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Title: Silk Legacy |
| Author: Richard Brawer | |
| Genre: Historical Fiction | |
| ISBN: 1-58961-469-0 | |
A domineering Silk Industrialist...His progressive suffragist wife...His radical
unionist brother...A family torn apart by The Great Silk Strike of 1913.
Read excerpts online.
"Richard Brawer captures not only the feeling of the era but does it with warmth and affection through a trying love story. His characters are magnificent. I adored them, in spite--or perhaps because--of their shortcomings." Janet Elaine Smith, author of best-selling, award-winning Keith Trilogy
"A fast moving, richly detailed saga...(Brawer) is a deft story teller with a knack for plot twists." New Jersey Jewish News
"Passion, greed, arrogance and romance abound in this tribulation of yesteryear." The Midwest Book Review.
"I loved this book. The characters are so real. The best book I've read on the silk strike." Angelica Santomauro, director, The Am. Labor Museum, Botto Houise Landmark, Haledon, NJ
"We enjoyed your book immensely. You did a great job informing us and holding our interest. 'Silk Legacy' is a smooth read." Temple Emanuel of North Jersey Book Club
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Title: Murder a la Carte |
| Author: Prudy Taylor Board | |
| Genre: Culinary mystery | |
| ISBN: 1595070305 | |
Clyde Colby is the host of a Miami-based TV cooking show. She yes she was also
an accomplished investigative reporter earlier in her career. When on assignment
at the Far Horizons beach resort on Rattlesnake Key to do a show featuring
acclaimed chef Henri Doucette, she finds new friends, a lover and murder.
The delicious web of conspiracy grows more intricate and elusive as more bodies turn up, a newspaper reporter is savagely beaten, and one of the resort's maids who has befriended Clyde mysteriously disappears. Clyde is determined to unravel the sinister happenings at Far Horizons, or as the locals call it, the infamous Last Resort. Yet she has no idea what peril awaits her.
Also includes the recipes the chef prepares for Clyde's TV show.
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Title: A Habit For Death |
| Author: Chuck Zito | |
| Genre: Mystery | |
| ISBN: 0-7387-0836-4 | |
"Zito's background in theatre is clearly an asset--he has a great ear
for dialogue and the ability to set believable scenes both in the theatre and
out...laugh until you weep you will find A Habit for Death a mystery worth
reading."
--Mystery Scene Magazine
"Nicky D'Amico, is sure to be a favorite . . .Let's hope this laugh-out-loud romp is a preview of coming attractions."
--Booklist
"The panache of theater director Zito's debut augurs well for a lively series."
--Kirkus
Escaping the heat and heartbreak of New York City for a summer in rural Pennsylvania sounded like the perfect plan to Nicky D'Amico. Little did he know that what began as a heavenly idea would turn out to be a hell of a job!
Each year the nuns of rural St. Gilbert's College hire a city slicker to help with their summer theater festival. As the stage manager, Nicky has a lot to handle--a truly awful musical script, bickering school staff, a huge crush on the cute guy in the chorus, but things are about to get a whole lot worse. Convent of Fear, the school's play, features a serial nun killer. When several cast members are murdered, the mystery moves from the stage to real life. With its suspenseful plot, loveable characters, and laugh-out-loud humor, A Habit for Death is one habit you won't want to break.
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Title: Betrayal |
| Author: Karen Fenech | |
| Genre: Historical Romantic Suspense | |
| ISBN: 1594145237 | |
"I love a good medieval and Karen Fenech has written a dandy! This one's
a keeper."
---NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR KAT MARTIN
" . . . An excellent read."
-- ROMANTIC TIMES MAGAZINE FOUR STAR REVIEW ****
To save her son and people from a deadly enemy, Lady Katherine Stanfield marries her former betrothed, a man she'd betrayed but has never stopped loving. Katherine has never revealed her reason for the betrayal and now, five years later, believes her secret is safe.
