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22) Memory in death
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English
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Police Lt. Eve Dallas walks a tightrope between her professional duties and her private demons. When the twisted woman who tormented Eve's childhood tries to blackmail Eve's husband Roarke--and ends up dead--Eve and Roarke follow a circuitous, dangerous path to find out who turned the victimizer into victim.
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Pub. Date
2005
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English
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At the big, aggressive newspaper The Washington Tribune, a young woman has been murdered. And the hunt for her killer is making sensational and lethal headlines. The victim, fresh out of journalism school, hoped to make a splash at the Trib -- and then a maintenance man found her in a supply closet, brutally strangled to death. The Trib's journalists are at once horrified and anxious to solve the crime before the cops do, and put this scandal to rest....
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Pub. Date
2005
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English
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In this exciting new Kurt Austin/NUMA Files novel, an anti-globalization group plans to give the world's industrial nations a jolt by using an artificially triggered "polar shift." But the scheme goes awry when the shift cannot be reversed and the NUMA Special Assignments Team is called into action.
25) Red Lily
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Pub. Date
2005
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English
Description
Nora Roberts brings her bestselling In the Garden trilogy to a most satisfying conclusion with Red Lily, which tells the story of Hayley Phillips and solves the mystery of the Harper House ghost. Hayley Phillips came to Memphis hoping for a new start, for herself and her unborn child. She wasn't looking for a handout from her distant cousin Roz, just a job at her thriving In the Garden nursery. What she found was a home surrounded by beauty and the...
26) School days
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Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Lily Ellsworth, the grande dame of Dowling, Massachusetts, hires Spenser to investigate her grandson Jared Clark's alleged involvement in a school shooting. Spenser is led into an inquiry that grows more harrowing at every turn. Though seven people were killed in cold blood, and despite Jared's being named as a co-conspirator by the other shooter, Mrs. Ellsworth is convinced of her grandson's innocence. Jared's parents are resigned to his fate, and...
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Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Berkley Sensation mass-market ed.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 18 cm
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English
Description
Queen of the Vampires Betsy Taylor is planning the perfect wedding to drop-dead gorgeous vamp Eric Sinclair. But in this fourth novel of Davidson's series, Betsy is plagued by ghosts, who demand her help in rectifying their past mistakes, and a serial killer on the loose.
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Pub. Date
2005
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English
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The sins of Adam Hardesty's past have been discovered. And if he does not hunt down his blackmailer quickly, his secrets will be revealed to all. But there is an obstacle in his way: sensation novelist Caroline Fordyce. She knows that Adam's quest for justice could shatter her own reputation and mire her family in lethal scandal. And she fears what he may find. Together, they will navigate the shadow side of London, venturing into an underworld of...
30) Blue screen
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Pub. Date
2006
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English
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The Boston P.I. with a personal life as tangled as that of her clients is hired as a bodyguard to an up-and-coming starlet, and discovers some ugly truths behind her glossy facade.
31) Born in death
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As if Lieutenant Eve Dallas doesn't have enough on her plate with a brutal double homicide, her pregnant friend Mavis wants Eve to find Tandy Willowby, one of the moms-to-be in Mavis' class who has suddenly gone missing, just days before her due date. Tandy has few friends and no family, so when Eve enters her apartment to find Tandy's packed hospital bag still there, she knows Tandy is in trouble.
32) Break no bones
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Pub. Date
2006
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English
Description
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan once again inadvertently stumbles upon a modern-day mystery. While supervising a dig of Native American burial grounds in Charleston, S.C., Brennan finds more recent remains. Soon, her ex-husband, who is a lawyer, appears in town pursing leads in a missing persons case connected with a local church. Bodies start piling up at an alarming rate, and Brennan begins to suspect that the deaths are linked to each...
33) Calder storm
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Pub. Date
2006
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English
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When Trey Calder falls for sexy freelance photographer Sloan Davis, he brings her home to the ranch to meet his tight-knit clan. All seems idyllic after the young couple marry, until Trey learns of a connection from Sloan's past that erodes trust between them. Meanwhile, Trey, Sloan and the rest of the Calders face increasing danger from a man with a score to settle with the family. All his life, Trey Calder has been trained to take over his family's...
34) Carolina isle
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Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Author Jude Deveraux uncovers the passions and scandals that take a small town by storm when two cousins switch lives. Ariel and Sara never imagined their high-spirited attempt to step into each other's shoes would cause such upheaval. The lifelong pen pals, who look exactly alike, meet for the first time in their twenties and embark on a daring adventure of changing identities. Southern belle Ariel is determined to win the heart of a man who doesn't...
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When two members decide to leave the fold, the Elm Creek Quilters must buckle down and choose a new pair. Excitement over the open slots is palpable. The top candidates include history lover Maggie, chef Anna, the groundbreaking Russ, the deeply gifted Karen, and the soulful Gretchen. Under the guidance of the master Sylvia Compson, the quilters deliberate, knowing full well their decisions will have a profound impact on their legacy.
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"He saw where the earth was scorched, where it was trampled. He saw his own hoofprints left in the sodden earth when he'd galloped through the battle in the form of a horse. And he saw the woman who'd ridden him, slashing destruction with a flaming sword... Blair Murphy has always worked alone. Destined to be a demon hunter in a world that doesn't believe in such things, she lives for the kill. But now, she finds herself the warrior in a circle of...
37) Dark harbor
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Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Stone Barrington investigates the secrets of a CIA officer's suicide, who is Stone's cousin.
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Pub. Date
2006
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English
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April Taylor wasn't a little girl anymore -- but who was she really? The home she shared with her parents and her older sister, Brenda, may have been filled with turmoil, but it was the only home she knew. Now, with nowhere to go in the wake of losing her mother and father, April had to grow up fast as she embarked on an odyssey of heartbreak and betrayal. It was mere chance that led her to the secluded home of a kindly elderly woman and her deaf...
39) Golden threads
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Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Lara Callahan has come to the small town of Pinewood to start over and to hide. Devon Shane has come looking for answers. When the wary woman and mysterious man take roles in a community theater production, they risk far more than the judgment of an audience. They risk their very lives. Because both of them have secrets. Both are living a lie. And both know the first rule of survival is Tell no one. It's a rule they'll have to break.
40) The hunters
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Delta Force Major Charley Castillo returns in the third adventure in Griffin's Presidential Agent series. The growing UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal leads Castillo and his team to Uruguay, where the man they are seeking is murdered right before their eyes. The murderers leave just enough of a trail for Castillo to pick up the scent.