Senator Love
Warren Adler
Literature & Fiction / Mystery & Thrillers / Historical Fiction
Fiona FitzGerald, senator's daughter turned Washington, D.C., homicide detective, is called in to investigate when the stunning wife of the Austrian Ambassador is kidnapped and murdered. Soon, bones belonging to a vanished young girl are discovered, and both murders share the same starling clues that point to a powerful and seductive Senator. Besides solving the mystery, will Fiona submit to the powerful sexual forces of "Senator Love?"Senator Love is the third book in Warren Adler's Fiona FitzGerald series. The first mystery, American Quartet, was on The New York Times list of top ten crime novels of the year. Try the other Fiona mysteries: American Quartet, American Sextet, Immaculate Deception, The Witch of Watergate and The Ties That Bind.
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Valerie French (1923)
Dornford Yates
Literature & Fiction
The sequel to "Anthony Lyveden". Although the Pleydells, and Jonah Mansel are mentioned, this book, and Anthony Lyveden, stand apart.Anthony Lyveden, memory totally lost, and believed dead by his friends, struggles to recover his memory and regain his lost love, Valerie French.
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The Professor's Daughter
Piers Paul Read
Literature & Fiction / Nonfiction / Biographies & Memoirs
Louisa Rutledge, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a Harvard professor, picks up a stranger on Boston Common and, after a crude coupling in her apartment, throws herself out of her window. She survives and returns to the home of her parents in Cambridge, Mass. – her father a rich, east-coast patrician, descended from a signatory of the Declaration of Independence; her mother the alcoholic mistress of a powerful senator.
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12 Edmondstone Street
David Malouf
Literature & Fiction
Each house, like each place, has its own topography, its own lore. A complex history comes down to us, through household jokes and anecdotes, odd family habits, and irrational superstitions, that forever shapes what we see and the way in which we see it.Beginning with his childhood home, David Malouf moves on to show other landmarks in his life, and the way places and things create our private worlds. Written with humour and uncompromising intelligence, 12 Edmondstone Street is an unforgettable portrait of one man's life.
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A Touch of Frost
S. E. Smith
Horror / Literature & Fiction / Humor
Lacey Adams lives in the small town of Magic, New Mexico, where she devotes herself to the animals at her Touch of Magic Animal Shelter. The strange assortment of animals helps heal the pain and loneliness inside her since the death of her husband three years before.Frost is a Star Ranger. He travels the star systems, bringing intergalactic fugitives to justice. When a maximum-security fugitive escapes from the mining prison, he is sent after him. Only this time, the fugitive has violated a major law… he has traveled to a distant forbidden planet inhabited by a race that has not mastered space travel yet.Now, he is in a race to find the fugitive before those on the planet known as Earth discover there are not one, but two aliens on their world. Things become complicated when Frost discovers his heart is not as frozen as he thought when a young human female is taken hostage by the fugitive. What he doesn’t anticipate is her unexpected resistance – both to the fugitive and to him.Frost is forced to make a decision that is guaranteed to put him on the most wanted list when he follows his heart and kidnaps Lacey. He knows that some things are worth the risk. What he doesn’t know is that Lacey has a few secrets of her own.
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Heart in Hand: Stitches in Time Series #3
Barbara Cameron
Literature & Fiction
After the wedding of her cousin Naomi, knitter Anna, a widow, finds herself missing loveand the closeness of a husband. She feels a special connection with her grandmother as they bothstruggle to go on with life. Is Anna on the verge of finding happiness when she realizes JohnEsh is interested in her? Love begins to warm Anna’s heart, but will she be so afraid of losingsomeone that she gives up the second chance that God has provided?About the AuthorBarbara Cameron is the author of more than 35 fiction and non-fiction books, three nationally televised movies, and is the winner of the first Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award. She currently resides in Edgewater, Florida. Find out more about Barbara at BarbaraCameron.com, AmishHearts.com, and AmishLiving.com.
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The Wall
Marlen Haushofer
Literature & Fiction
I can allow myself to write the truth; all the people for whom I have lied throughout my life are dead
” writes the heroine of Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall, a quite ordinary, unnamed middle-aged woman who awakens to find she is the last living human being. Surmising her solitude is the result of a too successful military experiment, she begins the terrifying work of not only survival, but self-renewal. The Wall is at once a simple and moving talk of potatoes and beans, of hoping for a calf, of counting matches, of forgetting the taste of sugar and the use of one’s name and a disturbing meditation on 20th century history.
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