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Author
Series
Moe Prager mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Tyrus Books/F+W Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Still reeling from his wife's recent miscarriage, Moe Prager is bullied into taking the case of an up-and-coming politico whose career has stalled over the suspicious disappearance of a young woman. It's been almost two years since Moira Heaton, State Senator Steven Brightman's intern, vanished on Thanksgiving Eve 1981. In spite of Brightman's best efforts to clear his name, he has been tried and convicted in the press. As a reluctant Moe peels away...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyrus
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
This novel is set in late 1980s in New York City. Prager, an ex-cop turned PI, has a cryptic encounter with his old friend Larry McDonald, the NYPD chief of detectives. Larry slips him a covertly recorded tape of an interrogation of a snitch claiming to know the secret behind the murder of Dexter Mayweather, a major-league drug dealer in the early 1970s. When McDonald himself turns up an apparent suicide, Prager calls in a variety of favors from old...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Award-winning and bestselling author Wallace Stegner takes on the hippy generation in a novel of "crackling vividness" (New York Times Book Review).
Joe Allston, the retired literary agent in Stegner's National Book Award–winning novelThe Spectator Bird, returns in this disquieting and keenly observed novel. Scarred by the senseless death of their son and baffled by the engulfing chaos of the 1960s, Allston and his wife, Ruth, have
...Author
Series
Martini Club volume 1
Publisher
Amazon Pub
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Former spy Maggie Bird came to the seaside village of Purity, Maine, eager to put the past behind her after a mission went tragically wrong. These days, she's living quietly on her chicken farm, still wary of blowback from the events that forced her early retirement. But when a body turns up in Maggie's driveway, she knows it's a message from former foes who haven't forgotten her. Maggie turns to her local circle of old friends--all retirees from...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Bob Comet is a retired librarian, isolated but not lonely, living out his quiet days in a mint-colored house in Oregon, surrounded by his books and small comforts. One morning, out on his daily walk, he performs an act of kindness that brings him into contact with a nearby senior center, where he soon begins volunteering. Here, as a community of peers and friends gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"With How to Make Your Money Last, you will learn how to turn your retirement savings into a steady paycheck that will last for life. Today, people worry that they're going to run out of money in their older age. That won't happen if you use a few tricksfor squeezing higher payments from your assets--from your Social Security account (find the hidden values there), pension (monthly income or lump sum?), home equity (sell and invest the proceeds or...
Author
Series
Ladies of Covington volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks ed.
Language
English
Author
Series
Ladies of Covington volume 7
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Pocket Books.
Language
English
Description
Widowed Amelia is shocked when Miriam Smith arrives on her doorstep, claiming to be her late husband's illegitimate daughter, and hides behind the pain of her husband's betrayal, refusing to accept that God is offering Amelia a new chance at the family she has always wanted.
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