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An Amish Bed and Breakfast Mystery with Recipes – PennDutch Mysteries #15
Cornelious Weaver, one of Hernia's most eligible bachelors, is due to finally tie the knot—but three days before the big wedding, he's found dead...in another woman's bed!!
The scandal is better than a made-for-TV-movie—not that any of the good citizens of Hernia own a television—and the details get even more delicious: Cornelious wasn't just cheating on his bride-to-be;...
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An Amish Bed and Breakfast Mystery with Recipes – PennDutch Mysteries #16
Even though she's now married to acclaimed Manhattan doctor, Gabriel Rosen, Magdalena—still a small-town Hernia girl at heart—is delighted to be chosen as the emcee for Hernia's first annual Holstein Competition. If there's anyone who doesn't pull punches in judging cows, it's Magdalena!
Plus, holding the Holstein Competition means that Magdalena's beloved bed and breakfast,...
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An Amish Bed and Breakfast Mystery with Recipes – PennDutch Mysteries #11
When Colonel George Custard arrives in Hernia in a shiny stretch-limo, the town isn't exactly enthusiastic. And when he announces that he plans to build a glitzy new hotel in Hernia, the residents are outraged at the threat to their quaint, quiet town. Protests soon get heated!
As usual, Magdalena is right in the thick of the action-especially when the colonel is found...
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An Amish Bed and Breakfast Mystery with Recipes – PennDutch Mysteries #13 A piquant mystery—with a side of dangerous chili... Includes six different chili recipes!! It's that time of year again – the Hernia, PA's annual chili cook-off – and the competition is hot!!! When Reverend Schrock falls face first into his bowl of chili while judging the cook-off, his wife is convinced someone intentionally poisoned him and hires Magdalena Yoder for...
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"A novel in the vein of Lessons in Chemistry and Big Little Lies, about the friendship between a group of suburban housewives and a teenage unwed mother as they navigate their pregnancies-both wanted and unwanted-in a time when abortion is illegal and before the women's movement has taken flight. Think of a time-maybe not so long ago!-when women's rights were in question. 1965, "middle America": Abortion is illegal, divorce is shameful, and women...
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An Amish Bed and Breakfast Mystery with Recipes – PennDutch Mysteries #5
"Bubbling over with mirth and mystery." –Dorothy Cannell
"A delicious treat." –Carolyn G. Hart
Even though new husband, Aaron (Pooky Bear!), is away, Magdalena Yoder, proprietor of the prosperous Penn-Dutch Inn, is still in a honeymoon haze...until she's pulled in by Police Chief Stolzfus (her nemesis!) to help investigate the sad demise of an Asian tourist – run over...
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An Amish Bed and Breakfast Mystery with Recipes – PennDutch Mysteries #14
Tensions in the Mennonite-Amish community of Hernia, PA are running red. Felicia Baccustelli, a slick city gal, plans to open a wine 'spa' in the cozy little town. Not only are the teetotalers of the local community bubbling over with disapproval, but Magdalena Yoder, owner of the illustrious PennDutch Inn and self-appointed boss of everything, worries it could put her out...
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An Amish Bed and Breakfast Mystery with Recipes – PennDutch Mysteries #4
*Includes Recipes for "Magdalena Yoder's Wedding Feast, from Soup to Nuts"*
"Bubbling over with mirth and mystery." –Dorothy Cannell
"A delicious treat." –Carolyn G. Hart
Magdalena Yoder is (finally!) getting married, and nothing is going to spoil her wedding; not the man-of-her-dreams' loopy relatives, nor the twenty-year-old barrel of genuine Pennsylvania Dutch sauerkraut...
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Imagine Agatha Christie crossed with Murder, She Wrote . . .
England, December 1927.
In this light, humorous, cozy mystery, arrogant Edward Linton has returned from years of living in Paris. But has he changed? Because, if not, the consequences for him might be deadly.
When Mrs Kate Forbes and her academically minded niece, Lady Jane Scott are invited to a gathering at Linton Hall, the last thing they expect...
England, December 1927.
