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"Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, [this book] is set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning-and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala's long-existing Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet...
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Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 32
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Sergeant Hamish Macbeth—Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman—returns in M.C. Beaton's new mystery in her New York Times bestselling series. From the author of the Agatha Raisin series.
When Police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth hears reports of a haunted castle near Drim, he assumes the eerie noises and lights reported by the villagers are just local teenagers going there to smoke pot or, worse, inject themselves with...
When Police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth hears reports of a haunted castle near Drim, he assumes the eerie noises and lights reported by the villagers are just local teenagers going there to smoke pot or, worse, inject themselves with...
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He would sell his warrior soul to possess her. . . .
An alluring laird...
He was known throughout the kingdom as Hawk, legendary predator of the battlefield and the boudoir. No woman could refuse his touch, but no woman ever stirred his heart—until a vengeful fairy tumbled Adrienne de Simone out of modern-day Seattle and into medieval Scotland. Captive in a century not her own, entirely too bold, too outspoken, she was an irresistible...
An alluring laird...
He was known throughout the kingdom as Hawk, legendary predator of the battlefield and the boudoir. No woman could refuse his touch, but no woman ever stirred his heart—until a vengeful fairy tumbled Adrienne de Simone out of modern-day Seattle and into medieval Scotland. Captive in a century not her own, entirely too bold, too outspoken, she was an irresistible...
4) Voyager
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Outlander novels volume 3
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English
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Two decades later, for a second time, Claire Randall travels back to eighteenth-century Scotland to be reunited with Jamie, the man she cannot forget.
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Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 28
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Police Constable Hamish Macbeth investigates Morag Merrilea who claims to be drugged after a night sketching at a pub, and the following morning her sketchbook is missing.
6) Outlander
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Outlander novels volume 1
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English
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While on vacation in Scotland, Clare touches an ancient stone circle and is hurled back in time 200 years, to 1743.
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"Welcome to Eris: an island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day. Once home to Vanessa: A famous artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago. Now home to Grace: A solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation. But when a shocking discovery is made in an art gallery far away in London, a visitor comes calling. And the secrets of...
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"Brilliant, irascible and frequently frustrating to both his friends and his long-suffering bosses, John Rebus has made the dark places of Edinburgh his home for over two decades. THE BEAT GOES ON collects all of Ian Rankin's Rebus short stories for the first time, including two never-before published tales written specifically for this collection. From his beginnings as a young Detective Constable in "Dead and Buried," right up to his dramatic, but...
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"I am a granddaughter to a king and daughter to a prince, a wife twice over, a queen as well. I have fought with sword and bow, and struggled fierce to bear my babes into this world. I have loved deeply and hated deeply, too. I know embroidery and hawks and kingship, and more magic than I should admit."
Lady Gruadh, called Rue, is the last female descendant of Scotland's most royal line. Married to a powerful northern lord, she...
Lady Gruadh, called Rue, is the last female descendant of Scotland's most royal line. Married to a powerful northern lord, she...
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Outlander novels volume 2
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English
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Claire Randall returns to the Scottish Highlands twenty years after her first visit during which she was transported through the standing stones of Craigh na Dun into the 1700s, to try and discover when happened to the people she knew and loved in the earlier century and to tell her daughter the truth about her father.
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In this inspiring novel, one ordinary man makes the pilgrimage to the mythical greens of St. Andrews, the birthplace of golf, on a search for greatness.
If golf novels had a leaderboard, Miracle at St. Andrews would be at the top.
Though nobody has ever identified a single secret, no universally accepted truth, to the sport, every real player searches for one. Travis McKinley is one such seeker. A former professional golfer who feels like he's an...
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Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 21
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Highlands constable Hamish Macbeth's content life is disrupted by the murder of a visiting artist, the return of his old girlfriend, and a ruthless killer stalking the local citizens.
13) Like a charm
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"After the death of her grandfather, nuerodivergent tween Ramya uncovers a world of mystery and magic, and she is the only one who can see it"--
14) The duchess
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Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1991
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English
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Claire, a late 19th century American girl, goes to Scotland to find an "acceptable" husband. She becomes engaged to a Duke, but all is not well with the Montgomery clan at Bramley Castle.
15) Pure dead frozen
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Pure dead magic volume 6
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
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IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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The Strega-Borgias make one last stand to defend their home against invaders who seek the Chronostone--and one little baby who may not be what he appears.
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"Scotland has a dead body problem. Another one. And in the wake of a similar spate of tribute killings, Special Agents Luke Kendrick and Carly MacDonald know they have their work cut out for them. Working alongside a new team of agents, the partners havemore questions than answers when the crime scenes yield little evidence. In the style of infamous killers Burke and Hare, it appears victims are being moved to a secondary location, where they're dissected...
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Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 26
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Police Constable Hamish Macbeth investigates when a villager who uses the services of itinerant chimney sweep Pete Ray finds a dead body stuffed up the chimney of his home, and Macbeth's feeling that Ray is not the killer is confirmed when the sweep is found dead on the Scottish moors.
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Edinburgh nights volume 1
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English
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Ropa dropped out of school to become a ghost talker, and she now speaks to Edinburgh's dead - carrying messages to the living - but when she learns someone is bewitching children she investigates and discovers an occult library, a taste for hidden magic,and a wealth of Edinburgh's dark secrets.
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
1998
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English
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A novelization of the Agatha Christie play in which Michael Starkwedder, having run his car into a ditch, walks to the nearest home for help where he discovers a murdered man in a wheelchair and a woman holding a smoking gun.
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Edinburgh nights volume 3
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English
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"Everyone's favorite fifteen-year-old ghostalker, Ropa, arrives at the worldwide Society of Skeptical Enquirers' biennial conference just in time to be tied into a mystery--a locked room mystery, if an entire creepy haunted castle on lockdown counts. Oneof the magical attendees has stolen a valuable magical scroll. Caught between Qozmos, the high wizard of Ethiopian magic; the larger-than-life Lord Sashvindu Samarasinghe; England's Sorcerer Royal;...
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