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|  | Roses Roses by Bill James
Megan Harpur, the wife of Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur, is found stabbed to death at the local train station. Unbeknownst to Superintendent Harpur, his wife had been visiting her lover--a crooked London police officer--who may have unwittingly involved her in a nefarious plot. Named by Publishers Weekly as one of the nine best mysteries of 1998. AUTHOR: Bill James
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | While I Was Gone by Blair Brown, Sue Miller
Jo Becker, a happily married middle-aged woman, finds virtually every aspect of her stability threatened when an old friend named Eli Mayhew comes to town. Eli reminds Jo of her life as a counterculture free spirit in the '60s, when the murder of her best friend--still unsolved--shattered Jo's life. Now, 30 years later, Jo finds that old issues remain, and she must make decisions that will affect not only herself but her family. AUTHOR: Blair Brown, Sue Miller
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Fields of Eden by Richard S. Wheeler
Description not available.In the 1840s, in the Pacific Northwest, conflict erupts between the British Hudson Bay Company and desperate pioneers seeking to build new lives for themselves--including John and Mary Kate O'Malley, seeking to escape the poverty of Ireland, minister Jasper Constable, fortune-hunter Abel Brownell, and ambitious Garwood Reese. Reprint. AUTHOR: Richard S. Wheeler
PUBLISHER: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Wish You Were Here by Rita Mae Brown, Sneaky Pie Brown
The postmistress of Crozet, Virginia, has a bad habit of reading people's postcards. When the townsfolk start turning up murdered, the postcards they've been receiving play a part in the crime, and Mrs. Murphy (the postmistress's cat) and her friend Tucker the corgi must solve it before their favorite human is next on the list. AUTHOR: Rita Mae Brown, Sneaky Pie Brown
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Third Rumpole Ominbus by John Mortimer
British barrister Rumpole heads out on three of his hilarious adventures in this omnibus edition. AUTHOR: John Mortimer
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Sins of a Shaker Summer by Deborah Woodworth
Description not available.When two young girls in the Kentucky Shaker village fall suddenly and deathly ill, Shaker eldress Rose Callahan begins to suspect that their illness may be linked to the medicinal herb garden and to Andrew, its new trustee, but her investigation is soon complicated by an unexplained death. Original. AUTHOR: Deborah Woodworth
PUBLISHER: Morrow/Avon
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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