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Bad Hair Day [MultiFormat]
by Nancy Darryl
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Hannah Hailstone's split ends are a divining rod for disaster. Hannah just found a sexy man in the back seat of her car--semi-conscious and bleeding, but at least he has a pulse. Her father, a James Bond wannabe with a penchant for gambling, has disappeared. And there's a man in a pink Cadillac tailing her hippy artist mother. Hannah's plans to re-read her Nancy Drew Mysteries--the vintage, hard cover collection--have changed. Now she's got a real mystery on her hands. Cooper West is on a losing... more info>> (Published: 2006)
Words: 78150 - Reading Time: 223-312 min.
Category: Humor/Romance
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Clearcut: Murder in a National Forest [MultiFormat]
by Lynda Douglas
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Claire Mitchell Evers and her husband Kyle leave their jobs with the Forest Service behind while they honeymoon in North Carolina. There is more behind the trip than romance, though. Claire wants to search for her family roots in the communities around Asheville. She soon discovers more is hidden in the mountains of Appalachia than her long lost relatives. A Native American girl is dead and their friend, Hank Sawyer, a fellow Forest Service Law Enforcement Officer, is accused of her murder. Some... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 81893 - Reading Time: 233-327 min.
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Alex [MultiFormat]
by Sally Hickey
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ALEX, a determined teenager, reaches farther than her grasp. Caught in the adolescent tall/short conflict, she strives for a ballet career, despite being only five feet tall. A redhead temper, unique friendships and new challenges contribute to Alex's growing into her ultimate choice. Undeterred by a professional dancer's rebuff, she leaves her family, boyfriend and best friend to train in New York City, with hopes of auditioning with a professional ballet company. A dance group is formed with h... more info>> (Published: 2008)
Words: 41119 - Reading Time: 117-164 min.
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Archive [MultiFormat]
by Robert C. Kenny
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Jeff Mundy dreamed, studied and worked all his life in preparation for this moment. His mentor, Professor Albert Lear, president and co-founder of Chamberlain University and The Bunnell Radio Observatory, hadinvested his life, his career and his personal fortunein the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. First Contact! The world-shattering implications hadalways fascinated Lear, but time and age were catching up. The past still haunted him and the future made no promises. Soon it would be l... more info>> (Published: 2006)
Words: 91049 - Reading Time: 260-364 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Billy Kildeere [MultiFormat]
by Lee Aaron Wilson
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Just another man or just another Outlaw? Five years ago, James Williams (Billy) Killdeere left the outlaw life and started operating the family ranch. However, the murderous exploits of the Killdeere Gang send him on the run again, wounded and alone, with the law and his family and former friends after him. A man he once saved helps him.Though the man's daughter Jenny at first distrusts Billy, her feelings eventually change toward him. But given his outlaw past Billy knows he can't marry Jenny. ... more info>> (Published: 2008)
Words: 83960 - Reading Time: 239-335 min.
Category: Historical Fiction
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Blue Turquoise, White Shell [MultiFormat]
by Virginia Nosky
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Patrician Boston doctor Cabot W.W. Chase has made a bargain with his granddaughter Lily. He will pay all her expenses through Harvard Medical School if at the end of her studies she will spend a year on the Navajo Reservation Indian Hospital, where he had been a doctor following WWII. She is reluctant, suspecting her grandfather has emotional ties to the Navajo, but agrees. Slowly she acclimates herself, coming to admire the people and her surroundings. Lily, now known as Cabot, meets a young Na... more info>> (Published: 2007)
Words: 102218 - Reading Time: 292-408 min.
Category: Historical Fiction/Romance
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Borrowed Time [MultiFormat]
by Susan M. Ballard
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Unto Death... In the days before they became legends, John Henry "Doc" Holliday, a Georgia dentist turned gambler whose constant companion is the specter of early death, and Wyatt Earp, a rough hewn frontier lawman saddled with a taciturn nature and an iron clad sense of justice, forge an unlikely alliance to hunt down the brutal killers of a young Dodge City woman. During the course of a cross-country manhunt to stop the murders before they can strike again, Holliday and Earp form the basis of ... more info>> (Published: 2007)
Words: 71878 - Reading Time: 205-287 min.
Category: Historical Fiction
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Ceremony of Deception [MultiFormat]
by Jannifer Hoffman
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Jessie McGerret has sworn to do whatever it takes to hunt down her father's murderer, even if it means marrying herself to a man who could very well be a partner to her prey. She has the skills to defeat a killer, but trusting a stranger who promises love may prove to be a greater challenge, especially when he insists she face the one thing she fears the most. Scott Cordell is determined to rid himself of the annoying menace who has forced him into a marriage he has no intention of honoring. Wom... more info>> (Published: 2008)
Words: 113278 - Reading Time: 323-453 min.
