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"From bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn, a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles."--
San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes: Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career...
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English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, are instead caught up in a case that turns both bewildering and intensely personal.
“Deftly interlacing present and past, King offers further fascinating insights into Holmes’s family while also delivering an intriguing mystery.”—The Washington Post
After their recent adventures in Transylvania,...
“Deftly interlacing present and past, King offers further fascinating insights into Holmes’s family while also delivering an intriguing mystery.”—The Washington Post
After their recent adventures in Transylvania,...
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Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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While assisting her father, an estate and antiques dealer, teenaged Misty discovers a journal and pair of glasses that allow her to see ghosts, including those of pirates who founded her New England town and who are seeking a golden statue with mystical powers.
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Series
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Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Although her grandmother thinks that Kate is ready to own the porcelain doll that has been in the family for generations, her mother disagrees until Kate proves herself responsible.
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2013, c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Jess is grieving for her beloved aunt, and when she finds a mysterious flask hidden in a antique bureau that belonged to Aunt Edie, on the same day that her conjoined twin brothers are born, she begins to believe that the flask is magic and that their survival depends on it.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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When a friend turns up dead just hours after confiding a secret to her, New Hampshire antiques appraiser Josie Prescott investigates the murder, struggling to solve the crime while dealing with the victim's bereaved sister and a mysterious hidden treasure.
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Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"The Hope Chest is a deeply emotional novel about three people who have seemingly lost all hope until one woman's heirloom hope chest is rediscovered in the attic, along with its contents and secrets. Mattie is a fiercely independent woman battling ALS; Don, her deeply devoted husband is facing a future without his one true love; and Rose, their struggling caregiver, is a young, single mother who feels trapped in her life. With each item that is discovered--including...
12) Piece by piece
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Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Welcome to Silver Peak, a jewel of a town nestled high in the rugged grandeur of the Rocky Mountains. Behind its rustic charm, Silver Peak has a rough-and-tumble past full of mysteries, and Sadie Speers has a knack for uncovering them, using her love of antiques and Colorado history.
13) Framed for life
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Annie's
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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After inheriting the Carriage House Antiques shop and Sedgwick Manor, a nineteenth-century Colonial Revival, Maggie finally understands exactly what her beloved aunt meant when she said "antiques are filled with sotries - secrets just waiting to be discovered." Maggie and the lively members of the historical society set out to unravel mysteries that have been tucked away for centuries in antiques, artifacts, and heirlooms as rare and unique as the...
14) A fedora offense
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Series
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Annie's
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"Valentine's day is approaching and Maggie is in love...with some antiques she bids on at a local auction. A man in a fedora also seems interested but disappears before Maggie can find out who he really is. As she investigates her new purchases she finds hidden paperwork relating to the Vietnam War era."--Amazon.com.
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"A woman returns to her small Maine hometown, uncovering family secrets that take her on a journey of self-discovery and new love, in this warm and charming novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over. Smarting from her recently cancelled wedding and about to turn forty, Laurie Sassalyn returns to her Maine hometown of Calcasset to handle the estate of her great-aunt Dot, a spirited adventurer who lived to be ninety....
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Annie's
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Sofia Parker is confused and more than a little scared. She is confused because the fifth square in her priceless heirloom quilt indicates that an ancestor, a Venetian girl named Maddalena Vitari, was a seamstress for the court of King Henry VIII of England. She is frightened because the driver of a mysterious SUV is stalking her and her family for some unknown reason.
17) The danger box
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Publisher
Scholastic Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
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In small-town Michigan, twelve-year-old Zoomy and his new friend Lorrol investigate the journal found inside a mysterious box and find family secrets and a more valuable treasure, while a dangerous stranger watches and waits.
18) Dangerous beauty
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Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Silver Peak, a jewel of a town nestled high in the rugged grandeur of the Rocky Mountains. Behind its rustic charm, Silver Peak has a rough-and-tumble past full of mysteries, and Sadie Speers has a knack for uncovering them, using her love of antiques and Colorado history.
19) Danger in spades
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Series
Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Maggie and her friends are throwing a 1940's themed birthday bash for Dr. William King, one of the only remaining WWII veterans in town. The bash is also doubling as a fund raiser for the local homeless population. Ruth Harper drops a bombshell that a recent discovered letter written in German indicates her aunt may of offered sanctuary to enemy spies on her farm."
20) The collector
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English
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When professional house-sitter Lila Emerson witnesses a murder/suicide from her current apartment-sitting job, life as she knows it takes a dramatic turn. Suddenly, the woman with no permanent ties finds herself almost wishing for one. Artist Ashton Archer knows his brother isn't capable of violence--against himself or others. He recruits Lila, the only eyewitness, to help him uncover what happened. Ash longs to paint her as intensely as he hungers...
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