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New York Times bestselling author Margaret Maron returns with a thrilling new Deborah Knott mystery . . .
THE BUZZARD TABLE
Judge Deborah Knott and her husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, are back home in Colleton County amid family and old friends. But the winter winds have blown in several new faces as well. Lt. Sigrid Harald and her mother, Anne, a well-known photographer, are down from New York to visit Mrs. Lattimore, Anne's dying mother. When the group gathers for dinner at Mrs. Lattimore's Victorian home, they meet the enigmatic Martin Crawford, an ornithologist...

Deborah Knott may have lost the district election, but a bigoted judge's sudden death--and some old-fashioned political horse trading--have won her a governor's appointment. True to Southern form, her swearing-in is followed by a raucous reception that brings out every elderly aunt and cousin in the county.

Unfortunately, Lu Bingham, the force behind WomenAid, is at the reception, too. Not only has she come to collect the leftovers for her daycare center, but she's also there to collect on one of Deborah's more extravagant campaign promises. Before Deborah can say, "If elected..."...

The first Deborah Knott mystery, Bootlegger's Daughter, swept the top mystery awards in 1993 with a down-home judge dedicated to justice, driven by private demons, and prone to decide with her heart. From the first though, the books have given us an insider's look at North Carolina--from its western mountains to its Crystal Coast. Now in the series' fifth book, Judge Deborah investigate the interior geography of human folly in an exquisite plot created with polish and Elan...

Sent to High Point, North Carolina, to substitute for a vacationing colleague, Deborah finds there...

Since its inception, the Judge Deborah Knott series has garnered all the top mystery prizes and received overwhelming accolades. Now Margaret Maron presents an engrossing tale of Southern arts and sudden death . . .

North Carolina's Randolph County is heavy with bright red clay and home to generations of skilled potters. Two of the best are James Lucas Nordan and Sandra Kay Hitchcock, locked in a bitter divorce after twenty-five years of marriage. Enter Judge Deborah Knott, who must settle the most exasperating part of any divorce case--the equitable distribution of marital...

Nachdem Mia erfahren musste, dass ihr eigener Vater die große Verbrecherorganisation der Schattenbringer leitet, bricht für sie eine Welt zusammen. Als wäre es nicht schon kompliziert genug, sich tagtäglich als männlicher Ranger auszugeben und einen gesuchten Kriminellen zu lieben! Langsam wächst ihr die Situation über den Kopf. Wie soll sie ihren Vater aufhalten? Wie wird ihre Beziehung mit Lloyd weitergehen? Und wie lange kann Mia vor ihren Arbeitskollegen noch verbergen, dass sie in Wirklichkeit das Mädchen aus der Legende ist?Bevor sie Antworten auf diese Fragen findet, muss sie...

After Margaret Maron's first Deborah Knott novel, Bootlegger's Daughter, ran away with the top mystery awards in 1993, this highly acclaimed series has continued to whet our appetite for superb fiction in which the setting is, as the Houston Chronicle noted, "so rich in detail and description of the New South that you can almost hear the North Carolina twang and taste the barbecue." Now, in her fourth outing, Deborah Knott is again in the driver's seat, roaring down dirt roads and checking out crime scenes until . . .

UP JUMPS THE DEVIL.

When truck driver and childhood...

"A witty and affectionate view of the new South--and especially, the new South's new woman," writes the San Diego Union-Tribune of Margaret Maron's award-winning Deborah Knott mystery series. From its first book, Bootlegger's Daughter, which swept every major mystery writing award, this series has been extraordinary--winning a greater audience and brilliantly evolving in content and style. Now, in the seventh book in the series, sexual tension, illicit love, and brutal murder entangle and explode in Deborah Knott's life . . .

Hurricanes rarely make it inland as far as Colleton...

""I wish I could say this is a story of how I saved everyone and set the world to right. But it isn't. This is a story of my failure.""
Laika Roen has always been strangely attracted to Lisan, a mysterious and isolated country where the citizens worship their despotic leader. When Laika is invited to travel to Lisan as a visiting scholar, she jumps at the chance to experience Lisan's unusual culture firsthand.
But Laika gets more than she bargained for when her trip is disrupted by violence and she's forced to set out on her own. As she journeys through forbidden sections of the...

La Eneida es una epopeya latina escrita por el poeta romano Virgilio en el siglo I a. C. Fue un encargo del emperador Augusto con el fin de glorificar el Imperio atribuyéndole un origen mítico. Virgilio tomo como punto de partida la guerra de Troya y la destrucción de esa ciudad, y presentando la fundación de Roma a la manera de los mitos griegos. La obra, de casi 10 000 hexámetros dactílicos, está dividida en 12 libros que a su vez se pueden agrupar en dos partes: Libros I a VI, en los que, a imitación de la Odisea, se narran los viajes de Eneas hasta llegar a Italia. Libros VII a...

In an autumnal love story of erotic obsession, possessiveness, remembrance, oblivion, and time, an elderly woman dwells upon a failed love affair of some time past, when she was no longer young but not yet old. The narrator relives meeting her lover, Franz, at the natural history museum, when, for the first time in her life, she experiences all-consuming love and absolute happiness. Ultimately the affair founders because of her inability to believe that Franz will actually leave his wife. After he disappears from her life, she withdraws from the world, waiting for his return and revisiting...