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Aurora Teagarden mysteries volume 3
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Aurora "Roe" Teagarden had always worked for a living, until an unexpected legacy gave her the money to quit her librarian job. Now, with time on her hands, she decides to try selling real estate. Her mother, after all, is Lawrenceton's premier real estate agent, giving Roe a head start on this new career. But at her first house showing, Roe discovers the naked corpse of a rival broker in the master bedroom. To make matters worse, one of her mother's...
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246 pages ; 21 cm
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Never underestimate a librarian. Comfortably padded and in her middle years, Shona McMonagle may look bookish and harmless, but her education at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls has left her with a deadly expertise in everything from martial arts to quantum physics. It has also left her with a bone-deep loathing for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, that scurrilous novel that spread scandalous untruths about the finest educational institution in Edinburgh....
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Aurora Teagarden mysteries volume 1
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Roe Teagarden joins forces with detective Arthur Smith and mystery writer Robin Crusoe to investigate a series of killings resembling famous historical murders.
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Agent-in-training Quinn Ellington and James "Bond" Anderson travel to India, where the key to saving the ambassador is tangled up with a long-lost sacred library, a desecrated temple, and some very modern machinations. At least their cover as blissful newlyweds isn't too hard to pull off...."--Back cover.
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"Winter falls on North Carolina's Outer Banks as Lucy Richardson and her friends joyfully help her favorite cousin, Josie O'Malley, plan her wedding. The owner and head baker of Josie's Cozy Bakery and her fiancé, chef Jake Greenblatt, want a small, simple wedding. But to their horror, Josie's imperious grandmother, Gloria, descends with the "Louisiana Mafia," a gaggle of aunts, and cousins who intend to take control of the wedding plans. To smooth...
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"Esther is a stowaway. She's hidden herself away in the Librarian's book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her -- a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda. The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do...
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334 pages ; 18 cm
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In modern-day Venice, when American librarian Samantha Lewis is approached by Irish rogue Keirnan Fitzgerald to help locate priceless 15th century jewels to pay his sister's ransom, they become embroiled in a 500-year-old love story that eerily prefigures their own.
10) Dead over heels
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Author of the books that inspired True Blood on HBO and Midnight, Texas on NBC
Aurora Teagarden surprises even herself with how quickly she's settled in to domestic bliss with her new husband, Martin. But when the body of Roe's nemesis, Detective Jack Burns, drops from an airplane to land in her yard, Roe once more finds herself involved in a mysterious death.
It isn't long before Roe realizes that strange things are happening...
Aurora Teagarden surprises even herself with how quickly she's settled in to domestic bliss with her new husband, Martin. But when the body of Roe's nemesis, Detective Jack Burns, drops from an airplane to land in her yard, Roe once more finds herself involved in a mysterious death.
It isn't long before Roe realizes that strange things are happening...
11) The rain sparrow
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378 pages ; 21 cm.
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"A stranger's arrival in a small Southern town stirs up old secrets and new dreams"--
Thriller writer Hayden Winters is deeply ashamed of his past, and so his hunger for an honest relationship and dreams of starting a family remain unsatisfied. Carrie Riley is afraid of everything from flying to thunderstorms, and pretty much of life itself. But meeting the enigmatic writer staying at the Peach Orchard Inn emboldens her to learn everything about...
12) The book charmer
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344 pages ; 24 cm
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"A charming and evocative story about a picturesque Southern town, two fiercely independent women, and a magical friendship that will change their lives forever"--
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348 pages ; 22 cm
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Librarian Martha Storm has always found it easier to connect with books than people -- though not for lack of trying. She keeps careful lists of how to help others in her superhero-themed notebook. And yet, sometimes it feels like she's invisible. All of that changes when a book of fairy tales arrives on her doorstep. Inside, Martha finds a dedication written to her by her best friend -- her grandmother Zelda -- who died under mysterious circumstances...
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Author of the books that inspired True Blood on HBO and Midnight, Texas on NBC
Aurora Teagarden should be used to surprises by now. Yet when a local handyman begins dancing naked in her yard, she's thrown for a loop and suspects it could be a bad omen of unwelcome events to come. When her husband's niece, Regina, appears in Lawrenceton with a baby in tow and evading questions, tensions escalate. It's not much longer before...
Aurora Teagarden should be used to surprises by now. Yet when a local handyman begins dancing naked in her yard, she's thrown for a loop and suspects it could be a bad omen of unwelcome events to come. When her husband's niece, Regina, appears in Lawrenceton with a baby in tow and evading questions, tensions escalate. It's not much longer before...
15) Little comfort
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Hester Thursby mystery volume 1
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"In a brilliantly twisted debut set among Boston's elite, Edwin Hill introduces unforgettable sleuth Hester Thursby--and a missing persons case that uncovers a trail of vicious murder ... Harvard librarian Hester Thursby knows that even in the digital age, people still need help finding things. Using her research skills, Hester runs a side business tracking down the lost. Usually, she's hired to find long-ago prom dates or to reunite adopted children...
16) The Julius house
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Aurora Teagarden's new husband gives her a house as a wedding gift, but its history casts an ominous shadow over her marriage, and she soon fears she will meet the same fate as the family that disappeared from the house.
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369 pages ; 22 cm
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New York City. The hustle and bustle. The people and the excitement. It's all Lily Denton dreams about. But ever since her mother died, her overprotective father won't ease up on her. So she spends her days working at the library and her nights hoping life doesn't pass her by . . . until the Fall Festival. As tourists fill the streets, the crisp autumn air sneaks in-as does the thrill of a far more dangerous kind. Some men have a gift for avoiding...
18) Index to murder
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When two of avant-garde artist Ruth Winthrop's paintings are stolen, artworks depicting a former lover who died mysteriously, Ruth calls in her best friend, dedicated librarian-turned-amateur sleuth Helma Zukas to uncover the truth about both the theft and her late lover.
19) Read and buried
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Lighthouse library mystery volume 6
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The Bodie Island Lighthouse Library Classic Novel Book Club is reading Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne while workers dig into the earth to repair the Lighthouse Library's foundations. The digging halts when Lucy pulls a battered tin box containing a Civil War-era diary from the pit. Tucked inside is a hand-drawn map of the Outer Banks accompanied by a page written in an indecipherable code. The library is overrun by people clamoring...
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289 pages ; 19 cm
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Español
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Aurora "Roe" Teagarden had always worked for a living, until an unexpected legacy gave her the money to quit her librarian job. Now, with time on her hands, she decides to try selling real estate. Her mother, after all, is Lawrenceton's premier real estate agent, giving Roe a head start on this new career. But at her first house showing, Roe discovers the naked corpse of a rival broker in the master bedroom. To make matters worse, one of her mother's...
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