Category: Romance/Historical Fiction
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Cicada Summer [MultiFormat]
by Dallas Releford
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Hear the singing. Feel the madness ... die! On a hot June afternoon, old man Matthew Riley walks down the street in a small southern town mumbling that something is about to happen, "They're coming," he proclaims. "They're coming just as they did seventeen years ago. It's going to be a humdinger of a party, too." The townspeople ignore him, thinking he is senile. The cicadas arrive, singing their songs and intimidating people. In the next few days, tragedy and terror overwhelm the community as h... more info>> (Published: 2006)
Words: 100184 - Reading Time: 286-400 min.
Category: Horror/Science Fiction
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Cinco de Mayo Murders [MultiFormat]
by Sydnie Goodell
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The Cinco de Mayo celebration by Gringos and Hispanics n Sierra Vista, Arizona, culminates at the same time the crime spree of a serial killer comes to a halt. Unlike most serial killers who take a memento from their victims, this one leaves a token, but never the same article. At the first crime scene he leaves a stack of pancakes; at the second, a stuffed toy camel; at the third, a dolphin-shaped balloon; at the fourth, a freshly cut iris; and at the fifth, he leaves a picture of Geronimo. Wha... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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Conspiracy [MultiFormat]
by W. Michael Farmer
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Sent to the "Trial of the Century" Quentin Peach finds a madam, certain the defendants are innocent, powerful businessmen, certain they are guilty, and the village where the trial is held filled with blood enemies. It is the trial for Pat Garrett's last big case, a case where he fails to arrest the defendants after a dawn firefight and his key witness disappears at the start of the trial. It is a case filled with political warfare where Yankee Republicans accuse Texas Democrats of murdering an e... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Cowgirl Dreams [MultiFormat]
by Heidi M. Thomas
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Defying family and social pressure, Nettie Brady bucks 1920s convention with her dream of becoming a rodeo star. That means competing with men, and cowgirls who ride the rodeo circuit are considered "loose women." Addicted to the thrill of pitting her strength and wits against a half-ton steer in a rodeo, Nettie exchanges skirts for pants, rides with her brothers on their Montana ranch, and competes in neighborhood rodeos. Broken bones, killer influenza, flash floods, and family hardship team up... more info>> (Published: 2008)
Words: 72626 - Reading Time: 207-290 min.
Category: Historical Fiction/Romance
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Days of Eternity [MultiFormat]
by Louise Lenahan Wallace
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Zane and Larissa Edwards, rearing their children Mac and Rose on the family farm, foresee the future spinning out as contentedly as their past. Civil War erupts, shattering their lives and dreams. Zane joins the Sixth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry and is sent to Fort Laramie in Nebraska Territory. His friend Ethan Michaels, a widower with a young daughter, Charity, having promised Zane he will help Larissa with the work, moves to the farm as a hired hand. Ten-year-old Mac begins studying medicine under... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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Deadfall: Murder in a National Forest [MultiFormat]
by Lynda Douglas
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How does the ten-year-old daughter of a District Ranger on the Pisgah National Forest end up abandoned and severely injured in Oregon's Siskiyo National Forest? All that remains of Claire Michell's childhood are terrifying nightmares and a heart-shaped locket. The cavernous gap in her memory haunts her for the next twenty years. Claire has a brilliant career and a handsome fiance. Just when she finally puts away her obsession with things forgotten, her world begins to fall apart. Someone wants h... more info>> (Published: 2005)
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Death Takes a Holliday [MultiFormat]
by Susan M. Ballard
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When John Henry "Doc" Holliday died at age thirty-six in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, he left behind more than a reputation. He left a son. Would the boy live down the lies or live up to the legend? Death Takes a Holliday follows Henry McKey Holliday's transition from unsure youth to confident, accomplished adult in the turbulent Arizona Territory of the waning years of the 19th Century. Henry is a young man locked in an ongoing quest for self and past while forging a future in a changing world. ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Disappearance Creek [MultiFormat]
by R.J. Luce
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Conducting wildlife surveys in a remote mountain wilderness east of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, wildlife biologist Whip Sawtell uncovers a series of mysterious disappearances. A pack of northern gray wolves vanished, then a small plane sent out by the government to look for the pack crashed without a trace. An elk hunter disappeared in the same area. Sawtell follows the hunter's trail looking for his body, but instead finds a dead wolf, one shot from an airplane. Before Sawtell can leave the area a s... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Emeralds on Wednesday [MultiFormat]
by Virginia Crane
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Della Fletcher knows she is a take-charge kind of woman. After experiencing two broken romances and a mugging in Philadelphia she moves to the small town of Fair Morning, Pennsylvania. She bought an old house and has her heart set on doing this project. As her business involves organization, the restoration work on her dream house will be a piece of cake. Her real estate agent recommends Tom Luniack as the best contractor in town. Everything would be ready by Thanksgiving, Christmas at the very ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Endless Present [MultiFormat]
by Jerome Goddard, Melanie Noto
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Time may be real and predictable, but the perception of time is variable, depending upon one's brain processing speed. At least that is Duke Livermore's theory. The problem is, other professors at the University of Mississippi are better able to pursue research concerning the theory: Duke's theory. Modern scientific research is fraught with unforseen consequences, and this becomes evident as Duke develops gnawing doubts about the trustworthiness of one of his colleagues, Dr. Kirkwood Swartz, a p... more info>> (Published: 2007)
Words: 71153 - Reading Time: 203-284 min.
