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Classics - Solid Gold Classics Old and New Great Books that became Classic Movies Hardboiled (an a few soft-boiled) Detectives Memoirs about Family on the Serious Side |
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Title A Greater Glory The Lies of the Saints Sutter's Cross Tomorrow's Treasure Passing by Samaria The Brother's Keeper A Rush of Wings The Fisherman Patrick: Son of Ireland Joshua's Bible Jerusalem's Rain Whirlpool If I Gained the World |
Author Bell, James Scott Brouwer, Sigmund Cramer, W. Dale Chaikin, L.L. Foster, Sharon Ewell Groot, Tracy Heitzmann, Kristen Huntsperger, Larry Lawhead, Stephen Leanne, Shelly Lliteras, D.S McCourtney, Lorena Nichols, Linda |
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A Christmas Carol Christmas Day in the Morning Christmas in Harmony The Christmas Train The Gift of the Magi Santaland Diaries Sharpe’s Christmas Shepards Abiding Skipping Christmas The Queene’s Christmas Under the Mistletoe
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Charles Dickens Pearl S. Buck Phillip Gulley David Baldacci O. Henry David Sedaris Bernard Cornwell Jan Karon John Grisham Karen Harper Mary Balogh
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| A Baker’s Field Guide to Christmas Cookies |
Dede Wilson |
| Las Christmas: Excitores Latinos recuerdan las tradiciones navidenas | (Available in Spanish and English.) |
| God Rest Ye Grumpy Scroogeymen |
Laura Jensen Walker and Michael K. Walker |
| No More Holiday Blues: uplifting advice for recapturing the true spirit of Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year’s |
Wayne Dyer |
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The Red Suit Diaries: A Real-Life Santa on Hopes, Dreams ,and Childlike Faith |
Ed Butchart |
| Silent Night: the Story of the World War I Christmas Truce |
Stanley Weintraub |
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Simple Pleasures for the Holidays: a treasury of stories and suggestions for creating meaningful celebrations |
Susannah Seton |
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Simply Christmas: Renew the spirit 201 easy crafts,food, and decorating ideas |
Carol Dahlstom |
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Stories Behind the Great Traditions of Christmas Unplug the Christmas Machine |
Ace Collins Jo Robinson |
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Watch for the Light: Readings in Advent and Christmas. |
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Adventures of Tom Sawyer Alice's Adventures in Wonderland All Quiet on the Western Front Animal Farm Anna Karanina Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl As I lay Dying Babbit the Bell Jar Beloved Brave New World Brideshead Revisited Brothers Karamazov the Call of the Wild the Canterbury Tales Catch-22 Catcher in the Rye the Chocolate War The Chosen Complete Short Stories of Edgar Allen Poe the Color Purple Crime and Punishment Cry, the Beloved Country Darkness at Noon David Copperfield Don Quixote Dune Earthsea Trilogy Ethan Frome Fahrenheit 451 Farewell to Arms Flowers for Algernon The Fountainhead Frankenstein Go Tell It on the Mountain Gone with the Wind the Good Earth the Grapes of Wrath the Great Gatsby Gulliver's Travels the Heart is a Lonely Hunter Hiroshima the Hobbit the Hound of the Baskervilles the Hunchback of Notre Dame I Heard the Owl Call My Name I Know Why the Cages Bird Sings I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Iliad In Cold Blood Invisible Man Jane Eyre the Jungle Kidnapped Last of the Mohicans the Little Prince Little Women Lord Jim Lord of the Flies Lord of the Rings Trilogy Madam