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"Millie is happy that her childhood friend, Uriah Schrock, has returned to Harvest after decades away. He was sweet on Millie in their school days, but she only had eyes for her future husband. Now, there's a new spark between them, so Millie is concerned when Uriah doesn't show up at the Harvest concert series - or for his job as the village square's groundskeeper. Perhaps Millie has been involved in too many murder investigations, but she has a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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When a stranger leaves Benni Harper his entire estate, she finds herself embarking on a journey that will lead her into danger and help her discover the secrets that were buried with her mother more than twenty years ago.
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2016.
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"What happened to Amber? Loose Thread DeAnn Gault is happy her younger half-sister Molly has come home to visit Foggy Point, even after she asks Harriet Truman and the quilting group if they will make quilts as a reward for two $10,000 donors to the Carey Bates Missing and Exploited Children Center. The charity is near and dear to Molly's heart, as she herself was a kidnap victim when she was five. But Molly has another agenda--she wants Harriet to...
4) State fair
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For Benni, the annual San Celina Mid-State Fair is a much anticipated break in her normal routine of overseeing museum exhibits, temperamental artists and stubborn cattle. Even her police chief husband, Gabe Ortiz, takes time from his busy schedule to enjoy the fair's activities and exotic fried foods....
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2014.
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Pet quilts are the project of the day for Harriet Truman and the Loose Threads. Local veterinarian Aiden Jalbert decides to set up an animal kennel for the local battered women's shelter and asks the quilters to sew bedding for it. Harriet is soon drawn into the world of domestic violence when Loose Thread Sarah Ness calls from the emergency room, where she's landed as a result of a vicious beating by her fiance Seth Pratt. Sarah initially refuses...
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 9
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Benni Harper, struggling to protect her marriage from the onslaught of her husband's ex-girlfriend, becomes involved in a decades-old murder mystery when she is asked by the historical society to catalog the contents of some old trunks that belonged to young Maple Bennett Sullivan, a woman believed by many to have killed her husband before running off with a lover.
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 7
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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Quilter and rancher Benni Harper is forced to use all of her amateur sleuthing talents when she becomes entangled in the dark and tragic secrets of a feuding family as she investigates a brutal crime that hits all too close to home.
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Elm Creek Quilts volume 5
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When precious heirloom quilts hand-stitched by her mother turn up missing, Sylvia Bergstrom Compson recovers some while accepting others as lost forever. She is then able to reflect on the woman her mother was and mourn the woman she never knew.
9) Spider web
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 15
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The Memory Festival is held each year in celebration of recollections and loved ones through crafts. When it's marred by the shooting of a local cop, by someone who has a vendetta against the police, Benni fears for her police chief husband and anyone else who may get caught in the crossfire. Determined to make her town safe, she begins her search for the shooter.
10) The alpine quilt
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Members of the Burl Creek Thimble Club, a quilting circle in small-town Alpine, Washington, are planning a fete to welcome back Genevieve Bayard, who left Alpine, decades ago. But Gen's homecoming is cut decidedly short when she dies at a dinner party. Emma Lord, owner and publisher of the local newspaper, arrives on the scene to report the incident and sleuth her way to the truth.
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"When widowed Millie Fisher moves back to her childhood home of Harvest, Ohio, she notices one thing right away ; the young Amish are bungling their courtships and marrying the wrong people! A quiltmaker by trade, Millie has nevertheless stitched together a few lives in her time, with truly romantic results. Her first mission? Her own niece, widowed gardener Edith Hochstetler, recently engaged to rude, greedy Zeke Miller. Anyone can see he's not...
12) The double cross
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Quilt instructor Susanne Hendrick leaves Archers Rest, N.Y., for the Adirondack town of Winston to teach at the Patchwork Bed-and-Breakfast in O'Donohue's busy third Someday Quilts mystery (after 2009's A Drunkard's Path). Accompanying Susanne is crafty sleuth Nell Fitzgerald; Nell's quilt-shop owner grandmother, Eleanor Cassidy; Nell's trusty dog, Barney; and Bernadette "Bernie" Avallone, the onetime high school sweetheart of Patchwork's owner, George...
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Book #4 of the Someday Quilts Mystery series
Nell and the crafty Someday Quilters undertake their first cold case in the latest addition to this bewitching series.
Nell and the crafty Someday Quilters undertake their first cold case in the latest addition to this bewitching series.
After their quilting retreat upstate, the Someday Quilts ladies return to Archers Rest to prepare for the town's big anniversary celebration. But their plans are unexpectedly derailed by the discovery of a human skeleton in Nell's grandmother's backyard-making Eleanor
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"A diamond brocade pattern is more quilter Martha Rose's style than a baseball diamond-especially when it comes to the new eyesore of a stadium ruining her lovely San Fernando Valley neighborhood. Martha doesn't know a bunt from a bundt cake, but when she stumbles upon the battered body of baseball coach Dax Martin, she doesn't need a scorecard to know it's foul play. LAPD homicide detective Arlo Beavers is convinced one of her neighbors is responsible....
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In the sleepy town of Archers Rest, Nell Fitzgerald is finishing her first quilt and preparing for her first date with the police chief, but she is stood up when the body of a murdered young woman is discovered near the Hudson River. After a second body is found, Nell enlists the aid of her quilting circle to patch together clues.
17) Irish chain
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
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Ex-cowgirl and current sleuth Benni Harper is struck with surprises good and bad when she sponsors a "senior prom" at the local retirement home: first she finds herself dancing with an old crush from her teen years, and then she finds two dead bodies in one of the retirement home's rooms.
18) Broken dishes
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 11
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While visiting a friend's Western dude ranch, Benni Harper stumbles upon the remains of a long-dead murder victim buried in a shallow grave and embarks on an investigation to reveal the truth behind the terrible crime.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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"Hoping to relax after solving a murder in Wichita, Kansas, Benni Harper and her new husband, Gabe Ortiz, are back in San Celina, California. But while Bennis is jogging in the park, she happens upon the dead body of a library storyteller. It's an odd and disturbing scene - the woman is still dressed in her Mother Goose costume, lying facedown in the lake. Benni's investigation takes her inside the Storyteller's Guild, where she finds out that Mother...
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 10
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Spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk-art expert Benni Harper is back, investigating the connection between her favorite author, the murder of a family friend, and a crazy quilt. And when she starts receiving strange phone calls and anonymous letters telling her she'll be the next victim, her interest in the case becomes even more urgent.
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