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Same stuff, different day. Patty Parks' life is like the instructions on a shampoo bottle: Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Her humdrum life is punctuated by being picked on and teased, living in her head when real life isn't proving up to snuff, and blurting out things at the wrong time. Told in alternating chapters as a child and an adult, Same Old Same Old reminds us how much things stay the same. Till we choose to make a change. Find out what happens when...
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When Sherri Green is the winning bidder of a box of ephemera at an auction, she thinks it's just an innocent box of old papers. But a stack of letters from the 1970s grabs her attention and she's off. With the help of her gossipy antiques picking parter, Carol O'Brien, Sherri tracks down the girl who wrote the letters and unravels a mystery decades old. Pick a Letter is a clean, short read perfect for lovers of cozy mysteries set in a small town that...
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A mysterious note on the library floor says to meet at the abandoned tire factory. Who is it meant for? Certainly not Ali, but she shows up anyway. Entering the factory sends Ali into another world, another time: World War II. In this tale of lost love and sacrifices made in a time of war, can Ali set right events in the past that, if left unchecked, will alter her family's future, including her own? The three books in the Doorways to the Past Time...
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Antiques to die for. Sherri and Carol grab some great pieces at the Paradise Farm and Home museum auction. But when someone is found dead under the museum's antique chandilier the next morning, Sherri smells a rat. Can she, with the help of her friend and picking partner Carol, figure out if it was just an accident or murder? All signs point to the victim having enemies at every turn. Carol is still working on her wedding plans but has time to help...
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Antique pickers Sherri Green and her bff, lovable town gossip Carol O'Brien, search for treasure amid the trash in their small midwestern town of Paradise. What they find is more than they bargained for. When they score a box of antique vases at a local auction in nearby Round Bottom, it sets off a chain of events that makes a competing picker see red. But that's not the worst of it. Someone in the tight-knit picking community ends up dead. Can Sherri...
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If it's not on the calendar, it doesn't exist. Jill Johnson works hard. That's how she got to her current position at Pinnacle Productions. She has money, talent, guts, and grit, but what she lacks is, of course, what she wants most: a husband. Unfortunately, husband hunting's not on the calendar, so there's no time for it. But what if it was on the calendar?
Goals and discipline have worked miracles for her in the past. Jill gives herself a year...
7) Back in Time
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Ali's found romance, but when she and Matt visit her family farm, she once again finds a note, this time in an old jar and she knows what that means. But as she stands on the brink of time, she must decide: Should she answer the plea written by her grandmother as a child? What will happen if she takes Matt with her on a trip back in time? Or can she risk taking Matt at all? The doorway to the past stands before them in a derelict greenhouse. Ali is...
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When Lily Thistle opens her storage unit, she finds more than just her stuff. There's a beautiful antique trunk. With a body inside. Everything points to her brother-in-law Dr. John Wisdom as the killer, but Lily knows he couldn't hurt a fly. Will she be able to find out who the real killer is and get John off the hook?
This culinary cozy mystery includes two recipes: Make 'Em Your Way Muffins and Almost Omelets. This cozy mystery is a clean read...
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What's a new in town schoolteacher to do when she finds a body on the beach?
When fifth grade schoolteacher Lily Thistle finds the body of a local womanizing garbage man washed up on the beach in her new town, she becomes suspect number one. Can this teacher turned amateur sleuth narrow down who wanted him dead and get the hot chief of police to recognize her as something other than a murder suspect? This culinary cozy mystery includes two recipes:...
10) Fatal Pickings
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When one of antique pickers Sherri Green and Carol O'Brien's best customers dies, they become suspicious. Was the cause of death really an accident? After learning that Benedict Joslin's death likely was not an accident as originally thought, the pair begins digging around to find out who killed the old man. The problem is Benedict wasn't very well liked and the suspect list keeps getting longer. Fatal Pickings is a clean, short read perfect for lovers...
