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781) The white Mary
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
10 audio discs (approximately 12 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Marika Vecera, an accomplished war reporter, has dedicated her life to helping the world's oppressed and forgotten. When not on one of her dangerous assignments, she lives in Boston, exploring a new relationship with Seb, a psychologist who offers her glimpses of a better world. Returning from a harrowing assignment in Congo where she was kidnapped by rebel soldiers, Marika learns that a man she has always admired from afar, Pulitzer-winning war correspondent...
Author
Publisher
SparkPress, a BookSparks imprint, a division of SparkPoint Studio, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A woman who worries about carrying a .38 special in her purse, nearly drowns in a desert canyon, flies into the war in Bosnia, dances with the FBI, tells Geraldo he shouldn't put guests in hotel rooms with rats and spends time with murderers, has more than a few stories to tell. 'Gravel on the Side of the Road - True Stories From a Broad Who Has Been There' is a daring and revealing adventure itself. . . . Novelist Kris Radish returns to her non-fiction...
783) Ad©·le
Author
Description
"Ad©·le appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a beautiful apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But underneath the surface, she is bored--and consumed by an insatiable need for sex. Driven less by pleasure than compulsion, Ad©·le organizes her day around her extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she's been, until she becomes ensnared in...
784) Adèle
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
216, 9 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Adèle appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a beautiful apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But underneath the surface, she is bored--and consumed by an insatiable need for sex. Driven less by pleasure than compulsion, Adèle organizes her day around her extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she's been, until she becomes ensnared in a...
785) Too many cooks
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
After talking her way into a job on a pompous, third-rate chef's radio call-in-show, Angie Amalfi has visions of a new career to go along with her hot, new romance with Paavo Smith, a gorgeous homocide detective. When a successful and much-envied restauranteur is poisoned however, Angie finds the case far more interesting than trying to make her pretentious boss sound good. Some cooks might shy away from such a sizzling case, but Angie can take the...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After witnessing the way in which his hometown of St. Francisville, La., rallied around his ill sister, journalist Rod Dreher and his wife decided to leave Philadelphia and move back to St. Francisville, thereby accepting the limitations of small-town life for the privilege of being part of a community.
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Carrie and Miranda wrestle with their single lifestyles. Miranda has new baby Brady and single motherhood, while Carrie finds herself in the world of publishing as the author of a real-life book of her columns. Charlotte wonders if she'd ever find another man, while Samantha finally gets rid of the one that had been vexing her far too much. From Samantha's anointment as the "Michiko Kakutani of vibrators" to Carrie's stressful book launch party. The...
Author
Pub. Date
1954
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The extraordinary and eventful personal account of the life of Pearl S. Buck, the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature Often regarded as one of Pearl S. Buck's most significant works, My Several Worlds is the memoir of a major novelist and one of the key American chroniclers of China. Buck, who was born to missionary parents in 1892, spent much of the first portion of her life in China, experiencing the Boxer Rebellion first...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
At the height of Victorian London's obsession with Spiritualism, the city's premier medium, Mrs. Violet Woods, while a newspaperman works to expose false mediums across London, takes in a girl with an uncanny talent for the craft to spice up her brand, which could lead to her downfall.
Mrs. Violet Wood is London's premier medium. Her ambition and work ethic are relentless, and her unique abilities have earned her quite the reputation among London's...
790) Cooking most deadly
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Although food writer and dilettante chef Angie Amalfi is ready to start thinking about cutting a wedding cake with her delectable homicide detective boyfriend Paavo Smith, Paavo's got other things on his mind-mainly, the grisly murder of two San Francisco women. While he combs the city for clues to the brutal slayings, Angie begins a quest of her own: searching for a little gem of a restaurant for a magazine review. She discovers three grumpy old...
791) Cooking up trouble
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chef Angie Amalfi can't wait to take off from the city for a week to help devise a delicious vegetarian menu for a lovely new B&B in scenic northern California. The not-yet-open-for-business Hill Haven Inn will be the perfect place to take her budding romance with her homicide detective boyfriend Paavo to the next level! But the situation awaiting them turns out to be less than ideal-with battling investors, rumors of ghosts, cold drafts, a leaky...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Catherine Sanderson and her daughter, Phoebe, have always been as close as a mother and daughter could be, except for one secret between them: the identity of Phoebe's father. Catherine, busy working with refugee and immigrant women through her small firm, Babylon Sisters, has taken on a powerful new client. She doesn't have much time for Phoebe's complicated questions of paternity-that is, until Phoebe's real father, B. J., a renowned investigative...
793) Striking distance
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Berkley Sensation mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
x, 374 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
TV reporter Laura Nilsson, known as the "Baghdad Babe," spent eighteen months in an Al-Qaeda compound after being kidnapped live on the air. Two years later, she's still wondering why. No mission in Javier Corbray's fourteen years as a Navy SEAL affected him the way Laura's rescue did. No woman had stirred his protective instincts the way she did. And he wants her more than he's ever wanted anyone. As Laura and Javier's passion ignites, so does...
794) The full box
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Abridged.
Physical Desc
12 audio discs (approximately 12 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The series kicks off with Full House, featuring polo instructor Nicholas Kaharchek and divorced mother Billie Pearce. With Full Tilt the series shifted to Beaumont, South Carolina and a new romance between Jamie Swift, a local newspaper reporter, and Maximillian Holt, a mysterious millionaire. Their time together has gone Full Speed into all sorts of adventures, but the experience has been a Full Blast.
795) Flight risk
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
463 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Savannah Daniels has trouble trusting anyone after her ex-husband's betrayal, despite the fact that she's a successful lawyer and devoted aunt. Jett Glover is pursuing an international sex-trafficking ring that may bring down Savannah's ex-husband and many other famous individuals. When the men implicated in the scandal begin to die, Savannah and Jett team up to investigate" --
796) Last will: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
11 discs (12 hr., 33 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A shooting at the glamourous Nobel Prize dinner in Stockholm enmeshes investigative reporter and witness Annika Bengtzon in a web of international terrorism and global pharmaceutical interests that forces her to track down a professional assassin.
797) Never tell
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First St. Martin's Griffin edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Criminal psychologist Dr. Erin Abbott wants nothing more than to live a quiet life. That means no danger, no intrigue--and absolutely no romance. But when Erin suspects a serial killer is roaming New Orleans, her investigation throws her straight into the arms of the only man who can help her. Journalist Gabriel Moss is hot to find his next huge story--and he knows Erin is on to something big. From the moment they meet, Gabriel senses that Erin is...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The problem with most lights overwhelming: at least 5,000 children live on the streets of Uganda's capital city of Kampala. Some forget the names of their villages. The youngest may not know the names of their parents. But Gladys Kalibbala--part journalist, part detective, part Good Samaritan--does not hesitate to dive into difficult or even dangerous situations to aid a child. Author of a newspaper column called "Lost and Abandoned," she is a resource...
799) The first victim
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
800) Killer riff
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (approximately 74 min. each) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Newly promoted to full time feature writer Molly Forrester's first assignment is to cover the death by overdose of rock manager/producer Russell Elliott.