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Earliest Publication Date

1996

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An unlikely witness threatens a high-level government cover-up--orchestrated by the Secret Service and a ruthlessly loyal White House chief-of-staff--of a brutal murder involving the president and his mistress.

2) Across five Aprils

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Hunt, Irene

Earliest Publication Date

1964

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Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War.

3) A kiss remembered

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Brown, Sandra, 1948

Earliest Publication Date

2002

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Recovering from a failed marriage, Shelley Browning goes back to college to finish her degree and encounters Grant Chapman, her former teacher and first love with whom she had shared a passionate kiss years ago.

4) All around the town

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Clark, Mary Higgins

Earliest Publication Date

1992

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When Laurie Kenyon, a 21 old student, is accused of murdering her English professor, Allan Grant, she has no memory of the crime. But at the scene of the homicide, her fingerprints are everywhere - on the door, on the curtain, and on the knife used to stab him to death. Shocked and bewildered, Laurie is arraigned on a murder charge. Kidnapped at the age of four and the victim of two subsequent years of abuse and incarceration, Laurie has developed...

5) Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging

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Rennison, Louise

Earliest Publication Date

2001

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Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.

6) An hour before daylight: memories of a rural boyhood

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Carter, Jimmy, 1924-2024

Earliest Publication Date

2001

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The former president offers an account of growing up on a Georgia farm during the Depression and provides profiles of the people who shaped his life.

7) Assassins: [assignment: Jerusalem, target: antichrist]

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LaHaye, Tim, 1926-2016

Earliest Publication Date

2000

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The Tribulation Force continues to fight the forces of Antichrist.

8) A tree grows in Brooklyn

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Smith, Betty, 1896-1972

Earliest Publication Date

1976

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Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber, as a word, was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound, but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it; especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer. Late in the afternoon the sun slanted down into the mossy yard belonging to Francie Nolan's house,...

9) Basket case

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Hiaasen, Carl

Earliest Publication Date

2002

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Once a hotshot investigative reporter, middle-aged Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida daily. When Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man of Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, dies in a diving "accident, " Jack uses clues from the singer's own music to unravel the mystery and resurrect his career in the process.

10) Blood lure

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Barr, Nevada

Earliest Publication Date

2000

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In this mystery in Nevada Barr’s New York Times bestselling series, District Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is betrayed by nature itself, as a most unnatural evil stalks its prey in the pristine West…
Straddling the border between Montana and Canada lies the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park—Anna’s home away from home when she is sent on a cross-training assignment to study grizzly bears. Along with...

11) Centerburg tales

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McCloskey, Robert, 1914-2003

Earliest Publication Date

1951

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Further adventures of Homer Price, including those in which a juke box sets the whole town singing against its will and in which a mad scientist develops weeds that overrun the town.

12) Chains of command

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Caunitz, William J

Earliest Publication Date

1999

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When a young police officer is shot and killed in his girlfriend's apartment in Washington Heights, investigators suspect that he had been taking money from the Dominican drug gangs that rule the neighborhood. An ambitious female deputy police commissioner and a daring detective lieutenant go up against the forces of greed to solve the crime of their careers.

13) Christmas in Plains

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Carter, Jimmy, 1924-2024

Earliest Publication Date

2001

14) Day of reckoning

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Higgins, Jack, 1929-2022

Earliest Publication Date

2000

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In this New York Times–bestselling thriller, a murder in Brooklyn sparks an international battle for vengeance between a mafia boss and a black ops agent. International crime boss Jack Fox makes two mistakes with journalist Katherine Johnson. He let her get too close to the truth, and he killed her. Katherine's ex-husband is Blake Johnson, the head of a clandestine White House department known as the Basement. With the President's permission,...

15) Double shot

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Davidson, Diane Mott

Earliest Publication Date

2004

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"Today's foremost practitioner of the culinary whodunit."
—Entertainment Weekly

"In the genre of culinary mystery writers, Davidson is a Julia Child among Betty Crockers, and there is no question that Double Shot is her best book."
—Denver Post

New York Times bestseller Diane Mott Davidson is the darling of cozy mystery readers and dedicated foodies the world over. Davidson is really cooking with Double Shot, another

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16) Double tap

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Martini, Steve, 1946

Earliest Publication Date

2005

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Attorney Paul Madriani defends a soldier on trial for murder and unwittingly steps into a maze of secrets and lies that the government -- and even his client -- would rather leave undisturbed. Madriani is faced with arcane ballistics evidence, a so-called "double tap" -- two bullet wounds tightly grouped to a victim's head, shots that can only be made by a crack marksman. Madriani's client is an enigma, a career soldier who refuses to talk about his...

17) Dragondrums

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McCaffrey, Anne

Earliest Publication Date

1979

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When his boy soprano voice begins to change, Piemur is drafted by Masterharper Robinton to help with political work and is sent on missions that lead him into unusual and sometimes dangerous adventures.

18) East of Eden

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Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968

Earliest Publication Date

1952

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This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.

19) Envy

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Brown, Sandra, 1948

Earliest Publication Date

2001

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New York book editor Maris Matherly-Reed knows a best seller when she sees one - even if it is just a tantalizing partial manuscript submitted by a writer identified only as P.M.E., with the return address of an obscure island off the Georgia coast. Maris is intrigued enough to search for him. Her trip to Georgia to meet the mysterious author takes her to an eerie, ruined cotton plantation, where Maris finds Parker Evans, a man confined to a wheelchair...

20) Founding brothers: the revolutionary generation

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Ellis, Joseph J

Earliest Publication Date

2000

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An analysis of the intertwined careers of the founders of the American republic documents the lives of John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.