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Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[1994]
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English
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In 19th Century London, a wealthy young widow likes to play matchmaker, arranging evenings between widows and eligible men, then exposing the men so they have to marry. A certain bachelor decides to play a trick by seducing her, then proposing, knowing well she will say no, thus showing up her to ridicule: one rule for men, another for women. It happens too, but there's a twist.
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A New York psychiatrist recounts her mother's death for which she was arrested. At the time, Dr. Ellen Gulden was accused of killing her mother with an overdose of morphine, a charge in part based on a high school essay in which she advocated euthanasia. By the author of Object Lessons.
9) Thin air
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English
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A beautiful woman is kidnaped, leaving PI Spenser of Boston to probe the mysteries of her past. She is Lisa St. Claire, disk jockey and wife of a Boston policeman, a woman with a history of drugs and prostitution. The abductor turns out to be a former Latino lover.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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"My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and I was born. Instead, they returned to Ireland when I was four ... When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the...
12) Dirt
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English
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Gossip columnist Amanda Dart gets a taste of her own medicine when a photograph arrives in her office showing her in bed with a married man. The sender threatens to make the photo public unless Amanda pays. PI Stone Barrington is hired to find the blackmailer. By the author of New York Dead.
13) Legacies
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Series
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
The Civil War nearly destroys the love between patrician Bostonian Diane Parmalee and half-Cherokee Lije Stuart.
17) Missing pieces
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Pub. Date
1997
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English
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A psychological thriller featuring Kate Sinclair as she watches her half-sister, Jo-Lynn, falling in love with a man on trial for killing a dozen women. No matter how hard Kate tries to dissuade her, Jo-Lynn is determined to marry him, believing him innocent. The killer is aware of Kate's dislike and he has plans for her.
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