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Jordan Manning novels volume 2
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"After dropping her child off at preschool, Marla Hancock, a stay-at-home mother, disappears. She had recently left her verbally abusive husband in rural Indiana and moved in with her sister, Shelly, who simply can't believe that her sister would ever willingly vanish without her children. But with limited support from the town's police department or media resources, Shelly fears that Marla's disappearance won't get the attention it deserves, or worse,...
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The classic true story of a lovable Scottish dog whose loyalty knew no bounds Each day, the cannon of Edinburgh Castle blasts a shot across town. It never fails to surprise Bobby, the silver-haired Skye terrier of Greyfriars Kirkyard, who fires back with a flurry of indignant yips. He always quiets down, though, because he knows it means it's one o'clock-and one o'clock is when it's time to eat. Bobby's master, the shepherd Auld Jock, feeds the...
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For a sixteen-year-old, a summer internship working for a private investigator seems like a dream come true--particularly since the PI is investigating the most shocking crime to hit Bloomington, Indiana, in decades. A local woman has vanished, and the last time anyone saw her, she was in the backseat of a police car driven by a man impersonating an officer. Marshall Miller's internship puts him at the center of the action, a position he relishes...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Signing the Contract, and What It Cost" by Martha Finley. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature....
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Robert Amiss mysteries volume 11
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"I should imagine this was murder, too, because it would be very difficult to build yourself into a heap of sandbags and then die…"
In the blackout conditions of a wintry London night, amateur sleuth Agnes Kinghof and a young air-raid warden have stumbled upon a corpse stowed in the walls of their street's bomb shelter. As the police begin their investigation, the night is interrupted once again when Agnes' upstairs neighbour, Mrs. Sibley is terrorised...
6) Hard line
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Reluctantly heading up the Indianapolis PD's Missing Persons Bureau, Lt. Leroy Powder investigates a series of unusual cases while training a female sergeant. Indianapolis police lieutenant Leroy Powder's new job in Missing Persons calls for tact, sensitivity, and diplomacy: three traits no one would use to describe the lieutenant. He also has to break in a new sergeant, Carollee Fleetwood. Taking a bullet for her partner in the line of duty made...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Story of Tonty" by Mary Hartwell Catherwood. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Mystic volume 3
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The white buffalo is a sacred and holy creature to the Lakota. Buffalo Dreamer, a holy woman, and her husband, Rising Eagle, have not only been blessed to see the white buffalo, they have eaten of its heart and have been told by the sacred beast that as long as the Lakota have the white buffalo hide, all will be well.
But all is not well. White hunters have stolen the sacred white robe and great misfortune has befallen the Lakota. Settlers continue...
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An Edgar Award Finalist: A teenager's search for her birth father sends Indianapolis PI Albert Samson on a quest that rattles the skeletons in an old-money family's closet It's a slow afternoon for Indianapolis private detective Albert Samson. He's just awoken from an office doze when a new client walks in. Sixteen-year-old Eloise Crystal recently discovered that her blood type doesn't match either of her parents', and she wants Samson to find her...
10) Maiden murders
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A sunny Friday morning flirts with promises for the weekend, but one young bride-to-be doesn't live to see it. Detective Mark Forbes and his partner, Jed McCracken, are called to the scene of her murder at an Indianapolis retail store.
12) Wild pitch
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"After Buster Hogue is shot at the annual town picnic, plenty of motives appear, but no clues point to the sniper. A lot of people had reason to dislike Hogue or even to wish him dead because of personal and unhappy experience; but grudges don't count in the absence of evidence. Chick Charleston, the small-town sheriff, has had no experience with this kind of case, the county not having been inclined to homicidal endeavors. Neither has his county...
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Business is picking up for Indianapolis PI Albert Samson - until three intersecting cases land him on the city's Most Wanted list. Unusually, Albert Samson, Indy's least successful PI, is working three cases at once: An ecoterrorist group threatens to bomb the city, an obnoxious poet wants help murdering his wife, and a mysterious package needs a courier. Thankfully, the Scum Front has only blown up fallow cornfields so far. But the poet is not, in...
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Step into 1933 and the heart of the Great Depression in Hell's Neck, Indiana. Elmer "Doc" Gentry, a widowed father, farmer, and house calling doctor runs for state legislature when he discovers corruption at the KKK-controlled State House. When a late-night rap on his door reveals a gross injustice suffered by the black community across the river, Doc sets out on a dual mission to rectify their injustice and find the missing funds meant for President...
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Nan has written her brothers and sisters that they are invited (and must come) home for Christmas. They had not all been home together for years. No spouses or children . Just the five siblings. They really didn't want to go, it did not sound like fun. The story of a family reunion in the old homestead, planned by the youngest member of the family, resisted and scoffed at by the eldest-and successfully brought off.
16) The herdsman
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A valley of wild horses that the natives believed ancestors used to carry brave warriors off into the spirit world when they died. Kauteenowah. A valley known only to the Lakota. A place so sacred it was forbidden for outsiders to venture there. But Will Travis has other plans. Misfortune has all but ruined him. His only chance now is to find the herd and bring it in if, in fact, it actually exists. The ancient ones warn that whoever is unworthy and...
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"In the summer of 1995, a Korean War vet struggling to raise his sixteen-year-old grandson on a farm in southern Indiana receives a mysterious gift--a beautiful quarter horse--that upends the balance of their lives. The horse catches the attention of two meth-dealing brothers who steal and sell the animal. Grandfather and grandson pursue the ruthless criminals across the bleak heartland, all the while confronting the misperceptions [sic] of their...
18) Starting over
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Phil Potter tries to adjust to his new divorced life. Novel about the perils and promises of living alone after being married, of men and women trying to cope with loneliness and frustration, trying to find new friends and lovers and answers.
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Indianapolis social worker Adele Buffington's caseload is unusually heavy: Solve a murder, find a missing mother and her young daughters, stay alive. Adele Buffington is working late when she's startled by an intruder. The next day a man is found murdered. The note pinned to his jacket reads, "Hands off, social workers!" Then, a woman and her two young daughters go missing. When Adele decides to launch her own investigation, with the help - or hindrance...
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