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Fiction and Truth [MultiFormat]
by Kathy Ide
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When Jesus walked this earth, He taught most often by telling stories. We call them "parables." Afterward, He explained to His listeners (or, in some cases, exclusively to His disciples) the parallels and meanings that could be derived from the story. Fiction and Truth follows this effective format. Christian authors tell engaging short stories with memorable characters in fascinating situations. Following each story is a brief "Author's Application" in which the writer suggests how the lessons ... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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Flag [MultiFormat]
by J. E. Toombs
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In the wild Arizona Territory, is it possible for a gunslinger who's gone straight to keep his identity hidden? Trebor, now in his forties, thinks so. Until someone from the past hunts him up, calls him by his former name, and wants something from him. After thirteen years, Trebor's none too sure his gunslinger skills are what they used to be. He wants no part of what the past acquaintance proposes, but finds he has no choice but to go back to his shadowed past. Ranch-hand Cameron longs to becom... more info>> (Published: 2007)
Words: 45037 - Reading Time: 128-180 min.
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Flying Free [MultiFormat]
by Amber Polo
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Lia thinks she's going to get her pilot's license, sell her father's Arizona airpark house, go back to helping beef producers sell meat, and probably find a guy just like the cheating husband who bankrupted her. Seth thinks he's come to Arizona to build a spiritual center, escape the community and wife that betrayed him, and create a new beginning much like the contemplative, vegetarian life he left. While Lia tries to hide and Seth tries to fit in, their attraction, with a little help from thei... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 71564 - Reading Time: 204-286 min.
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From Now On [MultiFormat]
by Robin Bayne
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Jason hasn't seen Cami in three years. Now she's back, with the son he'd wanted to claim as his own. Can he believe her newly found faith or will she desert him, and God, again? (Published: 2006)
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Full Circle Passage [MultiFormat]
by K.L. Punches
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Nick Ried, already feeling the pangs of mid-life crisis, gets himself into deeper water than he ever dreamed. His wounds from a broken marriage, the selling of his racing sailboat in an attempt to prevent the divorce, and his traditionally flat stomach now requiring a larger pant size are all beginning to spell depression. Then, in what seems like an instant in time, he finds himself signed on as watch-captain with a wealthy businessman, Bart Conrad, on a sailboat race around the world. Worse, o... more info>> (Published: 2006)
Words: 89158 - Reading Time: 254-356 min.
Category: Suspense/Thriller/Mainstream
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Gedden's Armor [MultiFormat]
by Tom Bazow
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When demon-possessed security guard, Victor Boone, tricks four teens into an ultimate game of hide and seek, best friends Michael and Samantha discover they must learn to trust one another if they are to outwit their pursuer. But as their nightmare unfolds, the game is taken to a new level as the minions of the museum take control. Now forced to face their greatest fears each player must battle to save not only their lives, but their very souls. As both hero and heroine Michael and Sam discover ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Harris: The Return of the Gunfighter [MultiFormat]
by H.R. Williams
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Henry Harris has become a farmer, but he remains much more than that. He was and is a fast and deadly gunman, some say the best that ever lived. Now, he's summoned by his old friend, Sheriff Wilkie, to help face a coming peril, and meet, once again, the challenging quest of a gunfighter. Eight men in all. Four against four. Toward the town of Medford, hurrying from the west, come the three Jones brothers and their uncle, Snake River Reese, riding to avenge an imagined wrong. Wilkie, Harris, and ... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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Category: Historical Fiction/Romance
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