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Walking StraightBetty Sue Farris is running from her abusive ex-husband, for a third time. He has already caught her twice in the past two years.As her bus passes through the little town of Strawberry, she is attracted to it because of its cheery Christmas decorations. She steps off the bus and into the local diner where she meets Trish Howard.Trish not only gives Betty Sue a job but also takes her into her own home thus changing Betty Sue's life...
2222) Butterfly Man
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Butterfly Man, first published in 1934, is one of the first openly gay novels available in the United States. The story centers on Ken Gracey, who escapes from poverty in Texas to become a dancer, ending up in Tijuana, Mexico. A chance encounter with a theatrical agent brings Ken to New York City and Broadway, where his career blossoms. Numerous gay relationships develop, but Ken is plagued by alcoholic binges and blackouts, and a downward spiral...
2223) Terror in Topaz
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The next instalment in the riveting HARRIET GORDON MYSTERIES. The chance to pursue a new opportunity takes Harriet and her brother Julian, to Kuala Lumpur, but death is waiting… Singapore 1910: Harriet Gordon has been dismissed from the job she loved and finds herself cast adrift. When her brother receives an invitation to visit a prestigious school in Kuala Lumpur, she and Julian decide to leave Singapore behind for a few days, but their pleasant...
2224) The Mystery at Stowe
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First published by Collins in 1928, this was the first of 22 mystery novels by Vernon Loder, one of the most popular British mystery-thriller writers of his generation.
When a guest at Stowe House is found dead, killed by a lethal dart, suspicion naturally falls on the resident collector of poisoned weapons from tribes in South America. With the entire house party as potential suspects, what part did the woman explorer play in this sinister tragedy?...
2225) Night Freight Murders
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Night Freight Murders, first published in 1942 (and also known as Murder Comes to Dinner), is a fast-paced noir murder mystery featuring private investigator Simon Crole. Crole is attending a lavish dinner banquet attended by all the notables of the Los Angeles Police Department. One of the city's outspoken P.I.'s is giving a speech in which he makes some serious allegations regarding the integrity of the police force; during his speech he is shot...
2226) Tragedy at Beechcroft
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Tragedy at Beechcroft, first published in 1935, is a classic British 'golden-age' murder mystery. The book, authored by A. E. Fielding (whose real identity remains somewhat of a mystery itself) features Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Pointer, who is called to the Beechcroft estate to investigate an 'accidental' death and an apparent suicide, but which are, in fact, murders. A host of characters, from the sinister to the silly, populate the Beechcroft...
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Previously published in the print anthology Star Over Bethlehem: Poems and Holiday Stories. Two men arrive on an isolated island, having been told that the Queen of Heaven lives there. The locals send them to a croft where a woman named Mary lives with a man named John. However, when the strangers arrive at Mary's door, she tells them that no such Queen lives on the island …
2228) Péril Lorientais
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Noël arrive, et une furieuse tempête s'abat sur la ville aux cinq ports. Envoyés par exprès, des cadeaux macabres échouent dans les bureaux du commissariat de Lorient. Dès lors, le danger est partout. La population est menacée. Les lieutenants Gabriela Michel et Daniel Delage sont pris dans une sombre machination. Sauront-ils comprendre à temps les règles du jeu qu'on leur impose ? Parviendront-ils à stopper l'hémorragie avant le grand...
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From the moment Joni Mitchell's career began - with coffee-house bookings, serendipitous encounters with established stars, and a recording contract that gave her full creative control over her music - the woman from the Canadian wheat fields has eluded industry cliches. When her peers were focused on feminism, Mitchell was plumbing the depths of her own human condition. When arena rock was king, she turned to jazz. When all others hailed Bob Dylan...
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Les techniciens de la gendarmerie scientifique découvrent que c'est l'arme d'un des adjoints du lieutenant Josselin Maroni qui a servi à tuer le fils d'un industriel de la région tourangelle. Le lieutenant-colonel de gendarmerie de la section de recherches d'Orléans, chargé de l'enquête, formé à l'ancienne école et farouche partisan de la rivalité police-gendarmerie, vient procéder de façon spectaculaire à l'arrestation du suspect au...
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Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Christie's wildly unconventional investigator, Parker Pyne, all make appearances in The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories-a riveting collection of short stories featuring a host of murderous crimes of passion, pleasure, and profit. There's a body in a trunk; a dead girl's reflection is caught in a mirror; and one corpse is back from the grave, while another is envisioned in the recurring nightmare of a terrified eccentric....
