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Is there really such thing as a lucky charm? The hero of Nicholas Sparks's new novel believes he's found one in the form of a photograph of a smiling woman he's never met, but who he comes to believe holds the key to his destiny. The chain of events that leads to him possessing the photograph and finding the woman pictured in it is the stuff of love stories.
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O'Malley series (Dee Henderson) volume 3
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Forensic pathologist Lisa O'Malley has not believed in God for a long time. He let her down as a child, and her professional training only reinforces her belief that Jesus could not have risen from the dead after three days, his body would have already started decomposing. U.S. Marshal Quinn Diamond enlists Lisa's help in investigating a suspicious arson death. As they debate the case and the concept of faith, Lisa discovers the identity of the killer...
3) Chill factor
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Magazine editor Lilly Martin, packing up the vacation cabin she and her ex-husband owned in Cleary, North Carolina, where he now works as chief of police, becomes trapped in a snowstorm with Ben Tierney, who she struck with her car while trying to drive down the mountain, and the situation becomes critical when she uncovers evidence that Tierney may be the serial killer who has been operating in the area for over two years.
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Alexandra Gaither is a beautiful lawyer who finally has the power to get what she's always wanted: justice. Armed with new evidence that could lead to an arrest and a conviction, Alex revisits the remote Texas town where her mother died twenty-five years ago.
There she confronts the three powerful men who were with her mother the night she died: her former lover, his best friend, and the father figure to them both. Each is charming, each is a suspect,...
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Jeremy Marsh volume 2
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Jeremy Marsh is now living in Boone Creek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, and awaiting the birth of their daughter. But, just as when things are looking good, an unsettling and mysterious message brings trouble from the past.
8) The guardian
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Four years after losing her husband, twenty-nine-year-old Julie Barenson considers falling in love again and wonders if she should choose sophisticated Richard, who treats her like a queen, or down-to-earth Mike, who is her best friend, but when she eventually picks one man, the other man's jealousy turns into a deadly obsession.
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Delightful Blend of Love and Laughter in Turano's Sophomore Novel Miss Arabella Beckett has one driving passion: to help the downtrodden women of America. Naturally, she supports the women's suffrage movement and eagerly attends rallies and lectures across the country. On her travels, she makes a simple offer of assistance to a young woman in need that goes sadly awry and lands both ladies in more trouble than they can manage. An independent sort,...
10) The collector
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When professional house-sitter Lila Emerson witnesses a murder/suicide from her current apartment-sitting job, life as she knows it takes a dramatic turn. Suddenly, the woman with no permanent ties finds herself almost wishing for one. Artist Ashton Archer knows his brother isn't capable of violence--against himself or others. He recruits Lila, the only eyewitness, to help him uncover what happened. Ash longs to paint her as intensely as he hungers...
11) Carnal innocence
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In the small town of Innocence, Mississippi, days are long, nights are fragrant, and secrets are hard to keep. But when a brutal killer starts claiming the lives of the town's most attractive women, lifelong neighbors are forced to wonder if the culprit is a stranger lurking in the bayou...or someone right next door.
13) Chasing fire
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Montana wildfire fighter Rowan Tripp has a strict rule-- never get romantically involved with anyone she works with. But the moment she meets new recruit Gull Curry, that rule is severely tested. And when it becomes clear that someone blames Rowan for her jump partner's death, and is determined to get revenge, Rowan finds that she needs Gull's help and support more than ever.
14) The hiding place
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"The tension steadily escalates to a pulse-pounding climax."-Publishers Weekly
After spending nine months in a coma, Tara Kinsale awakes to devastating news. Her best friend, Alexis, has been murdered, leaving Tara as guardian to her daughter, Claire. And Tara's husband has divorced her for another woman.
Forced to start over, Tara focuses on reopening her P.I. firm and caring for Claire. But soon her world is shattered again when Nick MacMahon,...
15) Ricochet
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When Detective Sergeant Duncan Hatcher is summoned to the home of Judge Cato Laird in the middle of the night to investigate a fatal shooting, he knows that discretion and kid-glove treatment are the keys to staying in the judge's good graces and keeping his job. At first glance, the case appears open-and-shut: Elise, the judge's trophy wife, interrupted a burglary in progress and killed the intruder in self-defense. But Duncan is immediately suspicious...
16) White hot
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When she hears that her younger brother Danny has committed suicide, Sayre Lynch relents from her vow never to return to Destiny, the small Louisiana town in which she grew up. She plans to leave immediately after the funeral, but instead soon finds herself drawn into the web cast by Huff Hoyle, her controlling and tyrannical father, the man who owns the town's sole industry, an iron foundry, and in effect runs the lives of everyone who lives there....
17) The Guardian
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O'Malley series (Dee Henderson) volume 2
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A federal judge has been murdered. There is only one witness, and someone wants her dead. U.S. Marshal Marcus O'Malley thought he knew the risks of the assignment going in -- until he fell in love. To do what he must accomplish, he must walk back into his past and wrestle with the complex matter of prayer, and again learn to trust a sovereign God.
18) Smoke screen
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When newswoman Britt Shelley wakes up to find herself in bed with Jay Burgess, a rising star detective in the Charleston police force, she remembers nothing of how she got there--or of how Jay wound up dead. A disgraced firefighter realizes that the newswoman, Jay's last sexual conquest, might be his only chance to get personal vindication--and justice for the seven victims of a police station fire that merits further investigation.
19) The negotiator
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O'Malley series (Dee Henderson) volume 1
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Chicago hostage negotiator Kate O'Malley meets FBI agent Dave Richman while she's talking a bank gunman into releasing hostages. Impressed by her professionalism and attracted to her personally, Dave starts courting Kate, only to discover that she's not a Christian, a major stumbling block for him. He's also about to find out that falling in love with a hostage negotiator is one thing, but keeping her safe is another!