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1. The last widow: a novel

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Author:
Slaughter, Karin, 1971-
Series:
Will Trent volume 9
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English
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On a serene summer Sunday, a routine admission for a run-of-the-mill surgery at Atlanta's Emory Hospital goes tragically wrong, setting off a catastrophic wave of destruction that sends the facility and the surrounding area into lockdown. One of the city's largest and most prestigious institutions, Emory is situated near the Centers for Disease Control, the FBI counter-terrorism headquarters, and a large children's hospital. Anything that happens...

2. The Last Widow\ La última viuda

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Author:
Slaughter, Karin
Series:
Will Trent volume 9
Publisher:
HarperAudio
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
Spanish
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New York Times best-selling author Karin Slaughter returns with another electrifying thriller in the beloved Will Trent mystery series, this time pitting Will and Sara against a mysterious group planning to unleash a deadly epidemic. Gillian Flynn says Karin Slaughter is "simply one of the best thriller writers working today", and Michael Connelly declares, "her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivaled among thriller writers, and if you haven't...

3. If the creek don't rise: my life out West with the last Black widow of the Civil War

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Author:
Williams, Rita (Rita Ann)
Publisher:
Harcourt
Pub. Date:
[2006]
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English
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4. Smonk, or, Widow town: being the scabrous adventures of E.O. Smonk & of the whore Evavangeline in Clarke County, Alabama, early in the last century--

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Author:
Franklin, Tom
Publisher:
William Morrow
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[2006]
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English
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5. The Widow's Last Secret

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Author:
Davies, Lora
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W. F. Howes Ltd
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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Victorian England, 1846: A gripping and powerful story about one woman's incredible courage in the face of heartbreak, and a secret that - if revealed - could destroy everything.Six years ago, Bella Farrow lost everything. Desperate and starving, she made a terrible mistake that forced her to abandon her home, her livelihood and her family. And when the only person she trusted - her beloved, steadfast husband - was killed in a tragic accident, Bella...

6. Camino ghosts

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Author:
Grisham, John
Series:
Camino Island volume 3
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English
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On Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale that might be her next novel. A giant resort developer is using its political muscle and deep pockets to claim ownership of a deserted island between Florida and Georgia. Only the last living inhabitant of the island, Lovely Jackson, stands in its way. What the developer doesn't know is that the island has a remarkable history, and locals believe it is cursed......

7. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Author:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Series:
Works of Mark Twain volume 8
Oxford world's classics
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990L
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English
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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of...

8. What the wife knew: a novel

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Kane, Darby
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"Dr. Richmond Dougherty is a renowned pediatric surgeon, an infamous tragedy survivor, and a national hero. He's also very dead - thanks to a fall down the stairs. His neighbors angrily point a finger at the newest Ms. Dougherty, Addison. The sudden marriage to the mysterious young woman only lasted ninety-seven days, and he'd had two suspicious "accidents" during that time. Now Addison is a very rich widow. As law enforcement starts to circle in...

9. Twisted twenty-six

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Author:
Evanovich, Janet
Series:
Stephanie Plum novel volume 26
Stephanie Plum
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Stephanie Plum's career has taken more wrong turns than a student driver on the Jersey Turnpike, and her love life is a hopeless tangle. In order to save someone dear to her, she'll have to straighten things out in Twisted Twenty-Six, the latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. Grandma Mazur is a widow...again. This time her marriage lasted a whole 45 minutes. The unlucky groom was one Jimmy Rosolli, local gangster,...

10. Rules of civility

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Towles, Amor
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This novel presents the story of a young woman whose life is on the brink of transformation. A chance encounter with Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults twenty-five-year-old Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into a year-long journey in the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a single-minded widow....

11. Rebecca

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Author:
Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989
Series:
Cover to Cover classics
Recorded Books classics library
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Lexile measure:
880L
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English
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3 stars
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"The only hardcover edition of the beloved, internationally best-selling gothic mystery. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS. The unassuming young heroine of Rebecca finds her life changed overnight when she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome and wealthy widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. Rescuing her from an overbearing employer, de Winter whisks her off to Manderley, his isolated estate on the windswept Cornish...

12. The murder of Roger Ackroyd

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Author:
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976
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Audio Editions mystery masters
Hercule Poirot volume 4
Collins Agatha Christie ELT Readers
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Lexile measure:
720L
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English
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4 stars
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A widow's sudden suicide sparks rumors that she murdered her first husband, was being blackmailed, and was carrying on a secrey affair with the wealthy Roger Ackroyd. The following evening, Ackroyd is murdered in his locked study, but not before receiving a letter identifying the widow's blackmailer. Kings Abbot is crawling with suspects and it's up to famous detective, Hercule Poirot, to solve the case.

13. The widow

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Author:
Barton, Fiona
Series:
Kate Waters
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"Following the twists and turns of an unimaginable crime, The Widow is an electrifying debut thriller that will take you into the dark spaces that exist between a husband and a wife. When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enabled her and her husband to carry on when more bad things began to happen. . . But that woman's husband died last week. And Jean doesn't have to be her anymore. There's a lot...

14. The booklover's library: a novel

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Martin, Madeline
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"In Nottingham, England, widow Emma Taylor finds herself in desperate need of a job. She and her beloved daughter Olivia have always managed just fine on their own, but with the legal restrictions prohibiting widows with children from most employment opportunities, she's left with only one option: persuading the manageress at Boots' Booklover's Library to take a chance on her with a job. When the threat of war in England becomes a reality, Olivia...

15. A bend in the road

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Author:
Sparks, Nicholas
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730L
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English
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Devastated by the death of his wife in a hit-and-run accident, Miles, deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, discovers new meaning in his life when he meets Sarah Andrews, a woman struggling to rebuild her own life.

16. The ball at Versailles: a novel

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Steel, Danielle
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"A dazzling new novel from Danielle Steel, whose countless #1 New York Times bestselling novels have made her one of America's favorite storytellers"--

17. Persuasion

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Author:
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
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Signature classics
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1120L
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English
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"Published one year after its author's death in 1818, "Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. On its most basic level, the book is a love story. On another level, it is a deft exploration of human foibles and social flux. Twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a navel officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement...

18. Major Pettigrew's last stand: a novel

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Author:
Simonson, Helen
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Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) leads a quiet life in the village of St. Mary, England, until his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But will their relationship survive in a society that considers...

19. Little Bee

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Cleave, Chris
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Presents a tale of a precarious friendship between an illegal Nigerian refugee and a recent widow from suburban London, a story told from the alternating and disparate perspectives of both women.

20. A widow for one year: a novel

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Author:
Irving, John, 1942-
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English
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Twenty years after The World According to Garp, John Irving gave us his ninth novel, A Widow for One Year, about a family marked by tragedy. Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character -- a "difficult" woman. By no means is she conventionally "nice," but she will never be forgotten. Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a critical time in her life. When we first meet her -- on Long Island, in the summer of 1958 -- Ruth...
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