When a wealthy benefactor and alumnus of
Eastern Friends School in Pennsylvania is found murdered, details at the
scene prompt Lt. DiSalvo to introduce himself at a faculty meeting.
There he meets Maxwell Hunter, an English teacher who likes to lecture
about the mysteries of literature. At first, DiSalvo brushes off
Hunter’s offer of help, but when the second EFS-connected murder is
discovered, he changes his mind.
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A New Leaf
by Elaine Cantrell
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Betsy McLaughlin's father is
the richest man in Covington, and she’s engaged to the son of a wealthy,
socially prominent family. Her future seems bright until Kyle Alexander
enters the picture. Kyle is newly-paroled after serving 5 years for
armed robbery. He’s free now, and he can’t keep his eyes off his boss’s
beautiful daughter. Can prison really change a man for the better?
Betsy’s about to find out.
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An Affinity for Murder
by Anne White
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A
Lake George Mystery ~ Finalist for Malice Domestic Best First Novel
Ellen, a new resident of
Lake George in upstate New York, hopes to interview a famed art critic
but instead is entangled in a dangerous and confusing situation
involving paintings that just might be undiscovered works of Georgia
O’Keeffe.
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Auto Repair: The Customer's Crash
Course
by Richard K. Mundy
Richard
Mundy's "Lessons..." will de-mystify the car repair industry, help
you side-step the pitfalls of auto repair processes and guide you
toward a successful experience. He presents a knowledge base
collected and polished over a 35-year career in the industry.
Written clearly in easy-to-understand format, Mundy takes the reader
though the entire process, from the first moment you realize a
repair is needed, step-by-step through choosing a shop, authorizing
the repairs, evaluating the invoice, and dealing with
less-than-perfect outcomes. AUTO REPAIR will give you the info you
need ...
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Beyond the Flames
by Heather Smith Thomas
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Just before midnight on July
5, 2000, Heather and Lynn Thomas received the phone call that
every parent dreads, the call that tells them one of their own
has come to harm.Andrea has been burned,” their neighbor said. “She’s being
brought to the hospital by ambulance.”
The
Thomases rushed from their ranch via Idaho’s Highway 28 toward
Salmon, twelve miles away, not knowing the extent of their
daughter’s injuries and unaware they were beginning a journey
which would leave them, their family, friends and community
forever changed.
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Big Black Hole
By Wilma Kahn
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PI Gayle Fisher needs to leave town
fast, so she takes on a new client who believes his sister didn't
really kill herself. Gayle has her doubts, but once she arrives in
the resort town on the shores of beautiful Lake Michigan, things
begin to turn ugly.
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Bottom of the Ninth
by Peter Spring
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While researching a
murder, Boston Tribune reporter Chris Parsons discovers the victim
was a fellow rower. As Parsons debunks the obvious explanations for
the bludgeoning death of the well-heeled man, he is set on a
dangerous course where the underbelly of the art and sports worlds
become dangerously entwined.
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Burning Questions
by Elaine Busby
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Kelly Moran, TV
feature reporter in Portland, OR, is tormented by uncertainties when
she is offered her dream job in L.A. at the same time she becomes
romantically involved with a candy company owner who is accused of
arson. .
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Business Buyer's Handbook
by Jim Calkins
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TheBusiness Buyer's Handbook
simplifies the process of analyzing and buying an existing
business. In this guide for the savvy entrepreneur, author Jim
Calkins asks the question, "Why start? Be smart and buy!" Jim
covers such territories as existing business analysis techniques,
insider facts on where to look for a new businesses, what to buy,
how to get help, and how to avoid rip-offs. Learn creative
financing skills, take advantage of valuable HOT POINTS
throughout the book, and even learn what to do on the first day as
owner of your new enterprise. Jim lays it all out for you, step by
step.
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Callie & the Dealer & A Dog Named Jake
by Wendy Howell Mills
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Callie, a restaurateur on North
Carolina’s Outer Banks, knows someone is stealing from the
storeroom. As a hurricane blows in, she must confront him ...or her!
... in addition to the demons from her past.
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City of Suspects
By Katy King
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Portland, OR PI
Jane
Lanier finds a notorious mobster dead in her office, then her car is
fried.
