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Miss Buncle trilogy volume 1
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Barbara Bunde is in a bind. Times are harsh, and Barbara's bank account has seen better days. Maybe she could sell a novel ... if she knew any stories. Stumped for ideas, Barbara draws inspiration from her fellow residents of Silverstream, the little English villageshe knows inside and out. Barbara Bunde is in a bind. Times are harsh, and Barbara's bank account has seen better days. Maybe she could sell a novel ... if she knew any stories. Stumped...
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[The author] takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the 20 dollars a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched...
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To those on the outside, the Powells are a happy family, but then a devastating accident destroys their fragile facade. When seven- year-old Henry is blamed for the tragedy, he tries desperately to make his parents happy again. As Henry grows up, he is full of potential-a talented sportsman with an academic mind and a thirst for adventure-but soon he questions if the guilt his parents have burdened him with has left him unable to escape his anguished...
5) Down river
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Adam Chase has a violent streak, and not without reason. As a boy, he saw things that no child should see, suffered wounds that cut to the core and scarred thin. The trauma left him passionate and misunderstood -- a fighter. After being narrowly acquitted of a murder charge, Adam is hounded out of the only home he's ever known, exiled for a sin he did not commit. For five long years he disappears, fades into the faceless gray of New York City. Now...
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The proud tradition of Ralph Compton's epic Westerns carries on with the scintillating work of bestseller Joseph A. West. Blood on the Gallows features John McBride, a former New York City lawman who's moved west to pursue a more peaceful existence. But easy living just isn't in the cards. And when a town sheriff with a Texas-size chip on his shoulder decides to make trouble, McBride knows that one way or another, somebody's headed for an early grave....
7) Roses
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Having not married in spite of their true feelings, cotton tycoon Mary Toliver DuMont and timber magnate Percy Warwick struggle with deceit, secrets, and tragedies that challenge their children and grandchildren in their small east Texas community.
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2023.
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Sisters Beck and Avery travel to an isolated Arizona town to investigate its connection to their mother's death, but uncover more than they anticipated.
Beck Birsching has been adrift since the death of her mother, a brilliant but troubled investigative reporter. She finds herself unable to stop herself from slipping into memories of happier days, clamoring for a time when things were normal. So when a mysterious letter in her mother's handwriting...
10) Predator's gold
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In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, Tom and Hester hope that the ice city of Anchorage will reach the rumored haven of the Dead Continent--America--before the savage Huntsmen of Arkangel find them.
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In a small town, everyone knows everyone else's business. But in Brindle, Oregon, there's a secret nobody wants to see. When a young girl disappears and no one in the town appears particularly concerned, newcomer Todd Fielding looks deeper and uncovers a shocking fact: five other girls have gone missing under strange circumstances over the past twenty years—and no one seems interested in finding them. As she begins to understand the town's history,...
12) Mortal engines
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Tom, a third class apprentice in a distant future in which technology has been lost and tiered cities move about the Earth on caterpillar tracks, often absorbing smaller locales, has many dangerous adventures after being pushed off London by Thaddeus Valentine, a historian who is trying to resurrect an ancient atomic weapon.
14) Serendipity
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Serendipity novels volume 1
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He's from the wrong side of the tracks. She lived in the house on the hill. Now their fortunes have reversed…but their long-ago attraction still burns. From high school golden girl to wife of a high-powered New York attorney, Faith Harrington lived the dream. Until divorce and her father's imprisonment for fraud left her with almost nothing. Now she's back in her hometown to redesign her life, and not every face is friendly. Least of all the town...
16) Cold Sassy tree
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Cold Sassy series volume 1
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Grandpa Blakeslee marries a young milliner just three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her reward. Young Will is boggled by this act but becomes the newlywed's conspirator and confident; meanwhile he does some growing up on his own.
17) This is my town
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Little Critter explores Critterville to see where everyone works and plays.
18) Get out of town
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Sheriff Aaron Mackey Westerns volume 3
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"Dover Station, Montana, is no place for a lawman. A sheriff's badge ain't worth a nickel here -- unless you've got the bullets to back it up . . . When he signed up to be sheriff of this dirty little boomtown, Aaron Mackey knew he was asking for trouble. Once, when Mackey was the U.S. marshal for the whole Montana Territory, he swore no job could get any harder. But that was before he took down a few of the bank-robbing Hancock gang in Dover Station...
19) Small town
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Did you know that people in small towns often walk where they need to go? They do not need to drive because places are very close together. Learn more in Small Town, a title in the I Live Here! series.
20) Met her match
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In small towns, no one lets the facts get in the way of juicy gossip. Terri Rayburn is a girl with a reputation. She doesn't deserve it, but having grown up on the outskirts of Summer Hill, Virginia, she knows how small towns work. The only way to deal with vicious gossip is to ignore it. So she keeps to herself as she runs the summer resort on Lake Kissel. When she returns home from a short trip to find a handsome stranger living in her house,...