Bovary Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Metamorphosis Moby Dick My Antonia Native Son Night Odyssey Of Human Bondage Of Mice and Men Old Man and the Sea Oliver Twist On the Beach One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest One Hundred Years of Solitude the Once and Future King Outsiders Oxbow Incident Picture of Dorian Gray Pilgrim's Progress Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Pride and Prejudice Prince and the Pauper Rabbit Run Red Badge of Courage Return of the Native Robinson Crusoe Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry the Scarlet Letter A Separate Peace Siddhartha Silas Marner Sister Carrie Slaughterhouse-Five the Sound and the Fury Stories of John Cheever Stranger in a Strange Land the Sun Also Rises Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe Tess of the D’urbervilles Their Eyes Were Watching God the Three Musketeers the Tin Drum the Time Machine Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea To Kill a Mockingbird To the Lighthouse Turn of the Screw Uncle Tom's Cabin Vanity Fair Walden War and Peace War of the Worlds Watership Down Wuthering Heights the Yearling You Can't Go Home Again
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Orwell, George Verne, Jules Twain, Mark Twain, Mark Carroll, Lewis Remarque, Erich Maria Orwell, George Tolstoy, Leo Frank, Anne Faulkner, William Lewis Sinclair Plath, Sylvia Morrison, Toni Huxley, Aldous Waugh, Evelyn Dostoyevsky, Fyodor London, Jack Chaucer, Geoffrey Heller, Joseph Salinger, J.D. Cormier, Robert Potik, Chaim Poe, Edgar Allen Walker, Alice Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Paton, Alan Koestler, Arthur Dickens, Charles Cervantes, Miguel Herbert, Frank Leguin, Ursula K. Wharton, Edith Bradbury, Ray Hemingway, Ernest Keyes, Daniel Rand, Ayn Shelley, Mary Baldwin, James Mitchell, Margaret Buck, Pearl S. Steinbeck, John Fitzgerald, F. Scott Swift, Jonathan McCullers, Carson Hersey, John Tolkien, J.R.R. Doyle, Arthur Conan Hugo, Victor Craven, Margaret Angelou, Maya Green, Hannah Homer Capote, Truman Ellison, Ralph Bronte, Charlotte Sinclair, Upton Stevenson, Robert Louis Cooper, James Fenimore Saint-Exupery, Antoine de Alcott, Louisa May Conrad, Joseph Golding, William Tolkien, J.R.R. Flaubert, Gustave Pyle, Howard Kafka, Franz Melville, Herman Cather, Willa Wright, Richard Wiesel, Elie Homer Maugham, William Somerset Steinback, John Hemingway, Ernest Dickens, Charles Shute, Nevil Solzhenitzyn, Alexander Kesey, Ken Marquez, Gabriel Garcia White, T.H. Hinton, S.E. Clark, Walter van Tilburg Wilde, Oscar Bunyan, John Joyce, James Austen, Jane Twain, Mark Updike, John Crane, Stephen Hardy, Thomas Defoe, Daniel Taylor, Mildred Hawthorne, Nathaniel Knowles, John Hesse, Herman Eliot, George Dreiser, Theodore Vonnegut, Kurt Faulkner, William Cheever, John Heinlein, Robert Hemingway, Ernest Poe, Edgar Allen Hardy, Thomas Hurston, Zora Neale Dumas, Alexander Grass, Gunter Wells, H.G. Verne, Jules Lee, Harper Woolf, Virginia James, Henry Stowe, Harriet Beecher Thackery, William Makepeace Thoreau, Henry David Tolstoy, Leo Wells, H.G. Adams, Richard Bronte, Emily Rawlings, Marjorie Wolfe, Thomas |
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Palahniuk, Chuck Moore, Christopher Hiaasen, Carl Boyle, T. Coraghessan Robbins, Tom Friedman, Kinky Pratchett, Terry Irving, John Vonnegut, Kurt Donleavy, J.P. Fitzhugh, Bill |
Title Any Any Any Any Any Any Any Any Any Any Any |
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Adams, Douglas Atkinson, Kate Baer, Will Christopher Crews, Harry |
Hitchhiker Series Emotionally Weird: A Novel Penny Dreadful Celebration |
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Fisher, Carrie |
