Born into peace and freedom, Lavinia is stunned to learn that she will be the cause of a great war--or so the prophecies and omens claim. Her fate is sealed, however, when she meets a man from...
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Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.Summary:Genre: Historical fiction, Fantasy fiction -
Author: Fluke, JoanneSummary:
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The last thing Maura Thomas remembers before her car careened over a steep embankment is having dinner with her college roommate.over twenty years ago....
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Author: Canadeo, AnneSummary:
The first in a new series spinning off from Anne Canadeo's popular Black Sheep Knitting Mysteries, as four knitting friends and sleuthing heroines take some big steps in their lives. Maggie has...
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Author: Canadeo, AnneSummary:
When a fellow Black Sheep Knitter is suspected of poisoning her coworker, the group puts down their needles and takes up their friend's defense ... Suzanne Cavanaugh has just about had it...
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Author: King, Laurie R.Summary:
The Art of Detection is another spellbinding tale starring San Francisco homicide inspector Kate Martinelli. The victim is Sherlock Holmes aficionado Philip Gilbert, whose collection of priceless...
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Author: McCaig, DonaldSummary:
This sequel to Donald McCaig's Civil War novel "Jacob's ladder" delivers a saga of Reconstruction America from Lee's 1865 surrender at Appomattox to Custer's 1876 massacre at Little Big Horn....
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Author: Cassella, Carol WileySummary:
Claire Boehning must dust off her long-unused medical expertise and make a living for her family in rural Washington when her husband's biotech venture crashes--taking everything they owned with...
Genre: Medical fiction -
Author: Noyes, AnnaSummary:
An electrifying debut by sensational new literary talent, Anna Noyes, Goodnight, Beautiful Women surveys the residents of small New England coastal towns in tales that probe boundaries of familial...
Genre: Short stories, Domestic fiction -
Author: Gear, W. MichaelSummary:
The second book in a thrilling sci-fi action adventure, set on Donovan, a treacherous alien planet where corporate threats and dangerous creatures imperil the lives of the planet's colonists...
Genre: Science fiction -
Author: Messud, ClaireSummary:
"A Simple Tale" is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, an aging Ukrainian woman who was taken by the Germans for slave labor and eventually relocated to Canada as a displaced person...
Genre: Short stories -
Author: Fisher, Suzanne WoodsSummary:
After three years on a whaling voyage, Henry Macy returns to Nantucket to news that his grandmother has passed, bequeathing her vast fortune to him and his sister, Hitty. And it was truly vast....
Genre: Religious fiction, Romance fiction -
Author: Dovey, CeridwenSummary:
Dovey offers a character study of three men held captive after a military coup. All linked closely with the deposed president, the portraitist longs for his pregnant wife, the chef takes solace in...
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Author: Cooney, Caroline B.Summary:At college in New York City, Janie Johnson, aka Jennie Spring, seems to have successfully left behind her past as "The face on the milk carton," but soon she, her families, and friends are pursued...
Genre: Romance fiction, Young adult fiction -
Author: Cooney, Caroline B.Summary:A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.
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Author: Cooney, Caroline B.Summary:The members of two families have their lives disrupted when a teenage girl who had been kidnapped twelve years earlier discovers that the people who raised her are not her biological parents.
Genre: Young adult fiction