C. J. Critt
101) Uncommon Clay
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 8
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English
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Margaret Maron, winner of the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha and Macavity Awards, has reached renowned success with the Deborah Knott Mystery series. Uncommon Clay delves into the intriguing world of the Nordans, a deep-rooted family of talented yet cursed North Carolina potters. Judge Knott is filling in for another judge who suffered a mild stroke. When she decrees that the divorcing Nordan couple split their valuable earthenware collection, the husband...
102) Paper Moon
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Caroline Spencer is starting to regret agreeing to chaperon her daughter's high school class on their trip to Mexico. But another single parent, Blaine Madison, has a resemblance to Harrison Ford that is making her feel a little better. The fun comes to a halt, though, when their daughters get accidentally caught up in a smuggling ring.
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It is a moment in the near future when the threat of terror has cultivated rage, apathy, and panic across the country. For Phil, a dermatologist at the UCLA hospital, it is a time of unease, in contrast to the days when he coasted through life on his good looks and middling charm. In addition to having to deal with his mother, Edith, who's emerging after years of grieving over her late husband, Phil has been recruited for a secret terror-response...
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In Arizona, when a house burns down with its veterinarian owner inside, suspicion falls on the husband of a woman whom the veterinarian ran over. But after talking to the suspect, Sheriff Joanna Brady's feminine intuition tells her the man is innocent and she sets out to find the real killer.
105) Celine Dion
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This Chelsea House's Galaxy of Superstars book features Celine Dion, a frequent chart-topper in the United States for a decade.
106) Bead on Trouble
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Agatha Award nominee Barbara Burnett Smith is best known for her popular Purple Sage mysteries. In Bead on Trouble, the first of a brand new series, Smith strings together a tale of high intrigue set at a beaders' colony. Former Texas senator Kitzi Camden joins her old friend Beth at a retreat thick with beaders, but she soon finds that a much more deadly craft is being practiced there: the art of murder!
107) Torch
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Torch ignites in the opening chapter and blazes through a gripping tale of physical and psychological terror. An investigative reporter sensing a big story, Jillian Ross drags her friend Randi into a rough Dallas neighborhood to cover a political rally. When a riot breaks out, Randi is gruesomely murdered. Feeling responsible, Jillian descends into a lethargic depression. Her friend Ash McGraw, a fire investigator, gets her moving again when he enlists...
108) Britney Spears
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From Chelsea House's Galaxy of Superstars series comes the story of Britney Spears, who began her career in the 1990s update of the Mickey Mouse Club.
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 7
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English
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Alice Rogers, an elderly widow, is dead, found murdered in the Arizona desert. It's easy enough to pin the killing on the teens caught driving her car across the Mexican border, but Sheriff Brady isn't about to let it go at that. Alice was something of a free spirit, with a penchant for Scotch, the glitter of Las Vegas, and a romance with a man twenty years her junior. Her hot-tempered daughter Susan suspects Mom's boyfriend-her former handyman who...
110) Fault Lines
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The bestselling author of Downtown and Colony brings us the story of a model wife who throws caution to the wind by joining her daughter and sister for a trip along the San Andreas fault...just as an earthquake hits. The quake strands them for days, leaving behind impressive damage, along with three strong women who will never be the same.
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Beautifully written, compassionate and wise, Rosellen Brown's novel is the extraordinary story of a family's struggle to survive the throes of a tragedy. Before and After centers on Carolyn and Ben Reiser and their two children, Judith and Jacob, who live comfortably in a small New England town. When the chief of police comes looking for seventeen-year-old Jacob to question him about the bludgeoning to death of his girlfriend, the Reisers' lives are...
112) Killer Diller
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Shuttled among orphanages and foster homes since he was 11, Wesley Benfield-newly converted-is trying to turn over a new leaf. But two things are keeping him from a straight-and-narrow kind of existence: lust for Phoebe and a National Steel Dobro bottleneck guitar. There's more than one way for an ungainly white boy to find a little soul, and Wesley strikes out on his own path of redemption.
113) Outer Banks
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HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2016
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Unabridged
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English
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"Captures the richness and complication of female friendships in a way few writers have done. . . incredibly rich characterizations and a profound sense of place." — Cosmopolitan
In her magnificent classic Outer Banks, acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons brilliantly recalls a lost time of hope and dreams—of comradeship, love, secrets, and betrayal—and creates characters brimming
...114) This Just In
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WKBA news in Chicago is reeling. Their ratings are the lowest in town, and company morale has plummeted. At the end of their ropes, five women band together to correct injustices and hopefully shoot WKBA up the ratings chart. Their ideas are inventive, and their convictions are infectious, but they'll need to crack the good-old-boys network before they ever get a chance to prove themselves. Through Yolanda Joe's sharp observations about this cutthroat...
115) From Potter's Field
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 6
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Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2015
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Unabridged
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English
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Edgar Award winner Patricia Cornwell is the internationally acclaimed, #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Kay Scarpetta mystery series. From Potter's Field finds criminal pathologist Kay Scarpetta in Central park investigating the crime scene of a bloody homicide. Kay has an eery feeling the murder was committed by a maniacal killer from her past, Temple Gault-and that he is trying to force her into one final showdown.