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182) Maggie
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"Maggie Styles was in a coma for four months after she and her husband Dylan lost their first son, but now she's awake and they're trying to put the pieces of their lives back together. They still desperately want to be parents, so they pursue the possibility of adoption as well as continuing to try to get pregnant. As the months go by and the pain drives them further and further apart, Dylan and Maggie must find a reason to hope and a reason to love...
185) Don't go home
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"Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore, is hosting a party to celebrate successful Southern literary icon--and former Broward's Rock resident--Alex Griffith and his bestselling new novel, "Don't Go Home." But after the local paper announces that Griffith aims to reveal the real-life inspirations behind his characters, perhaps the author should take his own advice. Not everyone in town is ready to give him a glowing review....
187) Walking on my grave
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"Annie's friend and fellow shop owner Ves Roundtree is a very wealthy woman. Her rich brother entrusted her with his estate, and upon her death, his fortune is to be divided. Several cash-strapped islanders are in line to collect life-changing inheritances. The problem is, Ves is very much alive. Ves hosts a dinner for the prospective beneficiaries and feels a chill in the air that has nothing to do with the wintry season. Not long after, she suffers...
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After participating in an experiment conducted by the Center for Cybernetic Neuroscience, taxidermist Romie Futch, newly enhanced, returns home ready to revolutionize his work and revive his failed marriage until he becomes obsessed with capturing a 1,000-lb. feral hog that his been terrorizing his town.
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"The Bunco Babes are not your average retirees. When they're not throwing the dice, they like to throw themselves into juicy mysteries. But murder itself is a dicey business, and in this game, luck can run out for good. The sixty set at Serenity Cove Estates in South Carolina certainly knows how to keep active. When not playing bunco or putting the greens, they are gossiping--and where there's gossip, there's a party. So it's no surprise that when...
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"This summer, Becca is looking forward to selling her delicious jams and preserves, but things are changing fast at the farmers' market. A fleet of food trucks has arrived for a two week visit, peddling cupcakes, tacos, chicken wings, and more--including a gourmet hot dog truck operated by Becca's own cousin, Peyton. Tensions between truck operators and market vendors over their required licenses reach a crescendo when the town's business manager...
192) Death at the Door
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"Annie Darling--owner of the mystery bookstore, Death on Demand--prefers fictional crimes as opposed to the real things. But in one tragic week, two acts of violence shake the island community of Broward's Rock. First, a beloved doctor is found shot dead, seemingly by his own hand. Only days later, a local artist is arrested after his wife is found murdered, bludgeoned by her husband's sculpting mallet. Convinced her brother did not commit suicide,...
193) Persuasion
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When a mysterious man wielding a fatal spell appears at the Watson plantation, claiming the key to the Watson and Beaufort magical gifts and the Colesworth curse lies beneath the mansion, Barrie and dreamy Eight Beaufort struggle to make sense of the escalating danger and their growing feelings for each other.
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Jillian Hart and police chief Tom Stewart are enjoying peaceful newly wedded bliss in Mercy, South Carolina, until a woman is found wandering the streets one night. She's in her nightclothes, disoriented, and carrying a kitten in a tote bag. A search of the woman's house reveals many more cats, a maze of cardboard boxes--and a dead man. Although the evidence suggests the frail woman is the killer, Jillian doesn't believe she's capable of such a crime....
196) Dawson's fall
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"The story of Dawson, his wife, Sarah, and their family during the violent days following the Civil War. Dawson is the editor in chief of a newspaper in Charleston, SC, trying to bring a dose of humanity and justice to a tumultuous world struggling to right itself" --
197) Leave it to us
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When the Butler sisters learn they've inherited their beloved grandma Betty's beach house in South Carolina, they have mixed emotions. To put it mildly. Successful Lana seems to have it all. Nobody needs to know that her marriage and finances are falling apart. For her there's no other option but to sell the beach house. Overburdened Yvonne already has priorities--including being her mother's sole caretaker. Her advice: put it on the market and move...
198) All roads lead home
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A Friend or Two: Elizabeth Wainwright, an East Coast heiress, moves to San Francisco and takes a job at a Fisherman's Wharf café, eager to live a simpler life and separate herself from her wealthy background. There, she meets Andrew Breed, a handsome, mysterious, and charismatic customer who claims to be a longshoreman. As she gets to know him, however, Breed's words and actions don't quite add up--is Elizabeth falling in love with someone who's...
199) Hermosas criaturas
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El joven Ethan Wate cuenta el tiempo que le queda para poder escapar de su aburrido pueblo.Sin embargo, todo cambia cuando una nueva estudiante llega a su instituto: Lena Duchannes, literalmente, la chica de sus sueños y de sus pesadillas. Ella también cuenta los días que le quedan, aunque sabe que no tiene escapatoria.
In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully...
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"First cousins Ellison (Eli) Winfield and Adeline (Delia) Green are meant to grow up happily and innocently across the street from one another amid the supposed wholesome values of small-town Green Branch, South Carolina, in the 1960s and 70s. But Eli's tragic accident changes the trajectory of their lives and of those connected to them. Shunned and even tortured by his peers for his disfigurement and frailty, Eli struggles for acceptance in childhood...