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Merry and Bright (Audio CD)
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avg rating 3.82 — 21,787 ratings — published 2017
A Little Ray of Sunshine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 15,072 ratings — published 2023
The Homewreckers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 55,758 ratings — published 2022
The Shop on Royal Street (Royal Street, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 11,073 ratings — published 2022
Sweet as Pie (Good Southern Women, #1)
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avg rating 3.88 — 216 ratings — published
The Christmas Bookshop (The Christmas Bookshop, #1)
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avg rating 3.68 — 95,209 ratings — published 2021
Witcher Upper (Magical Renovation Mysteries, #1)
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avg rating 4.37 — 1,538 ratings — published 2020
Home for the Holidays (Juniper Springs, 1)
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avg rating 3.97 — 1,578 ratings — published 2020
The Lions of Fifth Avenue (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 82,445 ratings — published 2020
Always With Me (Whisper Lake #1)
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avg rating 4.21 — 4,738 ratings — published 2019
Black List (Black's Bandits #1)
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avg rating 4.33 — 2,093 ratings — published 2019
Deadhead and Buried (English Cottage Garden Mysteries #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 4,533 ratings — published 2019
Met Her Match (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 6,204 ratings — published 2019
When We Left Cuba (The Perez Family, #2)
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avg rating 4.01 — 46,286 ratings — published 2019
The Last Move (Criminal Profiler, #1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 23,967 ratings — published 2017
The Wedding Date (The Wedding Date, #1)
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avg rating 3.57 — 163,331 ratings — published 2018
Toughest Cowboy in Texas (Happy, Texas, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,098 ratings — published 2017
The Cottage at Firefly Lake (Firefly Lake, #1)
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avg rating 3.78 — 367 ratings — published 2017
Chasing Shadows (South Shores, #1)
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avg rating 3.56 — 1,854 ratings — published 2016
One Tequila (Althea Rose Mystery, #1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 11,477 ratings — published 2015
Flawless (New York Confidential #1)
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avg rating 3.94 — 4,071 ratings — published 2016
The Memory House (Honey Ridge, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,646 ratings — published 2015
Wild Horses (The Montana Hamiltons, #1)
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avg rating 4.11 — 1,007 ratings — published 2015
The Blossom Sisters (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 2,566 ratings — published 2013
Wyoming Tough (Wyoming Men, #1)
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avg rating 3.94 — 5,712 ratings — published
One Reckless Summer (Destiny, #1)
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avg rating 3.82 — 5,345 ratings — published 2009
On Mystic Lake (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 93,353 ratings — published 1999
No Limits (Ultimate, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 9,229 ratings — published 2014
Close Your Eyes (Kendra Michaels, #1)
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avg rating 4.03 — 8,579 ratings — published 2012
Murder on a Girls' Night Out (Southern Sisters, #1)
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avg rating 4.02 — 7,554 ratings — published 1996
Backrush (Tempest Island, #1)
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avg rating 4.40 — 2,549 ratings — published
Never Slow Dance with a Zombie (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.21 — 728 ratings — published 2009
The New Victorians: A Young Woman's Challenge to the Old Feminist Order (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.60 — 62 ratings — published 1995
Not Now, Not Ever (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 750 ratings — published 2017
A Line in the Dark (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.25 — 4,296 ratings — published 2017
People Like Us (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.51 — 19,558 ratings — published 2018
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 870,646 ratings — published 2017
The House at Sugar Beach (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 8,062 ratings — published 2008
“In 1821 the United States government sent Dr. Eli Ayres to the Pepper or Grain Coast of West Africa, to buy the land discovered by Samuel Bacon prior to his death the preceding year. Dr. Ayres sailed aboard the U.S. naval schooner the USS Alligator, commanded by Lieutenant Robert Stockton, to the proposed new colony near the Mesurado River. After several days of negotiations in November of 1821, this valuable land was purchased at gunpoint from the tribal chief King Peter.
Soon after this purchase, the colonists and their stores were landed on Providence Island and Bushrod Island, two small islands in the middle of the Mesurado River. Once the armed schooner sailed out of sight, the settlers were challenged by King Peter and his tribe. It took some doing, but on April 25, 1822, this group moved off the low-lying islands and took possession of the highlands behind Cape Mesurado, thereby founding present-day Monrovia, which was named after U.S. President James Monroe. It became the second permanent African American settlement in Africa, after Freetown, Sierra Leone.”
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Soon after this purchase, the colonists and their stores were landed on Providence Island and Bushrod Island, two small islands in the middle of the Mesurado River. Once the armed schooner sailed out of sight, the settlers were challenged by King Peter and his tribe. It took some doing, but on April 25, 1822, this group moved off the low-lying islands and took possession of the highlands behind Cape Mesurado, thereby founding present-day Monrovia, which was named after U.S. President James Monroe. It became the second permanent African American settlement in Africa, after Freetown, Sierra Leone.”
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“When we passed Camp Johnson, the military compound, I couldn’t believe that I was seeing two bodies suspended from the high security fence near the gate. On Broad Street, which is the main drag in Monrovia, there were streetlights but to my horror they were being used as gallows. Some still had bodies hanging from them, which appeared bloated and badly decomposed. Other bodies were decomposing in the gutters, with runoff water swirling around them. The decaying process doesn’t take long in this tropical heat, and it was obvious from the sickenly smell that permeated the air that they had been dead for a while. The city appeared to be under Martial Law with soldiers assisting the police, directing traffic. Lacking traffic lights each intersection was congested with cars, horn blaring and nobody moving. It was a mess and heavily armed, rag-tag soldiers, were now, everywhere.”
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