Debra Monk
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Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart from the weight of the work and the loneliness. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning, it is gone - but they find a young, blonde-haired girl who calls herself Faina, and seems to be a child of the woods ...
2) Dead wrong
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As if juggling a family, including the impending birth of a second child, a career and a staff shortage at the Sheriff's office aren't enough, Sheriff Joanna Brady has to deal with two serious crimes. The first is the dead body of an ex-con who was found in the desert with all his fingers severed. The second is the brutal attack of one of her officers while on unauthorized stakeout. Being a sheriff is what she is and Joanna will stop at nothing to...
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Cochise County sheriff Joanna Brady reluctantly joins forces with J.P. Beaumont, a member of Washington State's Special Homicide Investigation team, when a promising African-American artist, supposedly under the protection of the government, is murdered shortly after moving to Bisbee, Arizona.
5) Exit wounds
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 11
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Sheriff Joanna Brady seeks an elusive and chillingly brutal killer whose crimes run deep into the past.
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Twelve-year-old Peyton McKenzie isn't ready to share her widowed father with anyonee certainly not with her cigarette-smoking redheaded cousin Nora, who just rolled into sleepy Lytton, Georgia, this summer behind the wheel of a pink Thunderbird. But her father seems to like Nora, and prim Aunt Augusta hates her, which means she can't be all bad. And when Nora takes a job teaching the first integrated honors class at the local high school, it appears...
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Georgia Bottoms is known in her small community of Six Points, Alabama, as a beautiful, well-to-do, and devoutly Baptist Southern belle. Nobody realizes that the family fortune has long since disappeared, and a determinedly single woman like Georgia needs an alternative and discreet means of income. None of her six well-heeled lovers knows about the others--until the married preacher decides to confess their affair in front of the whole congregation......
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After four years of chasing his stand-up comedy dream in Los Angeles, 34-year-old Scott Rollins (Ben Schwartz, Parks And Recreation) has crashed and burned. Left with little money and a fledging "career," Scott has no choice but to regroup, lick his wounds, and return to his parents' house in Long Island. While trying to figure out what to do next, he pines after his ex, Becky (Eloise Mumford), a successful photographer who has since married a former...
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'I absolutely love Christmas!' exclaims Eloise who lives with her family and friends, at the Plaza hotel. So, with her 'mostly companion' Nanny, Eloise sets off celebrating the season in her own irrepressible style. Rachel, the daughter of Plaza owner Mr. Peabody, is supposed to marry Brooks Oliver, but she used to like Bill, a waiter (which may be one reason Rachel was sent away to college). Eloise, is a good friend of Bill, and she thinks something...
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"Having lived his entire life under the watchful eye of his overbearing mother, Albert must fend for himself when an unidentified car suddenly kills her. Free for the first time, Albert quickly responds to the bait dangling in front of him, pitting his aggressors against one another in a race for his trust and fortune." -- container.
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"In a suburban Atlanta neighborhood where divorce is a rampant as kudzu, Mary Bliss McGowan doesn't notice that her own marriage is in trouble until the summer night she finds a note from her husband, Parker telling her he's gone--and has taken the family fortune with him. Stunned and humiliated, a desperate Mary Bliss, left behind with her seventeen-year-old daughter, Erin, and a mountain of debt, decides to salvage what's left of her life by telling...
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In a stark, troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of self-determination, award-winning author A. Manette Ansay re-creates a stifling world of guilty and pain, and the tormented souls who inhabit it. It is 1972 when circumstance carries Ellen Grier and her family back to Holly's Field, Wisconsin. Dutifully accompanying her newly unemployed husband, Ellen has brought her two children into the home of her in-laws on Vinegar Hill—a
...15) Paradise lost
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The New York Times bestselling J.A. Jance is back! Cochise County, Arizona, and Sheriff Joanna Brady faces her most personal and dangerous case when her daughter discovers a body in the Arizona wilderness. When Cochise County, Arizona, Sheriff Joanna Brady′s daughter Jenny goes off on a Memorial Day weekend Girl Scout camp-out in nearby Apache Pass, Joanna trusts that her 12-year-old daughter will behave. But with boy-crazy Dora Matthews as a tentmate,...
16) Nashville chrome
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A "splendid" novel based on the rise and fall of the Browns, Arkansas siblings who became country music legends, by an award-winning author (Dallas Morning News). Late in 1959, the Brown siblings-Maxine, Bonnie, and Jim Ed-were enjoying unprecedented international success, rivaled only by their longtime friend Elvis Presley. They had a bona fide mega hit on their hands, which topped both the country and pop charts and gave rise to the polished sound...
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Merry mayhem ensues when the Duncans, who are en route to visit family in Palm Springs for Christmas, become seperated. Suddenly, Teddy and her mom Amy embark on the oddest mother-daughter, cross-country odyssey ever. Will the family be reunited in time to spend Christmas together?
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Caroline Venable has everything her Southern heritage promised: money, prestige, a powerful husband-and a predictable routine of country-club luncheons, cocktail parties, and dinners hosting her husband's wealthy friends, clients, and associates in his successful land-developing conglomerate. To escape her stifling routine, Caro drinks a little too much. But her true solace is the Lowcountry island her beloved Granddaddy left her-an oasis of breathtaking...
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The mother of the bestselling memoirists Augusten Burroughs and John Elder Robison finally tells her own heartbreaking story of her Southern Gothic childhood, tormented marriage, motherhood, mental breakdown, and journey back to sanity and contentment, in luminous, evocative prose.