Cupboards All Bared


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In this sequel to Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Taker, we're once again transported to Spokane, 1901. A body discovered in Hangman Creek looks to be the result of an accidental fall, but what begins as a "simple" mystery for Thomas Carew and his twin brother Bernard quickly becomes a lot more complicated, including implications that tie in with the bombings at the Idaho mines, and perhaps even President McKinley's planned visit.It's been one month since the events of the first book, and readers will enjoy engaging once again with the full cast of quirky characters, from Archie and Marian to Thomas and Bernard, with a couple new faces thrown in. Those familiar with Spokane will love the entangled web that takes them from Hangman Creek to the Campbell House and the Montvale, ensuring that this story couldn't be set anywhere but Spokane, Washington.




BARE CUPBOARDS TO VENICE


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Did you grow up believing in fairy tales of youth suggesting that you could have a "happily ever after" life story? Or maybe your experience was more along the line of someone telling you that you would have a wonderful life if you just (fill in the blank). Most people will say that disappointment in life is a common experience that we all share. Maybe it wouldn't really surprise you at all to find out that life is meant to be a test of endurance, filled with trials and tribulations that are specifically designed by a loving God meant for your benefit. Even so, there will be times when you will trip and fall just skinning your knees, while at other times, you may lunge straightforward into a dark abyss. As someone who passionately believes that we all have a story to tell, Jane Stowe offers spiritual insight gained from her passage down a road of breathtaking brokenness into a life of gratitude. She carries the reader from her early years to develop a story that weaves excruciatingly through innocence, profound loss, confusion, and her own personal failures toward a heart-wrenching acceptance that all we can ultimately control is not what happens to us as much as how we respond to what happens to us. Her desire is that you will see within these pages that her spiritual journey was assuredly blessed by God's grace and His love and that we can have hope that a happy ending is available to all. However, she also acknowledges that refresher courses may be required from time to time. Jane believes there are no coincidences in life, and perhaps even finding this book in your hands may have been assisted by divine providence.




Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Taker


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"Archie Prescot has traveled across the country to design the now-iconic Spokane clock tower for the new Great Northern Railroad Depot. When his talent for creating unique clock chimes connects him with a local patroness, he is thrilled, until she is discovered dead in the workshop of his new colleague. Her grand home on the South Hill provides ample suspects, as Archie works with his lodgers, Detective Carew and his twin brother, to prove his fellow inventor and himself innocent of the crime. While on the hunt for the murderer, romance crops up when a young lady crosses his path with a mysterious past of her own. Six intersecting storylines create a cohesive look at a convoluted murder that will require all points of view to discover the truth ..."--Amazon







Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors


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Includes parodies of Tennyson, Longfellow, Bret Harte, Thomas Hood, Swinburne, Browning, Shakespeare, Milton, Poe, Shelley, Cowper, Coleridge, Herrick, Carroll, Lever, Lover, Burns, Scott, Goldsmith, Kingsley, Byron and many others.




Tianna Logan and the Salem Academy for Witchcraft


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After her parents are killed, Tianna Logan is left in the care of her grandmother. She is to attend the Salem Academy for Witchcraft. While at the Academy, Tianna makes many new friends and stumbles into adventure at every turn. With the help of her friends, Tianna learns a little more about the night her parents died, and a book is discovered, hidden in a room at the Academy. Tianna is stunned to discover that the book belongs to her. Tianna and her friends soon uncover a plot to attack the school. Now, their skills will be put to the test to ensure the future of the Salem Academy for Witchcraft.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to the pH Balance Diet


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Within these pages, readers will learn how the diet works, how they can follow it to improve their own health and lose weight, and how they can diagnose their own blood pH levels at home. With a comprehensive list of the best alkaline foods, as well as meal plans and more than fifty delicious, healthy recipes, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the pH Balance Diet is an ideal all-in-one introduction to the diet.




The Darkening Wall


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Why do we build walls? The Empire: ancient as the mountains that it was built upon. For as long as anyone can remember it has stood, protected and enshrouded by the Darkening Wall: the ever present barrier that lets in light but keeps the people isolated from the world around them. Only now the Wall is failing and a terrible sickness envelopes the land. With the demise of the wall magic, and perhaps the Gods themselves, are returning. But is the Empire ready? Now, as her world stands on the brink of civil war, the First Daughter of the Emperor must journey to find the truth behind a secret that has long lain silent: a secret whose impact she may yet be unable to escape.




Short of Glory


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A satirical romp through the corridors of the Foreign Office as Patrick Stubbs is posted as third secretary in the British Embassy in Lower Africa. Mayhem awaits him - an absent-minded ambassador, a bullying first secretary with a dipsomaniac wife, and a crush on the police chief's wife! 'A marvellously thoughtful farce, a remarkable portrait of contemporary South Africa, combine argument of this complexity with an ebullient comic gift and you have a superb novel' Sunday Times 'Alan Judd's characters are serious. So is Alan Judd. You will laugh like mad' The Times 'Comedy is a deadly weapon and Mr Judd wields it in a fashion that brings you close to tears' Sunday Telegraph




Centuries of June


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Set in the bathroom of an old house just before dawn on a night in June, Centuries of June is a black comedy about a man attempting to tell the story of how he ended up on the floor with a hole in his head. But he keeps getting interrupted by a series of suspects—eight women lying in the bedroom just down the hall. Each woman tells a story drawn from five centuries of American myth and legend in a wild medley of styles and voices. Keith Donohue has been praised for his vivid imagination and for evoking “the otherworldly with humor and the ordinary with wonder” (Audrey Niffenegger). Centuries of June is a romp through history, a madcap murder mystery, an existential ghost story, and a stunning tour de force at once ingenious, sexy, inspiring, and ultimately deeply moving.