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Blossom street novels volume 1
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There's a little shop on Blossom Street in Seattle called A Good Yarn. You go there to buy yarn, knitting supplies and patterns--and now you can join a knitting class. How to knit a baby blanket: that's the first lesson. There, four lives knit together. These four women, brought together by the age-old craft of knitting, make unexpected discoveries--about themselves and each other. Discoveries that lead to love, to friendship and acceptance, to laughter...
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The blood at the scene belies any suggestion of an "honorable death." Yet, to the eyes of the Seattle police, a successful Japanese software magnate died exactly as he wished—and by his own hand, according to the ancient rite of seppuku. Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont can't dismiss what he sees as an elaborate suicide, however, not when something about it makes his flesh crawl. Because small errors in the ritual suggest something darker: a killer...
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The body lay amid the garbage behind a Seattle grocery store--a tall, well-built male--dead. Detective J.P. Beaumont's twenty years on the force had given him a sixth sense about people--especially guilty ones. So when he found the victom--a high school basketball coach with a very pregnant wife--had been lynched, Beau suspected this murder was connected with the extremes of love and hatred.
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Perhaps it was fitting justice: a dentist who enjoyed inflicting pain was murdered in his own chair. The question is not who wanted Dr. Frederick Nielsen dead, but rather who of the many finally reached the breaking point. The sordid details of this case, with its shocking revelations of violence, cruelty, and horrific sexual abuse, would be tough for any investigator to stomach. But for Seattle Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont, the most damning piece...
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Fifty years ago, when she was five, Sister Mary Katherine witnessed something terrible . . . A former Seattle policeman now working for the Washington State Attorney's Special Homicide Investigation Team, J.P. Beaumont has been hand-picked to lead the investigation into a half-century-old murder. An eyewitness to the crime, a middle-aged nun, has now recalled grisly, forgotten details while undergoing hypnotherapy. It's a case as cold as the grave,...
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A shocking photo on the tabloids' front pages, the last moments of a life. Sheer terror frozen in time for all to see and forever seared into Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont's memory. No suicide, the mystery of the fall from an upper story of an unifinished skyscaper leads to more death and scrupulously guarded secrets of a powerful union that extracts its dues in blood.
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2017.
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"Before he retired, J. P. Beaumont had looked forward to having his days all to himself. But too much free time doesn't suit a man used to brushing close to danger. When his longtime nemesis, retired Seattle crime reporter Maxwell Cole, dies in whats officially deemed to be an accidental fire, Beau is astonished to be dragged into the investigation at the request of none other than the deceased victim himself. In the process Beau learns that just...
10) A good yarn
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Blossom street novels volume 2
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English
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Four women going through difficult periods in their lives form a powerful bond of friendship when they meet at a knitting class held at A Good Yarn, a quaint yarn store in downtown Seattle.
12) Justice denied
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The murder of an ex-drug dealer ex-con-gunned down on his mother's doorstep-seems just another turf war fatality. Why then has Seattle homicide investigator J.P. Beaumont been instructed to keep this assignment hush-hush? Meanwhile, Beau's lover and fellow cop, Mel Soames, is involved in her own confidential investigation. Registered sex offenders from all over Washington State are dying at an alarming rate-and not all due to natural causes.
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"J. P. Beaumont and Brandon Walker, two of New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance's most acclaimed series characters, join forces for the first time in one of the most suspenseful works of her career. Prospector Amos Warren and Big Bad John Lassiter, his young protege were as close as father and son until a violent argument tore them apart. The next day, Amos disappeared, never to be seen again. Years later, his bones were found in the desert....
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2011.
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An instant classic of narrative nonfiction, "The Hustle" paints the lives of teammates from a basketball team created in 1986 against a background of sweeping social and economic change, capturing the ways race, money, and opportunity shape our lives.-- Publisher.
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[2015]
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Primetime television's most riveting hour hits new heights as secrets of the past come to light and critical choices shape the future. While Callie and Arizona examine their relationship, Dr. Herman delivers staggering news that will rock the hospital to its core. Meanwhile, Derek leaves Meredith to discover the ultimate truth, and Maggie's shocking announcement proves that blood is thicker than water.
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[2015]
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"In 1988, Mary Ellen Mark published a poignant document of a fiercely independent group of homeless and troubled youth living in Seattle as pimps, prostitutes, panhandlers and small-time drug dealers. Critically acclaimed, Streetwise introduced us to individuals who were not easily forgotten, including "Tiny" (Erin Blackwell)--a 13-year-old prostitute with dreams of a horse farm, diamonds and furs, and a baby of her own. Since meeting Tiny 30 years...
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