Marietta DePrima
1) Powerplay
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The Blades just signed a fighter...and she doesn't even skate. Robbie Steele is an ambitious, aggressive attorney whose current challenge is getting the highest dollar possible for her client's sale of Vancouver's pro-hockey team. Her ace card is recruiting retired star Cody Harris, but Harris, whose past reputation as a brawler attracted the fans, has changed. Despite Robbie's hard outer shell, it begins to affect her, and she realizes for the first...
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2019.
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"The Wright family is in ruins. Sue Ellen Wright has what she thinks is a close-to-perfect life. A terrific career as a Classics professor, a loving husband, and a son who is just about to safely leave the nest. But then disaster strikes. She learns that her husband is cheating, and that her son has made a complete mess of his life. So, when the opportunity to take her family to a Greek island for a month presents itself, she jumps at the chance....
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"Running the family B&B has always been Cassidy Ryan's dream. But first, she has to save it from neglect. Closing the doors to the Silver Bell Inn for the holiday seasons seems like the perfect plan to give the B&B some much needed love and care. Or at least it would be if the inn didn't need a lot more work than Cassidy can handle on her own. She needs help. But asking it is the last thing she wants to do. Getting stuck in Silver Bell Falls was not...
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Ever since they first met, Josiah Stone has done his best to show Melanie how magical Christmas can be. He's gotten her to participate in parades, decorate trees and even celebrate the holiday, but asking her to marry him on Christmas Eve just might be more than she's ready for.
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It's Christmastime again in Silver Bell Falls and the whole town is getting in the spirit to help ballet teacher Abby Foster achieve her dream of opening her own dance studio. Dancing has been Abby's dream for her entire life – but more than anything, she wanted that dream in her beloved hometown of Silver Bell Falls. Teaching ballet to children at the community center is fine, but she' hoping for so much more – her own studio, her own business…not...
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2020.
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"From the USA TODAY bestselling author of the "heartwarming and refreshingly sweet" (Lauren Layne, New York Times bestselling author) On the Corner of Love and Hate comes a sizzling and sweet small-town love story that follows a bakery store owner who decides to take her chances on a truly hopeless romantic"--
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If only life was a cheesy holiday movie...
Unfortunately for Aspen Harris, her life doesn't even come close.
Finding herself unemployed just before the holidays, she has no choice but to move back home and in her parents' house. And that means leaving behind her best friend Gabriel and all her dreams of someday owning her own chocolate shop. So when Gabe suggests she come to Silver Bell Falls to spend the holidays with his family, it seems like the...
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Melanie Harper and Christmas do not see eye to eye. While most people celebrate and look forward to the holidays, it's something she has come to dread. When she receives a gift from an unlikely source - a house in the quaint town of Silver Bell Falls - her immediate reaction is to reject it. After all, with a name like that, you're pretty much guaranteed to be surrounded by people who love Christmas!
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There are two things Bailey Walsh loves: Christmas and helping animals. Working for the Silver Bell Falls pet hospital should mean she's living her dream. And, she would be if it weren't for Dr. Maguire, the pet hospital's very own grinch, who's acting anything but merry.
Gavin Maguire just wants to look after the animals in his care, not have to worry about putting up holiday decorations. But when, you live in Silver Bell Falls the holiday season...
11) Ada Lovelace
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Meet the woman who made coding cool-and possible!
Before she was a famous mathematician and the first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) was the daughter of well-known poet Lord Byron. Byron died when Ada was very young, and Ada's mother encouraged her interest in mathematics in an attempt to prevent Ada from turning into a melancholy poet like her father. Ada grew up and married a count, and as a countess, she was given access to some...
12) Glinda of Oz
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While trying to prevent a war between the Skeezers and the Flatheads, Ozma and Dorothy find themselves prisoners on the former's underwater island in a remote corner of the Land of Oz. Only their guard, the war-queen Coo-ee-oh, knows how to raise the island back to the surface, but when she's transformed into a swan and loses her magic, Glinda the Good Witch must figure out how to raise the island and rescue her friends. Glinda of Oz is the fourteenth,...
13) Rinkitink in Oz
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When all the inhabitants of Pingaree are kidnapped by the mongrel hordes of twin island kingdoms, Prince Inga and his friend King Rinkitink decide to go to the rescue.
14) Live and let pie
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Bakeshop mystery ; 9
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
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2019.
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"Jules finds herself mixed up in two very different murder investigations when she finds a skull from the 1960s while on a picnic and her bitter landlord, Edgar, is murdered while trying to acquire a vacant lot near her bakeshop." --
15) Fudge & jury
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Bakeshop mystery ; 5
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St Martin'S Press
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2017.
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English
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"A world-renowned chocolatier has just turned up dead...right after sampling a slice of Jules' decadent four-layer chocolate cake. Now all eyes are on Jules as she tries to find the mysterious ingredient in her own recipe."--Provided by the publisher
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“Living, Loving, & Learning” is the only complete collection of Leo Buscaglia's popular lectures, originally delivered via in-person talks and eventually broadcast to worldwide audiences on PBS from 1970 to 1981. Drawing on his personal life and including practical experience gathered while teaching his renowned "Love Class" at the University of Southern California, Buscaglia's personal stories are amusing and informative depictions of how to...
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Bakeshop mystery ; 4
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St. Martin's Press
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2016.
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"Jules Capshaw is still chewing over her husband Carlos's return to Ashland, Oregon. Could there be too many cooks in the kitchen? Whatever is stirring between those two will have to wait. Depite the Oregon Shakespeare Festival being dark for the winter, the bakeshop is bustling, the dough is rolling, and there's no rest for the weary...especially when murder is thrown into the mix." --