But someone won't let the past rest. Someone with a secret of his own. And now she must stop that "someone" because he wants Katherine and her new husband dead.
To read Chapter One of BETRAYAL, visit Karen Fenech's website.
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Title: The Price of Pride |
| Author: Donna MacQuigg | |
| Genre: Western Historical | |
| ISBN: 1-59414-464-8 | |
When Marshal Ira Farrell learns that his youngest brother and his fiancee may
have been murdered in what's alleged as an accidental fire, he'll stop at
nothing to see the killer or killers brought to justice. However, he never
expected to have his investigation hampered by beautiful, stubborn Sarah
Brighton, an independent, female journalist who insists on male and female
equality. At first, he's convinced to go it alone, but as they uncover another
murder and a cattle rustling conspiracy that involves the entire town council,
they're forced to work together in order to survive. 4 Stars Romantic Times
Magazine
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Title: The Curse of the Holy Pail |
| Author: Sue Ann Jaffarian | |
| Genre: Mystery | |
| ISBN: 073870864X | |
Is the Holy Pail cursed? Every owner of the vintage Chappy Wheeler lunchbox,
a prototype based on the 1940s TV western, has died. And now Sterling Price,
business tycoon and a client of Odelia Gre's law firm, has been fatally poisoned.
Is it a coincidence that Price's one-of-a-kind lunch pail worth over thirty
grand has disappeared at the same time? Treading cautiously since a recent
run-in with a bullet, Odelia takes small bites of this juicy, calorie-free
mystery and is soon ravenous for more! Her research reveals a sixty-year-old
unsolved murder and Price's gold-digging ex-fiancée with two married
men wrapped around her breasts . . . uh, finger. Mix in a surprise marriage
proposal that sends an uncertain Odelia into chocolate sedation, and you've
got an unruly recipe for delicious disaster.
Jaffarian plays the formula with finesse -- Kirkus Reviews, December 1, 2006
Jaffarian offers the perfectly flawed alternative for readers sick and tired of picture-perfect characters. -- Booklist
More fun than a lunch pail full of plump paralegals, The Curse of the Holy Pail is a tale as bouncy as its bodacious protagonist. Bill Fitzhugh, author of Highway 61 Resurfaced and Pest Control
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Title: Cattery Row |
| Author: Clea Simon | |
| Genre: Mystery | |
| ISBN: 1-59058-306-X | |
Someone is stealing show cats, and when a kindly breeder is implicated, Theda
Krakow determines to uncover the truth. But when Theda is attacked and
her pals start acting strange, the feline-friendly freelance writer realizes
that more than pedigree pusses are at stake - and that not all the competition
is in the ring.
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Title: Pistols at Dawn |
| Author: Michele Ann Young | |
| Genre: Historical Romance | |
| ISBN: 1594144605 | |
Readers should be thrilled with Ms. Young's clever debut that will ensnare
them with her lively regency rendition. She inserts enough suspense and
passion to keep the action flowing in a well-paced intrigue-filled tempo
while unraveling the mystery of Simon's past; the demons that haunt him;
and above all, who was trying to kill him. You'll be charmed with Victoria
whose mission seems to be trying to resurrect the kind and gentle soul
that she knows is residing deep inside Simon. This is a deeply satisfying
and entertaining regency read I highly recommend. Marilyn Rondeau - Reviewers
International Organization (RIO)
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Title: A Killer Collection |
| Author: J.B. Stanley | |
| Genre: Cozy Mystery | |
| ISBN: 0425207455 | |
Introducing amateur sleuth Molly Appleby, a sharp-witted writer for Collector's
Weekly magazine. She has a keen knowledge of antiques, and a special fondness
for collectibles.
And when a fellow collector is murdered, Molly quickly develops an uncanny understanding of the criminal mind.
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Title: The Butterfly Garden |
| Author: Annette Blair | |
| Genre: Amish Historical Romance | |
| ISBN: 1410402665 | |
He tries to give her his children, and she takes his heart as well....
