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When professional house-sitter Lila Emerson witnesses a murder/suicide from her current apartment-sitting job, life as she knows it takes a dramatic turn. Suddenly, the woman with no permanent ties finds herself almost wishing for one. Artist Ashton Archer knows his brother isn't capable of violence--against himself or others. He recruits Lila, the only eyewitness, to help him uncover what happened. Ash longs to paint her as intensely as he hungers...
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Christmas is coming, but Savannah antique dealer Weezie Foley is doubly distracted--both by her upcoming wedding to her longtime love, chef Daniel Stipanek and also by the fact that her best friend and maid-of-honor BeBe Loudermilk is due to give birth any day--and is still adamantly refusing to marry her live-in-love Harry. Readers have come to love these characters in Mary Kay Andrews' three previous Savannah novels: Savannah Blues, Savannah Breeze,...
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VIOLIN VARNISH A Plausible Re-creation of the Varnish Used by the Italian Violin Makers Between the Years 1550 and 1750, A. D. By JOSEPH MICHELMAN Published by JOSEPH MICHELMAN, Cincinnati, Ohio, U. S. A. 1946 Introduction PUBLICATION OF THIS BOOK is approached with a little temerity. After more than eight years of extensive research on the varnish used by the Italian Violin Makers from 1550 to 1750 A. D., it has not been possible to corroborate the...
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A centuries-old bust of an evil, demonic man was stolen from a New Orleans grave. Its current owner shows up at Danni Cafferty's antiques shop, but before Danni can buy the statue, it disappears and the owner is found dead. Michael Quinn, a private investigator, believes that the right thing to do is to find and destroy this object weighted with malevolent powers. He and Danni follow it through sultry nights to hidden places in the French Quarter...
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An antiques dealer browses for suspects: "Lively...this bubbly tongue-in-cheek cozy also includes flea market shopping tips and a recipe."—Publishers Weekly
Winner of a Romantic Times Award for Most Humorous Mystery
As the Christmas season gets into full swing in the Mississippi River town of Serenity, Iowa, antiques connoisseur Brandy Borne finds herself in the midst of holiday mayhem when...
Winner of a Romantic Times Award for Most Humorous Mystery
As the Christmas season gets into full swing in the Mississippi River town of Serenity, Iowa, antiques connoisseur Brandy Borne finds herself in the midst of holiday mayhem when...
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Much more than a ribbon of crumbling asphalt, Route 66 is a cultural icon revered the world over for its nostalgia value, an east-west artery pointing America toward all the promise that the great West represented. But as stretches of Steinbeck's "Mother Road" were bypassed and fell into disuse, so too did most of the bustling establishments that had sprouted up from Illinois to California to cater to weary travelers and hopeful vacationers alike....
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The Caseys and the Yorks share a history laced with bitterness. But when Diandra Casey and Geg York - rivals since childhood - are forced to work together, competing family legacies and the uncovering of family disputes are not the only things they struggle with. The hostile atmosphere suddenly becomes charged with somethng quite different - something hot, primal, and eternal - a love they're poserless to deny.
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As Camille Benson, the mother of the newly elected mayor of Marthasville, Virginia, prepares to take over a local antiques business, the discovery of the previous owner's body in the antiques shop leads Camille to investigate the possible connection between his murder and a previously unreported theft of rare books.
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Metal Detecting cuts right through the technical jargon and spells everything out with full-color illustrations and easy to understand terms, making this book easy to follow, regardless of your prior treasure hunting experience. Novices and seasoned veterans will both find plenty of helpful information buried in the pages of this bookfrom choosing your first metal detector to finding locations loaded with unlimited treasure possibilities, and everything...
14) Flight Lines
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A trans-world journey with an extraordinary shorebird-from Australia's southern ocean to the Arctic and back-that explores the mysteries of the natural world and its power to heal.
As the sun lowered and turned Gulf St Vincent fiery, they each called a high-pitched 'peeooowiii!', flashed their black wing-pits, spread their tail skirts and took flight...
In a luminous new book, Andrew Darby follows the odysseys of two seemingly-humble Grey Plovers,...
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A riveting history and maritime adventure story about priceless masterpieces originally destined for Catherine the Great.
In October 1771, a merchant ship out of Amsterdam, the Vrouw Maria, crashed off the stormy Finnish coast, taking her wondrous cargo to the depths of the Baltic Sea. The vessel was delivering a dozen Dutch masterpiece paintings to Europe's most voracious collector: Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia. Among the lost treasures...
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Living on the banks of the Withlacoochee River in Crackertown, Florida was a great place to live. I was either in the river or on the river as much as possible with my friends. That was our playground. I attended elementary school in Yankeetown. Then high school in Crystal River. Good old Crystal River high school. I will never forget you. After graduation I married my boyfriend and moved to Atlanta. He was a student at Georgia Tech. We had 3 children...
17) Blood Royal
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The latest entry in this acclaimed series of new translations of the Musketeer novels, Blood Royal continues the adventures of the valiant d'Artagnan and his three loyal friends.
The latest translation in Lawrence Ellsworth's acclaimed new series of Alexandre Dumas's greatest adventures is Blood Royal, the second half of what Dumas originally published as Twenty Years After. In this volume all the plots and schemes set up in the previous novel come...
18) Antique Marks
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This handy guide to identifying and interpreting gold, silver, platinum and ceramic marks includes all hallmarks from 1544. Details of the new hallmarking system, international marks and guides to the great makers are all included.
Do you attend car boot sales or browse in antique shops in search of bargains? Have you ever wished you knew more about grandma's silver spoons? Do you envy the experts' ability to identify and date old hand-me-downs?...
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The Nobel Prize, regardless of category, has always been surrounded by politics, intrigue, and even scandal. But those pale in comparison to the Peace Prize, which remains the most prestigious, admired, and controversial prize of our time.
Norwegian writer Unni Turrettini completely upends what we thought we knew about the Peace Prize-both its history and how it is awarded.
As 1984's winner, Desmond Tutu, put it, "No sooner had I got the Nobel Peace...
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This book is a catalogue of a special exhibition (1907-1908) of Japanese sword guards, or tsuba, has been prepared by Mr. Okabe-Kakuya. To our knowledge, it is the first attempt to treat the history of the tsuba and tsuba makers apart from the other branches of metal work which enter into the ornamentation of the Japanese sword. Of the three sections into which the book is divided, the first gives a brief general history of the art, specifying the...
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