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  Meg Langslow: Book 4

  Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon

  by Donna Andrews

  Poor Meg Langslow. She’s blessed in so many ways. Michael, her boyfriend, is a handsome, delightful heartthrob who adores her. She’s a successful blacksmith, known for her artistic wrought-iron creations. But somehow Meg’s road to contentment is more rutted and filled with potholes than seems fair. There are Michael’s and Meg’s doting but demanding mothers, for a start. And then there’s the fruitless hunt for a... (more)
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  Meg Langslow: Book 3

  Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos

  by Donna Andrews

  Every year, Yorktown, Virginia, relives its role in the Revolutionary War by celebrating the anniversary of the British surrender in 1781. This year, plans include a re-enactment of the original battle and a colonial craft fair. Meg Langslow has returned to her home town for the festivities--and to sell her wrought-iron works of art. Except, of course, for the pink-painted flamingos she reluctantly made for her... (more)
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  Meg Langslow: Book 2

  Murder with Puffins

  by Donna Andrews

  A romantic getaway was what Meg Langslow had in mind when she and her boyfriend planned a trip to the tiny island of Monhegan off the coast of Maine. They would spend their days hiking the trails and their evenings by the fire. But in this remote place, birds of a feather flock together and Meg quickly learns that this vacation isn't going to go as planned. Although the puffins have already flown south for the... (more)
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  Meg Langslow: Book 8

  The Penguin Who Knew Too Much

  by Donna Andrews

  Hold on to your hats, everybody!  Donna Andrews is taking us on another ride into the wonderful world of Meg Langslow, a world filled with laughter as well as the knotty problems Meg always seems to encounter and---somehow---solve.  Okay, maybe there are people in Antarctica with penguins in their basements, but in Virginia?  Only Meg’s dad could manage that one. A body down there---well, that’s somewhat more... (more)
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  Black Blade Blues

  by J. A. Pitts

  Sarah Beauhall has more on her plate than most twenty-somethings: day job as a blacksmith, night job as a props manager for low-budget movies, and her free time is spent fighting in a medieval re-enactment group. The lead actor breaks Sarah’s favorite one-of-a-kind sword, and to avoid reshooting scenes, Sarah agrees to repair the blade. One of the extras, who claims to be a dwarf, offers to help. And that’s when... (more)
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  To Win Her Heart

  by Karen Witemeyer

  Having completed his sentence for the unintentional crime that derailed his youthful plans for fame and fortune, Levi Grant looks to start over in the town of Spencer, Texas. Spencer needs a blacksmith, a trade he learned at his father's knee, and he needs a place where no one knows his past. But small towns leave little room for secrets... Eden Spencer has sworn off men, choosing instead to devote her time... (more)
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  Meg Langslow: Book 1

  Murder with Peacocks

  by Donna Andrews

  Winner of the 1998 St. Martin's Press/Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Contest, Donna Andrews introduces a cast of quirky characters who will pull her heroine in different directions as she plans three successive summer weddings. When Meg Langslow is roped into being a bridesmaid for the nuptials of her mother, her brother's fiancee, and her own best friend, she is apprehensive. Getting the brides... (more)
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  Meg Langslow: Book 7

  No Nest for the Wicket

  by Donna Andrews

  LINE YOUR DUCKS UP IN A ROW… The hilly terrain next to the old Sprocket house that Meg Langslow and her fiancé, Michael, are refurbishing is the perfect location for an “extreme” croquet field—even the legs of cows and sheep are convenient extra wickets. A sport  traditionally reserved for genteel society, croquet has become all the rage in Caerphilly…until it appears someone in town has taken the “rage” a bit... (more)
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  Meg Langslow: Book 6

