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Margery Blandon was always a principled woman who found guidance from the wisdom of desktop calendars. She lived quietly in Gold Street, Brunswick for 60 years until events drove her to the 43rd floor of the Tropic Hotel. As she waits for the crowds in the atrium far below to disperse, she contemplates what went wrong; her best friend kept an astonishing secret from her and she can't trust the home help. It's possible her firstborn son has betrayed...
63) Best friends
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Ooh, la la -- Gigi's cousin Pierre is visiting from Paris! But Pierre isn't being very friendly. Can the puppies figure out what's wrong?
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"Fan favorite David Wong takes readers to a whole new level with this blistering sequel to the cult sensation John Dies at the End, soon to be a movie starring Paul Giamatti Originally released as an online serial where it received more than 70,000 downloads, John Dies at the End has been described as a "Horrortacular", an epic of "spectacular" horror that combines the laugh out loud humor of the best R-rated.
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In a divided town during a dangerous era, who can be trusted? Liberty, Indiana, is home to a stop on the Underground Railroad operated by Quaker abolitionists. When Anna's secret work is threatened, can she turn to handsome newspaper editor Daniel, to ensure the safety of the runaways?
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"After years as a professional gambler-and a deadly shootout on a riverboat casino-Tom Calvert and his young protege, Asher Smith, have survived an arduous journey across the frontier to Friendly Field, Idaho. The bucolic Quaker community welcomes them with open arms, and soon Tom is courting a widow and learning, to his surprise, to enjoy the quiet life. Then an elder of Friendly Field is found murdered, and the townsfolk start whispering about the...
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Phoebe Starbuck has always adjusted her sails and rudder to the whims of her father. Now, for the first time, she's doing what she wants to do: marrying Captain Phineas Foulger and sailing far away from Nantucket. As she leaves on her grand adventure, her father gives her two gifts, both of which Phoebe sees little need for. The first is an old sheepskin journal from Great Mary, her highly revered great-grandmother. The other is a "minder" on the...
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While it's great fun sipping Juneberry swirl punch and watching bright stickies wave from a spinning globe, Booker T. Bear and his best friend, Dahlya Dragonfly, quickly become bored. Booker suggests they travel to see the Cubs play, but Dahlya doesn't agree. She reminds Booker that he -is- a cub and he's seen lots of ballgames. She insists on an exotic adventure. In this second adventurous book, Booker puts on his Jet-Away jacket and says the magic...
71) A lesson in Hope
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When ninety-eight-year-old Olive Charles passes away, leaving the church her nearly million-dollar estate, Pastor Sam Gardner discovers that this unexpected blessing is more of a curse when it stirs up a storm of conflicting opinions among his members.
73) Pig has a plan
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Poor Pig! He just wants to take a nap, but his barnyard pals are making a terrible racket. Pig hatches a plan to block all the noise, and then learns that his friends have been planning a birthday party just for him.
74) Charity's burden
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The winter of 1889 is harsh in Amesbury, Massachusetts, but it doesn't stop Quaker midwife Rose Carroll from making the rounds to her pregnant and postpartum mothers. When Charity Skells dies from an apparent early miscarriage, Rose wonders about the symptoms that don't match the stated cause of death. She learns that Charity's husband may be up to no good with a young woman whose mother appears to offer prohibited medical procedures. A disgraced...
75) Judge thee not
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No stranger to judgmental attitudes in her small town of Amesbury, Quaker midwife Rose Carroll is nonetheless stunned when society matron Mayme Settle publicly snubs her good friend Bertie for her nontraditional lifestyle. When Mrs. Settle is later found murdered--and a supposed witness insists Bertie was spotted near the scene of the crime--the police have no choice but to set their sights on the slighted woman as their main suspect. Rose is certain...
76) Trial by fire
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Three girls enter a world where magic is real and friendship is everything.
77) A changing light
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"As the nineteenth century nears an end, midwife Rose Carroll can see signs of progress and change everywhere in her Amesbury community. Adding to the excitement is the annual Spring Opening, when the town's world-famous carriage manufacturers throw open their doors to visitors from all over the globe. This year's festivities are tainted, however, when a representative from a prominent Canadian carriage company is murdered. Driven by her strong sense...
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No one is more surprised than Sunny Licht when Noah Whitmore proposes. She's a scarlet woman and an unwed mother. But she can't resist Noah's offer of a fresh start in a place where her scandalous past is unknown. In Sunny, the former Union soldier sees a woman whose loneliness matches his own. When they arrive in Wisconsin, he'll see that she and her baby daughter want for nothing except the love that war burned out of him. Yet Sunny makes him hope...
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Four Quaker women journey through the trials of faith and love: Ruth Payne's bridegroom has cold feet. . .for the second time; things get complicated for Underground Railroad worker Deborah Wall when she meets a bounty hunter head-on; Leah hopes to turn a marriage of convenience into a marriage of love; and Christian Jaidon Taylor wants to win the heart of Quaker Catherine Wall.