Rita Mae Brown
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English
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A landmark coming-of-age novel that launched the career of one of this country's most distinctive voices. Rita Mae Brown tells the story of Molly Bolt, the adoptive daughter of a dirt-poor Southern couple who boldly forges her own path in America. With her startling beauty and crackling wit, Molly finds that women are drawn to her wherever she goes-- and she refuses to apologize for loving them back.
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English
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"On the Ides of March, an ill wind blows no good -- especially when it knocks down a tree limb in the oldest equine graveyard in America, revealing remains that are decidedly un-equine. It falls to Master of the Foxhunt, the indomitable "Sister" Jane Arnold and her trusty hounds to investigate an old murder with present day repercussions. To start off, the complicated relations between three old families and their prize thoroughbreds must be untangled....
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A blackmailer targeting wealthy members of "Sister" Jane Arnold's club has turned the hunters into the hunted in this thrilling mystery from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown. It's the start of fox hunting season and Sister is training a new generation of hounds in eager anticipation of Opening Hunt. But before they make it to that exciting day, several members of the hunt club receive ominous videos in which they appear to be doing...
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English
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"Amidst the revelry of the Christmas Hunt, mystery and intrigue abound! When the fanfare is interrupted by the discovery of a body, "Sister" Jane Arnold and her company of loyal hounds find themselves faced with a pressing task--to uncover who has killed a beloved club faithful. It's no help that the meddling, loathsome Victor Harris lurks in the shadows, weaseling his way back into the life of his disinherited daughter. As always, the gang must untangle...
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 217 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
As a wave of spring tilling and planting sweeps over Crozet, Virginia, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen is especially excited: this is her first year harvesting grapes to sell. But then a health crisis sends her reeling into the forbidding world of hospitals and doctors, treatments and procedures. Although surviving this journey will be tough, Harry will have lots of support. Others will have worse luck.
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Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Someone's passed their expiration date in this thrilling new mystery in the bestselling Mrs. Murphy series from Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown. Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen and her pet sleuths uncover a rotten scam to dupe consumers when they discover that substandard produce is being passed off for organic, upmarket groceries. As always, Harry's crime-solving cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter and Tee Tucker the Corgi share her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
[2020].
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
350 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Frigid February air has settled into the bones of the Blue Ridge Mountains, making for a slow foxhunting season, though "Sister" Jane Arnold's enthusiasm is not so easily deterred. With the winter chill come tweed coats, blazing fireplaces, and perhaps another to share the warmth with, as the bold hunting scarlets worn by the men in Sister Jane's hunting club make the hearts of women flutter--until someone's heart stops entirely. Harry Dunbar, a...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 319 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Rita Mae Brown and her feline coauthor Sneaky Pie Brown return to Albemarle County, Virgina, as tangled mysteries past and present converge in the bestselling Mrs. Murphy series. As feline collaborators go, you couldn't ask for better than Sneaky Pie Brown." The New York Times Book Review. With the New Year just around the corner, winter has transformed the cozy Blue Ridge Mountain community of Crozet, Virginia, into a living snow globe. It's the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Spring is peeking through the frost in Virginia, and though the hunting season is coming to a close, the foxes seem determined to put the members of the Jefferson Hunt Club through their paces. Sister and her friends are enjoying some of the best chases they've had all season when the fun is cut short by the theft of Crawford Howard's treasured Sir Alfred Munnings painting of a woman in hunting attire riding sidesaddle. When another painting goes...
10) Whisker of evil
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Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xiii, 297 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, her cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and her dog Tee Tucker, decide to do their own investigating when they stumble across the body of handsome local horse breeder Barry Monteith while out for a morning walk.
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xiv, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The second honeymoon of Harry and Fair Haristeen in Shelbyville, Kentucky, goes awry when they attend a saddlebred show and their friend Joan's treasured pin goes missing, a horse groomer is found murdered, a movie star's mare is abducted, and the INS arrives looking for illegal aliens.
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A busy holiday season for Harry, her husband, and her posse of pet detectives is interrupted by dark secrets from the community's past involving a cold case and a twenty-five-year-old love triangle.
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Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xiv, 237 p. ill. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Harry and her husband, Fair, have gone to fetch a Christmas tree at the tree farm run by The Brothers of Love, a semimonastic organization that tends to AIDS patients, when they find the tree they've chosen grimly decorated with a dead body. Can Harry, the sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and corgi Tee Tucker save the season from a killjoy who's decided to gift the festive little town of Crozet, Virginia, with murder?
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Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 310 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sister" Jane Arnold, master of Virginia's Jefferson Hunt Club, finds herself on the scent of a killer when she begins looking into the murder of Al Perez, the fund-raiser at the exclusive Custis Hall girls' school, whose body was found among the fake corpses hung as decorations for the Halloween dance.