| Marta's Reading InSight | number 12 |  |
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Think April! Think tulips and spring breezes. Think Earth Day and many enticing new fiction books to read. The following titles have been ordered. Place your reserve early.
| Whisker
of Evil: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery by Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown |
Mystery swirls around sleuthing postmistress, "Harry" Hairsteen. |
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The Master Quilter: An Elm Creek Quilts
Novel |
Latest of the series in which master quilter, Sylvia Compson plans her wedding. |
| Nighttime
Is My Time by Mary Higgins Clark |
Women are disappearing nationwide. Another thriller from the prolific author. |
| Eleven
Minutes by Paulo Coehlo |
A prostitute learns the meaning of love. |
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Sharpe's Escape: Spain and Portugal,
1810 |
Another action packed struggle involving Spain, France & Portugal. |
| The
Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler |
Six women share their lives through the prism of Austen's novels. |
| Divining
Women by Kaye Gibbons |
1918: strong women dealing with the challenges of life. |
| Firestorm by Iris Johansen |
Psychological
thriller investigates arson. |
| I
Am No One You Know by Joyce Carol Oates |
New stories from the prize-winning writer. |
| Guardian
of the Horizon by Elizabeth Peters |
Detective Amelia Peabody helps Prince Tarek keep his throne. |
| Islands by Anne Rivers Siddons |
Old Charleston friends reunite & make plans to avoid assisted living. |
| The
Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith |
Book five for Precious Ramotswe & the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. |
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Down Here: A Burke Novel |
Murder, rape and the consequences. |
| Our
Kind: A Novel in Stories by Kate Walbert |
Women who came of age in the Fifties face life's disappointments. |
| Now
is the Time to Open Your Heart by Alice Walker |
A much-published, much-married author seeks to find herself. |
| A
Hole in Texas by Herman Wouk |
NASA physicist & his old Chinese flame caught in a scientific controversy. |
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