Ellis Peters is the pen name of British author Edith Mary Pargeter (1913 – 1995), who is best known for her two mystery series, although...

Ellis Peters is the pen name of British author Edith Mary Pargeter (1913 – 1995), who is best known for her two mystery series, although...

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A guide to understanding how wonderful and special you are and how your body belongs to YOU. There are NO tiny secrets when it comes to k...

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The glare from the flashing emergency lights and the movement of so many people made me dizzy. I tried to focus on one spot. Caught Bre...

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There was a run-down old tollbridge station in the Shoestring Valley of Southern Oregon where Uncle Preston Shiveley had lived for fifty ...

To Ava's surprise, when they got to the library, Luke was presiding over the drinks and snacks rather than Emma. He looked so young s...

Ellie Alexander writes a series of Bakeshop Mysteries set in Ashland, Oregon. The series features Jules Capshaw, who owns a bakery and cafe ...

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Amanda Cross is the pen name of Carolyn Gold Heilbrun , a tenured English lit professor at Columbia University. She wrote many non-ficti...

I was the one who had married him, and here he was, charging in on his white horse to rescue me. Or, more likely, to rescue himself. Th...

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Diana Abu-Jaber 's new memoir, Life Without a Recipe: A Memoir of Food and Family , celebrates the author's cross-cultural herita...

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So in the fall of 1932, when she was sixteen going on seventeen, she went to live with Grace in town. Grace's personality hadn't c...

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Wendy Gordon 's debut novel, Wrong Highway , gives fresh energy to the story of a frazzled suburban mom trying to meet her family ob...

But I haven't written. Not for two, three, four months: This becomes frightening to me. -- Life Without a Recipe: A Memoir of Food ...

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