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When television reporter Evangeline Moon discovers the body of a man in her open front doorway early one morning, she is shocked and horrified.In a bizarre turn of events she finds the man is someone she just met that weekend at a conference in another city, and with whom she had felt an instant attraction.Ignoring her discomfort, a quick search of his body reveals a cryptic note clutched in his hand that raises more questions than it answers.As Evangeline...
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Marla's family reunion at a haunted Florida resort turns up dead bodies instead of fond memories in this spooky cozy mystery.
Hairstylist Marla Shore is eager to introduce her fiancé, Detective Dalton Vail, to her extended family over Thanksgiving weekend at Sugar Crest Plantation Resort. But, that was before she found Aunt Polly suffocated in bed. Is it a coincidence that her aunt's father once owned the property? According to rumor, he met with...
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Thomas Edward Harkin's Woodstock FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Fabled Garden cuts through the lofty rhetoric and mythology surrounding the legendary festival. Rather than waxing philosophical about whether or not the Woodstock Music & Art Fair was the defining moment of the 1960s as so many have done before, Harkins places the focus on the music, solo artists, and bands who performed.
Thirty-two acts took to the stage in Bethel, New York...
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"A dramatic account of the historic 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Iceland--the turning point in the Cold War--by President Reagan's arms control director, a key player in that world-changing event. In October 1986, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met for a forty-eight-hour summit in Reykjavik, Iceland. Planned as a short gathering to outline future talks, the meeting quickly turned to major international issues, including SDI ("Star Wars") and...
45) Light fell
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A Winner of the Barbara Gittings Literature Award and the Edmund White Award Twenty years have passed since Joseph left behind his entire life-his wife Rebecca, his five sons, his father, and the religious Israeli farming community where he grew up-when he fell in love with a man, the genius rabbi Yoel Rosenzweig. Their affair is long over, but its echoes continue to reverberate through the lives of Joseph, Rebecca, and their sons in ways that none...
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#1 The Princess was the most beautiful girl in the class. She was always drawing houses. Renya was fascinated by her intensity as she busied herself on her houses, never taking her eyes off her drawings. One day, Renya complimented her on her work, and the Princess accepted it. But she never asked Renya what she was doing that weekend.
#2 Karla was a very different girl...
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Marcy Lange had spent her life as a homemaker and mother when her life took a turn: She got divorced, started a photography business and began taking aerial photos for local businesses. After her divorce, she went to a singles weekend at a ski resort and that weekend she met Hank. Hank was a pilot and airport bum who always dreamed of flying. Years later, they were married. She didn't know anything about airplanes, but soon learned how to read maps...
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#1 I have friends who are CEOs of corporations and volunteers for nonprofits. But if you gave them each a glass of pinot noir and a cushy ottoman, they would regale you with stories of the time they went bonkers.
#2 Ari was always thoughtful and protective. He was also extremely seductive, and I became increasingly dependent on him. He proposed to me in a castle in Ireland,...
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In 1939, Melanie Morrison's mother, Eleanor, at age eighteen spent a winter weekend at the home of Lillian Smith on Old Screamer Mountain in North Georgia. Smith was a white Southern author who wrote scathing critiques of white supremacy. That weekend on Old Screamer Mountain was an unforgettable turning point in Eleanor's young life as she and her college friends stayed up late listening to Lillian read from her manuscripts and talk about the shriveled-up...
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He had a plan. In retrospect, not a great one, but a girl has to do what a girl has to do when she's out of options.Surgical technician Charlee Smith is guardian to Megan, her fifteen month old niece. Megan's paternal grandparents, people the toddler has never even met, want to change that. Charlee needs quality child care and a bigger apartment. Stat.A few fibs and Megan is in the hospital daycare. Things are going well until handsome, deliciously-enticing...
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In 1931, five individuals who met by chance in Glenwood, Minnesota, brought down a well-known mobster running a host of illegal businesses at a nearby secluded lake resort. Their efforts were kept secret to protect them from mob retribution. Unknown at the time was that a sixth person was affected by the aftermath of the police raid. Henry Hanson, a local town leader, had fled to Charleston, South Carolina and assumed a new identity to keep himself...
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In April 1969, one of America's premier universities was celebrating parents' weekend-and the student union was an armed camp, occupied by over eighty defiant members of the campus's Afro-American Society. Marching out Sunday night, the protesters brandished rifles, their maxim: "If we die, you are going to die." Cornell '69 is an electrifying account of that weekend which probes the origins of the drama and describes how it was played out not only...
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At 28, Cory Martin thought she had it all, a budding career as a writer in Hollywood, an apartment of her own, and a healthy obsession with yoga. But when, she found herself on the floor of her apartment wailing into the phone, 'but I don't want to be sick,' her entire world came crashing down.
A doctor had just revealed that she had Multiple Sclerosis, a potentially debilitating disease, her good friend was getting married that weekend and the only...
54) Sparky and Me: My Friendship with Sparky Anderson and the Lessons He Shared About Baseball and Life
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In the tradition of Tuesdays With Morrie, Dan Ewald pens a memoir of his friendship with legendary Tigers manager Sparky Anderson, the man who taught him not only the nuances of baseball, but the importance of life's unwritten rules.
Few sports figures, regardless of their position, have generated as much good will as Sparky Anderson, the legendary manager for the Cincinnati Reds and the Detroit Tigers. Sparky met author Dan Ewald, in 1979, and thus...
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This Cyber Espionage Romance from Eliza March is connected to her ongoing IATO series. PhD student, Sage Deming committed herself to the NSA, but not until after spring break-her first-hot sun, white sand, and mindless sex, until a series of deadly encounters threaten to interrupt her plans for fun. After a two-year deployment, Colonel Ryan O'Malley returns with a goal to relax before his next cyber security assignment. Is it just dumb luck he's...
56) Disorderly Men
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Three gay men in pre-Stonewall New York City find their fates thrown together in the police raid of a Village bar.
Roger Moorhouse is a Wall Street banker and Westchester family man with a preciously guarded secret. As the shouting begins and flashlights blaze in his face, the life he's carefully curated over the years-a fancy new office overlooking lower Broadway, a house in Beechmont Woods, his wife and children-is about to come crashing down...
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The dramatic, first-hand account of the historic 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Iceland-the definitive weekend that was the key turning point in the Cold War-by President Reagan's arms control director, Ken Adelman.
In October 1986, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met for a forty-eight-hour summit in Reykjavik, Iceland. Planned as a short, inconsequential gathering to outline future talks, the meeting quickly turned to major international issues,...
58) The Weekend
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The gripping new thriller from bestselling author L.H. Stacey! It will keep you up all night!
'Dark and dramatic, with an explosive ending' Diane Saxon
'An atmospheric thriller with a knockout ending!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️' Bestselling author Diana Wilkinson
'The plot twists kept me guessing right until the end' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
That Lake. This house. His friends. They all know what happened to my boy. I know they do. And...
59) Small favors
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In the secluded town of Amity Falls, Ellerie has the chance to have her secret wishes come true, but there is a price to pay in this retelling of Rumpelstiltskin.
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"MORE THAN LOVE is a memoir of loss, grief, and coming-of-age by a daughter of Hollywood royalty. Natasha Gregson Wagner's mother, Natalie Wood, was a child actress who became a legendary movie star, married to Natasha's stepfather, the actor Robert Wagner. But Natalie's sudden death by drowning off Catalina Island at the age of forty-three devastated her family, made her stepfather a person of interest, and turned a vibrant wife, mother, and actress...
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