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1) Button holed
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"Working out of her button shop in a Chicago brownstone, Josie Giancola has become one of the country's leading experts on buttons. Her reputation draws a Hollywood starlet to the Button Box to shop for one-of-a-kind buttons to adorn her made-to-order wedding gown. But after the Button Box is ransacked and the actress murdered, Josie's cozy world is thrown into chaos--and a killer is out to keep Josie's lips buttoned up...permanently."
2) Hot button
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"As chairwoman of an international conference for button collectors, Josie has plenty to worry about. Between greeting collectors, overseeing the dinner cruise, and attending to the many needs of the guest of honor, Thad Wyant, she barely has time to deal with her gorgeous ex-husband...let alone a dead body. But when Thad is found dead in a hotel linen closet, Detective Nevin Riley needs Josie to help him solve the case. Mr. Wyant's historic Geronimo...
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"Josie is approached at her shop to appraise a very rare item--a complete charm string. In Victorian times, girls strung buttons on long strings to make the charms. Once the string reached 1,000 buttons--no two alike--the legend was that the owner would meet her beloved. But the owner of this charm string is not looking for love--she's desperate to donate the piece to a museum and be rid of it. She believes the string is far from charmed--it's cursed....
4) Buttoned up
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Artist Forbis Parmenter has invited Josie to the opening of his exhibit of voodoo-inspired works. He plans to make a show of completing the centerpiece -- a button-encrusted statue -- when Josie arrives with the final button. But instead, Forbis bolts out of the gallery in panic. Is it another of his publicity stunts? Josie gets her answer when the eccentric artist is found dead -- his lifeless body in the arms of a statue and his eyes and lips sealed...
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There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974, twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong, if time-rusted, iron bolts and zig-zag up the cliffside. Then one day when Gwendy gets to the top of Castle View, after catching her breath and hearing the shouts of kids on the playground below, a stranger calls to her....
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"Something evil has swept into the small Maine town of Castle Rock on the heels of the latest winter storm. Sheriff Norris Ridgewick and his team are desperately searching for two missing girls, but time is running out. In Washington, DC, thirty-seven-year-old Gwendy Peterson couldn't be more different from the self conscious teenaged girl who had once been entrusted -- or cursed -- with an extraordinary and powerful box covered with colorful buttons...
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"When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a mysterious stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its seven colored buttons promised death and destruction. Years later, the button box entered Gwendy's life again. A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once again forced to deal with the temptation that box represented. Now, evil forces...
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