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"At the heart of Mary Higgins Clark's new novel of suspense is a brutal murder: that of Gary Lasch, a respected and successful young Greenwich, Connecticut, doctor and hospital and HMO head. The news strikes Greenwich society like a thunderbolt - as does the news that Molly Carpenter Lasch, the beautiful young wife of the slain doctor, has been arrested for her husband's murder." "Nobody believes Molly's claim to have no memory of the events of the...
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"Newly jobless, newly single, and suddenly apartmentless, writer Grace Hammond has come unmoored. A grammar whiz who's brilliant at correcting "other" people's errors, she hasn't yet found quite the right set of rules for fixing her own mistakes"--Dust jacket.
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THERE'S A PLACE IN OUR HEARTS RESERVED FOR MIRACLES . . .
From Luanne Rice, the celebrated author of Beach Girls and many other New York Times bestsellers, comes this powerful novel of a mystery, a love affair, and a bond that cannot be broken set in a seaside town where miracles are made . . .
On the first day of summer, Mara Jameson went out to water her garden-and was never seen again. Years after her disappearance, no one could forget the expectant...
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"After a recent string of disappearances in a small Connecticut town, a grieving widower with a grim secret is drawn into a dangerous ritual of dark magic by a powerful and mysterious older gentleman named Heart Crowley. Meanwhile, a member of local law enforcement tasked with uncovering the culprit responsible for the bizarre disappearances soon begins to learn of a current of unbridled hatred simmering beneath the guise of the town's idyllic community--a...
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New England's lesbian senior sleuths return in "this winning second entry in a thriller series you simply must try" (Library Journal).
Widows Lil Campbell and Ada Strauss are exploring their newfound romance when they are woken early by the sound of sirens. The local nursing home in their quaint Connecticut town is ablaze. Thankfully, the residents are safe and sound, including Ada's mother. Administrative director Delia...
Widows Lil Campbell and Ada Strauss are exploring their newfound romance when they are woken early by the sound of sirens. The local nursing home in their quaint Connecticut town is ablaze. Thankfully, the residents are safe and sound, including Ada's mother. Administrative director Delia...
6) The outsider
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In 1946, David Hartman arrives in Leighton Ridge to serve as rabbi to the fourteen Jewish families there, and meets Martin Carter, the Congregational minister who will become his closest and lifelong friend.
7) The Club
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Judy Price has it all: a handsome husband, a thriving career, and a landmark house on two sylvan acres. But when Judy is downsized by her company, her husband suggests she network by hanging around at The Oaks, the country club he reveres and she abhors. Judy knows the misogyny at the antiquated club is all par for the course, but she finds an unexpected ally in Claire Cox, a staunch feminist who has broken the club's ironclad rule against admitting...
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Witches of West Harbor volume 1
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"In her teenage years, lovelorn Jessica Gold cast a spell that went disastrously wrong, and brought her all the wrong kind of attention--as well as a lifetime ban from the World Council of Witches. So no one is more surprised than Jess when, fifteen years later, tall, handsome WCW member Derrick Winters shows up in her quaint little village of West Harbor and claims that Jess is the Chosen One. Not chosen by West Harbor's snobby elite to style them...
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With a wholly original voice, this stunning debut novel captures the overwhelming transformation from childhood to adolescence.
An ordinary suburban Connecticut summer in the seventies is the stage for the miraculous world of Timmy. Twelve years old and full of boundless curiosity, Timmy lives an ever-expanding life of record collections (of which Elton John is king), neighborhood bullies (of whom Franky DiLorenzo rules), best friends, and the darker,...
10) Imagine us happy
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High school junior Stella lives with depression and when she meets a senior boy who understands what she is going through she grows closer to him, but neglects her friendships and responsibilities.
11) Hitts & Mrs
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Melanie Hitts is a smart, savvy and talented aspiring interior decorator who follows her dream of moving to New York City and pursuing her career. She's rejected the prescribed middle class life in which she had been raised, and she's certain that there is no convenient marriage and comfortable suburban lifestyle in her future.
John Carlson is the president of his own high–end architectural firm who is in the middle of a midlife crisis. Married...
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She'll save Christmas just to spite him... When a late season hurricane hits Merry, Connecticut, city manager and single dad Noah Yates has to inform the already devastated residents that there won't be a Christmas Festival this year. No festival means no tourism dollars. A disaster of epic proportions for his hometown. But when home renovation expert slash smoking hot reality TV star Catalina King shows up with a camera crew and a budget big enough...
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A move into an old folks' home marks a new stage of life for both grandmother and granddaughter.
On one side of the Atlantic, Sophia Moore, an emotionally guarded film editor-troubled by her mother's long-ago suicide and her father's abandonment-overworks, incessantly contemplates her past, and continues an unfulfilling affair with the famous director of her latest movie.
But when she travels to the other side of the Atlantic to help her octogenarian...
14) Without Annette
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Josie Little and her girlfriend Annette Anderson have traveled halfway across the country to attend Brookwood Academy, a prestigious boarding school in Connecticut, and get away from Annette's abusive mother, but as soon as they get there things begin to unravel--the undercurrents in the school are poisonous, Annette seems more interested in drinking with the in-crowd, and a boy declares that he is in love with her.
15) The last word
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Deadly deadlines volume 1
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Obituary writer Winter Snow is no stranger to grief, and writing obituaries for the citizens of Ridgefield, Connecticut, is her way of providing comfort to those who have been in her shoes. But funerals and eulogies are meant for the dead, so when the very much alive Leocadia Arlington requests her own obituary by the end of the week, Winter's curiosity is piqued, even more so when she finds Mrs. Arlington dead soon after. Officer Kip Michaels and...
16) Country place
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"Johnnie Roane has come home from four years of fighting in World War II to his loving parents and his beautiful wife, Gloria. But his first doubts of Gloria's infidelity are created on the way home by the local taxi driver, a passionate gossip, and these doubts which mature with the hurricane that is bearing down on them darkening the seemingly perfect town of Lennox, Connecticut. But a greater violence lurks beneath the surface of the storm...Country...
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Something wicked has come to Grenville Connecticut, a town famous for antiques and the systematic fleecing of its well-heeled elders as they down-size, sicken and die. Clearly, someone is unhappy with the status quo as high-end antique dealers are being murdered in gruesome--yet fitting--ways. When a severed finger shows up at the Friday night auction, unlikely heroines Lil Campbell and Ada Strauss have to wonder--"where's the rest of the body? "A...
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Senior sleuths volume 2
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"When a typically closed-off Peg attempts online dating at Rose's strong urging, the experience plays out like an embarrassing mistake. At least, until she matches with Nolan Abercrombie--intelligent, attractive, and a self-proclaimed dog lover. The two share an instant connection that has Peg cautiously excited to finally bring someone special into her busy world of Standard Poodles and conformation shows. Before Peg can admit that Rose was right...
19) The silent rose
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After she experiences a ghostly vision, author Devon James is determined to unravel the mystery of the quaint bed-and-breakfast she is staying in, but its owner, Jonathan Stafford, will stop at nothing to hinder her investigation.
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Cookie shop mystery volume 1
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"A Connecticut cookie shop owner with unreliable employees and a cheating boyfriend is suspected of murder after a blogger who accused her of stealing a recipe turns up dead"--
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