  Owls Well That Ends Well

  by Donna Andrews

  Meg Langslow was actually looking forward to renovating the old Victorian mansion she and her boyfriend Michael bought. But she wasn’t thrilled by the lifetime of junk accumulated by the house’s eccentric previous owner, Edwina Sprocket. The easiest solution: hold the end-all and be-all of gigantic yard sales. But when the event attracts the late Miss Sprocket’s money-hungry heirs, the over-enthusiastic supporters... (more)
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  Never Forgotten

  by Patricia C. McKissack

  This gorgeous picture book by Newbery Honor winner Patricia C. McKissack and two-time Caldecott Medal-winning husband-and-wife team Leo and Diane Dillon is sure to become a treasured keepsake for African American families. Set in West Africa, here is a lyrical story-in-verse about a young black boy who is kidnapped and sold into slavery, which will remind children that their slave ancestors should never be... (more)
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  Trinity

  by Leon Uris

  From the acclaimed author who enthralled the world with Exodus, Battle Cry, QB VII, Topaz, and other beloved classics of twentieth-century fiction comes a sweeping and powerful epic adventure that captures the "terrible beauty" of Ireland during its long and bloody struggle for freedom. It is the electrifying story of an idealistic young Catholic rebel and the valiant and beautiful Protestant girl who defied her... (more)
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  Trinity and Redemption

  Redemption

  by Leon Uris

  Master storyteller Leon Uris, internationally acclaimedauthor of such bestsellers as Exodus, Topaz, QB VII,Trinity, the Haj and Mitla Pass ,continues the epic story of the Irish struggle for freedom in Redemption . A dramatic saga set against the backdrop of growing unrest in Ireland and a world on the brink of the First World War, Redemption weaves together a cast of unforgettable characters that form the... (more)
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  The Princess Tales

  The Princess Test

  by Gail Carson Levine

  Gail Carson Levine charmed the world with Ella Enchanted , her spirited retelling of the Cinderella story. Now this award-winning author turns her attention to two more classic fairy tales, and deftly turns them upside down and inside out with her trademark wit and hilarity. In The Fairy's Mistake , two very different sisters have two very different encounters with the fairy Ethelinda. Rosella is kind and... (more)
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  Spice Merchant's Daughter

  by Fran Orenstein

  In 1685, Jean-Claude Dubois, son of a French spice merchant, escapes from the violence against Protestant Huguenots and sails to Prussia. Jean-Claude falls in love with Marie and they marry and have a daughter, Katy. At thirteen, fluent in French, Katy is sent away to be the companion of spoiled, aristocratic Charlotte to tutor her for a marriage into French nobility. Katy must accompany her to France, where she... (more)
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  Faery Special Romances

  by Jacquie Rogers

  Once Upon A Time, the faery princess Keely tried to match . . . . . . a misguided faery maiden and a surly but handsome knight, the pirate Devlin Angell and the ever-hopeful Myra, a faery under the ruse of Lord Kembell and a lady of nobel birth, a blacksmith and a duchess, a flapper and a barnstormer pilot . . . But can Keely keep her own heart? With faery magic, anything can happen! This enchanted... (more)
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  Meg Langslow: Book 9

  Cockatiels at Seven

  by Donna Andrews

  It’s time for more outrageous and feathered fun in the award-winning, laugh-out-loud Meg Langslow series. When her old friend Karen drops by with two-year-old son Timmy, Meg Langslow reluctantly agrees to babysit “just for a little while.” But when nightfall comes, the toddler is still in residence and Karen isn’t answering any phone calls. Meg decides she must find out what’s happening, so the next morning, with... (more)
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  Meg Langslow: Book 10

  Six Geese A-Slaying

  by Donna Andrews

  Meg and Michael’s house is serving as the marshaling point for the annual Caerphilly Christmas parade. The theme is “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” and it features twelve drummers from the school marching band, eleven bagpipers, ten leaping lords costumed in medieval finery from the college drama department, etc. There are also assorted Christmas-themed floats, a live nativity scene on a flatbed truck, the Three... (more)
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  Will's Saving Grace

  by Cynthia Scott

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  Great Expectations

  by Charles Dickens

  Great Expectations, described by G. K. Chesterton as a “study in human weakness and the slow human surrender,” may be called Charles Dickens' finest moment in a remarkably illustrious literary career. Written in the last decade of his life, Great Expectations reveals Dickens’ dark attitudes toward Victorian society, its inherent class structure and its materialism. Yet this novel persists as one of Dickens’ most... (more)
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  The Village Blacksmith, with Illustrations

  by A. Wtson

  The now extinct world of the blacksmith is recreated here in more than a hundred superbly detailed drawings and colorful text which represent a historically accurate picture of the late 19th century New England smith, who daily performed the miracle of transforming lumps of red-hot iron into objects of utilitarian function.