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"A Harper has always lived at Harper House, the centuries-old mansion just outside of Memphis. And for as long as anyone alive remembers, the ghostly Harper Bride has walked the halls, singing lullabies at night... At forty-seven, Rosalind Harper is a woman whose experiences have made her strong enough to bend without breaking-and to weather any storm. A widow with three grown sons, she survived a disastrous second marriage and built her In the Garden...
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Alex Delaware novels volume 22
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Alex and his LAPD detective partner, Milo Sturgis, are investigating several murders that, at first, appear to have only one thing in common: the perpetrator's use of expensive black automobiles while committing his crimes. Kellerman sticks to his usual modus, the patient and sometimes painfully slow accumulation of detail, as Alex and Milo build their case. A subplot involves a missing child last seen selling magazine subscriptions in a tony neighborhood...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
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A comic novel of three young men who "borrow" an automobile for a hilarious journey in Memphis. Wild humor and frenetic action do not, however, obscure the development of moving and tender human relationships and moral insights into human conduct.
4) Christy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 29
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The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, might as well be transporting her to another world. The Smoky Mountain community of Cutter Gap feels suspended in time, trapped by poverty, superstitions, and century-old traditions. But as Christy struggles to find acceptance in her new home, some see her--and her one-room school--as a threat to their way of life. Her faith is challenged and...
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2011
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After a personal tragedy, Chicago writer Ava Dabrowski quits her job to spend the summer in Woodburn, Tennessee at the invitation of her old college friend, Will Fraser and his two great-aunts, Josephine and Fanny Woodburn. Her charming hosts offer Ava a chance to relax at their idyllic ancestral estate, Woodburn Hall, while working on her first novel. But Woodburn Hall is anything but quiet.
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FBI Agent Noah Bishop and his extrasensory Special Crimes Unit are at the deadly axis of imagination and chilling, unknown evil. Twenty-five years ago, at a secluded Victorian resort known as The Lodge, Quentin Hayes stumbled upon the body of a young girl - a tragedy no one should ever experience, let alone a 12-year-old boy. Now, on the eve of another disappearance, Quentin teams up with FBI Agent Bishop and artist Diana Brisco, whose "seeing" gifts...
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Reminiscent of "Cold Mountain" and "Enemy Women," Robert Hicks' gripping debut novel, based on the incredible true story of Carrie McGavock--a woman whose life was forever changed by the Civil War--is exquisitely packaged with endpapers and compelling interior photographs.
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Kat Colorado mysteries volume 7
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A country music star in Nashville receives threatening letters, and dead roses are placed on her bed. Next, flash grenades go off and there is a murder. It is time to call on her childhood friend, PI Kat Colorado.
10) When Venus fell
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Bantam Books
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c1998
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Venus had her dreams of a career as a classical pianist dashed by scandal when her Japanese-Italian, nightclub-owner father died in prison, having been accused of murdering a federal judge. Gib became a member of the Secret Service after an IRA bomb killed his parents on vacation in England. Thirty years later, a man who represents everything that tough Venus hates shows up, with a big surprise and a desperate proposition, at the bar where Venus...