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  Evening Class

  by Maeve Binchy

  Dreaming of Italy, eager to learn the language, a disparate group of Dubliners comes together for an introductory Italian course held in a drab classroom every Tuesday and Thursday evening. The teacher, Aidan Dunne, has hit an all-time low in both his career and family life, and so his self-image is hinging on the success of this class. The students are a varied cast of characters: there's Signora, so smitten... (more)
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  Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener (Agatha Raisin Mysteries (Paperback))

  by M. C. Beaton

  "From the author's sure-fire plot comes this fail-safe moral: It takes an outsider to open people's eyes to the beauty--and the evil--within." --The New York Times Book Review "Beaton has a winner in the irrepressible, romance-hungry Agatha." --Chicago Sun Times Never say die. That's the philosophy Agatha Raisin clings to when she comes home to cozy Carsely and finds a new woman ensconced in the affections of her... (more)
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  The Stately Home Murder

  by Catherine Aird

  At a stately home, now open for public tours, a young boy lifts the visor on a suit of armor - and finds a face staring back at him! Inspector C. D. Sloan and his wisecracking sidekick, Constable Crosby, Catherine Aird's two popular sleuths, must figure out who stashed the body and why.
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  The Diamond Cat

  by Marian Babson

  The cat who swallowed more than a canary... A lifetime of craving more cuddly companionship than her hectoring mother has led fortyish Bettina Bilby to board her neighbors' felines for a long holiday weekend: an expectant tabby, a pampered blue-eyed Balinese, a depressed ginger Persian with a cod-liver-oil addiction, and Adolf, an imperious mouser with a patchwork face. But a freak storm sets the pigeon among... (more)
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  Death is a Cabaret (Antique Lover's Mysteries (Prime Crime))

  by Deborah Morgan

  Since Jeff Talbot left the FBI, he's been investigating yard sales as a professional antique picker. And though he prefers finding hidden treasures to finding hidden bodies, he discovers that for some collectors, the right item can be worth killing for-like a one-of-a-kind French cabaret set. "A deft blend of mystery <and> mayhem." (Harlan Coben)
• AUNT DIMITY BEATS The DEVIL.Nancy Atherton

  

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  AUNT DIMITY BEATS The DEVIL.

  by Nancy Atherton

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  The Devil Wears Prada

  by Lauren Weisberger

  A delightfully dishy novel about the all-time most impossible boss in the history of impossible bosses. Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job “a million girls would die for.” Hired as the assistant to Miranda Priestly, the high-profile, fabulously successful editor of Runway magazine, Andrea finds herself in an office that shouts Prada! Armani! Versace! at every turn, a world... (more)
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  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

  by Mark Haddon

  Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow. This improbable story of Christopher’s quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and... (more)
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  Without Remorse (Tom Clancy)

  by Tom Clancy

  In a harrowing tour de force, Tom Clancy shows how an ordinary man named John Kelly crossed the lines of justice and morality--to become the CIA legend Mr. Clark.
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  The Sum of All Fears

  by Tom Clancy

  Jack Ryan confronts terrorists in the Middle East in Tom Clancy's spectacular sixth novel -- another Sunday Times No 1 bestseller -- now reissued with a new cover. As those in power around the globe face up to the challenges of a new world order, in Washington CIA Deputy Director Jack Ryan is putting everything into a plan that could finally bring peace to a Middle East still suffering from the ravages of war.... (more)
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  Death of an Outsider (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries (Paperback))

  by M. C. Beaton

  Murder is a Tasty Dish The most hated man in the most dour town in Scotland is sleeping with the fishes, or-more accurately-dumped into a tank filled with crustaceans. All that remain of the murdered victim are his bones. But after the lobsters are shipped off to Britain's best restaurants, the whole affair quickly lands on the plate of Constable Hamish Macbeth. Exiled with his dog, Towser, to the dreary outpost... (more)
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  Liars and Saints: A Novel

  by Maile Meloy

  With her first novel, Liars and Saints, award-winning author Maile Meloy more than delivers on the promise of her highly acclaimed debut story collection, Half in Love. This richly textured novel tells a story of sex and longing, love and loss, and of the deceit that can lie at the heart of family relationships. Set in California, Liars and Saints follows four generations of the Catholic Santerre family from... (more)
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  The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1

  by Alan Moore

  Proving that mainstream comics could be infused with past literary/cultural ideals and still be bestsellers, the America's Best Comics imprint took the dilapidated superhero genre and created three vastly entertaining hybrids with Tom Strong, Promethea and Top Ten. Now, a stunning coup de grace is delivered with this masterful pairing of Victorian adventure fiction's greatest characters and the old war-horse of... (more)