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Author
Series
Miss Julia series volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
When Miss Julia burst on the scene in her fictional debut, "Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind, " this proper lady found her orderly world turned upside down when Hazel Marie Puckett appeared with her nine-year-old son--who looked disturbingly similar to Miss Julia's late husband. Now Miss Julia and Little Lloyd take a zany race through the South when Hazel Marie mysteriously disappears
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta travels to North Carolina to investigate the murder of an eleven-year-old girl, but the evidence does not add up, and she must conduct a gruesome experiment at a remote research facility to find the answers, in a new edition of the classic thriller, complete with a new introduction by the author
3) Booked up
Author
Series
Village library mysteries volume 10
Language
English
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Description
Dr. Victor Wilson was one of the most popular physicians in the small town of Whitby, North Carolina. He wrote a prescription for trust with his attentive care and compassionate bedside manner. But when the doctor's own story takes a deadly twist, librarian Ann Beckett finds herself in the center of a medical mystery that's anything but routine. As Ann steps into the investigation, she uncovers hidden chapters in Dr. Wilson's life that cast a shadow...
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
©2014
Language
English
Description
"The Village Quilters of Dappled Hills, North Carolina, are desperate to finish their quilts before an upcoming show. To help, fellow member Posy has opened the back room of her shop, the Patchwork Cottage, for everyone to use. But the ladies are less than thrilled when Phyllis Stitt and Martha Helmsley-members of their rival quilting guild, the Cut-Ups-ask to join them. Phyllis is hoping to leave the Cut-Ups and join up with the Village Quilters...
5) Liar!
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Even though Luna and her brother Cullen seem like complete opposites, they're identical in two ways: they'll never let injustice stand and they always have each other's back. Fern Michaels blends mystery, drama and a touch of romance for the third in her Lost & Found series, as the siblings set out to unravel a cold case connected to a mysterious armoire."--
Luna Bodman always looks forward to a new shipment of furniture at the restoration shop....
Author
Series
Southern quilting mysteries volume 1
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
Retired folk art curator Beatrice Coleman knows everything there is to know about quilts, except how to make them. But with her recent move to Dappled Hills, North Carolina, she's learning all sorts of new things--including how to solve a murder. Includes quilting tips
Author
Language
English
Description
"A disgraced soccer executive reluctantly enlists the help of a retired soccer star in coaching a children's team"--
Adalyn Reyes has spent years perfecting her daily routine: wake up at dawn, drive to the Miami Flames FC offices, try her hardest to leave a mark, go home, and repeat. But her routine is disrupted when a video of her in an altercation with the team's mascot goes viral. Rather than fire her, the team's owner--who happens to be her father--sends...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Jane and her fiancé, Edwin, are headed to the North Carolina coast for a much-needed vacation. Their harborside loft has floor-to-ceiling bookcases and breathtaking views, but Jane's hopes of exploring the town with her man are stymied when Edwin steps on a stingray. Things take an even less romantic turn when Jane stumbles across a dead body... Instead of taking leisurely beach strolls, Jane is suddenly on a literary chase through time, unearthing...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family's estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate--along with a nine-figure fortune and the complicated legacy of being a McTavish--pass...
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Language
English
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Description
Esme Cahill thinks she has failed spectacularly: fired from her New York City publishing job, divorced from her husband, and possessing little more than a broken-down car and a pile of unfinished manuscripts, she drives home to Asheville at the request of her late grandmother, Adele, who had begged her, just before she died, to return to the place she grew up. There she discovers the once-charming lakeside retreat run by her family is sliding toward...
Author
Series
Blue Cedar Falls volume 3
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Between helping at her family's inn and teaching painting, Elizabeth Wu has put her dream of being an artist on the back burner. But her plan to launch an arts festival will boost the local Blue Cedar Falls arts scene and give her a showcase for her own work. If only she can get the town council on board. At least she can rely on her dependable best friend Graham to support her. Except lately, he hasn't been acting like his old self, and she has...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
For Heather Gordon, life in her small North Carolina town has always been simple. One night a food fight breaks out in her family's restaurant, where she's a waitress. The culprits are the famous rock band Kirwan. When lead singer Alex Kirwan wants to make amends and invites her to attend one of their concerts, sparks fly. Rock star life includes paparazzi, a new city every week, and the loneliness of touring, but with Heather things are different....
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Language
English
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"The annual fishing tournament and festival in Hokes Folly, North Carolina, is the high-water mark event of the year. Antiquarian bookseller Jenna Quinn, owner of the Twice Upon a Time bookstore, is ready to catch some new customers with her fishing-themed book display at the festival. That is, she was...until a local author was found dead in his booth. All fingers point to Frank Sutter, a former detective with the police department. His soon-to-be...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Beatrice has never crashed a party but now her fellow quilt guild member, Meadow Downey, is driving them to a Victorian mansion in the mountains beyond Dappled Hills, North Carolina. Muriel Starnes, an elderly eccentric, has organized a meeting of quilters to pick someone to administer a quilting scholarship. The fact that the Village Quilters werent invited isnt enough to keep Meadow from speaking her piece. But once the quilters arrive at the mansion,...
Author
Series
Book retreat mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Jane and her fiancé, Edwin, are headed to the North Carolina coast for a much-needed vacation. Their harborside loft has floor-to-ceiling bookcases and breathtaking views, but Jane's hopes of exploring the town with her man are stymied when Edwin steps on a stingray. Things take an even less romantic turn when Jane stumbles across a dead body . . . Instead of taking leisurely beach strolls, Jane is suddenly on a literary chase through time, unearthing...
16) Hurricane girl
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"The story of a woman on the run from catastrophe, searching for love, home, healing, a swimming pool, and perhaps someone who can stop the bleeding from her head"--
"Allison Brody is thirty-two and newly arrived on the East Coast after just managing to flee her movie producer boyfriend. She has some money, saved up from years of writing and waitressing, and so she spends it, buying a small house on the beach. But then a Category 3 hurricane makes...
17) A novel idea
Author
Series
Village library mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Elizabeth Spann Craig
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes a novel idea can turn out to be a bad one. Sally Simmons was rather misunderstood in the small town of Whitby, North Carolina. An awkward woman with a sly countenance, she became a regular at the library, spending a good deal of time scribbling in a notebook and staring vacantly off into space. It turned out, to everyone's surprise, that Sally had been industriously penning a novel. To their greater surprise, it became something of a sensation,...
18) Wildflower Falls
Author
Series
Riverbend romance volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"He's here to train her horses and then skip town. She's keeping her true identity a secret. But their spark complicates both of their plans"--
When Charlotte Honeycutt, owner of Stillwater Ranch, discovered her deceased mother's safety deposit box, she was not expecting life-changing news inside-the long-hidden identity of her biological father and the location of her two half brothers, Gavin and Cooper Robinson. While her father's location is unknown,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
"When her beloved grandmother passes away, Mia Broadhurst returns to the snow-covered seaside village of Winsted Cape, North Carolina, where Grandma Ruth ran the lighthouse overlooking the golden beach. This will be Mia's first Christmas without her, and she can't bear to part with the lighthouse that has been in their family for generations. As she steps into it, childhood memories rush back to her. She can almost hear them playing tag on the steps...
20) Double crossfire
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"How do you overturn an election?" It's a question that has obsessed presidential candidate Jamie Carter ever since her loss to businessman and political neophyte President Jack Smart. In spite of the election results, she's determined to take what she sees as her rightful place in the White House--through any means possible. First, she establishes residency in North Carolina. Then, when the state's Pro Tem of the US Senate is found dead, she is appointed...
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