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44) The long call
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Two rivers volume 1
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English
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In North Devon, Detective Matthew Venn is back to take charge of his first major case in the Two Rivers region; a complex place not quite as idyllic as tourists suppose. A body has been found on the beach near to Matthew's new home: a man with the tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death. Finding the killer is Venn's only focus, and his team's investigation will take him straight back into the community he left behind, and the deadly secrets...
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Alaska homecoming volume 1
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English
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In Deep River, Alaska, Hope Dawson finds her ticket to freedom in the arrival of Silas Quinn, who has returned to tell the town that an oil reserve has been found, pitting neighbor against neighbor.
46) Just One Kiss
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He won't hesitate to put his life on the line...but will he ever risk his heart? Falling for Justice Garrett was a high point in Patience McGraw's otherwise awkward adolescence. Even after he disappeared, Patience never forgot the boy who captured her heart. Now he's back in Fool's Gold, California, and her passion for him is as strong as ever. But how can she trust that he won't abandon her again - and her daughter, too? When bodyguard Justice Garrett...
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"Every town has its secrets... In idyllic Alara Cove, a California beach town known for its sunny charm and chill surfer vibe, it's graduation day. The students at the elite Thornton Academy are the worldly and overindulged children who live in gated enclaves with spectacular views. But the class valedictorian is Nikki Graziola, a surfer's daughter who is there on scholarship. To the shock of everyone in the audience, Nikki veers off script while...
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This debut novel by Trevor Herriot, one of Canada's foremost writer-naturalists, is the richly observed story of Nell Rowan, who has inherited her family's prairie farmstead and returned there to live after many decades away. Nell is increasingly obsessed by a 19th-century bird collector while haunted by memories of her mother's disappearance.
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When Annie Harlow awakes from a year-long coma, she discovers that time isn't the only thing she's lost. Grieving and wounded, Annie retreats to her old family home in Switchback, Vermont. There, Annie slowly emerges into a world she left behind years ago: the town where she grew up, the people she knew before, the high-school boyfriend turned ex-cop. And with the discovery of a cookbook her grandmother wrote in the distant past, Annie unearths an...
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When Lorimer Hall returns to the town of Clear Creek, everything has changed. His father and his friend Budd Ewing are both dead, and nobody wants to know him. Lorimer decides to move on, but with it looking as if Glenn Harlow, Budd's killer, might get lynched, he is persuaded to accept the task of escorting him to jail. Glenn claims he's an innocent man. But Lorimer makes a mistake that leads to his prisoner being taken to his death...
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Hogarth
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English
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"The Barrowfields is a richly textured coming of age story about a boy who loses the larger-than-life lawyer/writer father that he grew up idolizing, subsequently leaves home in the NC mountains and spends years contending with forgiveness, falls in love,and finally returns" -- Provided by publisher.
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Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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English
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Alison, the only survivor of unspeakable horror, decides to confront her past to overcome the trauma of what happened by returning to her old hometown where she discovers that the townspeople were all somehow involved in her family's murder.
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English
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Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959. At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of South Australia. Many years later and thousands of miles away, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Having lived and worked in London for nearly...
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Farlingaye Hall is a beautiful hotel in Suffolk on the east coast of England. Unfortunately, it is also the site of the brutal murder of Frank Parris. Stefan Codrescu, a Romanian maintenance man, is arrested after police discover blood spatter on his clothes and bed linen. He is found guilty and sentenced to eight years in prison. Cecily Treherne, the daughter of Farlingaye Hall's owner, believes the proof of Stefan's innocence can be found in late...
56) As she left it
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
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English
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Thirteen years after escaping from her alcoholic mother, Opal Jones returns to their small cottage in Leeds following her mother's death and discovers the neighborhood living with the shame and sorrow of the mysterious decade-old disappearance of a neighbor's young grandson.
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Wild coast volume 1
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English
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"Skylar Beaumont never wanted to return to Alaska. Still, when duty calls, she can't refuse. And, as a third-generation 'Coastie' and the only female captain in the local coast guard, she has too much to prove. Being stationed in her hometown of Port Serenity isn't ideal--but she'll tough it out until her transfer goes through and she can move on to warmer waters. That's the plan, at least, until she crashes into Dex Wakefield. Again"--Back cover....
59) The look-alike
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St. Martin's Press
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English
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Sienna Scott grew up in the dark shadow of her mother's paranoid delusions. But in her mother's shuttered house, an old fear that has haunted Sienna for years rears its ugly head - that it was she who had been the killer's target that night. And now, with it, a new fear - that the killer not only intended to remedy his past mistake - he's already begun. As the walls close in, the line between truth and lie, reality and delusion disintegrate.
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Linford
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English
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"Maggie Green thought she had her life perfectly on track: a long-term relationship, a successful career in finance, and a swanky apartment in London. But then everything falls apart. She's made redundant, dumped by her boyfriend, and there's a worrying call from her doctor. With her pride in tatters, Maggie returns to her family home for the Christmas period. No one knows the real reason she hasn't been back--except the one person she is most nervous...
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