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Justifiable Means

Terri Blackstock · Zondervan House
Pages: 309
Format: Paperback

A violent criminal with a knack for evading justice. A beautiful victim with a secret to hide. Between them stands one good cop, torn between justice and the law. This rape case is an exception: The victim is more than willing to testify. And there's abundant evidence to put the suspect...
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The Welcome Committee of Butternut Creek: A Novel

Jane Myers Perrine · FaithWords
Pages: 368
Format: Book

Upon his arrival, Butternut Creek Christian Church's newly-minted minister is met by a welcome committee led by Miss Birdie and her friend Mercedes, a.k.a. "the Widows." Their first order of business, to educate him on how things should be done, quickly gives way to a campaign...
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The Search

Suzanne Woods Fisher · Revell; Reprinted edition
Format: Paperback

Fifteen years ago Lainey OToole made a split-second decision She couldnt have known that her choice would impact so many Now in her mid-twenties she is poised to go to culinary school when her car breaks down in Stoney Ridge the very Amish town in which her long-reaching decision was made...
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The Pursuit of Murieta: A Western Novel

Thomas D. Clagett · Five Star
Format: Hardcover

It's 1853. The notorious bandit Joaquin Murieta and his outlaw gang have ravaged the infant state of California for three years. Now, Murieta has had enough and wants to return to Mexico. Skirting the adobe town of Los Angeles, he has no idea that a band of California Rangers led by Ambrose...
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Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey

Alison Weir · Ballantine Books
Pages: 402
Format: Hardcover

I am now a condemned traitor . . . I am to die when I have hardly begun to live.

Historical expertise marries page-turning fiction in Alison Weir's enthralling debut novel, breathing new life into one of the most significant and tumultuous periods of the English monarchy. It is the story...
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When in Doubt, Add Butter

Beth Harbison · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Dedicating herself to her culinary patrons, private chef Gemma Craig goes home every night to boxed cereals until an unexpected event compels a confrontation with the past and an unexpected romance.
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Already Home

Susan Mallery · Mira; Original edition
Format: Paperback

After nearly a decade as a sous-chef in a trendy eatery, Jenna is desperate for a change. She's supported her ex-husband's dreams for so long that she can't even remember her own. Until she sees a for-lease sign near her parents' home and envisions her very own cooking store.Her...
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Second Street Station: A Mary Handley Mystery

Lawrence H. Levy · Broadway Books
Format: Print book

A historical mystery featuring the witty and wily Mary Handley, the first woman detective in Brooklyn, as she tries to prove herself in a man's world while solving a high profile murder. Mary Handley is a not your typical late-nineteenth century lady. She's fiery, clever, daring...
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A Matter of Heart

Tracie Peterson · Bethany House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Texas born and raised Jessica Atherton is a wealthy young woman whose heart was broken when the man she intended to marry wedded another. But her world is upended when two new men come into her life, and both manage to stir her heart.Harrison Gable is a successful young lawyer with ambitions...
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The Last Painting of Sara de Vos: A Novel

Dominic Smith · Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar
Pages: 290
Format: Print book

Written in prose so clear that we absorb its images as if by mind meld, The Last Painting is gorgeous storytelling: wry, playful, and utterly alive, with an almost tactile awareness of the emotional contours of the human heart. Vividly detailed, acutely sensitive to stratifications of gender...
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The Elephant's Journey

José Saramago · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A delightful, witty tale of friendship and adventure from prize-winning novelist José Saramago   In 1551, King João III of Portugal gave Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant named Solomon. In José Saramago's remarkable and imaginative retelling,...
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Breach of Trust

David Ellis · Putnam Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Former college football star and criminal defense attorney Jason Kolarich returns in this shocking thriller from the award-winning author of The Hidden Man. Jason Kolarich has spent the past year struggling to recover from the horrific deaths of his wife and baby daughter. On the night...
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