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Language
English
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Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his old aunt for the first time in over 50 years. She persuades him to travel with her. Through his aunt, a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society coming alive after a dull suburban lifetime.
Author
Series
Ladies of Lantern Street volume 3
Language
English
Description
Miss Amity Doncaster, world traveler, is accustomed to adventure and risk. Benedict Stanbridge, a man of science and a spy for the Crown, has faced danger in the darker corners of foreign lands. But they are about to face a threat that is shockingly close to home... One does not expect to be kidnapped on a London street in broad daylight. But Amity Doncaster barely escapes with her life after she is trapped in a carriage with a blade-wielding man...
3) Loop group
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Physical Desc
242 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Maggie runs a group that dubs voices for movies. She spends much of her time fending off her three pushy daughters, and gets her kicks with her far older Sicilian lover. Connie, on the other hand, has a taste for younger men. These two best friends are getting past their prime, which is why they plan to have one last great adventure. But on the road from Texas to California and back, the women get caught up in events beyond their control. Packing...
Author
Series
Maxie and Stretch mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Onyx Books
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Physical Desc
274 p. : map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
At sixty-three, Maxie McNabb is cruising down the Alaska Highway in her brand new Winnebago. With her mini-dachshund at her side, and the open road ahead, she's never been happier. But before her exploration of the Lower 48 gets underway, Maxie needs to figure out who burglarized her friend Sarah's Colorado home, and why. The closer she gets to solving the puzzle, the more it becomes chillingly clear that Sarah's life isn't the only one on the line....
Author
Series
Maxie and Stretch mysteries volume 3
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
vii, 258 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After nine months on the road, Maxie McNabb is ready for some R&R, Alaska-style, with her miniature dachshund, Stretch. But no sooner has the sixty-something RVer parked the Mini-Winnie than a pleading phone call sends her flying to Hawaii. Because Karen Bailey, hobbled by an accident, needs Maxie's help packing up her house. But within hours of Maxie's arrival, a prowler tries to break in and someone sabotages the plumbing. And when she hears Karen...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
x, 331 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
For Katherine Givens and the four women about to become her best friends, the adventure begins with a UPS package. Inside is a pair of red sneakers filled with ashes and a note that will forever change their lives. Katherine's oldest and dearest friend, the irrepressible Annie Freeman, left one final request -- a traveling funeral -- and she wants the most important women in her life as “pallbearers.” From Sonoma to Manhattan, Katherine, Laura,...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
375 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Ricardo, at an early age, sees his life-long dream fulfilled: to live in Paris. But an encounter with a past love will change everything. The young girl, adventurer, pragmatic, wicked, calculating, and mischievous, will drag him out of his small world of ambitions. This is the story of the intimate love that occupies more than three decades of Ricardo's life, and it is also a fascinating tale traveling through Europe, South America, and Japan. Starring...
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Language
English
Description
A woman who longs to avoid risk at all cost learns that men who love danger are the most exciting. After a carefree childhood, Mary Margaret Kelly came of age in the shadow of grief. Her father, a dashing daredevil Air Force pilot, died when she was nine. Maggie saw her mother struggle to put their lives back together. As the family moved from one city to the next, her mother warned her to beware of daredevil men and avoid risk at all cost. Following...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
Che Milan’s life is falling apart. Not only has her longtime lover abruptly dumped her, but her eccentric, demanding mother has recently died. When an urn of ashes arrives, along with a note reminding Che of a half-forgotten promise to take her mother to Canterbury, Che finds herself reluctantly undertaking a pilgrimage. Within days she joins a group of women who are walking the sixty miles from London to the shrine of Becket in Canterbury Cathedral,...
Author
Series
Maxie and Stretch mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Onyx
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
277 p. : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Zigzagging the country in a mini-Winnie means endless adventure -- and Maxie McNabb is always up for something new. So she and her dog, Stretch, head for the heat of New Mexico, where Maxie plans to learn how to weave. But everything changes for the sleepy town when a local woman attempts suicide. A casualty of her husband's mid-life crisis, she was replaced by a newer, sexier model. And to top it off, a sleazy conman has set his sights on her. Maxie...
11) Flights
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
403 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined...
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