Amish woman Sara Lapp, all but shunned for studying with the local doctor to become a midwife, is shocked that, after months of waiting, her first call to tend a birth comes from self-appointed outcast Mad Adam Zuckerman.
Adam's wife has died in childbed. He did not call Sara to tend the birth, but to give her his children. Though Sara knows his girls belong with their father, how can she leave them with a man who seems not to care for them? As much as she loves and wants the girls, she will only take them long enough to teach Adam to love them.
Adam is afraid to love his children, afraid that in doing so, he will hurt them in the way his father hurt him. Without Abby to protect them, Adam must find someone else, and he can think of only one woman brave enough, Spinster Sara Lapp, the little midwife whose passion for things beyond her control is greater than is good for her.
When Adam falls from the barn loft, drunk, Sara moves in to tend him, and she brings his girls. Then the Bishop takes a stand. A man and woman living together must marry or be shunned and Sara and Adam are forced to face the greatest challenge of their lives.
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Title: Carbs & Cadavers |
| Author: J.B. Stanley | |
| Genre: Cozy Mystery | |
| ISBN: 0738709131 | |
James "Professor Puff" Henry may as well have "loser" stamped
on his forehead. Divorced, overweight, shy, and living at home, he relies
on books and his favorite snack-cheese puffs-for sweet relief from his problems.
A former English lit professor at William and Mary, he moves back to Quincy's
Gap, a small Virginia town in the Shenandoah Valley, to take care of his
recently-widowed father. To improve his social life and waistline, he joins
a supper club for dieters who lovingly call themselves the "Flab Five." Avoiding
carbs is nearly impossible in this deep-fried potato-loving land, so a mysterious
death in their small burg provides an effective, if disturbing, distraction.
While dodging delectable temptations, Professor Henry and his fellow dieters
work together to shed pounds and find the killer who has struck fear in this
tight-knit community.
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Title: Here's the Church, Here's the Steeple |
| Author: Tempa Pagel | |
| Genre: Cozy Mystery | |
| ISBN: 1-59414-374-9 | |
Andy Gammon, a transplanted Detroiter, has managed to blend nicely into everyday
life in a small Massachusetts seaport with her dyed-in-the-wool Yankee
husband, Gus, their two children, and her crusty mother-in-law Mayta. At
first, updating the history of the First Parish Church for its tricentennial
celebration is just one more way for the former social studies teacher
to get involved in her adopted community. Then a storm damages the steeple
of the First Parish, revealing a skeleton and a silver tankard that has
been missing from the church plate since 1811. When the police show little
interest in solving a crime so old, Andy, with her background in historical
research, decides to mount her own investigation. Aided by Gus, Mayta,
and members of the Tricentennial Committee, Andy finds herself stepping
on toes as she seeks answers to questions concerning this 200-year-old
death, Newburyport's Great Fire of 1811, and certain church officials of
that time. The mystery spills over into the present when a second body--this
time a very recent one-- is found at the church, and a fire is set on Andy's
property, leading Andy to wonder if tragedies of the past are being recreated
in the present. Despite growing resistance of those who think she is sullying
Newburyport's forefathers, Andy remains steadfast in her commitment to
historical truth, solving both murders, and ultimately to finding her niche
in this New England town.
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Title: Vassal of El |
| Author: Gloria Oliver | |
| Genre: Fantasy, YA | |
| ISBN: 1894869680 | |
"Winged men, murder, a past that comes back to haunt him" -- Having
avoided his haunting past for years, one act of kindness throws Torren onto
a path which will force him to face it once again.
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Title: In the Service of Samurai |
| Author: Gloria Oliver | |
| Genre: Fantasy, YA | |
| ISBN: 1894869672 | |
"Last Samurai Meets Pirates of the Caribbean" - Adventure set in
a fictional Japan, where a boy becomes the key to completing the mission
of undead samurai.
