Denise Swanson

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Book FOURTEEN of a 19 book series. 
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Florida

A Scumble River Mystery

Plans to build a country music theater in Scumble River fall flat whena female country singer is murdered, and the motives and suspects stretch back decades.

Murder of a Creped Suzette

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When school psychologist Skye Denison discovers a dead body at the newly opened bookstore Tales and Treats, which many residents of Scumble River want shut down, she, launching her own investigation, uncovers a deadly secret that could get her killed. By the author of Murder of a Wedding Belle. Original. 30,000 first printing.

Murder of a Bookstore Babe

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While contemplating her boyfriend's marriage proposal, school psychologist Skye Denison, the maid of honor in her California cousin's over-the-top wedding, races against time to stop a killer from ruining her cousin's nuptials. Original.

Murder of a Wedding Belle

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Book ELEVEN of a 19 book series. 
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When school psychologist Skye Denison stumbles over the body of pushy "Promfest" chairperson Annette Paine during a Halloween fundraiser, it looks like a clear-cut case of promicide. Annette was not the only prom mom desperate to see her daughter crowned queen--and her skirt-chasing hubby is no prince either.  

Skye's anxious to investigate, but she keeps getting sidetracked by the overeager new social worker at school, and her current beau's emotional distance. Still, one question haunts her: Annette Paine was wearing a witch costume identical to Skye's, so which witch was the intended victim? Will Skye realize too late that finding this killer is a matter of her own life or death?

Murder of a Royal Pain

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Book TEN of a 19 book series. 
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When her mother forces her to enter Grandma Sal's Soup-to-Nuts Cooking Challenge despite her lack of culinary skills, Sky Denison must decipher a complex recipe for murder when a cocky contestant meets her fate in a chocolate fountain.

Murder of a Chocolate-Covered Cherry

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While being tortured at the new Scumble River Spa during the "Dress for Sexcess" weekend, school psychologist Skye Denison discovers that being beautiful can be murder when she stumbles upon the dead body of a famous former model in the Miracle Mud bath. Original.

Murder of a Botoxed Blonde

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Book EIGHT of a 19 book series. 
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When a hunky contractor, who has a reputation for conning the ladies, turns up dead, Skye Denison, deciding that even bad boys deserve justice, sets out to find the killer while dealing with an overly amorous police chief, a dodgy brother, and a haunted house. Original.

Murder of a Real Bad Boy

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Book SEVEN of a 19 book series. 
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When a scuffle breaks out at the First Annual Route 66 Yard Sale involving her mother, school psychologist Skye Denision, while dealing with a raucous battle of the sexes and bakesale blunders, finds herself accused of murder when her former summer-job boss is found dead. Original.

Murder of a Smart Cookie

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School psychologist Skye Denison is submerged in a world of sex, drugs, and rock and roll when her brother Vince starts a band called Pink Elephant, which sets in motion a bizarre chain of events that leads to murder. Original.

Murder of a Pink Elephant

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Book FIVE of a 19 book series. 
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After joining Scumble River's social club, school psychologist Skye Denison and her boyfriend, Simon Reid, the town coroner, find themselves faced with the double homicide of Barbie and Ken Addison--a wealthy couple who seemed to have it all. Original.

Murder of a Barbie and Ken

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Skye Denison, school psychologist, investigates when Gabriel Scumble, the great-great-grandnephew of Scumble River's founder, is murdered with a pickax during Scumble River's bicentennial days, and her ex-fiance, Luc St. Amant, is a suspect.

Murder of a Snake in the Grass

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School psychologist Skye Denison turns sleuth once again when Lorelei Ingels--cheerleader, beauty pageant queen, most popular girl in school, and star of the school play--turns up dead and uncovers some shocking secrets about Scumble River's most prominent citizens. Original.

Murder of a Sleeping Beauty

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When she left Scumble River years ago, school psychologist Skye Denison thought she’d never be back. But after a run of bad luck in the big city, she has a new appreciation for the down-home charm of small-town life--and decides to start over in the town where she started out… When Skye’s beloved grandmother is found dead in her bed, the family consensus is natural causes. Still, Skye insists on an autopsy--an examination that proves the sweet old lady was, in fact, murdered! But who could have done the deadly deed? Skye is determined to find out, though her snooping doesn’t sit well with the relatives. Family tensions can mean only one thing: family secrets. And when a series of hooligan attacks on Skye’s property leads to an outright physical assault, Skye has to wonder if by exposing the rotten roots of her family tree, she’s one step closer to exposing the killer…

Murder of a Sweet Old Lady

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School psychologist Skye Denison has reluctantly returned to her hometown of Scumble River, where she finds mystery and romantic intrigue aplenty. Original.