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Este esfuerzo de un equipo de profesores por rescatar la memoria de nuestro proceso, además de contar la historia de La Provincia como grupo musical y mi aporte personal al nuevo sonido, deja ver un plano más abierto de una historia y una geografía musical que han resultado ser más diversas y complejas de lo que alguna vez llegamos a pensar. Leer veinte años después lo que recuerdan y piensan mis compañeros de aventura sobre nuestro trabajo...
2233) Requiem Périgord
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Le thriller « Requiem Périgord » est le 6éme opus de la série Périgord (Le Blues du Périgord, Périgord Rhapsodie, Symphonie Périgord, Nocturnes Périgord, Dernière Sonate en Périgord).
Laurie n'imaginait pas qu'un jour son passé, qu'elle pensait avoir enterré à Sorillac, la rattraperait pour venir percuter violemment son présent au point de mettre en danger sa vie et celle de son fils Lucien. Jusqu'o peut-on souffrir, comment résister...
2234) Mission Fear
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Mission of Fear, first published in 1962, is a novel by master crime fiction author George Harmon Coxe. From the dust-jacket: Sam Adler appeared one afternoon at Marion Hayden's door trying for the big pay-off-Blackmail. The next day he was dead-paid-off with a knife in the back-and for the Haydens the nightmare had just begun. Adler's story had been stunning enough before-now, with State Police Lieutenant Garvey pushing hard it could mean a murder...
2235) Le rdeur des grèves
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Une rencontre inatendue avec une inconnue étrange plonge notre héros dans une enquête fascinante
BRIGNOGAN-PLAGES. En vacances, au restaurant de l'Htel du Port, je décortiquais une langoustine que j'allais plonger dans le petit monticule de mayonnaise, quand cette femme est parvenue, chancelante, jusqu'à ma table. Je ne l'avais jamais vue auparavant. Capucine L'Hostis, après m'avoir raconté sa vie et les menaces qui pesaient sur elle, m'a...
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Arsène Barbaluc a changé de vie. Il a quitté son costume d'inspecteur gastronomique pour un tablier de restaurateur. Avec sa compagne Magali, il a ouvert L'Assiette du terroir à Brest. Cette nouvelle vie s'annonçait sous les meilleurs auspices, jusqu'à ce que leur ami et associé David Abilène soit accusé de plusieurs meurtres, dont celui de son ex-femme. Même si tout est contre son ami, Arsène Barbaluc n'hésitera pas à mener sa propre...
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"A vile crime is being planned," he said."And heaven knows, it may even have been executed."
When an old schoolfriend whisks private detective Asbjørn Krag away by train to an isolated snow-covered manor house, his curiosity is aroused.
John Aakerholm, a wealthy landowner with peculiar tastes, refuses to disclose why he is utterly terrified. Every evening at midnight he retires to bed, locking himself within three different chambers - and access...
2238) Bloodlines & Fencelines
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Sheriff Ray Crawford Osborne is in over his head when someone murders the First Lady of Lantz, Texas. Suspects include her persnickety husband who has financial problems, their daughter, who bears a lifetime of psychological scars, a businesswoman with a reputation for revenge, a nasty local drunk, a combat veteran, who came home from Afghanistan with the kind of battle scars you can't see, the richest man in town, who is nursing an open wound, and...
2239) Hal Leonard Ukulele Chord Finder (Music Instruction): Easy-to-Use Guide to Over 1,000 Ukulele Chords
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Learn to play chords on the ukulele with this comprehensive, yet easy-to-use book. The Ukulele Chord Finder contains more than a thousand chord diagrams for the most important 28 chord types, including three voicings for each chord. Also includes a lesson on chord construction and a fingerboard chart of the ukulele neck!
2240) Enquête corsée à Crozon
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Un meurtre entre la Corse et la Bretagne...
À quoi tient une enquête ? À un bout de fil de fer barbelé dépassant d'une haie. Sans lui, la détective Léa Mattei n'aurait pas fait la connaissance de Valentine Hamon, un auteur à succès de livres pour enfants, nouvelle arrivée avec son chat Tittu à Crozon. La jeune femme a peur, Léa en est sûre.
La détective s'immisce alors dans une mystérieuse affaire corse. Trois personnes disparues...
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