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The plans of four women--including a college student egg donor, a working-class surrogate mother, a wealthy woman, and her stepdaughter--are thrown into turmoil when the wealthy woman's husband suddenly dies and names the stepdaughter the unborn baby's guardian.
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3 stars
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Defending the brother of a Holocaust hero against allegations of World War II crimes, fiercely independent attorneys Charlotte Gold and Jack Harrington slowly fall for one another, while their client refuses to help in his own defense and claims that proof of his innocence lies within an intricate clock.
204. The third victim
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Pierce Quincy novels volume 2.
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4.7 stars
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When the idyllic town of Bakersville, Oregon, is torn apart by a shooting at the local school and by the arrest of the sheriff's son for the crime, Deputy Sheriff Rainie Conner heads up her first homicide investigation.
205. This heart of mine
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Chicago Stars volume 5.
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When children's book author Molly Somerville acts on her crush on Chicago Stars quarterback Kevin Tucker, she sets in motion a chain of events that will alter the lives of everyone it touches.
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 16.
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Follows the adventures of detective Dave Robicheaux, who struggles with alcoholism and rage while fighting to protect lives in Katrina-devastated New Orleans.
207. The troubled man
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Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 10.
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4.3 stars
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"A novel in which Kurt Wallander becomes involved in the case of the disappearance of a retired naval officer--who is Wallander's daughter Linda's future father-in-law--which leads him into a story of Cold War espionage. Wallander also confronts his own age and mortality, while welcoming his first granddaughter"--
208. Trust your eyes
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Thomas Kilbride is a schizophrenic who spends his days and nights on a Web site called Whirl360. He travels the world without ever leaving his bedroom and memorizes the details of every street in every city. Then one day, he sees an image that looks like a woman being murdered in a window in New York City. Thomas's brother, Ray, knows Thomas's paranoia all too well. But if this time it's real, both of them will have more to deal with than Thomas's...
209. Twisted: a novel
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Petra Connor novels volume 2.
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With her energies focused on a baffling, vicious gang slaying and her personal life in shambles, Hollywood homicide detective Petra Connor has a full plate. The last thing she needs is a whiz-kid grad student claiming to have stumbled upon a bizarre connection between several unsolved murders. The victims had nothing in common, yet each died by the same method, on the same date--a date that's rapidly approaching again. And that leaves Petra with little...
210. Uncommon clay
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 8.
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5 stars
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North Carolina's Randolph County is heavy with bright red clay and home to generations of skilled potters. Two of the best are James Lucas Nordan and Sandra Kay Hitchcock, locked in a bitter divorce after twenty-five years of marriage. Enter Judge Deborah Knott, who must settle the most exasperating part of any divorce case--the equitable distribution of marital property. As creative as it was stormy, the Nordans' marriage produced great artistic...
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Hannah Wolfe mysteries volume 3.
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Hannah Wolfe investigates sabotage at a health spa.
212. Unleashed
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Andy Carpenter novels volume 11.
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5 stars
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When Barry Price, an old high school friend, contacts Sam Willis with a desperate plea for help but later dies in the crash of a private plane, Sam and Andy Carpenter reach the terrifying realization that Sam was also intended to be a victim of the crash.
213. Unspoken
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The More You Know
The envelope delivered to Shelby Cole's Seattle home contains no return address, just a photograph of a little girl. Shelby knows at once that this is the daughter she was told died at birth. And in that moment, Shelby knows something else: she needs to go back to Bad Luck, Texas.
The More You Tell
She's not the only one coming home. A long-ago killing is in the news again following recanted testimony. A violent
...214. Waking hours
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East Salem trilogy volume 1.
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4.5 stars
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Forensic psychiatrist Dani Harris and security system business owner Tommy Gunderson investigate the death of a teenager, while an old woman speaks in Latin about a supernatural connection to the murder, as lawyers and school administrators try to stop the investigation.
215. Water like a stone
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Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James mysteries volume 11.
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4.3 stars
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Duncan Kincaid and Gemma Jamess idyllic holiday is interrupted by murder. As the detectives are drawn deeper, they find that the past never truly dies--and not even Kincaids family is safe from harm.
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Coming of age in middle America, eighteen-year-old Rosemary evaluates how her entire youth was defined by the presence and forced removal of an endearing chimpanzee who was secretly regarded as a family member and who Rosemary loved as a sister.
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Tiring of commitment-phobic boyfriends, Lottie readily accepts her ex's offer of marriage in fulfillment of a safety pact made years earlier that they would marry if they were still single in their thirties, a rushed arrangement that prompts family disapproval and an unexpected renewal of passion.
218. What I did for love
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A down-on-her-luck movie actress runs into her detestable former co-star--dreamboat-from-hell Bramwell Shepard--in Las Vegas and gets caught up in a ridiculous incident that leads to a calamitous elopement. Can two enemies find themselves working without a script in a town where the spotlight shines bright and where the strongest emotions can wear startling disguises?
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Alex Delaware novels volume 1.
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4 stars
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Dr. Morton Hander practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Hander paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment. The police have no leads, but they do have one possible witness: seven-year-old Melody Quinn. It's psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware's job to try to unlock the terrible secret buried in Meldoy's memory. But as the sinister shadows...
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Actress-turned-private investigator Jasmine Sharp finds her simple missing persons case turning into a dangerous murder investigation when the disappearance of her client's younger sister is linked to the shooting death of a prominent figure in the Scottish arts community.