In this light, humorous, cozy mystery, arrogant Edward Linton has returned from years of living in Paris. But has he changed? Because, if not, the consequences for him might be deadly.
When Mrs Kate Forbes and her academically minded niece, Lady Jane Scott are invited to a gathering at Linton Hall, the last thing they expect...
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An Amish Bed and Breakfast Mystery with Recipes
PennDutch Mysteries #3
"Bubbling over with mirth and mystery." –Dorothy Cannell
"A delicious treat!" –Carolyn G. Hart
Magdalena Yoder, Amish-Mennonite proprietor of the Pennsylvania Dutch Inn, travels to Farmersburg, Ohio for the funeral of her second cousin (twice removed) who had the unfortunate luck of drowning in a vat of milk...and, as Magdalena knows, Amish men just don't go swimming in milk...
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An Amish Bed and Breakfast Mystery with Recipes – PennDutch Mysteries #8 Barbara Hostetler is expecting triplets, and no one is more enthused than soon-to-be grandma and PennDutch Inn cook, Freni. But when only two babies are born, Freni seems to be the only one suspicious. Unable to accept the possibility of a monitoring fluke, Freni calls on Magdalena Yoder, amateur sleuth and the PennDutch Inn's proprietress, to get to the bottom of the triplets...
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An Amish Bed and Breakfast Mystery with Recipes – PennDutch Mysteries #7 Life has been tough of late for the proprietress of the PennDutch Inn, Magdalena Yoder. Her husband turned out to be a bigamist, the guest list for her recently rebuilt PennDutch Inn is not as robust as she'd like, and her sister plans to marry her arch nemesis. So Magdalena Yoder is not in a good mood and she's more than happy to let everyone in town know exactly how she feels....
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"A novel about a hypnotherapist who falls in love with a man whose ex-girlfriend is stalking him"-- Provided by publisher.
Ellen is a hypnotherapist who helps clients deal with addictions, phobias and confidence issues. She falls in love with Patrick, who warns her he is being stalked by his ex-girlfriend, Saskia. Ellen finds that she is more intrigued than frightened by this, and in fact, would love to meet her. Saskia, however, has been posing...
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"There's nothing Ruth Galloway hates more than amateur archaeologists, but when a group of them stumble upon Bronze Age artifacts alongside a dead body, she finds herself thrust into their midst-and into the crosshairs of a string of murders circling ever closer"-- Provided by publisher.
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"From Betsy Lerner, celebrated author of The Bridge Ladies, comes a wry and riveting debut novel about family, mental illness, and a hard-won path between two sisters. It is said that when one person in a family is unstable, the whole family is destabilized. Meet the Shreds. Olivia is the sister in the spotlight, but when her stunning confidence morphs into something erratic and unpredictable, she becomes a hurricane leaving the Shred family wrecked...
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The second book, following last year's My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this...
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Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's fame as one of our most compelling, insightful, and stylish contemporary authors has grown enormously. She has gained admirers among authors--Jhumpa Lahiri, Elizabeth Strout, Claire Messud, to name a few--and critics--James Wood, John Freeman, Eugenia Williamson, for example. But her most resounding success has undoubtedly been with readers, who have...
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It's the summer of 1949, and things have run smoothly at Cavendon Hall for years, with very few quarrels, dramas, or upsets between the two families. But since the end of World War II, changes have arrived at Cavendon. A new generation is at the helm, and also at the forefront of new scandal and intrigue. With romance, betrayal, heartbreak, and possible murder threatening to tear them apart, the Inghams and Swanns will have to find a way to come...
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"A wildly entertaining road trip novel featuring a college dropout and an eighty-four-year-old woman off on the adventure of their lives, full of tremendous heart, wit, and wisdom from the USA Today bestselling author of The Invisible Husband of Frick Island Twenty-three-year-old Tanner Quimby needs a place to live. Preferably one where she can continue sitting around in sweatpants and playing video games nineteen hours a day. Since she has no credit...
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"After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity--and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution ... Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba's high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country's growing political unrest--until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate revolutionary...