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When professional house-sitter Lila Emerson witnesses a murder/suicide from her current apartment-sitting job, life as she knows it takes a dramatic turn. Suddenly, the woman with no permanent ties finds herself almost wishing for one. Artist Ashton Archer knows his brother isn't capable of violence--against himself or others. He recruits Lila, the only eyewitness, to help him uncover what happened. Ash longs to paint her as intensely as he hungers...
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Publisher
Flash Light Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Lizzie is minding the family antique store while her grandpa naps on a spindly sofa. When Mrs. Larchmont enters and begins her buying spree, she refuses to leave without bargaining for the one antique not for sale...Grandpa!
3) Hot rocks
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English
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When her past catches up with Laine Tavish, the proprietor of the antique shop Remember When, it's up to her and a stranger named Max Gannon to find out who's chasing her, and why.
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English
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When stolen antiques arrive by mistake in Dora Conroy's shop in Philadelphia, she immediately becomes the target of a ring of ruthless smugglers. Fortunately, the upstairs tenant is Jed Skimmerhorn, an ex-policeman. They join forces to bust the ring and find love. By the author of Genuine Lies.
7) Bowled over
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
©2013.
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English
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When her glass bowl is used as a murder weapon, vintage kitchenware and cookbook collector Jaymie Leighton must figure out who wants to implicate her in the death of a former friend.
8) Empty saddle
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Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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When Sadie Speers' granddaughter, Sara, goes missing after a horseback ride, Sadie delves into the investigation.
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English
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"Smarting from her recently canceled wedding and about to turn forty, Laurie Sassalyn returns to her Maine hometown of Calcasset to handle the estate of her great-aunt Dot, a spirited adventurer who lived to be ninety-three. Alongside boxes of Polaroids and pottery, a mysterious wooden duck shows up at the bottom of a cedar chest. Laurie's curiosity is piqued, especially after she finds a love letter to the never-married Dot that ends with the line...
10) Thread and gone
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Angie Curtis and her fellow Mainely Needlepointers know how to enjoy their holidays. But nothing grabs their attention like tying up loose threads. So when Mary Clough drops in on the group's Fourth of July supper with a question about an antique needlepoint she's discovered in her family attic, Angie and her ravelers are happy to look into the matter. Angie's best guess is that the mystery piece may have been stitched by Mary, Queen of Scots, famous...
11) Danger in spades
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Annie's
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Maggie Watson and her friends are throwing a 1940's themed birthday party for WWII veterarn, Dr. William King, with the four-star event doubling as fundraiser for the local homeless. But Ruth Harper drops a bombshell of a long-hidden letter dated March 1943 and written in German. Could her aunt, Lillian Spade, Somerset Harbor's sweetheart, have been secretly harboring the enemy?
12) A fedora offense
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Annie's
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"Valentine's day is approaching and Maggie is in love...with some antiques she bids on at a local auction. A man in a fedora also seems interested but disappears before Maggie can find out who he really is. As she investigates her new purchases she finds hidden paperwork relating to the Vietnam War era."--Amazon.com.
13) Jingle
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Swindle mysteries volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Santa's Workshop Holiday Spectacular at the Colchester mansion is a long standing tradition in Cedarville, however Griffin, Ben, and Antonia are not happy to find that they have been volunteered as elves by their friend Logan and can not get out of it--but this year the pageant seem plagued by frequent electrical outages, and during one of them the valuable antique known as the Star of Prague disappears from the giant Christmas tree, and as they are...
14) The portrait
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Gallic Books
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Avid antiques collector Pierre-François Chaumont unearths the find of a lifetime at a Paris auction house: an eighteenth-century portrait of a gentleman who looks just like him. Researching into the painting's history, he has the chance to abandon his tedious existence and walk into a brand new life"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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When a nervous young girl arrives at Carriage House Antiques looking to sell an extravagant gold-and-emerald ring, owner Maggie Watson is intrigued. Where would the teen have come across such a valuable relic? And why is she so desperate to sell it?
17) Time Will Tell
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Guideposts
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Welcome to Silver Peak, a jewel of a town nestled high in the rugged grandeur of the Rocky Mountains. Behind its rustic charm, Silver Peak has a rough-and-tumble past full of mysteries, and Sadie Speers has a knack for uncovering them, using her love of antiques and Colorado history.
18) Nobody's Safe
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Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
Description
Welcome to Silver Peak, a jewel of a town nestled high in the rugged grandeur of the Rocky Mountains. Behind its rustic charm, Silver Peak has a rough-and-tumble past full of mysteries, and Sadie Speers has a knack for uncovering them, using her love of antiques and Colorado history.
Author
Series
Josie Prescott mysteries volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When a friend turns up dead just hours after confiding a secret to her, New Hampshire antiques appraiser Josie Prescott investigates the murder, struggling to solve the crime while dealing with the victim's bereaved sister and a mysterious hidden treasure.