The dead client had a secret to tell
before someone put a bullet in his throat.And he was not the first to die this way. Now someone wants
to silence Jane –permanently.Lanier races to find answers as a killer moves closer and the
truth seems to be sliding farther and farther away.
Code Two 'n' a Half
by William W. Wilhelm
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Wilhelm, a police
officer for the great city of Los Angeles from 1953 to 1973, says, "...
come along with me and share one cop’s view of one heck of an
interesting career in the "City of Angels."
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CopTales 2000
Edited by Liz DeFranco
Martinez and Marilyn Olsen
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original fiction and non-fiction police stories from
Ed Dee, Jim DeFilippi, Marlene Loos, Gina Gallo, Will Cordes, Robert Cohen,
Liz Martinez DeFranco, Charles Padias, Paul Bishop,
Stormy Barton Apgar, Philip Bulone, Roger Fulton, Lou Savelli, Ernie Dorling,
Penny James, Keith Bettinger, Laurick Ingram, Marilyn Olsen
Days on the Beach
by John Taylor
Oakland PD Officers Bull Brewster and Tex-Mex Garcia
get the job done…but on their terms. Whether it’s a madcap chase
with stolen cars or a night on the town with a pair of “working
girls,” the rogue officers never let threat of disciplinary action
get in their way as they cement their reps as irreverent street
cops—they just take their DAYS ON THE BEACH, and then get back to
business. Brewster and Tex-Mex aren’t the only source of action on
the mean streets of Oakland, however. The city is on edge as a
sociopathic pair cuts a savage swath. Rape and murder cases stack
up, but law enforcement’s frantic search is stymied until some good,
old-fashioned gumshoe detective work leads to a high noon face-off.
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The Damned Never Die
by J. McKay
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Eagle Rising
by Mary Montague Sikes
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Still mourning her
fiance, Rachael’s editor sends her to cover a New Age novelist in
Sedona, where she meets Derek, who is also coping with grief.
Mystery and intrigue leads them to the desert, but a greater force
shows the way forward.
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Easy Money
by Norm Maher
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Dick Braun
is a deputy sheriff in an affluent Ohio township, fed up with his
job and wife and trying to hang on to his hot girlfriend. Desperate, Dick comes up with a plan to steal eight
million dollars from an armored car and, with the money and lady, fly
out of the country.
He calls on an ex-army buddy to help. They get the cash but there’s
a double cross, the money’s on the loose and Dick scrambles.
Mixed up in a tangle of lies and betrayal are two former Navy seals,
a Merrill Lynch broker, a bent Mexican cop, a rogue banker, a
Brazilian woman to die for, government types and people out to kill.
Hey, it’s eight million dollars.
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The Electric Sewer:
War Stories
of the NYC Transit Police
by Trebor Nehoc
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Trebor Nehoc
has worked all over the
New York Citysubway. And not just as a cop, but also as a sergeant and lieutenant. He
has been assigned to everything from late night solo train patrol to an
academy instructor and finally as an anti-crime supervisor. As they say
here in
New York, he has been around the block, twice.
Trebor has taken his
years on the job and transcribed them into some very funny, very
touching stories. With great wit, sharp details and some brisk writing,
his War Stories describe what life was like down there in the Electric
Sewer.
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The Fat Lady Sings
by Kit Sloane
Coming Soon!!!In
Margot and Max's latest adventure, THE FAT LADY SINGS, things aren’t
what they appear to be. But since they work in the film world of
make-believe, when are things ever clear-cut and unambiguous? In
THE FAT LADY SINGS, the couple is caught up in a lethal scheme of
connivance, complicity, and murder perpetrated behind the
heavy velvet curtains of a reparatory company determined to win an
international prize. Heads roll as egos, reputations, and
aspirations clash against the dulcet harmonies and satiric comments
of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.
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Field of Destiny
by Patricia Sheehy
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Set against a
backdrop of social and racial tension,Field of Destiny
explores themes of karma and free will, taking us to those precise
moments of choice where a single decision has the power to change
everything.
