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  November of the Heart

  by LaVyrle Spencer

  Lorna Barnett was from a wealthy St. Paul Family; summers were spent at their second home, where her father was absorbed in his yacht racing, her sisters taken by the latest hairstyles. But at eighteen, Lorna wanted more...Jens Harken was an odd-jobs man, hired to serve and be silent. But he dared to offer his services as a shipbuilder and be commissioned by Lorna's father to build a racing yacht. And as he... (more)
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  That Camden Summer

  by LaVyrle Spencer

  The year is 1916. The place is a tiny New England village called Camden--where a newly divorced woman learns that love can be more special the second time around ...When free-thinking divorcee Roberta Jewett returns to her hometown of Camden, Maine, she discovers that small-town folk consider a divorced woman little more than a prostitute. Condemned by her mother and scorned by neighbors, she nonetheless... (more)
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  The Orphan Trilogy: Book 2

  The Orphan Factory

  by James Morcan, Lance Morcan

  An epic, atmospheric story that begins with twenty three genetically superior orphans being groomed to become elite spies in Chicago’s Pedemont Orphanage and concludes with a political assassination deep in the Amazon jungle.The Orphan Factory, a coming-of-age spy thriller novel, is book two in The Orphan Trilogy and a prequel to The Ninth Orphan. Go on another frenetic journey with the ninth-born orphan... (more)
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  Sprayed Stiff: A Hair-raising Mystery

  by Laura Bradley

  She's a cut above the average sleuth....Reyn Marten Sawyer is a San Antonio hair stylist with a head for solving murders! Dye Young, Stay Pretty Reyn is getting conditioned to normal life after untangling the murder of her beloved mentor. So she's a little frosted by a late-night call from wealthy Alexandra Barrister, desperate for Reyn's help with a hair crisis. She arrives at the imposing Barrister estate --... (more)
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  Home Song

  by LaVyrle Spencer

  Principal Tom Gardner comes face-to-face with a past indiscretion when a new student transfers to his school: Kent Arens. Tom only has to look at him to see that this teenager is the son he never knew he had, the result of a one-night stand on the eve of Tom's wedding years before. Though impressed with the intelligent, athletic, and polite young man, Tom is devastated by the effect of Kent's presence on his... (more)
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  Bitter Sweet

  by LaVyrle Spencer

  How do you teach a heart to love again?MAGGIEShattered by the loss of her husband, she struggled each day to put her grief behind her. To be there for her teenaged daughter. And to face life again. When she returned to her Wisconsin hometown, she never expected to feel a spark of longing-for her old high school sweetheart ...ERICHis marriage to a driven career woman had left... (more)
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  Small Town Girl

  by LaVyrle Spencer

  Eighteen years ago, young Tess McPhail left her tiny hometown of Wintergreen, Missouri, population 1,713. She headed for Nashville--and never looked back. Now one of country music's brightest lights, "Mac" McPhail is a millionaire many times over. Her career is her life. At thirty-five, Mac has no time for marriage, children, or kinfolk--until her sisters insist she come home to help care for their widowed... (more)
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  The Winds of Autumn

  by M. Jean Pike

  Scorned by her zealot mother after being raped by a cult leader who calls himself The Shepherd, eighteen-year-old Angel knows that her only hope of survival is escape. On a rainy September night, she flees her mother’s home, unaware of the supernatural forces that silently guide her on her journey to Littlebrook, a poor mountain village where nothing ever changes and nothing is as innocent as it seems. Alone and... (more)
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  Captive Fear

  by E. G. Parsons

  A madman stalks the small city of Briarwood and surrounding communities, carefully choosing those women he feels are worthy of his attention. Stripping them of all pride and dignity, he adds them to his ever growing collection. At first his captive victims only wish to stay alive, eventually some will pray to die. Police detective, Matthew Barns has a reputation for finding missing people when all hope is gone.... (more)
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  Remote Control

  by Cynthia Polansky

  2006 Indie Excellence Award Winner New Age Fiction If the spirit of a loving wife can t nudge her husband in the right direction, who can? So thinks thirty-something Judith McBride, a Jewish control freak with an unlikely last name. When Judith dies in a medical mishap, she calls on her supernatural status to "rescue" her widowed spouse from the gold-digging clutches of their sexy, thrill-seeking blonde... (more)
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  The Help

  by Kathryn Stockett

  Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; and white Miss Skeeter, home from College, who wants to know why her beloved maid has... (more)
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  Prey for the Wicked

  by Sheila Peele-Miller

  Where innocent sleeps . . . Evil lurks! Twenty-year old Janeen Cooper wasn't born with the best of anything. But one thing she knew for sure, her mother loved her and wanted nothing but the best for her only child. When Janeen's mother dies unexpectedly, her life takes a drastic turn and she winds up in the one place she was warned to never go, Williamston , NC . Convinced there's no chance for happiness,... (more)
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  Gold Stars

  by Samuel L. Lytle

  If a reality television program gave cash rewards for random acts of kindness, would you be more willing to help your neighbor? If everyone watched this show and were thus ‘motivated’ to serve at every opportunity, what would be the net effect?When Parker learns that he has yet one more class before he can graduate college, he decides to use the course on social interactions to convince his famous... (more)
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  Reverb

  by J. Cafesin

  James Whren is brilliant, beautiful and taken--with himself, or more precisely his genius for creating music. The object of desire for many, James's greatest passion is for his muse. On the eve of his brother's funeral, his father turns his life upside down, and James is left abandoned in hell with no one real to save him. His odyssey to freedom takes him beyond the looking glass, to the view from friends... (more)
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  Going Barefoot in Greener Grass

  by Audry Fryer

  Looking for a fun read? Then, try Going Barefoot ... In her debut novel, Audry Fryer, tells the story of Olivia and Bethany, two best friends who truly believe the grass is greener on the other side. After surviving a lively wedding with her boisterous Italian-American family, Olivia now has the husband, the children, the cute suburban home and … little else beyond the threshold of her front door. Meanwhile,... (more)
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  Robert Langdon: Book 2

  The Da Vinci Code

  by Dan Brown

  Robert Langdon, Harvard Professor of symbology, receives an urgent late-night call while in Paris: the curator of the Louvre has been murdered. Alongside the body is a series of baffling ciphers. Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Da Vinci - and further. The curator, part of a secret society named the Priory of Sion, may have sacrificed... (more)
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  The Chamber

  by John Grisham

  In the corridors of Chicago's top law firm:Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case.Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison:Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out of chances --... (more)
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  The Rainmaker

  by John Grisham

  HE'S A YOUNG LAWYER WHO DOES YARD WORK IN EXCHANGE FOR RENT. THEN ONE LITTLE CASE BEGINS TO EXPLODE...It's summer in Memphis. The sweat is sticking to Rudy Baylor's shirt and creditors are nipping at his heels. Once he had aspirations of breezing through law school and punching his ticket to the good life. Now he doesn't have a job or a prayer...except for one: an insurance dispute that leaves a family... (more)
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  Ford County: Book 1

  A Time to Kill

  by John Grisham

  Clanton, Mississippi The life of a ten-year-old girl is shuttered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her black father acquires an assault rifle--and takes justice into his own outraged hands.For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits... (more)
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  The Client

  by John Grisham

  In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull pull up to the curb... Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad and a mob... (more)