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The Lost Apothecary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.76 — 528,515 ratings — published 2021
Merry and Bright (Audio CD)
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avg rating 3.82 — 22,050 ratings — published 2017
A Little Ray of Sunshine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 16,426 ratings — published 2023
The Homewreckers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 58,555 ratings — published 2022
The Shop on Royal Street (Royal Street, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 11,816 ratings — published 2022
Sweet as Pie (Good Southern Women, #1)
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avg rating 4.06 — 338 ratings — published
The Christmas Bookshop (The Christmas Bookshop, #1)
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avg rating 3.68 — 96,601 ratings — published 2021
Witcher Upper (Magical Renovation Mysteries, #1)
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avg rating 4.36 — 1,585 ratings — published 2020
Home for the Holidays (Juniper Springs, 1)
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avg rating 3.97 — 1,597 ratings — published 2020
The Lions of Fifth Avenue (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 88,819 ratings — published 2020
Always With Me (Whisper Lake #1)
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avg rating 4.21 — 5,039 ratings — published 2019
Black List (Black's Bandits #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 2,239 ratings — published 2019
Deadhead and Buried (English Cottage Garden Mysteries #1)
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avg rating 4.14 — 4,794 ratings — published 2019
Met Her Match (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 6,366 ratings — published 2019
When We Left Cuba (The Perez Family, #2)
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avg rating 4.01 — 47,910 ratings — published 2019
The Last Move (Criminal Profiler, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 25,860 ratings — published 2017
The Wedding Date (The Wedding Date, #1)
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avg rating 3.56 — 167,443 ratings — published 2018
Toughest Cowboy in Texas (Happy, Texas, #1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 2,436 ratings — published 2017
The Cottage at Firefly Lake (Firefly Lake, #1)
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avg rating 3.78 — 387 ratings — published 2017
Chasing Shadows (South Shores, #1)
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avg rating 3.56 — 1,940 ratings — published 2016
One Tequila (Althea Rose Mystery, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 11,967 ratings — published 2015
Flawless (New York Confidential #1)
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avg rating 3.94 — 4,175 ratings — published 2016
The Memory House (Honey Ridge, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,683 ratings — published 2015
Wild Horses (The Montana Hamiltons, #1)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,039 ratings — published 2015
The Blossom Sisters (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 2,638 ratings — published 2013
Wyoming Tough (Wyoming Men, #1)
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avg rating 3.94 — 5,818 ratings — published
One Reckless Summer (Destiny, #1)
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avg rating 3.81 — 5,360 ratings — published 2009
On Mystic Lake (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 110,286 ratings — published 1999
No Limits (Ultimate, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 9,316 ratings — published 2014
Close Your Eyes (Kendra Michaels, #1)
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avg rating 4.03 — 8,884 ratings — published 2012
Murder on a Girls' Night Out (Southern Sisters, #1)
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avg rating 4.02 — 7,723 ratings — published 1996
Backrush (Tempest Island, #1)
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avg rating 4.40 — 2,678 ratings — published
Never Slow Dance With a Zombie (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.20 — 730 ratings — published 2009
The New Victorians: A Young Woman's Challenge to the Old Feminist Order (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.59 — 63 ratings — published 1995
Not Now, Not Ever (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 751 ratings — published 2017
A Line in the Dark (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.25 — 4,421 ratings — published 2017
People Like Us (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.51 — 20,057 ratings — published 2018
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 913,221 ratings — published 2017
The House at Sugar Beach (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 8,136 ratings — published 2008
“Because he was leaving Liberia, Chris had tried selling his Italian made, Vespa motor-scooter. It had seen a lot of use and I know that he didn’t buy it new, but it ran and was transportation for him. ‘I’ll give you fifty for it.” I said. “The hell you will,” was his curt reply, “One hundred and fifty makes it yours.” “Don't make me laugh; it's not worth the fifty I'm offering.” I could see his face turn beet-red knowing that I had him over a barrel. “Tell you what Chris, let's cut it in half and depart friends.” I offered. I don’t think he could believe his good luck, as he was quick to accept. “Done,” he said “but you pay the taxes and license!” Of course I knew that these charges were mine but I pretended to groan anyway. With the deal done I was now the proud owner of the motor scooter. Right after the license was transferred, I rode it into a backyard body shop and had it cleaned up and painted bright red. No longer would I have to depend on a taxi or others for transportation. I was free to zip here and there at will. From now on it was the first thing off and the last thing onto the ship. I had Bo-Bo Ben, the ship’s carpenter, make a cradle to secure it and had brackets welded to the main deck behind the house, to lash it down. It still left enough elbow-room for the crew to fish off the stern.”
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“During the early hours of April 12, 1980, which for all practical purposes looked no different than any other hot and humid morning in Monrovia. Select members of Liberia’s National Defense Force awoke early and quietly made their way to the small garden in the back of the Presidential Palace on Ashmond Street. Within minutes President Tolbert and twenty-six of his staff were murdered by the rebels called the “People's Redemption Council,”
There are differing stories as to the time and manner of the President’s death; however it is believed that he was disemboweled by Samuel Doe, a member of the Krahn tribe, while asleep in the Executive Mansion. Another report stated that Tolbert was shot and stabbed by an American CIA operative. The First Lady, Tolbert's wife Victoria, wrote in her autobiography that she saw a masked man with a white hand, stabbing her late husband. Because of this evidence it was speculated by many that “white" mercenaries working for the CIA had been behind Doe’s actions. However, Boima Fahnbulleh, a minisiter of Doe’s cabinet, later testified that “the Americans did not support the coup d'état led by Mr. Doe.”
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There are differing stories as to the time and manner of the President’s death; however it is believed that he was disemboweled by Samuel Doe, a member of the Krahn tribe, while asleep in the Executive Mansion. Another report stated that Tolbert was shot and stabbed by an American CIA operative. The First Lady, Tolbert's wife Victoria, wrote in her autobiography that she saw a masked man with a white hand, stabbing her late husband. Because of this evidence it was speculated by many that “white" mercenaries working for the CIA had been behind Doe’s actions. However, Boima Fahnbulleh, a minisiter of Doe’s cabinet, later testified that “the Americans did not support the coup d'état led by Mr. Doe.”
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