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"A young woman discovers a delicious cache of heirlooms in an abandoned safe deposit box: bundles of handwritten letters, photographs, expired passports, both American and Italian, and twenty-two leather boxes, each holding a priceless piece of jewelry. Drawn to the mysterious woman in the photographs, Jane digs deeper into the woman's luxurious, golden life and the older, dashing man who occupies her pictures and letters. The details are both glamorous...
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2009.
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In the small town of Duvall, Texas, the only thing that causes more trouble than gossip is magic.
The family magic seems to have skipped over Tammy Jo Trask. All she gets in the way of the supernatural are a few untimely visits from the long-dead, smart-mouthed family ghost Edie. But when her locket—an heirloom that happens to hold Edie's soul—is stolen in the midst of a town-wide crime spree, it's time for Tammy to
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Escape to a tropical island for excitement, mystery, suspense, and romance in this fabulous novel by a bestselling author
He'll do anything to get what he wants. She'll do anything to stop him.
Charis Scott, a princess descended from Hawaiian royalty, isn't prepared for the arrival of Jago Marsh in her life. He flies halfway across the world under the pretense of buying her cosmetics company, but the real reason isn't business-or even pleasure-it's...
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When unspeakable tragedy leaves young Eli and orphan, two families are devastated. Taylor, Eli's aunt and legal guardian, helps him remember his parents by creating a Memory Quilt. As she begins piecing together the moments of his praents' lives, the young family's story emerges and Taylor and Eli begin to heal. Slow to let go of the past, Eli's Unclie Reece still blames Taylor's brother for his sister's death. Although he's attracted to Taylor,...
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Upon her grandma's death, Izzy Fontaine finds herself in possession of a Wild Goose Chase pattern quilt that supposedly leads to a great treasure. Of course, once the rest of the family finds out, they're determined to have a go at the treasure. And if that weren't enough, a local museum curator tells Izzy that Grandma Isabella promised him the quilt. What is it about the quilt that makes everyone want it? Is Izzy on a wild goose chase of her own,...
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Working for Old World Wisconsin, Chloe Ellefson delights in losing herself in antiques and folk traditions-and forgetting her messy love life. Then the ethnic outdoor museum becomes a murder scene. Does the missing Eagle diamond, a legendary gemstone unearthed in 1876, have anything to do with it? Could Simon Sabatola, a rich AgriFutures executive who possibly drove his wife to suicide, be responsible? Chloe learns that some things never change in...
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IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
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"Druscilla Delaney, a parson's daughter, is enthralled with the wealthy Framling family next door, especially the handsome Fabian. But she knows better than to trust his intentions. As a long-time companion to Fabian's sister, Lavinia, Druscilla agrees to accompany the Framlings to a British outpost in India as a governess—and to avoid a marriage of convenience back home. Shortly after arriving, Druscilla finds herself trapped in New Delhi in the...
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"Judith Kratt inherited all the Kratt family had to offer - the pie safe, the copper clock, the murder that no one talks about - and she knows in her old bones that it's time to make an inventory of her household and its valuables. But she finds that cataloging the family heirlooms can't contain their misfortunes, not when her wayward sister suddenly returns, determined to expose secrets that the Kratts had hoped to take to their grave. Interweaving...
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Secrets of the manor volume 1
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2014.
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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720L
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Beth is excited for her twelfth birthday, when she will receive her great-grandmother's heirloom necklace as a gift, but when the necklace goes missing, Beth must learn the secrets of her manor house in order to clear the name of her maid and friend, Shannon.
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2011.
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For beautiful, seductive Moira MacAllister, the stakes have become terrifyingly high. Her daughter has been abducted and a priceless ancient relic is the ransom. Moira must acquire it at any cost, even if it means confronting the man she once duped and left, a man who still doesn't know she has a child...and that he is the father. Robert Hurst, an operative in the king's service, has never forgiven the mysterious spy who seduced him into marriage...
14) The imperfects
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"The Millers are far from perfect. Estranged siblings Beck, Ashley and Jake find themselves under one roof for the first time in years, forced to confront old resentments and betrayals, when their mysterious, eccentric matriarch, Helen, passes away. But their lives are about to change when they find a secret inheritance hidden among her possessions--the Florentine Diamond, a 137-carat yellow gemstone that went missing from the Austrian Empire a century...
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Secrets of the manor volume 5
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2015.
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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730L
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"Betsy Northrop is about to turn twelve years old and per her family's tradition, plans are underway for a magnificent birthday ball in her honor. Despite troubling times elsewhere, Betsy's family is thriving, thanks to the good choices of Betsy's mother, Beth. But then mishaps--both trivial and disastrous--start plaguing Chatswood Manor. Is someone determined to bring the family to ruin? Betsy vows to expose the culprit, but her home is one where...
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Secrets of the manor volume 2
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2014.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
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690L
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It's the end of June in 1914, and Beth Etheridge is traveling from her home in England's Chatswood Manor all the way to America, to visit her cousin Kate at Vandermeer Manor in Rhode Island. The girls are thrilled to be united, especially because Beth will be in attendance when Kate receives the heirloom "Katherine" necklace: one half of a heart encrusted with gorgeous rubies. It's the companion to Beth's "Elizabeth" necklace. But the trip is cut...
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[2019]
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IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"A circular tale of time travel in a picture book! Max and her dog Boomer accidentally break a vase, a treasured family heirloom-the only thing that Max's great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother managed to save when her houseboat sank. Instead of coming clean, they decide to do the next most logical thing: Build a time machine, travel back to her great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother's home, and smash the vase then so that they can't...
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"The residents of Llanelen are brimming with excitement. Antiques Cymru, a regional take on the popular national TV show, is coming to the Welsh town and people are flocking from miles around, hoping their attic treasures turn out to be worth a fortune. On the day of filming, quiet local sheep farmer Haydn Williams brings a generations-old long-case clock for evaluation, while the woman he's always admired from afar, Catrin Bellis, turns up with a...
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