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Title: Haven |
| Author: Don D'Ammassa | |
| Genre: Science Fiction | |
| ISBN: 1-59414-229-7 | |
Wes Avery came to the planet Haven to recuperate from a serious illness,
but when he stumbles across a dead body, which mysteriously disappears,
he finds himself in the middle of a web of conspiracies involving the primitive
alien race native to Haven.
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Title: Scarab |
| Author: Don D'Ammassa | |
| Genre: Science Fiction | |
| ISBN: 1-59414-144-4 | |
The city of Soshambe has been terrorized for years by a serial killer no
one has been able to catch. When a noted investigator arrives as a tourist,
his assistance is enlisted in discovering the truth. This is the first
Sandor Dyle novel. The sequel, NARCISSUS, will be published in 2007.
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Title: Dead of Winter |
| Author: Don D'Ammassa | |
| Genre: Mystery | |
| ISBN: 1-59414-495-8 | |
Laura Collier returns to her home in a small town in upstate New York after
a disastrous marriage ends with the death of her husband. Still at odds
with her mother, she chooses to live in a small cabin but is soon troubled
by hints that she is being watched, and by the sudden disappearance of
her closest friend.
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Title: Jenny's Legacy |
| Author: Cassandra Barnes | |
| Genre: Paranormal Romance | |
| ISBN: 1-59414-433-8 | |
Jenny's Legacy is a contemporary "sweet" romance featuring a psychic
heroine.
Her psychic abilities haven't been of much help to Gaelynn Graham lately. If it hasn't been one thing, it's been another. The last thing she needs in her life is a sexy contractor, especially one whose presence places her family and her career in jeopardy.
Kyle Cordell is haunted by the death of his kid sister and has what he thinks is good reason to fight his attraction to the beautiful psychic. Then his clairvoyant son runs away and only Gaelynn has the key to his whereabouts.
Kyle and Gaelynn struggle to overcome a legacy of fear and hate, risking all that they hold dear, with their love for each other in the balance. Can each make the sacrifices required to forge a new legacy of love?
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Title: A...My Name's Amelia |
| Author: Joanne Sundell | |
| Genre: Historical Romance | |
| ISBN: 1-59414-565-2 | |
Deafened, left to grow up in frontier territory, Amelia Anne Polley must
learn to communicate all over again, determined to live the life she'd dreamed
for herself before becoming deaf. Her dreams do not include becoming anyone's
mail-order bride, especially the handsome, roughened rancher Aaron Zachary's.
Amelia has reasons enough not to marry Aaron, not the least of which she and the weathered cowboy are complete strangers. Different in ways that count, for any man and wife, Amelia and Aaron surely won't suit. Why, they have nothing in common--except secrets--secrets neither wants to reveal to the other, and risk what might happen.
"A great read! Poignant and endearing. A...is for Amazing. Don't miss it!" ~Joan Johnston, NYT bestselling author
"A...My Name's Amelia is a beautiful story about two wounded people and the power of healing through communication and love." ~Alice Duncan, award-winning author
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Title: Matchmaker, Matchmaker |
| Author: Joanne Sundell | |
| Genre: Historical Romance | |
| ISBN: 1-59414-411-7 | |
A Jewish girl of nine, Zoe-Esther Zundelevich, gives in to fancy and secretly
visits the matchmaker before leaving Russia with her papa, Yitzhak, for refuge
in Amerika. The matchmaker gives Zoe-Esther the name of her promised "match" when
she is of age. Zoe-Esther dreams of him, carrying her dreams across the ocean
and into womanhood.
A doctor now, afraid for her papa's life when he's stricken with tuberculosis, Zoe-Esther moves him west to the Colorado Territory in search of a cure. All she holds dear, Zoe-Esther can never jeopardize her papa's health and happiness. That is precisely what she faces when rugged, handsome Jake Whiskey comes into her life.
"...Sundell creates a unique romance..." BOOKLIST
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