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"Ginny Masters manages a popular boutique hotel in Seattle, but the daily challenges and irritations of a fast-paced job and a demanding boss are starting to get to her. Jacqueline Potter manages her grandfather's fishing lodge in Idaho because it was the only job she could find after graduating with her hospitality degree. She's grateful for the work but longs for a more sophisticated and cosmopolitan life she's just not going to find in this backwoods...
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While driving along a suburban back road, Hilary Blum, who's just lost her job and whose deadbeat husband has left her alone to care for her son with Asperger's, witnesses a freakish accident. A car ahead of her careens down a hill and slams into a tree. Stopping to help, she discovers the driver dead--and a satchel stuffed with a half a million dollars. That money could prevent her family's ruin and keep her special needs son in school. In an instant,...
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"Charles Vincent seems to have it all—a beautiful wife, two successful children, and a well-paying career. Yet happiness remains out of reach. He is trapped in a loveless marriage and his job is simply a paycheck. But his life changes forever one night as he drives along the Normandy coast, heading to their lavish château for the weekend. In one terrifying moment, Charles falls asleep at the wheel and veers off the road, plunging thirty feet down...
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Ten years ago, Caroline Shelby launched a career in the glamorous fashion world of Manhattan. But her success in New York imploded on a wave of scandal and tragedy, forcing her to flee to the only safe place she knows, Oysterville. And in the backseat of Caroline's car are two children who were orphaned in a single chilling moment--five-year-old Addie and six-year-old Flick. She's now their legal guardian--a role she's not sure she's ready for. Caroline...
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Years after writing stories about a superheroine character she created with a best friend who died in a tragic car accident, sixteen-year-old May is shocked to see stickers, patches, and graffiti images of the superheroine appearing all over town -- Publisher.
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In season four, Walt and Skyler try to use gambling to explain how Walt has made all of his money; Skyler tries to launder money through a car wash; Hank's discovery of Gus Fring's fingerprint in Gale Boetticher's apartment is enough for DEA and Albuquerque PD to bring Gus in for an interview; and much more.
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Ever since Young Blackbeard became the biggest movie of the decade, everyone has caught pirate fever, including the residents of Warner Pier. TenHuis Chocolade is raking in the booty and selling out of chocolate treasure chests, pirate hats and ships.When Lee McKinney Woodyard and her husband Joe take their boat out on Lake Michigan, they're stunned when a mischievous band of pirates hops on board. Lee's is the first boat boarded that summer, and...
10) Clete
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 24
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Atlantic Monthly Press
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2024.
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"Clete Purcel--private investigator, former cop, and war veteran with a hard shell covering just a few soft spots--is Dave Robicheaux's longtime friend and partner in detective work. But he has a troubled past. When Clete picks up his car from the local car wash ... to find it ransacked by a group of thugs tied to the drug trade, it feels personal: his grandniece died of a fentanyl overdose, and his fists curl when he thinks of the dealers who sold...
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Boxcar children volume 30
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The Boxcar Helpers baby-sit, wash cars, mow lawns, and care for pets to raise money for Greenfield hospital. But Beth keeps disappearing and other things start to go wrong. Is someone trying to put them out of business?
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"Homicide detective Charlie Carlson now believes the car crash that killed Seattle prosecutor Mia Quinn's husband was no accident. When the powers that be refuse to reopen the case, it's up to Mia and Charlie to investigate"--
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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"It's a hot summer day in Motor City and Joe the Tow and Patch the Pup are very busy! When a back-up at the Splash 'n' Shine car wash causes a delay, Patch and Joe need help from their friends to save the day. There's no job too big for the Motor City friends when they work together!"--
14) Hard luck cowboy
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""If he's found guilty, it won't be jail, it'll be prison," said the sheriff. "He actually might be lucky. If he'd stolen those horses seventy-five years ago, he'd be hung, right on the spot, probably without a trial." As Fred was being transported to the prison, he carefully observed the scenery on the way. He was depressed as he thought he wouldn't see the sagebrush, trees, mountains and desert for at least three years. He didn't make friends easily...
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Alexandra Cooper volume 12
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Dutton
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c2010
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Bodies of human trafficking victims are washing up on Rockaway Beach. At least one young woman appears to have been dead before she hit the frigid waters. Meanwhile, Ethan Leighton, a rising Manhattan congressman, has fled the scene of a car accident, possibly to avoid exposure of an extramarital affair and a love child. Leighton's paramour, who calls 911 to report that Leighton has threatened her, later disappears amid signs of violence. Both cases...
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Wildstone volume 1
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2017]
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After losing her sister in a devastating car accident, chef Quinn Weller is finally getting her life back on track. She appears to have it all: a loving family, a dream job in one of LA's hottest eateries, and a gorgeous boyfriend dying to slip an engagement ring on her finger. So why does she feel so empty, like she's looking for a missing piece she can't find? The answer comes when a lawyer tracks down Quinn and reveals a bombshell secret and a...
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Guideposts Books
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c2005
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"Abigail Stanton, back home to care for her sister after so many years away, soon finds herself swept away by Sparrow Island's serene beauty.....any mystery. It isn't long before Abby spots a marbled murelet and it's mate, birds that are rare and endangered in the Pacific Northwest. A missing journal may be the only way to save them. Can she find the proof she needs? And what is that strange drawing on the fence behind her sister's home? Join...