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Series
Tita Rosie's kitchen volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Asian American Pacific Heritage Month
Asian-American Mysteries
Lunch with a Librarian
Murder on the Menu
Asian-American Mysteries
Lunch with a Librarian
Murder on the Menu
Description
"The first book in a new culinary cozy series full of sharp humor and delectable dishes--one that might just be killer.... When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She's tasked with saving her Tita Rosie's failing restaurant, and she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower her with love and judgment. But when a notoriously nasty food critic...
3) Identical
Author
Series
Kindle County novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
A mayoral candidate's brother is released from prison 25 years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, a situation that leads to the re-opening of the case.
Author
Series
Dek Elstrom mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The dead man is found spread-eagled on the top of a box car on an abandoned rail siding. He's dressed in a $2000 suit, yet half his teeth are rotten and his skin is bad. Who was he ... and how did he end up there? When he's offered an exorbitant fee to photograph the scene, PI Dek Elstrom doesn't ask many questions. But his photos reveal something surprising: there's a witness to the murder, a tagger who's returned to the scene to paint what he saw....
Author
Series
V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"When Chicago Black Hawks hockey legend Boom Boom Warshawski slips off a warf and drowns in Lake Michigan, his private-eye cousin questions the accidental death report and rumors of suicide. Armed with a bottle of Black Label and a Smith & Wesson, V.I. follows a trail of violence and corruption to the center of the Windy City's powerful shipping industry. Dodging elaborate attempts on her life with characteristic grit and humor, the one-of-a-kind...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
With dry wit and piercing observation, Beard writes about the relationship between two teenage girls in the 1970s--misfits whose friendship is tested by their families' claims on them, by a clique of popular girls, and by the first startling, subversive intimations of womanhood.
9) Digger
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
The Vietnam War is replayed in a small Illinois town when an employer brings in Vietnamese goons to crush a strike. The town's Vietnam War vets rise in defense of the workers and much of the fighting takes place in underground tunnels, just as in Vietnam.
10) Copycat
Author
Series
Kitt Lundgrean thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Five years ago, three little girls were murdered in their beds, posed like sleeping angels by a twisted killer. With no witnesses and no clues, Detective Kitt Lundgren was forced to look on helplessly taunted by a psychopath proud of his 'perfect crimes'.
Author
Language
English
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Description
[In this book, the author] explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time we try. On a winter morning in the 1920s, a shot rings out on a farm in rural Illinois. A man named Lloyd Wilson has been killed. And the tenuous friendship between two lonely teenagers - one privileged yet neglected, the other a troubled farm boy - has been shattered. Fifty years later, one of those...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln has spent his entire adult life running from his past--from the poverty of the dirt-floor log cabin where he was raised, from the dominion of his uneducated father, and from a failed early courtship. But now, Lincoln's past is racing back to haunt him. It is the summer of 1838, and Springfield is embroiled in a tumultuous, violent political season. All of Springfield's elite have gathered at a grand party to celebrate...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joshua Speed, the enterprising second son of a wealthy plantation owner, has struck off on his own. But before long, he makes a surprising and crucial new acquaintance--a freshly minted lawyer by the name of Abraham Lincoln. When an orphaned girl from a neighboring town is found murdered and suspicion falls on her aunt, Speed makes it his mission to clear her good name. Of course, he'll need the legal expertise of his unusual new friend. Together,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
"To eight-year old Bunny Morison, his mother is an angelic comforter in whose absence nothing is real or live. To his older brother, Robert, his mother is someone he must protect, especially since the deadly influenza epidemic of 1918 is ravaging their small Midwestern town. To James Morison, his wife, Elizabeth, is the center of a life that would disintegrate all too suddenly were she to disappear."--
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Darcy Jones knows little about her past except that she was abandoned outside a Chicago firehouse at age five, but when the mysterious Conn arrives at her high school she begins to discover things about her past that she is not sure she likes.
17) Digging up love
Author
Series
Taste of love volume 1
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When a dinosaur bone discovery brings together baker Alisha Blake and paleontologist Quentin Harris in her rural Illinois hometown, both Alisha and Quentin must weigh their future plans against their budding relationship.
Alisha Blake creates delectable desserts for her grandfather's restaurant in rural Illinois... but dreams about opening a cookie shop in Chicago. When a dinosaur bone turns up in her grandparents' backyard, paleontologist Quentin...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Rowan Darling is an adrift thirty-three-year-old record store owner in a run-down block of Philadelphia. Then news of his estranged brother's death forces a return to Maybee, Illinois, the hometown Rowan left in the dust years ago. Rowan's plan? Dart in for the funeral, support his mother, then disappear just as quickly. Things to avoid? Margot Beckett, his childhood sweetheart, and Skid Hall, his former best friend who stole Margot and married her....
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
It's been more than twenty years since Marti Reese's sister, Maggie, disappeared. Only eight-years-old at the time, Marti can't remember what happened, just that Maggie got into a car and never returned. After years of grief and countless false leads, Marti is coping as best she can: abandoning her marriage, drinking to forget, and documenting her never-ending search via a true-crime podcast. But when the podcast becomes an unexpected hit and Marti...
20) A house divided
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"In the winter of 1839, a sensational disappearance rocks Springfield, Illinois, as headlines announce a local man has accused his two brothers of murder. Not one to pass up an opportunity, Abraham Lincoln takes up the case of the accused with the assistance of his best friend Joshua Speed to search for evidence of innocence. But just as soon as they begin, Lincoln and Speed find their friendship at grave risk of rupture as they vie for the hand a...
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