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Summary: Abandoned by her family, alone on the wrong side of the color line with little to call her own, Eliza Meeks is coming to terms with what she does have. It's a gift for communicating with animals. To some, she's a magical tender. To others, a she-devil. To a talent prospector, she's a crowd-drawing oddity. And the Bacchanal Carnival is Eliza's ticket out of the swamp trap of Baton Rouge. Among...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 47North 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HENHeley, Veronica.
Summary: While out collecting laurel for formidable flower arranger Mrs Dawes, feisty widow Ellie Quicke comes across a corpse without an identity. Next day, Ellie discovers Mrs Dawes badly beaten and close to death. Much to Ellie's dismay, the police think shaven-headed Neil, Mrs Dawes' grandson, is responsible, even after a third body comes to light.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHeley, Veronica.
Summary: After 24 years, she's learning the truth that was hidden from her as a child. Now the fate of many people depends on what she will do with it. At the age of four, Araminta "Minty" Cardale was exiled from Eden Hall on the wings of a scandal. Twenty years later, summoned by her half-sister, she has returned to see her dying father. But her hopes of a warm family welcome are shattered, and she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHeley, Veronica.
Summary: Bea Abbot runs a domestic agency that doesn't "do" murder. There's nothing sinister about Zander's request for Bea to accompany him on an errand to a grieving widow, but it's awkward because it was Zander who'd exposed the scam that his boss Denzil had been running on the Tudor Housing Trust ... after which Denzil had, expectedly, died. Oliver, Bea's computer geek of an assistant, is delighted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHeley, Veronica
Summary: Ellie investigates some mysterious deaths in the community that may or may not be suicide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Pub Ltd 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHeley, Veronica.
Summary: Bea Abbot is asked to find the man or woman who laid a booby trap for Sir Lucas Ossett, the powerful head of an international company.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHeley, Veronica.
Summary: A mysterious bout of sickness hits the parish after a lunch at church, and Ellie is horrified to discover that her home-baked quiches are considered to be the problem. Worse still, someone dies. When more suspect food turns up, Ellie's investigative instincts are aroused, for these incidents seem connected with her friend's troubled past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHeley, Veronica
Summary: While looking into the Holland family business empire, Bea discovers that there is trouble both with the family fortune and within the family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHeley, Veronica
Summary: Ellie's housekeeper Vera receives a visit from the man who raped her and left her pregnant years earlier as a schoolgirl, and now wants to adopt the child, but Ellie intends to protect Vera and her child from this unwelcome visitor from the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHeley, Veronica.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHeley, Veronica.
Summary: While Bea Abbot worries that she's lost control of her domestic agency, she's asked to find some domestic help for an eccentric musician falsely accused of murder, but Bea doesn't realize how dangerous this might be until he lands on her doorstep.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHeley, Veronica.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHeley, Veronica.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHeley, Veronica.
Summary: Ellie's always disliked the local big estate agent--aka Great White Shark--so is distressed when her daughter Diana announces that she's carrying his child and about to become his fourth wife. But Ellie's soon drawn into the family circle when one of the Hooper children dies in their private gym and another succumbs to a peanut allergy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHenry, Veronica
Summary: Laura Griffin is preparing for an empty nest, and hopes it will mean more time for herself, and more time with her husband, Dom. But when an exposed secret shakes their marriage, Laura feels as though her family is shrinking around her. She turns to her greatest comfort: her grandmother's recipe box, a treasured collection dating back to the Second World War. Inspired by the old Blitz spirit,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orion Books 0000
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC HENHenry, Veronica
Summary: "Nightingale Books, nestled on the main street in an idyllic little village, is a dream come true for book lovers--a cozy haven and welcoming getaway for the literary-minded locals. But owner Emilia Nightingale is struggling to keep the shop open after her beloved father's death, and the temptation to sell is getting stronger. The property developers are circling, yet Emilia's loyal customers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Henry 2016Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HENHenty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1st World Library 0000
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HENSummary: Set within the vibrant dancehalls and historic crime corridors of 1940s Paris, a singer with "stars in her eyes" ignores the protest of her covetous husband and pursues a meeting with a lecherous movie financier. When her husband attempts to crash the rendevous, murder ensues. Enter the detective, whose seasoned instincts lead him down a circuitous path of alibis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN QUAM Merry G Nevin
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Boston-Oliver Ditson 1917
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMKenny G.
Contents: Songbird -- Silhouette -- Forever in love -- Everytime I close my eyes (with Babyface) -- Sentimental -- The moment -- How could an angel break my heart (with Toni Braxton) -- Loving you -- You send me (with Michael Bolton) -- Going home -- Havana -- By the time this night is over (with Peabo Bryson) -- Baby G -- Don't make me wait for love -- Theme from Dying young -- All the way/One for my...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arista 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD EASY LISTENING KENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM GG., Kenny.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD EASY LISTENING KENG., Kenny.
Contents: Sax-o-loco -- Ritmo y romance = Rhythm & romance -- Sabor a mi -- Tango -- Mirame bailar (feat. Barbara Muñoz, vocals) -- Peruvian nights -- Brasilia -- Besame mucho -- Fiesta loca -- Es hora de decir (feat. Camila, vocals) -- Cope de amor -- Salsa Kenny.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Concord Jazz/Starbucks Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM G., Kenny 2008G., Kenny.
Contents: Bossa Antigua (3:49) -- Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars) (7:31) -- Bossa Real (7:37) -- Brazilian Nights (6:33) -- April Rain (6:48) -- Menina Moca (5:58) -- Bu Bossa (4:26) -- Clouds (5:38) -- Girl From Ipanema (5:33) -- Summer Love (6:15).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Concord Records 2015