Danielle Ferland
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RITA Award winner Melody Carlson's sassy tale highlights the healing influence of family, friends, faith-and unexpected love-on a 31-year-old single gal who's down but not out. The day she dons her Valentino boots, Cassidy's life starts spinning out of control. Her boss fires her, her boyfriend dumps her, and someone steals her identity. And binging on chocolate doesn't help.
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Leann Sweeney's Yellow Rose Mysteries follow the adventures of Abby Rose, the privileged daughter of a software magnate who became a private investigator when she found out she was illegally adopted. Her latest case is a mystery woman, rescued from a car crash but badly mangled and in a coma. The only clue police found at the scene was one of Abby's business cards.
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Private investigator Abby Rose returns for her fourth Yellow Rose mystery in Shoot from the Lip. Word has gotten out about Abby, and a reality show has enlisted her to help pair up birth families with adoptees. But the show may be more interested in ratings than reality, and Abby's got to figure out the truth beneath multiple layers of deception.
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In Melody Carlson's light-hearted tale, 30-something Gretchen Hanover learns that renewing a heart takes as much grace as renovating a home. Jilted just before her wedding, she turns to home improvement TV-and ice cream-to soothe her broken heart. And when Gretchen's grand plan to flip a house soon flops, a certain carpenter-at first-only makes matters worse.
5) Alamo House
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Austin native Sarah Bird is a journalist and screenwriter who has authored several novels showcasing humor and insight into human relationships. She pens a zany look at the lives of three sorority sisters at the University of Texas. Mary Jo's caustic comments about love and life can't conceal her confusion about both, but liberated baptist Fayrene and party girl Collie help Mary Jo cope in a white, patriarchal world.
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Leann Sweeney's first Yellow Rose mystery won many new fans eager to follow Abby Rose, now a private investigator. Not knowing exactly what she's gotten herself into yet, Abby takes on the case of a bride determined to find her birth mother before her wedding day. But things get messy when the reception is cut short by a matrimonial murderer.
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A New York Times and Book Sense best-selling author, Katherine Hannigan has garnered The Parents' Choice Gold Award. In True (Sort of), Delly Pattison likes surpresents-presents that are a surprise. When the Boyd family comes to town, Delly is sure a special surpresent is on its way. Ferris Boyd sure isn't like anyone Delly has ever met. But is this mysterious boy the surpresent she really needs?
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In Ysabeau S. Wilce's exciting debut novel, Flora's mom is away, leaving Flora and her father home alone at Crackpot Hall with its 11,000 constantly shifting rooms. Late for school one day, Flora decides to take the elevator down to the first floor. But without her mother around, the elevator has ideas of its own and drops Flora in an unfamiliar room. Lost in her own house, Flora embarks on a harrowing quest to find her way back to where she started....
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America's 911 system is supposed to be for emergencies only. But some people apparently didn't get the memo, because the following are some of their responses when asked by dispatchers, “What's your emergency?”
“Yeah, I want to order a pizza.”
“I've been standing all day and my feet hurt.”
“I just swallowed a penny. Am I going to die?”
“I want an officer to come out and take care of a low-flying aircraft.”
“When does the Burger...
10) Gilt Trip
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A New Orleans businessman and white-collar criminal is celebrating his early release from prison. But his freedom will be short lived. Scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand and her best friend, Ava, are off to a party. Prominent socialite Margo Leland is throwing an extravagant fete to welcome home her husband, Jerry Earl. There's a zydeco band, champagne ice luge, and waiters in ties and tails. But in the midst of the revelry, Jerry Earl is murdered-then...