Murder of a Small -Town Honey

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C. S. Lewis

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

C.S. Lewis' writings are prized for their genius at communicating the philosophical and theological rationale of Christianity in simple, everyday language.  Now, for the first time in one volume, this inspired collection of three Lewis bestsellers - The Pilgrim's Regress, Christian Reflections and God in the Dock - allows you to sample some of the best ideas and arguments of this engaging Christian writer.

The Collected Works of C. S. Lewis

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Tracy Chevalier

Using a number of shifting perspectives - wives and husbands, friends and lovers, masters and servants, and a gravedigger's son - this novel follows the fortunes of two families in the first years of the 20th century.

Falling Angels

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A Novel

The Virgin Blue

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Greg Mortenson

David Oliver Relin

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One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

Three Cups of Tea

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Azar Nafisi

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A Memoir in Books

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • We all have dreams—things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi’s dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; several had spent time in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they began to open up and to speak more freely, not only about the novels they were reading but also about themselves, their dreams and disappointments. Their stories intertwined with those they were reading—Pride and Prejudice, Washington Square, Daisy Miller and Lolita—their Lolita, as they imagined her in Tehran. Nafisi’s account flashes back to the early days of the revolution, when she first started teaching at the University of Tehran amid the swirl of protests and demonstrations. In those frenetic days, the students took control of the university, expelled faculty members and purged the curriculum. When a radical Islamist in Nafisi’s class questioned her decision to teach The Great Gatsby, which he saw as an immoral work that preached falsehoods of “the Great Satan,” she decided to let him put Gatsby on trial and stood as the sole witness for the defense. Azar Nafisi’s luminous tale offers a fascinating portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of women’s lives in revolutionary Iran. It is a work of great passion and poetic beauty, written with a startlingly original voice. Praise for Reading Lolita in Tehran “Anyone who has ever belonged to a book group must read this book. Azar Nafisi takes us into the vivid lives of eight women who must meet in secret to explore the forbidden fiction of the West. It is at once a celebration of the power of the novel and a cry of outrage at the reality in which these women are trapped. The ayatollahs don’ t know it, but Nafisi is one of the heroes of the Islamic Republic.”—Geraldine Brooks, author of Nine Parts of Desire

Reading Lolita in Tehran

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Kristin Hannah

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

"Home Front is Hannah's crowning achievement."--The Huffington Post

In this powerhouse of a novel, Kristin Hannah explores the intimate landscape of a troubled marriage with this provocative and timely portrait of a husband and wife, in love and at war.

All marriages have a breaking point. All families have wounds. All wars have a cost. . . .

Like many couples, Michael and Jolene Zarkades have to face the pressures of everyday life--children, careers, bills, chores--even as their twelve-year marriage is falling apart. Then a deployment sends Jolene deep into harm's way and leaves defense attorney Michael at home, unaccustomed to being a single parent to their two girls. As a mother, it agonizes Jolene to leave her family, but as a solider, she has always understood the true meaning of duty. In her letters home, she paints a rose-colored version of her life on the front lines, shielding her family from the truth. But war will change Jolene in ways that none of them could have foreseen. When tragedy strikes, Michael must face his darkest fear and fight a battle of his own--for everything that matters to his family.

At once a profoundly honest look at modern marriage and a dramatic exploration of the toll war takes on an ordinary American family, Home Front is a story of love, loss, heroism, honor, and ultimately, hope.

"Hannah has written a remarkable tale of duty, love, strength, and hope that is at times poignant and always thoroughly captivating and relevant." --Library Journal (starred review)

Home Front

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Carolyn G. Heilbrun

"Astute and provocative....Blends the sophistication of recent feminist theory with highly textured details fro the lives of independent and ambitious women." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Drawing on the experience of celebrated women, from George Sand and Virginia Woolf to Dorothy Sayers and Adrienne Rich, Heilbrun examines the struggle these writers undertook when their drives made it impossible for them to follow the traditional "male" script for a woman's life. Refreshing and insightful, this is an homage to brave women past and present, and an invitation to all women to write their own scripts, whatever they may be.

Writing a Woman's Life

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Alice Hoffman

This tale of faith and love charts the histories of Rae, an unmarried expectant mother far from home, and Lila, a cynical fortune teller who lost her daughter twenty-five years earlier

Fortune's Daughter

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Dava Sobel

A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love

The tender, inspiring relationship between Galileo and his daughter, a nun, is revealed through letters written between the two. Reprint.

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