
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Hacker volume 3
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While Blake's controlling nature and Erica's independent spirit continue to battle, he has no intention of letting her out of his life again. But when he demands more and tests the boundaries of her commitment, she is forced to face the dark desires he's kept hidden.
14) Hardware
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 6
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Boston taxi driver Carlotta Carlyle, a pistol-packing, six-foot-one redhead, investigates a series of robberies threatening to close the G & W cab company. With the help of an ex-Mafia friend, Sam Gianelli, who is a computer hobbyist, Carlotta invests in a computer and solves the robberies. By the author of Snapshot.
15) The front
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Dispatched by the district attorney to a declining Massachusetts neighborhood to address a case related to a new public relations campaign, state investigator Win Garano suspects a deeper agenda and becomes involved with a loosely organized association of vigilante police officers, in a case during which he is assisted by his intuitive grandmother.
16) Whiskey Beach
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Suffering an intense year of public and police scrutiny after being wrongly implicated in his finance's murder, Boston lawyer Eli Landon takes sanctuary in a centuries-old family home and falls in love with resident housekeeper Abra Walsh, with whom he is entangled in an old, life-threatening mystery.
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Three Sisters Island trilogy volume 1
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"When Nell Channing arrives on charming Three Sisters Island, she believes that she's finally found refuge from her abusive husband--and from the terrifying life she fled so desperately eight months ago ... But even in this quiet, peaceful place, Nell never feels entirely at ease. Careful to conceal her true identity, she takes a job as a cook at the local bookstore cafe and begins to explore her feelings for the island sheriff, Zack Todd. But there...
18) Rough weather
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Parker once again proves he is a force of nature in this mystery where a hurricane hinders a kidnapping and Spenser goes on a search for the man responsible--the infamous Gray Man, who has both helped and hunted Spenser in the past.
19) Walking Shadow
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Spenser novels volume 21
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PI Spenser of Boston investigates a stalking, the victim of which is a theatre company director, a probe that leaves him cold until an actor is gunned down. At that he swings into action, clashing with the Chinese Mafia and narrowly missing being killed himself.
20) The postmistress
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In London covering the Blitz with Edward R. Murrow, Frankie Bard meets a Cape Cod doctor in a shelter and promises that she'll deliver a letter for him when she finally returns to the United States. Filled with stunning parallels to today's world, "The Postmistress" is a sweeping novel about the loss of innocence of two extraordinary women--and of two countries torn apart by war.