Maggie Steed
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Stella volume 9
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English
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Stella struggles with the thought of losing Luke again, and is determined to keep her life simple, and happy with Sean. However, when Emma takes her day in another direction, she makes a very impulsive decision.
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Series
Stella volume 8
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English
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The girls head to a spa for Emma's hen weekend, while the boys embark on a camping adventure for Sunil's stag do. Luke and Rob bond, but Stella isn't thrilled.
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Series
Stella volume 6
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English
Description
Stella is worried when Sunil starts acting suspiciously. In true Stella style, she goes on an unorthodox mission to uncover the truth. Meanwhile, Luke is wrestling with news from his past.
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Series
Stella volume 3
Language
English
Description
The town of Ponteberry is devastated by news their rugby legend, Dick the Kick, is dead. It's up to Stella, Paula and Bobby to organize a send off fit for a hero.
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Series
Stella volume 5
Language
English
Description
Stella is getting ready for her date with Sean, which means, of course, trying to lose weight by joining in with the youth rugby team, when she learns Dai is in trouble, and has gone missing. The race is on to find him. Meanwhile, Ben has a secret he's now terrified of revealing to all the family.
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Series
Stella volume 2
Language
English
Description
Stella tries to keep her startling news about Emma top secret, but there's no such thing as a secret in the hilarious closeness of life in Ponteberry.
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Series
Stella volume 7
Language
English
Description
Stella is excited about planning a surprise birthday party for Luke, with help from all her family friends. It is all going to plan, except nothing ever does in Stella's world.
Author
Series
Stella volume 1
Language
English
Description
Stella is fed up with her appearance. Attempting to glam herself up, she has a bit of fun in daughter Emma's bedroom, trying on her clothes and playing with make-up. But the fun comes to an abrupt halt when she makes a startling discovery.
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Series
Stella volume 4
Language
English
Description
Stella is worried that Luke is hanging out with the wrong sort, so she chooses to play a trick that almost gets her into hot water. Sean, playing Stella's hero, asks her on a date.
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Series
Stella volume 10
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English
Description
Luke prepares to move to Canada, while Stella must decide between Sean and Rob. Who will she choose? James Corden guest stars.
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English
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"When her best friend Elizabeth goes missing, Maud is convinced something terrible has happened. But her search to find Elizabeth unearths an altogether darker unsolved mystery: her sister's disappearance, long buried in the recesses of her memory. Can Maud discover the fate of both missing women before her dementia erases the clues and the answers are lost to her forever?"--Container.
12) The painted veil
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Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter, a middle class doctor, and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them...
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"After 25 years in the force, Detective Inspector Henry Crabbe has lost his appetite for the job. He plans to take early retirement and open his dream restaurant, Pie in the Sky. But his accountant wife, Margaret, doesn't think the numbers add up. And his boss, ACC Fisher needs him around to handle those delicate cases at which he excels. Although craving retirement, Crabbe discovers that crime solving can be just as hard to resist as his signature...
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English
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"After 25 years in the force, Detective Inspector Henry Crabbe has lost his appetite for the job. He plans to take early retirement and open his dream restaurant, Pie in the Sky. But his accountant wife, Margaret, doesn't think the numbers add up. And his boss, ACC Fisher needs him around to handle those delicate cases at which he excels. Although craving retirement, Crabbe discovers that crime solving can be just as hard to resist as his signature...
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English
Description
"After 25 years in the force, Detective Inspector Henry Crabbe has lost his appetite for the job. He plans to take early retirement and open his dream restaurant, Pie in the Sky. But his accountant wife, Margaret, doesn't think the numbers add up. And his boss, ACC Fisher needs him around to handle those delicate cases at which he excels. Although craving retirement, Crabbe discovers that crime solving can be just as hard to resist as his signature...
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English
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Semi-retired policeman Henry Crabbe would rather be cooking than catching criminals. Unluckily for him, he happens to be good at both. His boss, Assistant Chief Constable Fisher doesn't want to lose him, and his accountant wife, Margaret, worries his new career as a restaurateur won't be financially viable. While indulging his culinary passions, Crabbe remains on call for those particularly tricky case that Fisher sends his way.
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English
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When Sal's husband dies suddenly of a heart attack, Sal and her best friend, Tip try to find some fun among the knitting and cake-baking of The Ladies' Guild in the small West Country town of Clatterford St. Mary. The Guild members are certainly an eccentric bunch: leader Eileen, who takes her position--and chains--very seriously; cheese-mad Rose (or Margaret, depending on whether she's taken her medication); Delilah Stagg of the loose false teeth...
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English
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"Murder strikes in an Oxfordshire village at 17 Bloxham Drive. Exactly 24 hours later, while a policeman patrols outside, the resident at Number 15 is shot dead by the same gun. Investigators begin to unearth links between the neighbours of the modern estate. The murders also take Morse and Lewis into the hothouse atmosphere of the election for Master of Lonsdale College, over which the smooth and odious retiring master, Sir Clixby Bream, presides."--Container....