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It all starts when Jamie decides to increase revenues for her newspaper by starting a personal ads section. Suddenly the town gets "all sexed up." The local Chinese-food joint starts creating risque fortune cookies. A trashy lingerie shop opens. The bakery starts making pornographic pastries. Everyone gets the idea that sex sells. But someone has more sinister objectives.
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In the winter of 1920, a quirky bequest draws Morrie Morgan back to Butte, Montana, from a yearlong honeymoon with his bride, Grace. But the mansion bestowed by a former boss upon the itinerant charmer promises to be less windfall than money pit. And the town itself, with its polyglot army of miners striving to extricate themselves from the stranglehold of the ruthless Anaconda Copper Mining Company, seems like the couple's fast-diminishing finances,...
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[2021]
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Now available in the US-the dark horse literary novel that has taken Britain by storm! In the best tradition of Tessa Hadley, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ann Patchett-an astonishing, keenly observed period piece about an ordinary British woman in the 1950s whose dutiful life takes a sudden turn into a pitched battle between propriety and unexpected passion.
1957: Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper in the southeast suburbs of London. Clever...
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Heart of Hollyhill novels volume 3
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c2008
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The summer of 1964 certainly was eventful, but it's nothing compared to what's coming to the Brooke family and to Hollyhill, Kentucky. David finally gets up the nerve to pop the question to Leigh and wedding plans are in the making. But the past is coming to call on many in Hollyhill, threatening to destroy the relationships that everyone thought were so strong. Two people--one David thought was gone for good and the other no one's ever heard of--are...
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After a career ending mistake, big-city reporter Pepper Malone relocates to a small Texas town. There she takes a job at the local Bailee Bugle, where Mike McCulloch reluctanly holds the job of editor, which he took out of familial obligation. When the paper comes under attack, Mike and Pepper must rely on each other, but more importantly trust their hearts and believe in themselves.
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2022
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"Former cop Jasper Cole has come home to Buckhorn to ranch—and to find some peace. But there’s one part of his past he doesn’t object to facing again. Darby Fulton acts like she’s forgotten the searing one-night stand they shared in college, but to Jasper, she’s as fascinating and tempting as ever. And when she’s drawn into an unsettling local mystery, he follows, despite his misgivings. Bad things have been happening to Buckhorn residents,...
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2023.
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When he discovers stranded Cuban refugees during a fishing outing turned tragedy, newsman Luke Blackburn becomes the center of a media firestorm that threatens to blow up his marriage while his star investigative reporter slowly pieces together a story of corruption and cartel money in his refuge, Key West
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Ladies of Summerhill volume 2
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C2010
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"Newport, Rhode Island, in 1900 --a glamorous resort town where the rich and famous go to see and be seen. Charlotte Hale isn't part of that world. She's a working girl, a secretary for a local newspaper, who dreams of becoming a real reporter. When her boss offers her an assignment, she jumps at the opportunity.
12) Burning Meredith
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2018.
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"The Meredith Mountain fire starts on Labor Day weekend and rages for days - an awesome sight, leaving a trail of havoc and destruction in its wake. Alice Adams edits the Clark's Fort Guardian newspaper, ably assisted by her nephew, Stuart Campbell, and the two cover the blaze for the paper, wowing the local community with their stunning photographs and features. When the fire is finally contained and the mop-up crew discover a burned male body under...
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[2010]
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When Gracie McBride, the wild girl who had left town eighteen years earlier, is found dead in an apparent suicide shortly after her homecoming, it sends shock waves through her native Starvation Lake. Gus Carpenter, executive editor of the Pine County Pilot, sets out to solve the mystery with the help of his old flame and now girlfriend, Pine County sheriff deputy Darlene Esper. As Gus and Darlene investigate, they cant help but question if Gracies...
14) Hooking up
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[2000]
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A collection of essays along with a short story and novella.
16) Flint's honor
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Sam Flint series volume 3
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[1999]
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Frontier journalist Sam Flint arrives in Silver City where he finds a corrupt newspaper editor who together with the merchants and politicians exploits its citizens. Sam Flint opens a newspaper and takes on the corruption.
18) Sweeter than sin
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c1999
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Kate fled to Wyoming to begin agin, hiding her shame, marrying, and raising he son with another man's name. Widowed now and running a small-town newspapaer, Kate was her own woman, until Chalre sRemington came seeking the girl who ran away.
19) Final cut
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1995
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Carmen and Julia seem like the perfect couple--until an old lover returns from the past, and turns up again a month later, dead. Carmen helps a friend accused of the murder, but another body appears, drawing her into a maze of cruelty.--From publisher description.
20) Flint's truth
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Sam Flint series volume 2
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[1998]
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Middle entry in a welcome Western trilogy begun with Flint's Gift (1997), to be followed by Flint's Honor, about frontier journalist Sam Flint, who in Gift was seduced into starting up The Payday Pioneer in Payday, Arizona. Flynn has now moved on to the rich gold fields of Oro Blanco, New Mexico, where he opens the--what else?Oro Blanco Nugget. But how can a weekly paper stay in business when uprooting corruption and injustice means going against...