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Legendary figures of Mississippi's past-flatboatman Mike Fink and the dreaded Harp brothers-mingle with characters from Eudora Welty's own imagination in an exuberant fantasy set along the Natchez Trace. Berry-stained bandit of the woods Jamie Lockhart steals Rosamond, the beautiful daughter of pioneer planter Clement Musgrove, to set in motion this frontier fairy tale. For all her wild, rich fancy, Welty writes prose that is as disciplined as it...
2) Jessie
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Big sky dreams volume 3
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Abandoned by her husband, Seth, before their second child was born, Jessie, as a single mom and the sole proprietor of Token Creek's general store, lives day to day with her hands full and her heart broken. When Seth returns to town, Jessie is reluctant to trust him or God with her family's future.
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House of Falconer volume 1
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Victorian England is a country of sharp divides between rich and poor, but James Lionel Falconer is everything a self-made man should be: handsome, ambitious, charming, and brimming with self-confidence. Even as a boy working in his father's market stall in Camden, he was determined to become a merchant prince. Through hard work and a single-minded determination, James rises quickly through the ranks, with a loving wife, devoted children, and a lofty...
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"With her Let It Bee honey boutique buzzing along nicely, life is as sweet as nectar for Wren Johnson--until she takes a morning walk along the Pacific beach with her Havana Brown cat, Everett, and stumbles upon the body of Agnes Snow, the cranky queen of the local craft fairs, stiff as driftwood. More unfortunate? Clutched in the victim's fist is a label from Wren's homemade beeswax-and-honey lip balm. Which makes Officer Jim Hampton focus his dreamy-blue...
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House of Falconer volume 2
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"From New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the highly anticipated second book in the House of Falconer saga. James Lionel Falconer has risen quickly from a mere shop worker to being the right-hand man of Henry Malvern, head of the most prestigious shipping company in London. With Malvern's daughter Alexis running away to the country after a terrible tragedy and refusing to return, James' ascent to head of the company seems...
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Sugar Maple chronicles volume 4
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"In the latest novel from the USA Today bestselling author, raising a baby is hard, but raising one with magical powers is even harder... Sugar Maple, Vermont, knitting store owner Chloe Hobbs couldn't be happier about her pregnancy. But with the arrival of the town's newest resident, things are about to get a lot more magical. Baby Laria is six pounds, eleven ounces of perfect, and Chloe and Luke are over the moon. But when they learn that Laria...
10) Coming home
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Chesapeake diaries volume 1
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After years of seclusion, widower and former FBI agent Grady Shields returns to his hometown for his sister's wedding and gets a second chance at love when he meets Vanessa Keaton, who is on the run from her past.
11) Blackberry Beach
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Hope Harbor volume 7
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Katherine Parker is on the cusp of having everything she ever wanted--fame, money, and acclaim. So why isn't she happy? In search of answers, she comes incognito to Hope Harbor on the Oregon coast for some R&R. Maybe in her secluded rental house overlooking the serene Pacific she'll be able to calm the storm inside.
Coffee shop owner Zach Garrett has found his niche after a traumatic loss--and he has no plans to change the life he's created....
Coffee shop owner Zach Garrett has found his niche after a traumatic loss--and he has no plans to change the life he's created....
12) A spirited tail
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Mystic Notch cozy mystery volume 2
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[2014].
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A bookstore owner finds a dead body in the backyard of a home and the previous home owner's ghost while appraising a libary of books at the home. Her cat helps her decipher clues to the mystery.
13) Laced with magic
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Sugar Maple chronicles volume 2
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Knit shop owner and sorcerer's daughter Chloe Hobbs, still learning to control her own powers, thinks she has found the love of her life in Luke MacKenzie, but their relationship falters when his ex-wife shows up in Sugar Maple, Vermont, claiming that the spirit of their daughter--a child Chloe did not know existed--is being held hostage by a Fae leader, and Chloe, knowing that the spell to free the child will unloose a dangerous magic, must decide...
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c2009
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'Tis the season to be jolly, but in Moosetookalook, Maine, Christmas cheer is in short supply due to a snowless winter that's keeping skiers and shoppers at a distance. Lisa has a plan involving Tiny Teddies, the hot toy of the season-- which turns out to be a toy to die for...
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2023.
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"This enchanting and eye-opening new novel from Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela follows an embattled young woman coming of age during the Mahdist War in nineteenth-century Sudan, and illuminates the tensions that shape her course: between Britain and Sudan, Christianity and Islam, colonizer and colonized. In River Spirit, Aboulela gives us the unforgettable story of a people who--against the odds and for a brief time--gained independence from foreign...
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Eternity Springs novel volume 12
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2016.
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After a devastating betrayal, Claire Branham packs up the pieces of her life, along with a twenty-million-dollar secret, and moves to Eternity Springs. She opens a specialty shop - Forever Christmas - and, with the help of a surprise romance with the town's sexy new handyman, Claire's heart begins to heal. Until her past comes knocking. Jax Lancaster never questioned the need to abandon his career as a Navy submariner in order to care for his young...
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2015.
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After leaving a dicey marriage and losing a corporate job, Pepper Reece has found a new zest for life running a spice and tea shop in Seattle's Pike Place Market. Then a panhandler shows up dead on the doorstep, a Seattle Spice Shop cup in his hand, and the police arrest one of her staffers for murder. Convinced her reticent employee is innocent, Pepper decides to sniff out some clues. Gut Pepper's nosy ways might make her next on the killer's list....
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The Serpentwar Saga continues! The second book in master fantasist Raymond E. Feist's New York Times bestselling classic epic fantasy adventure of war, magic, betrayal, and heroism, Rise of a Merchant Prince chronicles the further exploits of the young protagonists of Shadow of a Dark Queen in the aftermath of the initial confrontation with the fearsome reptilian Sauur and the invading armies of the dreaded Emerald Queen. Any reader addicted to the...
20) The miniaturist
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The miniaturist volume 1
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Engaging the services of a miniaturist to furnish a cabinet-sized replica of her new home, 18-year-old Nella Oortman, the wife of an illustrious merchant trader, soon discovers that the artist's tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in eerie and unexpected ways.