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Television's beloved sleuth Jessica Fletcher is back in her twenty-ninth adventure. Cabot Cove, Maine, annually hosts an elaborate Fourth of July celebration, and this year is no exception. Between historical reenactments, parade floats, and the fireworks show, the community is abuzz with activity. No one is more enthusiastic than the town's newest resident, corporate mogul Joseph Lennon. His insistence on financing a fireworks extravaganza to rival...
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"In Florida for the funeral of Portia Shelby, a former neighbor from Cabot Cove, sleuth Jessica Fletcher and her old friend Dr. Seth Hazlitt discover that an apparent death from natural causes is not always what is seems. Potent pills were discovered among Portia's heart medications, a toxic combination that any physician or pharmacist would have warned her against. But who delivered the lethal dose? Could it be the builder whose beachside development...
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Cabot Cove's resident novelist and crime solver Jessica Fletcher travels to the Big Apple where she finds herself helping to track down a murderer, in this installment of the USA Today bestselling series. Jessica is back in New York City, although as a visitor this time. Jessica's favorite nephew, Grady, asks her to visit him in New York City to star in a commercial he's creating. But there is little time for sightseeing when there's a murder on the...
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Jessica Fletcher, Cabot Cove's crime-solving novelist, has a role to play in a mystery enactment that turns deadly, in this installment in the USA Today bestselling series. Jessica is invited to join other crime writers at an interactive murder-mystery weekend in a historic mansion-turned-resort. A theatrical troupe presents a play for the paying guests, but a young actor's death during the actual performance is not part of the script. The local sheriff...
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In this installment of the USA Today bestselling series, Jessica Fletcher is visiting out-of-state friends when she finds out just how deadly the game of baseball can be. Visiting old friends Jack and Meg Duffy in Arizona, Jessica watches their foster son hit the winning run for the Mesa Rattlers in an AA league playoff game. She and the Duffys are thrilled at Ty Ramos' success, but team owner Harrison Bennett is not. His son Junior and Ty are bitter...
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In this installment of the USA Today bestselling series, Jessica Fletcher, Cabot Cove's crime-solving novelist, is on a new airline's maiden flight when murder occurs en route. When Cabot Cove's own Wayne Silverton wants to debut his new airline, he invites Jessica Fletcher and other locals on the inaugural flight from Boston to London. Jessica is thrilled for the opportunity to visit a dear friend, Scotland Yard inspector George Sutherland. But the...
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Jessica Fletcher, Cabot Cove's crime-solving novelist, digs up a home-grown murder mystery down South in this installment in the USA Today bestselling series. When Jessica receives a call that her old friend Tillie Mortelaine passed away, she is surprised to learn that Tillie bequeathed her a million dollars. All Jessica has to do is solve a decades-old mystery: the murder of Tillie's fiancé, Wanamaker Jones. There is no shortage of suspects. Many...
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Jessica Fletcher, Cabot Cove's crime-solving novelist, travels to sunny Mexico only to find her life is in danger, in this installment in the USA Today bestselling series. Jessica is happy to accompany her publisher to Mexico for a little rest and relaxation. San Miguel de Allende is the perfect place for Jessica to soak up the sun, bask in Mexican culture, and spend some time with her good friends Vaughan and Olga Buckley. But when Vaughan is kidnapped...
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In this installment in the USA Today bestselling series, Jessica Fletcher, Cabot Cove's crime-solving novelist, goes to Washington, DC, to promote literacy but finds a mystery. Jessica is in Washington, DC, to support a senator's new literacy initiative. The week-long literacy event includes a visit to the White House to meet the president and a lavish party or two. But during one affair at the senator's home in Virginia, Jessica discovers the dark...
70) Come Find Me
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Ilda talks to people who aren't there. Tilly hears fingers clawing at her door. All the while, the moon keeps her watchful eyes on them. Come Find Me is a time-hopping, feminist ghost story spanning two time periods. As it weaves its way through the halls of Trenton Psychiatric Hospital in 1907 and a beach house during the tumultuous summer of 1969, we discover the secret-laden lives of three women and how their worlds intertwine.
71) The Maine Mutiny
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In this installment in the USA Today bestselling series, Jessica Fletcher, Cabot Cove's crime-solving novelist, finds her sleuthing skills are needed right at home. Jessica is pitching in to help Cabot Cove's first Lobster Festival by writing an article about the lifestyle of the local lobstermen. But instead of getting the story, she becomes tangled in a net of intrigue and murder. She finds she must truly struggle to be free of the killing trap...
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The memoir of small-town librarian Jan Louch, whose pair of Scottish Fold cats became the mascots of the company Baker & Taylor-and beloved by librarians and readers nationwide. It all started when Jan Louch, assistant librarian at the Douglas County Public Library in Carson Valley, Nevada, and a coworker acquired two Scottish Fold cats to keep mice away from the town's new library. Jan called the cats Baker and Taylor because the names fit the felines'...
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Jessica Fletcher, Cabot Cove's crime-solving novelist, ends up involved in a murder mystery up north in this installment in the USA Today bestselling series. Jessica Fletcher has booked a one-week cruise through Alaska in order to enjoy some solitude. Her plans are thwarted when Kathy Randall asks to accompany her. Kathy's sister, Wilimena, recently disappeared from the same cruise ship that Jessica is booked to travel on. Kathy thinks her disappearance...
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"Is it a crime to live? To create happiness for yourself through your own work?" How do writers and painters get their ideas? And what are the hard realities of such seemingly glamorous and romantic lives? In her groundbreaking new novel, New York Times bestselling author Sena Jeter Naslund explores the transformative power of art, history, and love in the lives of creative women. It's midnight on St. James Court, at the heart of which is a beautiful...
75) Sugar Fork
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Best-selling author Walt Larimore has received three Gold Medallion Book Award nominations and a Christianity Today Book of the Year Award. Set in the Great Smoky Mountains in the early 1920s, Sugar Fork tells the story of Nate Randolf and his five daughters as they struggle to survive after the death of Callie - Nate's wife and the mother of his girls. Hounded by one tragedy after another, it seems only a miracle can keep the family from falling...
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Comprising nine hardscrabble tales set across the great state of Texas and beyond, Sandhill County Lines is a triumph from author Clay Reynolds. Off the beaten path, concealed behind the weather-worn clapboard walls of decaying farm houses, desperate folk struggle and strive. These are their stories.
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This installment exhibits a fresh batch of immensely talented writers, all of whom exemplify the level of accomplishment that has kept this acclaimed series running strong since 1985. Comprising 20 stories, this rich and varied collection features everything from a fresh take on the classic Southern gothic to a velvet-smooth work of erotic suspense.
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The 19th addition of this annual anthology exhibits a collection of short fiction from award-winning Southern authors and rising stars including Edward P. Jones and Silas House. Each story's derivation is explained in an illuminating note from the author following the rich and entertaining tales.
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The Lone Star state has been a subject of pride and admiration for generations of writers. Forever Texas features the works of some of the most memorable men and women who ever lived in Texas. With essays by President George W. Bush, H. Ross Perot, Sam Houston, David Crockett, Stephen F. Austin, Lyndon Baines Johnson and many more, this informative and ceaselessly entertaining collection celebrates the undeniable attraction of Texas and serves as...