When Jessilyn's parents begin raising her best friend as their own daughter, this kindness toward a dark-skinned orphan triggers threats and violence. While teetering on the brink of womanhood,...
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Author: Valent, Jennifer ErinSummary:Genre: Domestic fiction
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Author: Brown, Rita Mae.Summary:
As the murders pile up in Crozet, Virgina, it seems the ones who can shiff out the clues best are a cat and a dog.
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Author: Brown, Rita Mae.Summary:
After a shocking archaeological find at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello home sparks controversy, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen goes hunting for the truth. Her friends Mrs. Murphy the...
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Author: Brown, Rita Mae.Summary:
The hills of Virginia are home to the most elegant steeplechases. But after a competitive run, a jockey is found stabbed to death. The knife in his chest impales a queen of clubs, and when a...
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Author: Brown, Rita Mae.Summary:
When a phony obituary for the headmaster of St. Elizabeth's School appears in the local newspaper, the people of Crozet, Virginia are surprised, but not too concerned. For a small town,...
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Author: Brown, Rita Mae.Summary:
Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen gets a little help from her veterinarian husband to solve the murder of a young equine vet whose death may be linked to his new clinic in this tantalizing...
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Author: Leppard, Lois GladysSummary:
Mandy is bewildered by the unhappy reaction of some of her Cherokee friends to her discovery of gold inside a cave and her Christian values are tested by a troublesome Cherokee cousin.
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Author: Gabhart, Ann H.Summary:
Orphaned in the cholera epidemic of 1833, Adria Starr was cared for by a slave named Louis, a man who stayed in Springfield, Kentucky, when anyone with means had fled. A man who passed up the...
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Author: Haines, CarolynSummary:
When Eulalee McBridge confesses to murdering her husband, she asks Sarah Booth Delaney to dig up the dirt on the violent man to prove he got what he deserved. Sarah Booth suspects Eulalee is lying...
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Author: Haines, CarolynSummary:
When P.I. Sarah Booth makes a bid for film stardom, she may land a chance to shoot on location in Costa Rica--or she may find herself in a whole heap of trouble.
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Author: Haines, CarolynSummary:
Depressed after losing her unborn child, PI Sarah Booth Delaney distracts herself by checking out a beauty pageant with her friend and partner, Tinkie. This works fine--until the pageant's top...
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Author: Haines, CarolynSummary:
Sarah Booth Delaney investigates when two wealthy heiresses claim a four-million-dollar family necklace was stolen. All the evidence points to insurance fraud, but when Sarah starts poking into...
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Author: Haines, CarolynSummary:
From feuding scientists to ailing locals, Sarah Booth Delaney finds no shortage of bad blood coursing through the little town of Zinnia, Mississippi, as she drops everything to stop an outbreak of...
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Author: Hepinstall, KathySummary:
After defying her husband during the war, Virginia plantation wife Iris Dunleavy is deemed insane and taken to Sanibel Asylum to receive treatments for her unruliness. There she meets another "...
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Author: McDonald, MeganSummary:
When a puppy who is being trained as a police dog goes missing, third-grader Judy forms a detective agency to solve the mystery, imitating her literary heroine, Nancy Drew.
Genre: Juvenile fiction