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"Margaret Atwood's best-loved novel has taken the world by storm again. Riding high on bestseller lists for months and the basis for Hulu's Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning smash hit series, The Handmaid's Tale is everywhere--and it's primed for a stunning new graphic novel adaptation. The story is iconic: In the Republic of Gilead, a Handmaid named Offred lives in the home of the Commander, to the purpose that she become pregnant with his child....
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Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family...
4) Beachcomber
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2003
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343 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Christy Petrino hadn't planned on a vacation on Ocracoke Island, but when she learns her fiancé and boss, suave Michael DePalma, is a "made man" and the Philadelphia law firm where she works is a front for the mob, she breaks her engagement and quits her job. But no one walks away from the DePalma family business so easily....Only if she delivers a locked briefcase to a motel on Ocracoke Island will she -- and her mother and sisters -- be free.
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Alessandra Cecchi becomes enchanted with a young painter her father has brought back from nortern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family's Florentine palazzo, but their relationship is interrupted when Alessandra's parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy older man.
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2004
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357 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Found alone on the streets as a child, Eve Dallas has built a new identity and a new future as a cop. Now the hard-edged and coolheaded detective fights for truth and justice, but she still has one very human weakness-enigmatic Irish billionaire, Roarke. And when a trusted employee of Roarke Enterprises is a suspect in a double-homicide, Roarke comes to Eve for help. Reva Ewing was a former member of the Secret Service, and now a security specialist...
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
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376 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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No affairs. No criminal connections. No DNA. No clues. Eve Dallas may be the best cop in New York City - not to mention having the lavish resources of her husband, Roarke, at her disposal - but the Swisher case has her baffled. The family members were murdered in their beds with brutal, military precision. The security - state-of-the-art 2059 - was breached, and the killers used night vision to find their way through the cozy middle-class house. The...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2004
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339 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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Arkady Renko, Martin Cruz Smith's iconic sleuth returns with a case that epitomizes the New Russia. Pal Ivanov, powerful, vigorous, dangerous, and one of the nation's billionaire businessmen, has jumped to his death. When Renko is called in to investigate, he uncovers hidden demons and byzantine international plots that drove this oligarch to his death.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2005
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320 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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While decorating Elm Creek Manor on Christmas Eve, Sarah McClure discovers an unfinished Christmas quilt. Only Sylvia Bergstrom Compson, the master quilter and matriarch of Elm Creek Manor, knows the story behind the quilt, revealing that it's the work of several generations of the Bergstrom family. Sarah suggests that they complete the quilt. Although reluctant at first, as they do so, Sylvia rediscovers the joy of the Christmas quilt.
12) Cold service
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2005.
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305 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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When his closest ally, Hawk, is brutally injured and left for dead, Spenser embarks on an epic journey ro rehabilitate his friend in body and spirit.
13) Love overboard
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2005
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Large print ed.
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237 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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Burned-out New Jersey narcotics officer Stephanie Lowe buys a house on the coast of Maine with intentions of opening a bed-and-breakfast, but a leaky toilet and other problems--including a ghost--lead her to a cooking gig on a schooner captained by Ivan, the man who sold her the place, whose good looks and charm suddenly seem more potent to Stephanie at sea than they did on land.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2005
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472 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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Sebastian Townshend, one of the most dashing bachelors in Kent, moves to the continent after being banished for dueling, where he becomes caught up in life as a mercenary, and it is not until the beautiful Lady Margaret Landor comes to find him, hoping he can protect his father from greedy heirs, that he believes he has a chance for redemption.
15) Origin in death
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Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2005
Edition
Library edition
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9 sound discs (11 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A kindly cosmetic surgeon is killed with a single stab to the heart-and soon the son who inherits his practice is done in, too. Eve Dallas has to figure out what the good doctor might have been hiding.
16) School days
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English
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Spenser is hired by Lily Ellsworth to investigate her grandson's involvement in a school shooting.
17) Table for five
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Mira
Pub. Date
c2005
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391 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Lily Robinson, a gifted teacher, gives up her independent lifestyle to help Sean McGuire after he assumes guardianship of his nieces and nephew following the deaths of his brother Derek and sister-in-law Crystal--Lily's best friend, and together they work toward restoring the children to hope and happiness, and find love along the way.
18) Two-dollar bill
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
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298 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Stone Barrington, suave Manhattan cop-turned-lawyer, is suspicious when he is offered a very hefty retainer to manage the affairs of Texan Billy Bob Barnstormer, and he soon discovers he should have heeded his instincts when his new client, who is wanted by the CIA and the U.S. attorney's office, leaves a dead prostitute in the guest room.
19) Born in death
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Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2006
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Library ed.
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9 sound discs (11 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Just as Eve Dallas begins to investigate the grisly double homicide of two young lovers -- both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm -- her friend Mavis needs a favor. One of the moms-to-be in Mavis’s birthing class has gone missing. Normally, such a case would be turned over to Missing Persons. But Mavis wants no one else on the job -- and Eve can’t say no.
Now Eve’s trying to track down the missing woman, while simultaneously...
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Mary, trying to handle the suffocating grief she feels over the death of her young daughter, Stella, reluctantly joins a knitting circle and over the course of time learns about the problems others in the group have had to face, and comes to cherish them as friends.
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