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This brilliant satire of the women's rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her beloved ward into a celebrated activist and lifetime companion? Or will Basil Ransom, a conservative southern lawyer, steal Verena's heart and remove her from the limelight?...
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Author of 27 novels, Joyce Carol Oates has won a National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award. She has been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Readers around the world marvel at her ability to trace the subtle dynamics at work in the modern American family. Judd is the youngest of the four Mulvaney children--three boys and a girl--who grow up on their parents' lush farm in upstate New York. In his childhood, Judd is swept...
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A Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery volume Book 9
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Bernie Rhodenbarr attempts to retrieve the lost letters of famed reclusive author Gulliver Fairborn, but instead discovers a dead literary agent and a beautiful woman.
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Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New York City as soon as they possibly could. Jim, a sleek, successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, and Bob, a Legal Aid attorney who idolizes Jim, has always taken it in stride. But their long-standing dynamic is upended when their sister, Susan - the...
6) Everlasting
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Viking
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1991
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Catherine horrifies her cold, restrictive parents by opting out of a college education, but works her way up to become the leading floral designer in New York City. She eventually discovers that family loyalties are deeply embedded and that true love lasts forever.
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A Matthew Scudder novel volume Book 13
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New York's latest celebrity serial killer has a penchant for announcing his murderous intentions to the media before carrying through on his threats. P.I. Matthew Scudder races against time to find the frighteningly efficient killer who calls himself "The Will of the People''.
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A Blake Jordan thriller volume 7
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2020
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When a bomb is detonated in New York, DHS Agent Blake Jordan must help the NYPD hunt down the person responsible before they strike again. But how can they find a man who doesn't exist?
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Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery volume Book 10
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This time the antiquarian book dealer/burglar is asked by a friend to burgle the home of the man who stole the friend's girlfriend. But a few days before the scheduled break-in, Bernie begins to feel itchy and decides to go on the prowl: "Walking the dark streets, gloves in one pocket, tools in the other, risking life and liberty for no good reason. I knew what I was doing, and I damned well should have known better." His little misadventure leads...
10) Caper
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A Stanley Hastings mystery volume Book 17
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"Poor Stanley Hastings. After getting hired by a hitman and nearly getting shot, the put-upon PI needs some fun, so when a gorgeous damsel in distress walks through his office door she seems just what the doctor ordered"--Publisher.
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A Matthew Scudder novel volume Book 7
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It isn't called Hell's Kitchen for nothing - a gritty landscape of dark doorways and dirty alleys inhabited by crack addicts and the homeless. For Matt Scudder, it's a city gone mad, but a city he can't leave as he's been hired to find missing would-be actress Paula Hoeldtke.
12) Secrets
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Delacorte Press
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c1985
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The stars of a new TV series called "Manhattan" share their secrets with millions. Offstage they are ordinary people with homes and dreams, lives and loves, every bit as real, and as the viewers watch the drama unfold the actors share their passion and pain in the performance of their lives.
13) Silent night
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1995
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A Christmas suspense story. When a young mother from Kansas travels to New York to be with her seriously ill husband at Christmas, her young son sees another woman steal his mother's wallet, and follows the thief into the subway. Thus begins a journey that will change all of their lives.
14) Charming Billy
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The late Billy Lynch's family and friends gather at a bar in the Bronx to remember better times. They admire the way his widow, Maeve, is holding up but one cannot think of Billy without saying "There was that girl." Soon the twisted grief of Maeve, Billy and his cousin Dennis becomes apparent.
15) Malice
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Delacorte Press
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1996
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Grace Adams is a woman with a past full of deep hurtful secrets. When she meets Charles Mackenzie, she has found a man who wants nothing from her, except to heal her. But with happiness within her grasp, Grace is in danger of losing everything to an enemy bent on malice.
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"Peter Decker and his current partner, Tyler McAdams, believes that a developmentally disabled man who vanished while on an outing from his residential home, went off with someone he knew, even as the remains of other young men are unearthed in the forest. And for Decker, personal problems are adding pressure as well. After a ten-year absence, the biological mother of Decker's and Rina's foster son, Gabriel, has suddenly appeared in New York."
17) Holiday grind
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Coffeehouse mystery volume Book 8
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Coffeehouse manager and head barista Clare Cosi and her NYPD detective boyfriend discover the snowy body of a man dressed up in a Santa suit, and become convinced the death was more than a mugging gone awry.
18) Latte trouble
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Coffeehouse mystery volume Book 3
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005
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When one of her baristas unwittingly serves a poisonous latte to a prominent figure on the fashion scene, Clare Cosi must uncover some jolting secrets to save her shop.
19) Fine things
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1987
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Sent to open the smartest department store in California, Bernie Fine becomes aware of the hollowness of his personal life. Despite his success he grows increasingly disenchanted with his existence - until five-year-old Jane O'Reilly gets lost in the store, and Bernie meets her mother.
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Coffeehouse mystery volume Book 5
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When an old friend of her ex-husband develops the world's first botanically decaffeinated coffee bean and smuggles it into the country, Clare Cosi, manager of Village Blend, believes it's a business opportunity she needs to investigate...at least until the first dead body shows up.
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