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Fools Rush In
by Sunny Frazier
Fast-paced and riveting, FOOLS RUSH IN is a salute to
good cops, an insider's view of astrology, and a grim descent into
the dark world of drug dealers. -- Carolyn Hart, Agatha
Award-winning author
In her debut
novel, Sunny Frazier ratchets up the tension. The astrology is a
bonus. ---Denise
Dietz, bestselling author
Ghetto Sketches
by Odie Hawkins
Ghetto
Sketches, with its sights, sounds and smells of the “main
stem”…the rat and roach infested tenements, the jazz-filled freedom of
Saturday night, the soulful peace of Sunday morning, is more than a panorama
of street life.It is a powerful
indictment of the existence of the inner city, that black colony sealed off
from the white population of every large city, “a reservation, a Bantustan
that is politely not called that…ghetto is more acceptable.”
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Giving with Meaning
by Patricia Sheehy
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...offers hundreds of ways you can turn ordinary
items into meaningful gifts using folklore, legends and
traditions...the beautiful 4-color book makes a lovely gift itself.
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The Glass Rose
By Pamela Waller
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Life
for Kay Williams revolved around her interior decorating career. But
her world was turned upside-down with the death of her mother. She
learned the identity of her real father from special items
that her mother had saved. When the shock of it settles within her,
she's torn between loneliness and the harsh truth. Kay travels
to Koge, Denmark where she embraces family members she never knew,
and discovers the passion of a love that was meant to be.
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Gumbo Justice
by Holli Castillo
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New Orleans prosecutor Ryan Murphy likes
her Tequila cold and her cops hot. Battling demons from her past
and checking her self-destructive streak take a back seat to her
ambition, and she's not above skating the line just a little to get
what she wants. If she snags a detective in the process, well,
that's just a little lagniappe for her trouble. Life should be good.
Enter a demented psycho, with a plan to
ruin Ryan's life before he ultimately kills her. Set against
the backdrop of pre-Katrina New Orleans, Gumbo Justice is the first
in a series that follows the tumultuous life of prosecutor Ryan
Murphy.
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Hearts Across Forever
by Mary Montague Sikes
Kathryn Calder is dedicated to
her New York City job until an unexpected assignment to Jamaica changes
the path of her life. From the moment she arrives on the exotic
island, she is haunted by odd memories of a distant past. Is Flynt
Kincade, the stranger she meets in an art gallery, part of that
past? Kathryn senses he is, especially when dreams connecting her
with Flynt grow more vivid. A visit to Rose Hall Great House draws
Kathryn into a scene from long ago when evil reigned in Jamaica and Annie
Palmer, the white witch of Rose Hall, was part of the danger.
Can a love affair from old
Jamaica reach across forever and bring Kathryn and Flynt together?
A Snapshot in Time
Hotels to Remember
by Mary Montague Sikes
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A beautiful picture book featuring twenty of the world's most memorable
hotels.... text, art and photographs by Monti Sikes.
Hotels
to Remember is 9X12 inches, hardcover with an elegant French Fold Dust
Jacket, satin-finished pages showcase more than 200
images. For beautiful details
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The Hunt
by Christie Rose
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What happens when a middle-class baby boomer goes up against a cold-blooded professional killer?
Susan Ryker is everywoman ~ a mother, an artist, a teacher. She's just been through a messy divorce.
She is old enough to have no more illusions ~ but young enough to still have
hope. And then Susan Ryker watches a man in an airport die. Unknown to Susan, she is witnessing more than just his
death. She is also witnessing the death of her own peace of mind ~the termination of her close ties with her daughter~ the end of forty-some years of a relatively benign existence in the small town of Booker Bend,
Oregon. Now, as she struggles toward the summit of Skinner's Butte, she is on foot, out of shape, and running for her life.
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A Case of Infatuation
by W. S. Gager
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Crime Beat Reporter
Mitch Malone’s rules are simple: He never lets the blood and guts he
covers bother him. He always works alone and he hates kids. He
breaks all three when he unwittingly agrees to transport a potential
witness secretly out of a house with two mob-style-hit dead bodies.
When the FBI accuses him of the murder, he goes into hiding with a
bombshell intern who doesn’t talk and a precocious preschooler.
Mitch works his contacts to regain his freedom from his roommates
only to find they each hold keys to a bizarre story of
disappearances, terrorists and the perfect hamburger recipe.
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In Franklin's House
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Intent to Defraud
By Mark Travis
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Jennifer Posey’s body is forced against a screen at
the bottom of the Monticello Dam overflow drain. A deputy sheriff
found the suicide note she left in her Mercedes. Jennifer’s husband
has a solid alibi and the life insurance will soon pay Brian five
million dollars.
