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81) Web of lies
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Hidden faces series volume 4
Pub. Date
[2005]
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She was washing dishes when her world began to blur. Chelsea Adams hitched in a breath, her skin pebbling. She knew the dreaded sign all too well. God was pushing a vision into her consciousness. Black dots crowded her sight. She dropped a plate, heard it crack against the porcelain sink. Her fingers fumbled for the faucet. The hiss of water ceased. God, I don't want this. Please! After witnessing a shooting at a convenience store, forensic artist...
82) Mountain Laurel
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"North Carolina, 1793. Ian Cameron, a Boston cabinetmaker turned frontier trapper, has come to Mountain Laurel hoping to remake himself yet again - into his planter uncle's heir. No matter how uneasily the role of slave owner rests upon his shoulders. Then he meets Seona - beautiful, artistic, and enslaved to his kin. Seona has a secret: she's been drawing for years, ever since that day she picked up a broken slate to sketch a portrait. When Ian catches...
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[2016]
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Unlucky-in-love artist Annabelle Britton decides that a visit to the seaside town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is the perfect way to get over her problems. But when she stumbles upon a smoky grey cat named Alastair, and follows him into a charming cottage, Annabelle finds herself in a whole spell book full of trouble. Suddenly saddled with a witch's wand and a furry familiar, Annabelle soon meets a friendly group of women who use their spells, charms...
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Huey Valentine, his mother Miss Olivia, and Huey's great friend Abigail Thurmond live an idyllic life on Pawley's Island in South Carolina's lowcountry. Then one day, Rebecca Simms, who has been catapulted from her home, her marriage, and her children, seeks haven on the island. When Huey and Abigail help Rebecca see her day in court, they provoke a national forum for discussion.
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Pub. Date
c1946
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When Beatrix Potter died, few people knew the full story of her life. Margaret Lane's remarkable piece of literary detective work, originally published only three years after Beatrix's death, told her story for the first time. Extensively revised in 1985 to include new material that had come to light, and now available in this eBook format, it remains essential reading for anyone interested in the background to the author of the famous Peter Rabbit...
87) Driftwood Point
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Chesapeake diaries volume 10
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Up-and-coming artist Lisbeth Parker finally has a chance to show the folks back home what it means to leave Cannonball Island and make something of yourself. As a native whose stubborn father forbade her from befriending townies, Lis always felt like an outsider in St. Dennis. So while her work is on display in the local art gallery, she records her ailing centenarian great-grandmother's stories of the island's rich history and spearheads a fight...
89) Through My Eyes
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Since her husband's death, Jill Moncreiff has lived alone in a small, coastal Maine town, pursing her career as an artist. She cherishes her simple, uncomplicated life, surrounded by a few close friends, and she dosn't want anything to change.
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Daughters of La Lune volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
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"In this riveting and richly drawn novel from "one of the master storytellers of historical fiction" (New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams), a talented young artist flees New York for Paris after one of her scandalous drawings reveals a dark secret--and triggers a terrible tragedy. In the wake of a dark and brutal World War, the glitz and glamour of 1925 Manhattan shine like a beacon for the high society set, desperate to keep their...
91) Shiloh
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Pub. Date
2022.
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December 1795. A year has passed since Ian Cameron reluctantly sent his uncle's former slave Seona and their son, Gabriel, north to his kin in Boston. Determined to fully release them, Ian strives to make a life at Mountain Laurel, his inherited plantation, along with Judith, the wife he's vowed to love and cherish. But when tragedy leaves him alone with his daughter, Mandy, and his three remaining slaves, he decides to return north. An act of kindness...
94) The onion girl
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Newford series volume 10
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 29
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Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 1
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
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It's 1905, and to recover from the loss of her fiancé, Beatrix Potter moves into a small farmhouse in Sawrey. Populated by colorful characters, both human and critter, her new life is full of promise. That is, until a villager dies, and murder is suspected. Now it's up to this amateur sleuth to find a killer roaming the English countryside.
96) Forever never
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[2023]
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"Under Brick Callan's mile-wide chest beats a loyal heart with a few cracks in it. He's the steadfast, overprotective type. Especially when it comes to the one woman he can never have. It's a long, complicated history punctuated by fights, friendship, family, and an attraction that strains his iron will power. When Remi Ford returns to Mackinac Island in the dead of winter, Brick makes it his mission to find out what put the shadows in those green...
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Waverly Brennan gives up her job at the Art Institute of Chicago to move to Martha's Vineyard where her mother has purchased what Waverly believed to be an art gallery, but she decides to make the best of things--at least for the summer--when she discovers the business is a video arcade, and there are other reasons why she might want to stay, including Blake Erikson and his young daughter.
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"For fans of The Paris Wife and Loving Frank comes a captivating novel that offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of Vanessa Bell, her sister Virginia Woolf, and the controversial and popular circle of intellectuals known as the Bloomsbury Group. London, 1905: The city is alight with change, and the Stephen siblings are at the forefront. Vanessa, Virginia, Thoby, and Adrian are leaving behind their childhood home and taking a house in the leafy...
99) Exquisite
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2017.
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Pursuing a life in New York after establishing herself as an artist, Siobhan forges a deep bond with billionaire Derick Miller only to see the roller-coaster dynamics of their relationship forcing them apart.
100) Snowed in
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[2004]
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Struggling with the freezing conditions of her Portland, Maine, home, her husband's roving eye, and a problematic mother-in-law, Sophie Quinn finds her life turning around due to unlikely opportunities and an unexpected new relationship.