11) Pick a Tune
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A tarnished old flute, a falling down house, and a mystery nearly sixty years old. At the Paradise flea market, antique pickers Sherri and Carol hunt for treasures to resell. When Carol finds an old flute that she can't seem to live without, a mystery unfolds that they can't leave alone until its solved. Pick a Tune is a clean short read. It's perfect for lovers of cozy mysteries that feature an amateur sleuth.
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Carol's planning her wedding. What she didn't plan was finding a dead body. Sherri and Carol have a successful antiques sale at the Winter Festival, but things go south when they find a dead body later that day. Can they figure out who the killer is from a cast of characters as diverse as the Secret Santa gifts at the annual Pope County Pickers holiday party?
Pick a Secret Santa is a clean, short read perfect for lovers of cozy mysteries set in a...
13) Picked Clean
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No bones about it. Sherri got more than she bargained for when she won a storage unit auction. Now she must solve a murder. The books in the Antique Pickers in Paradise Cozy Mystery series are perfect for fans of cozy mysteries featuring women sleuths. The Antique Pickers books are set in a small town in the Midwest. Clean read suitable for most readers.
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Tyler Barrett has just finished horseshoeing school in Kansas and moved to Soda Springs, Colorado to start his new business, but there's just one problem. He's broke. Without customers and horses that need to be shod, Tyler is in danger of losing everything and having to head home with his tail between his legs. When Angela Winston, the owner of eleven head of horses, hires Tyler, he thinks his troubles are over, at least for the time being. Little...
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Love is hard. Tyler and Beth are in love, but their long distance relationship makes it hard to have the romance they each desire. Beth is finishing her last semester of veterinary school in northeastern Colorado and Tyler is busy shoeing horses in the southwestern part of the state. Will the rancher's wife who Tyler had a fling with before he met Beth come between the new couple? She'd like to and threatens to tell all to Tyler's new girlfriend....
16) Easy Pickings
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There's something sinister at the county fair. Antique pickers Sherri and Carol have entered some of their best wares for judging in the Pope County Fair. But a murder during a food competition becomes front and center. Can they figure out who killed a fair judge while they navigate the fair food and small town goings on? Easy Pickings is a clean and wholesome short read perfect for lovers of cozy mysteries set in a small town that feature an amateur...
17) Picked On
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What does a creepy doll, a small town thrift store, and a missing woman have in common? When antique pickers Sherri Green and Carol O'Brien take a day trip to Broom Top to visit Maisy's Miracles, trouble brews. At Maisy's small thrift store jam packed with treasures they learn that Maisy Dupree, the shop owner, has been missing for two months. Sherri and Carol get busy trying to piece together what happened to the sweet elderly lady. They come across...
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When antique pickers Sherri Green and Carol O'Brien get first dibs on the goods at a farm auction, one of them finds something more sinister. The missing farmer. Dead. Add a shady real estate agent and family and neighbors whose lives would be easier with the farmer out of the picture and you've got a puzzle that Sherri can't help but piece together. Can Sherri and Carol along with the help of Deputy Leon Fletcher figure out who murdered the farmer?...
19) Caught in Time
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Once again Ali finds a note, this time on her car at the town lake. Ready for another adventure, she takes the bait and enters the old boathouse. And another time: back to the seventies, her parents' heyday. A big corporation wants to tear out the heart of her town, and Ali must decide if she must break the law to preserve the future. The three books in the Doorways to the Past Time Travel series are clean reads. These short stories are suitable for...
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"One night, you will stand in the stone courtyard of Fort Calmier, and the whole world will know of Jackson Marcrombie, the Great Guardian of the North." Eight hundred years ago, the Sorcerer Guy of Gisborne from Prince John's court planted a trap in a last attempt to capture Robin Hood, but the curse laid on the Golden Arrow backfired, releasing a burst of pure magic energy into the outlaw. As the generations passed, this power weakened more and...