Wealthy
securities dealer John Dukehart does not believe his daughter killed
herself. He hires PI Dan Ballantine, ex-cop, non-practicing
attorney, and a specialist in insurance fraud, to prove Brian
murdered Jennifer.
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The Jelly Bean Principle
105 Ways to Stand Out from Competitors
By Barry Thomsen
The one that stands out from
the rest will be selected...
…that’s The Jelly
Bean Principle. Author Barry Thomsen delivers hundreds of easy to
implement, free or cost-efficient ways you can make your business
stand out from the crowd. Build your reputation, attract new
customers and cultivate their loyalty, position your business for
growth and develop the skills to weather the thin times. Readers
will find countless ideas and suggestions to put into immediate use
– and at minimal cost.
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Lake Meade
by Heather Mosko
What do
you do when your first love returns to town after fifteen years, at the
same time the remains of your high school boyfriend surface in the lake
not far from your home?
And
when you become the primary suspect in his murder...what do you do?
If
you’re Maggie Granger, you keep running your Bed and Breakfast, take
care of your son and grandfather, and try to find the real killer before
you end up in jail for a murder you didn’t commit -- and maybe, just
maybe, you find love all over again along the way.
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The Last Casualty
by Peter Spring
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When Boston
Tribune reporter Chris Parsons writes a story reuniting an ex-POW
with his former torturer, he uncovers a decades-old betrayal powerful
men in our government will do anything – even commit murder – to
keep secret.
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History/Biography
The Last Stop:
Lincoln and the Mud Circuit
by Alan Bower
Author and historian Alan Bower's book, The Last Stop: Lincoln and the
"Mud Circuit" allows the reader to ride the Eighth Judicial Circuit with
Mr. Lincoln and visit "the last stop" before heading home to
Springfield. In addition, Bower provides
insight into Lincoln's membership and position as chairman of the
Committees on Counties during his formative years in the Illinois
General Assembly. He discusses his involvement of creating over 25
counties in Illinois, including Christian County, whose citizens
rejected Lincoln's choice of "Dane" for this new county.
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Media Blitz
by Joe Nowlan
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Media bashing? How about media killing?
Everyone likes to
clobber the media. But someone in Boston is going around killing them... an
obnoxious radio talk host … a too handsome TV anchor … and the host of
yet another talk radio show all die violently. Strolling innocently into
this murderous confusion is Ben Hudson, a photographer for a weekly
newspaper, and hardly anyone’s idea of a media celebrity. Hudson (weak stomach and all)
accidentally discovers two of the bloodied corpses of what the
newspapers and TV call “The Boston Media Blitz.” He also becomes
involved with TV newswoman Charlotte Kimball, beautiful, witty and set
on uncovering the murderer.
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Mid-Life Mojo
by Robert M. Davis
As essential to
the survival of the retread bachelor as take-out, the microwave, and
frozen food, Mid-life Mojo draws on research, common sense, and extensive
field experience to trace the pangs of the newly single life and the
pitfalls and rewards of picking up the pieces and going on in mature and
productive ways.
Click to read the Author's interview on Match.com!!!
Officer Stacey Wilbur works with Detective Doug Milligan investigating the
death of a popular minister’s wife, is given an undercover assignment to catch a pedophile, is offered a new job, and learns a
church isn’t always a sanctuary.
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Number Please
by Sheree Petree
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...a tightly
plotted novel with unexpected twists...You'll find yourself rooting
for the feisty, independent sleuth, Trish Malcolm, and the
sisterhood of hardworking telephone operators in the male-dominated
world of the 1960s..."— Margaret Coel, author of The Shadow Dancer
Of Weeds & Views
By Frances Crain
One woman's
journey...a journey covering eighty-plus years which took the author
through prisons and hospitals and beyond. With her keen eye for seeing
drama and significance in everyday events, Frances Utterback Crain
provides the reader with a special viewpoint on real life things that
happened to real live people.
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The Poetry of Murder
By Bernadette Steele
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An inheritance can be a blessing or a curse!
For Geneva Anderson, an aspiring African American poet, it
is both. After her aunt is murdered, Geneva's life is
unraveled by a mysterious inheritance and a murder charge.
Set against the backdrop of a university
campus in Chicago.
