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1) Lilac Lane
Author
Series
Chesapeake Shores novels volume 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the heart of Lilac Lane is Keira Malone, who raised her three children alone after her first marriage broke apart, and who, after years of guarding her heart, finally finds love again. But that love is short-lived when her fiance suffers a fatal heart attack. Grieving and unsure of what's next, Keira agrees to move from Dublin to Chesapeake Shores, Maryland, to spend time with her daughter, Moira, and her new granddaughter, Kate, as well as to...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the heart of Greenwich Village, three women form an accidental sorority when a baby--belonging to exactly none of them--lands on their collective doorstep. Lauren and her family--lucky bastards--have been granted the use of a spectacular brownstone, teeming with history and dizzyingly unattractive '70s wallpaper. Adding to the home's bohemian, grungy splendor is the bar occupying the basement, a (mostly) beloved dive called The Sweet Spot. Within...
Author
Series
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
387 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Running a venerable bar in 1960 Montana while raising his twelve-year-old son, single father Tom Harry finds his world upended by the arrival of a woman from his past and her beatnik daughter, who claims Tom as her father.
Author
Series
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hapless crook John Dortmunder cares nothing about righting ancient wrongs or for the game of chess. He is however, interested in finding a highly valuable, 700-pound chess set which was said to have been a planned gift for the last Russian czar. As he reunites his merry band of crooks, the treasure hunt is troubled from the beginning. There are few leads, so Dortmunder turns to ex-cop Johnny Eppick for help.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Peter Armstrong and Hank Colfax are best friends, but their lives couldn't be more different. Peter, the local pastor who is dedicated to his community, spending time visiting the flock, attending meetings, and, with the holiday season approaching, preparing for the Christmas service and live nativity. As a bartender, Hank serves a much different customer base at his family-owned tavern, including a handful of lonely regulars and the local biker...
6) The lawman
Author
Series
Willow Creek volume 1
Publisher
Lily Graison,]
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
130 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the run from her ex-lover, jilted by a no-show husband and now mistaken for a whore in the Diamond Back saloon, Abigail Thornton doesn't think things can get any worse. That is until a single slap to a man's face starts a barroom brawl that lands her in the last place she expected to be. Town Marshal Morgan Avery wants nothing more than to wash away the trail-dust and sleep for a week, preferably with a soft, willing woman by his side. Instead,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Saga Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
502 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On the backwater planet of Brynner, at Persephone Station, a community of android refugees, all female, are hiding since they were able to awaken their AI and escape servitude. But the Serrao-Orlov Corporation is nothing if not tenacious, especially about its proprietary AIs, and it wants their property back. However, Persephone is run by Rosie, and they are in charge of an organized group of beneficent criminals and assassins, along with a bunch...
8) Downfall
Author
Series
Sam Capra novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
453 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
All ex-CIA agent Sam Capra wants is a quiet life in which to raise his infant son. One day, a beautiful woman walks into his bar and begs for his help. Sam is then propelled in a fight to save himself as the woman's enemies turn out to be a wealthy and powerful group that basically controls the world. They then turn their attentions to Sam as being the person who got in their way. Sam has no choice but to destroy the man at the pinnacle of this powerful...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Kensington mass market edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 374 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
For Mack and her barfly allies, solving homicides calls for equal parts instinct and wit. To strain out a crafty criminal, the mixture has got to be absolutely perfect . . .
It's a week before Christmas, but Milwaukee bar owner Mackenzie "Mack" Dalton is hardly in good spirits. Chilled to the core by the murder of bouncer Gary Gunderson, Mack is determined to use her extra perceptive senses to identify the gunman responsible. Did Gary's patchy past...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
408, [2] pages, 8 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The discovery of a hidden label on a famous gown unearths the story of a talented young seamstress in this glittering novel of family, love, ambition, and self discovery by the USA Today bestselling author of The Flight Girls. 2023, The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History: A costume conservator is preparing an exhibition featuring movie costumes from the 1920s to present day. As she gingerly places a gown once worn by Greta Garbo on...
Author
Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Opposites attract in this rivals-to-lovers romance from Lush Money author Angelina M. Lopez. Guapo pobrecito her grandmother calls him. The "poor handsome man." Professor Jeremiah Post, the poor handsome man, is in fact standing in the way of Alejandra "Alex" Torres turning Loretta's, her grandmother's bar, into a viable business. The hot brainiac who sleeps in one of the upstairs tenant rooms already has all of her Mexican American family's admiration;...
12) Resolution
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When greedy mine owner Eamon O'Malley threatens the loose coalition of local ranchers and starts buying up Resolution's few businesses, Hitch and Cole find themselves in the middle of a makeshift war between O'Malley's men and the ranchers. In a place where law and order don't exist, Hitch and Cole must make their own, guided by their sense of duty, honor, and friendship.
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