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1041) I, Gloria Grahame
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"A professor of English literature writes the autobiography of his fantasy alter-ego, wanton movie star Gloria Grahame, while his own sexual desires go frustrated. Denton Moulton -- a shy, effeminate male professor -- lives inside his head, and inside his head he is really a long-dead movie star -- the glamorous Gloria Grahame, from the golden age of Hollywood. Professor Moulton is desperate to reveal Gloria's shocking secret before he dies. Does...
1042) Death bakes a pecan pie
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Fresh-baked mystery volume 14
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"Hollywood comes to Weatherford, Texas, as a movie company arrives to shoot scenes for a film based on the novel by Phyllis Newsom's friend Eve. But movie fantasy turns to deadly reality as a murder recreated for film turns out to be the genuine article, and once more Phyllis has to track down a cunning killer to see that justice is done." --
1043) Fatal exchange: a novel
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Southern crimes volume 2
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Emily Hunt might come from a family of cops, but she never goes looking for an adrenaline rush. She lives the quiet--well, relatively quiet--life of a teacher and thrives on making a difference in the lives of her students. But she'll have to draw on a well of strength and savvy she didn't know she had as student Rafael Cerda takes her class hostage for ransom money to save his brother's life. Undercover cop Mason Taylor has been working with Rafael...
1044) My teacher's secret life
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After observing her teacher at the supermarket, at the mall, and even in a park, a young child begins to think that the teacher has a secret life.
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Dr. Sophie Knowles is a professor with a way of making even the most complex math problems fun for her students. But when the school's beloved librarian is found shot to death in the stacks, Sophie learns that her friend was more complex than she ever knew. Includes puzzles and logic problems.
1046) Best be prepared
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Nora Best mystery volume 4
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"Nora Best is enjoying the quiet life . . . finally. She's parked up the Airstream on a quiet stretch of beach and is now a seventh-grade teacher in a small peninsula town in the Pacific Northwest. Her biggest worry is keeping up with her quick-witted bunch of students. No drama. No danger. And most importantly - no one turning up dead. Until they do, that is . . .When a local environmental activist - and dad to one of her most troublesome students...
1047) All of me
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Kimani romance volume 411
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Declaring a "dating hiatus" was an easy decision for teacher Karen Morris. She intends to unwind and enjoy a luxurious Caribbean cruise without the presence of her cheating ex-boyfriend. But surprisingly all it takes is the deliciously sculpted form of chivalrous businessman Damian Bradshaw to turn Karen's head and change her mind. Damian's friends are determined to save him from his widowerhood--and self-imposed celibacy. But no one is more shocked...
1048) The innocent one
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"Innocent? Ten years have passed, but everyone remembers the Angel Killer. Sebastian Croll was just eleven years old when accused of murdering his playmate. Criminal solicitor Daniel Hunter helped prove Sebastian's innocence in a trial that gripped the nation, and now the past is being unearthed when he gets a call from his old client. Or guilty? Sebastian's university professor has been brutally murdered and everyone who knew her is in the frame....
1049) Alone in the classroom
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A 1929 prairie school teacher's niece makes observations about her adventurous aunt's and conventional mother's broken childhoods, a shattering attack by the school's disturbed principal, and the truth about the deaths of two young girls.
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"As the widow of a revered Millersburg College alumnus and one of the school's biggest donors, Juliet Favor has immense wealth that empowers her acquisition of whatever, and whomever, she wants. So when Juliet is murdered the night before she is slated to sign a new will-one that would prove unfavourable to both the college and her two children, Sonny and Sally-Sheriff Bruce Robertson faces no shortage of suspects. Professor Michael Branden and Pastor...
1051) Make no bones
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"There is not much left of the irascible Albert Evan Jasper, 'dean of American forensic anthropologists', after his demise in a fiery car crash. But in accord with his wishes, his remains--a few charred bits of bone--are installed in an Oregon museum to create a fascinating if macabre exhibit. All agree that it is a fitting end for a great forensic scientist--until what is left of him disappears in the midst of the biannual meeting (a.k.a., the 'bone...
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Jacob Wonderbar volume 1
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When sixth-grade classroom terror Jacob Wonderbar and his friends Sarah and Dexter find a spaceship crashed in the woods near their suburban neighborhood, their discovery leads them to a series of adventures including space travel, substitute teachers, kidnapping, and more.
1053) Choice: a novel
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"How ought one to live?" This is the question that obsesses London-based publisher Ayush, driving him to question every act of consumption. He embarks on a radical experiment in his own life and the lives of those connected to him: his practical economist husband; their twins; and even the authors he edits and publishes. One of those authors, a mysterious M. N. Opie, writes a story about a young academic involved in a car accident that causes her...
1054) Kissed by Christmas
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Hallie Roberts has had a string of bad luck, beginning with her fiancé dumping her! Now she is disillusioned and ready to leave her beloved big-city teaching job behind and return to her idyllic island hometown. Then fate intervenes, and a slip and fall on the ice brings gorgeous, brave paramedic Asa Andersen to her rescue and into her chaotic life. Saving victims can take its toll, but Hallie fills Asa with hope and renewed purpose. His mission...
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"(1905-68) was, in his heyday, a very successful writer of mystery fiction. In this novel, first published in 1941, his popular series character, schoolteacher and amateur sleuth Hildegarde Withers, is hired as a technical advisor on a movie about the Lizzie Borden murders, which took place almost 50 years earlier. Withers barely has time to get settled in her office before a screenwriter turns up dead. The cops say it was an accident; Withers says...
1058) One mistletoe wish
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Everything schoolteacher Morgan Hill loves is in her hometown of Temptation, Virginia-her twins, her students and the charming community center where she's staging their holiday play. But now the building's new owner, Grayson Taylor, is putting sexy visions into Morgan's head, making the young widow long for a future even Santa couldn't deliver. As the oldest of sextuplets, Gray grew up in the media spotlight. His family's fame once helped Temptation...
1059) Blood
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"Who attacked Dad? When corrupt, brutal dentist Albert Ludd is found battered and bloody after failing to attend a memorial party for his youngest son, a solider, suspicion falls on his other children, especially 37-year-old buxom bruiser Monica, who was heard uttering threats against her absent father. How come her car is found outside his house? Why did she buy a large axe? Yet, Monica's a deputy head. Blood is a Gothic black comedy seen through...
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This book goes from "Tell-all" to "Dead men tell no tales". Retired English teacher Myrtle Clover is frequently asked to proofread for friends. So she wasn't totally surprised when her friend Pearl asked her to take a look at her memoir and polish it up. But before Myrtle could pull out her red pen, Pearl was found murdered. Now Myrtle and her senior sidekick Miles must track down the memoir and the murderer ... before the killer makes any more final...
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