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Author
Series
Archaeological mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Through a quirky set of circumstances, Lara McClintoch finds herself in a partnership with her ex-husband Clive Swain. Clive has grandiose ideas, but expects everyone else to do the work to make them happen. Lara put up with Clive because her best friend is involved with him. She reluctantly agrees to his latest scheme to draw attention to their antique business starting with her acting as a tour guide to the ancient and mysterious North African country...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Catherine's last job ended badly. Corporate bullying at a top antiques publication saw her fired and forced to leave London, but she was determined to get her life back. A new job and a few therapists later, things look much brighter. Especially when a challenging new project presents itself: to catalogue the late M.H. Mason's wildly eccentric cache of antique dolls and [preserved animals] ... Catherine can't believe her luck when Mason's elderly...
Author
Series
Found things volume 4
Formats
Description
"Paula Brackston's City of Time and Magic is the next installment in the time-traveling Found Things Series. City of Time and Magic sees Xanthe face her greatest challenges yet. She must choose from three treasures that sing to her; a beautiful writing slope, a mourning brooch of heartbreaking detail, and a gorgeous gem-set hat pin. All call her, but the wrong one could take her on a mission other than that which she must address first, and the stakes...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
"Lara is in a town in County Kerry, Ireland - serving as moral support for her employee, Alex Stewart, who must attend the reading of an old friend's will. The late Eamon Byrne was a well-to-do businessman with a querulous family and a huge estate. Well-versed in Irish mythology, Byrne leaves each of those gathered at the reading a sealed clue to a mysterious treasure, a posthumous ploy to force his family to work together and mend the strife that...
86) Grandma's doll
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
"Sheila Nickels knows what she'll pick from the treasures stored in her grandmother's attic: an antique doll she loved as a child. But when she arrives to find the doll missing, her search leads her to antique dealer Dwaine Wood's door - and some unexpected feelings. Will a search for a lost childhood treasure end with newfound love?" -- Cover verso.
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
Alison Read was orphaned as a small child and became the ward of antiques dealer Paul Aylmer. As Alison matured, so did her love for Paul, a man who had never made the slightest romantic overture toward her. How could she get the man who had been a loving father to Alison the girl, to realize that Alison the woman had very grown-up feelings toward him?
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
A father, estranged for the worst of reasons, is driven to seek out the daughter he has not seen in decades. Daniel Ahearn lives a quiet, solitary existence in a seaside New England town. Forty years ago, following a shocking act of impulsive violence on his part, his daughter, Susan, was ripped from his arms by police. Now in her forties, Susan still suffers from the trauma of a night she doesn't remember, as she struggles to feel settled, to love...
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