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  The Body in the Ditch

  Phillip Strang

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  A group of children play. Not far away, in the ditch on the other side of the farmyard, the body of a young woman. 
   
   
   
  The nearby village hides as many secrets as the community at the farm, a disparate group of people looking for an alternative to their previous torturous lives. Their leader, idealistic and benevolent, espouses love and kindness, and somebody's not following his dictate. 
   
   
   
  The second death, an old woman, seems unrelated to the first, but is it? Is it part of the tangled web that connects the farm to the village? 
   
   
   
  The village, Detective Inspector Tremayne, and Sergeant Clare Yarwood find out soon enough, is anything but charming and picturesque. It's a hotbed of intrigue and wrongdoing, and what of the farm and those who live there. None of them can be ruled out, not yet.

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  Personal Recollections of Joan...

  Mark Twain

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  A novel of the life of the defender of medieval France by the celebrated author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. She saved France when she was fourteen . . .  She was burned at the stake for her efforts . . .  Meet the girl who captured Mark Twain’s heart.  A forgotten masterpiece from one of America’s greatest authors—and the last full-length novel he ever wrote—Joan of Arc follows the Savior of France from her childhood in Domrémy, to her campaigns throughout the French countryside, to her demise at the hands of the English and Burgundians.  Mark Twain was sarcastic, witty, and oft-irreverent, but he had a soft spot for the Maid of Orléans. (As will you after you read this book!) He spent twelve years in research, two in writing, including multiple visits to the National Archives in Paris, and proclaimed Joan of Arc the “best of all my books!”  If you love well-written classics of stunning historical figures, then this is the book for you.

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  Most Likely to Die

  Linsey Lanier

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  "I just can't stop reading!" Reader review. 
  Just a few weeks ago, PI Miranda Steele thought the love of her life was dead. 
  Parker believed the same about her. 
  Miraculously, they made it through the worst ordeal of their lives, and have retired to the peace and quiet of the North Georgia Mountains. 
  But it’s a little too peaceful here, and Miranda is getting restless. 
  As a diversion they decide to attend a high school reunion party in Chicago. 
  Nothing dangerous about that, right? 
  But when a former classmate is found dead, Miranda and Parker are pulled out of retirement to investigate what could be a bizarre murder. Not exactly what they had planned. 
  Once again things are about to turn deadly. 
  This time, they might not survive. 
  THE MIRANDA’S RIGHTS MYSTERY SERIES 
  Someone Else’s Daughter 
  Delicious Torment 
  Forever Mine 
  Fire Dancer 
  Thin Ice 
  THE MIRANDA AND PARKER MYSTERY SERIES 
  All Eyes on Me 
  Heart Wounds 
  Clowns and Cowboys 
  The Watcher 
  Zero Dark Chocolate 
  Trial by Fire 
  Smoke Screen 
  The Boy 
  Snakebit 
  Mind Bender 
  Roses from My Killer 
  The Stolen Girl 
  Vanishing Act 
  Predator 
  Retribution 
  Most Likely to Die 
  Sonata for a Killer 
  Fatal Fall 
  Girl in the Park

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  Last Bets

  Mary Carroll Moore

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  Escape to paradise. Find trouble instead! 
  Last Bets, by award-winning author of the bestseller, A Woman's Guide to Search & Rescue, is a fast-paced suspense novel that will appeal to fans of The Queen's Gambit and The White Lotus. In Mary Carroll Moore's must-read new book, female ambition and morality collide in the darkness of a gambling underworld on the idyllic, exotic island of Bonaire. 
  As a child, Elly Sorensen's gambler father drafted his daughter to use her paranormal gift of second sight to help him win big at gambling tables. After nearly getting killed back then, Elly vowed never again. 
  Now she secretly uses her visions to paint portraits with startling authenticity. Celebrities seek out Elly for her rare talent at capturing their essence. She's at the height of her artistic career. 
  Then Elly's estranged husband suddenly dies, leaving her with massive debts that must be paid right away. To quickly make the amount of money she needs, Elly flees to the Caribbean island of Bonaire to finish a commission for a wealthy man. 
  There, she meets Australian teenager and kindred spirit Rosie Ryan. Rosie's father also uses his daughter to scout information that nefariously helps him win at gambling. Rosie reminds Elly of her sister Lily, a girl she failed to rescue long ago. 
  Rosie's emotional needs and deceptions, along with a deadly hurricane racing toward the island, draw Elly back into the gambling world to win the fast money she desperately needs. 
  Even though Elly can barely rescue herself, will she use her paranormal powers again? Can she fully trust the grifter, Rosie? Underestimated by the men around them, what would happen if Rosie and Elly teamed up to conquer forces they never imagined? Will they fight for a future that promises real freedom?

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  The Philanthropist and the Happy...

  Saki Saki

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  In the novel, Jocantha Bessbury finds herself enveloped in a bubble of contentment within her comfortable life in Chelsea. With a charming husband, Gregory, and a beautifully furnished home, she feels serene and satisfied. However, her introspective nature leads her to empathize deeply with the struggles of less fortunate individuals around her, particularly young working women who lead monotonous lives. Determined to spread a little joy, Jocantha embarks on an afternoon of shopping with the intention of gifting theatre tickets to someone in need of a distraction.

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  Before All the World - A Novel

  Moriel Rothman-Zecher

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  In the swirl of Philadelphia at the end of Prohibition, Leyb meets Charles. They are at a former speakeasy called Cricket's, a bar that welcomes, as Charles says in his secondhand Yiddish, feygeles. Leyb is startled; fourteen years in amerike has taught him that his native tongue is not known beyond his people. And yet here is suave Charles, a Black man from the Seventh Ward, a fellow traveler of Red Emma's, speaking Jewish to a young man he will come to call Lion. 
   
   
   
  Lion is haunted by memories of life before, in Zatelsk, where everyone in his village, everyone except the ten non-Jews, a young poet named Gittl, and Leyb himself, was taken to the forest and killed. 
   
   
   
  And then, miraculously, Gittl is in Philadelphia, too, thanks to a poem she wrote and the intervention of a shadowy character known only as the Baroness of Philadelphia. And surrounding Gittl are malokhim, the spirits of her siblings. 
   
   
   
  Moriel Rothman-Zecher's Before All the World lays bare the impossibility of escaping trauma, the necessity of believing in a better way ahead, and the power that comes from our responsibility to the future. It asks the most essential question: What do you intend to do before all the world?

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