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61) Last chance hero
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Last Chance romances volume 9
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Fire chief Ross Gardiner returns to Last Chance to start over after a difficult divorce, where he gets a second chance to make things work with antiques shop owner Sabina Grey, who stole his heart when they were teenagers.
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Abigail Timberlake Washburn, the proprietor of Charleston's Den of Antiquity antiques shop, is called in to assist her estranged best friend Wynnell Crawford, who has been accused of bashing in the head of the owner of a local bed-and-breakfast with a tacky replica of Michaelangelo's statue of David.
63) Japantown
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Jim Brodie thrillers volume 1
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English
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In this sophisticated international thriller, an American antiques-dealer-turned-reluctant-private-eye must use his knowledge of Japanese culture to unravel a major murder in San Francisco-before he and his daughter become targets themselves.
San Francisco antiques dealer Jim Brodie receives a call one night from a friend at the SFPD: an entire family has been senselessly gunned down in the Japantown neighborhood of the bustling city. As an American...
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"Trouble's on the wind when an auctioneer turns up dead in the new Trash 'n' Treasures cozy mystery - "one of the funniest cozy series going" (Ellery Queen Magazine) Two o'clock in the morning is the perfect time to be asleep. So when long-suffering Brandy Borne is rudely awoken by her eccentric mother, Vivian, and invited on a surreptitious shopping trip, the idea is less than tempting. But if Vivian - Serenity's true-crime writing, septuagenarian...
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Raising Cane
Abigail Timberlake Washburn understands the antiques game is a gamble — so she doesn't know what to expect when she wins the bidding for the contents of an old locker that has been sealed up for years. It's a delightful surprise when she discovers inside a collection of exquisite old walking sticks — and a not-so-delightful one when she pulls out a decrepit gym bag containing . . . a human skull!
The last thing
...67) The Amber Room
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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In Florian's Gate, T. Davis Bunn introduced his growing readership to the fascinating world of European art and antiques. During months of research, he discovered and pursued the legend of The Amber Room, an ensemble of precious 18th century wall panels that graced a tsarist palace in St. Petersburg. Stolen by Nazi invaders, it was carried off to a castle in East Prussia. Dubbed the "eighth wonder of the world," the treasure was last seen in 1945...
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Antique print mystery volume 06
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Antique print dealer Maggie Summer is happy to help her best friend Gussie with pre-wedding preparations on Cape Cod ... until she finds a body on the beach, and the close-knit New England community no longer seems so friendly. Why does the dead man's daughter say he died two years ago .. in Colorado? Who was supplying drugs to teenagers in town? Already nervous about a critical discussion she needs to have with the man in her life, Maggie immerses...
69) Outfoxed
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Fox Crossing Maine volume 03
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English
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"Victoria Michaud has lived in Fox Crossing her entire life without encountering the fabled fox. And then, on the day of her thirtieth birthday, she spots a beautiful, golden-eyed vixen . . . right before she also recognizes Bowen Gower, the guy who made her high school years hell. So much for good luck. Victoria already has enough to deal with, between running her Junk & Disorderly antique store and refereeing her divorced, still-bickering parents....
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"That local theater diva of a certain age, Vivian Borne--a.k.a. Brandy's mother--is sheriff of Serenity County now, but still hot on the trail of precious antiques. On a tour of the historic Wentworth Mansion, the two dedicated dealers are aglow at the treasure trove of priceless objects ... never dreaming everything will turn to ashes, hours later. A charred corpse in the ruins is identified as the mansion's caretaker, a one-time flame of Vivian's....
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When young frontiersman Peter Force came to New York City in 1901 and took a job digging one of the first subway tunnels beneath the city, little did he know that he would meet a woman who claimed to be a descendant of the unknown King of Ohio, from a land that no longer existed. Nor did he know that he would be drawn into intrigues involving Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla and J.P. Morgan, and the possibility of traveling through time.
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As Camille Benson, the mother of the newly elected mayor of Marthasville, Virginia, prepares to take over a local antiques business, the discovery of the previous owner's body in the antiques shop leads Camille to investigate the possible connection between his murder and a previously unreported theft of rare books.
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Honeychurch Hall novels volume 8
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"When a body found on the Honeychurch Hall estate proves to be that of a villager who had supposedly moved to Ireland years earlier, tongues start wagging and theories abound"--
75) Lady in red
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When a priceless treasure brings together . . . Wealthy and powerful Marcus St. John, the Marquis of Treymount, must recover a lost family heirloom that is in the possession of Miss Honoria Baker-Sneed. All he needs to do is convince her to relinquish his treasure for a reasonable sum. But when he meets Honoria, he's surprised to discover she is as headstrong as she is beautiful.
Two unlikely hearts . . . Honoria is astounded when Marcus shows...
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Joseph Bridgeman novels volume 4
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"Joseph Bridgeman is now a fully fledged member of the Continuum, a group of time travelers that heal the past to protect the future. When an antique focus object is stolen, he jumps at the chance to retrieve it, but what should have been a simple auction turns into a dangerous new mission deep in the past" --WorldCat.
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Spring has sprung a major leak in far-from-serene Serenity, as the Mississippi River drops in for an extended stay. With homes and businesses flooded, how better to help the town recover than by staging a church bazaar? Brandy Borne knows her mother's plan is more likely to lean toward 'bizarre', especially when she hears Vivian wheedle a reclusive Russian heiress into donating the last Faberge egg ever created. When the winning bidder turns up mortally...
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Gunnarstranda and Frolich novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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Detective Frank Frolich and Inspector Gunnarstranda investigate the mysterious murder of an elderly antique dealer which leads them to disturbing facts about the victim's past following the Nazi occupation of Norway.
79) Antiques frame
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Trash 'n' treasures mysteries volume 11
Trash 'n' treasures mystery volume 11
Trash 'n' treasures mystery volume 12
Thorndike Press large print mystery
Trash 'n' treasures mystery volume 11
Trash 'n' treasures mystery volume 12
Thorndike Press large print mystery
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When her initial successes with her hit reality series are jeopardized by a rival show starring her police chief boyfriend's ex, Brandy finds herself framed for murder while her kooky mom sorts through a rogue's gallery of suspects.
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As Kate Hamilton plans her upcoming wedding to Detective Inspector Tom Mallory, she is also assisting her colleague Ivor Tweedy with a project at the Netherfield Sanatorium, which is being converted into luxury townhouses. Kate and Ivor must appraise a fifteenth-century painting and verify that its provenance is the Dutch master Jan Van Eyck. But when retired criminal inspector Will Parker is found dead, Kate learns that the halls of the sanatorium...
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