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Passage Unknown
A
Dark Oak Mystery
The Pot Thief Who Studied Pythagoras
By J. Michael Orenduff
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When a shady
character offers him $25,000 to steal a thousand-year-old pot
from the Valle del Rio Museum, Hubert Schuze knows he should
turn it down. His pot digging may be illegal, but it’s a big
step from that to robbery. But he figures it can’t hurt just to
visit the museum and assay his chances.
He figured wrong.
After deciding the
museum is impregnable, he returns to his shop to find a BLM
agent who accuses him of stealing the rare pot. Theft charges
escalate to murder.
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New Orleans before
Katrina...
Red Room Rendezvous
By Paulette Crain
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"... a must for anyone who is fascinated with our
Garden District elite." -- Tony Fennelly, author of Don’t Blame
the Snake
"This book is a great read . . . it's provocative,
entertaining and is definitely New Orleans." -- Gennifer Flowers,
author, entertainer and owner of The Kelsto Club in The French
Quarter
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NATURE/Flowers
Roadside Wildflowers of Christian County
by Sue Robinson
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In Roadside
Wildflowers of Christian County, tips for identification are
juxtaposed with individual portraits of 64 naturally occurring
varieties. Hikers, joggers and armchair aficionados alike will
appreciate artist Sue Robinson’s keen eye and delicate style in her
showcase of flowers found along the highways and byways near her
home. Robinson and her husband live on their working farm in the
heart of Christian County.
Destroyer Men's Tales
Edited by Bob Cohen and Terry Miller
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Vol 1 & 2
Fifteen members of
the Secret Scurvy Dog Society relate their own accounts, many
humorous and some pointedly not, of life at sea on U.S. Navy
destroyers during the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War.
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Vol 2 - Perfect
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Secrets by the Sea
by Mary Montague
Sikes
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Stunned to
learn that her grandfather’s body had washed onto an Antigua beach,
a victim of foul play, Dana Sinclair leaves immediately for the
exotic place her grandmother had always called “Heartbreak Island.”
She moves into her
grandfather’s centuries-old home, Edgewood Manor which overlooks the
Caribbean Sea, and begins searching for answers to the questions
haunting her…
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Spangled Star Banter
by Deb Collett
In her
sophomore work, Ms Collect turns her verbal Polaroid camera outward
to her community, her culture and her nation. Sometimes serious,
sometimes funny, she presents here a plainspoken and
uncompromisingly Midwestern view. Included here are her most
requested performance pieces, "You Are More," and "Shout for
the Voiceless," and, of course,
Spangled Star Banter.
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Tulsa Time
by Letha Albright
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Reporter Viv Powers
confronts the challenge of her life when her love, Charlie, is
accused of murder and will do nothing to defend himself—not even
declare his innocence to her. A firm believer in logic and facts,
Viv learns to face the trials of faith as she pursues the
truth of what happened, who did the murder — and why Charlie isn’t
talking.
A Dark Oak Mystery
Vegas Vixen
by Dennis Griffin
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On Christmas Eve 2002, a 67-year-old
woman is murdered in her exclusive Las Vegas home. Detective
Steve Garneau learns the victim had a colorful past: In the 1960s
she ran the best whorehouse in Sin City. Steve’s investigation takes
him back to the days when the mob ran Vegas --an era rife with
corrupt politicians, crooked cops, and Wild West justice.
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Veil of Illusion
by Patricia Sheehy
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What a wonderful
way to be introduced to karma, past lives, and reincarnation. This
fascinating contemporary love story illuminates beautifully how the
power of our past influences our present lives. It is truly a
transforming and compelling must-read. — Z, Astrologer, Diviner,
and Metaphysical Counselor/Healer
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Where Angels Fear
by Sunny Frazier
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Set in the Central
Valley of California, author Sunny Frazier once again explores the
rich agricultural region, rural law enforcement and crimes shrouded
by Tule fog in this sequel to FOOLS RUSH IN. Amateur
astrologer Christy Bristol finds herself on the fringes of Kearny
society and a members-only sex club as she reluctantly takes on a
missing person case. A prominent business man has disappeared and
his wife cannot go to the authorities.
Armed
with only a prescription bottle and matchbook as clues, the young
woman must face the Knights of Sensani and her own sexual
limitations.