Postcards from the Edge |
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Fry, Stephen |
Making History |
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Heller, Joseph Mayle, Peter Nabokov, Vladmimir |
Catch-22 A Dog’s Life Lolita |
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Prill, David |
Serial Killer Days |
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Reilly, Rick Smiley, Jane Toole, John Kennedy Zigman, Laura |
Slo Mo! My Untrue Story Moo A Confederacy of Dunces Animal Husbandry |
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Crescent Abu The Edible Woman Secrets of the Tsil Cafe: A Novel with Recipes Heartburn Mangoes and Quince: A Novel Second Thyme Around Five Quarters of the Orange Friendship Cake Pastries Debt to Pleasure Blessed are the Cheesemakers La Cucina: A Novel of Rapture Eat Cake The Book of Salt |
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Jaber, Diana Atwood, Margaret Averill, Thomas Fox Ephron, Nora Field, Carol Fforde, Katie Harris, Joanne Harris, J. Lynne Kirchner, Bharti Lanchester, John Lynch, Sarah-Kate Prior, Lily Ray, Jeanne Truong, Monique T.D. |
Great Books that became Classic Movies (based on AFI’s 100 greatest movies) |
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The Godfather Gone with the Wind the Wizard of Oz the Bridge over the River Kwai One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest The Grapes of Wrath the Maltese Falcon Dr. Strangelove Treasure of the Sierra Madre To Kill a Mockingbird The Best Years of Our Lives Doctor Zhivago A Clockwork Orange Jaws From Here to Eternity All Quiet on the Western Front MASH The Third Man The Silence of the Lambs Shane the French Connection Forrest Gump Ben Hur Wuthering Heights Dances with Wolves Giant Mutiny on the Bounty Frankenstein A Place in the Sun Goodfellas the Searchers |
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Puzo, Mario Mitchell, Margaret Baum, Frank L. Boule, Pierre Kesey, Ken Steinbeck, John Hammett, Dashiell George, Peter Traven, B Lee, Harper Kantor, Mackinlay Pasternak, Boris Burgess Anthony Benchley, Peter Jones, James Remarque, Erich Hooker, Richard Greene, Graham Harris, Thomas Schaefer, Jack Moore, Robin Groom, Winston Wallace, Lew Bronte, Emily Blake, Michael Ferber, Edna Nordhoff, Charles Shelley, Mary Dreiser, Theodore ? Pileggis, Nick (book title: Wiseguy) LeMay, Alan |
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Block, Lawrence Burke, James Chandler, Raymond Chesbro, George C. Coben, Harlan Collins, Michael Connelly, Michael Crais, Robert Dennis, LeHane Doyle, Arthur Conan Dubois, Brendan Estleman, Loren Gorman, Ed Hall, James W. Hammett, Dashiell Jakes, John MacDonald, John MacDonald, Ross McBain, Ed McDonald, Gregory Parker, Robert B. Patterson, James Pelecanos, George Prozini, Bill Sanders, Lawrence Shannon, John Simmons, Dan Simon, Roger Skinner, Robert Spillane, Mickey Stout, Rex |
Character Bernie Rhodenbarr and Matt Scudder Dave Robicheaux Philip Marlow Mongo Myron Boliter Dan Fortune Harry Bosch Elvis Cole Patrick Kenzie Sherlock Holmes Lewis Cole Amos Walker Robert Payne Thorn Sam Spade Johnny Havoc Travis McGee Lew Archer Matthew Hope Fletch Spenser Alex Cross Derek Strange Nameless Detective Edward Delancey X Jack Liffey Joe Kurtz Moses Wine Wesley Farrell Mike Hammer Nero Wolfe |
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Title All Over but the Shouting Bird-Seed Cookies: A Fractured Memoir Cheaper by the Dozen Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America |
Author Bragg, Rick Jaquith, Janis Gilbreth, Frank Dumas, Firoozeh |
| Girl Named Zippy | Kimmel, Haven |
| In the Kingdom of the Fairies: A Memoir of a Magicla Summer and a Remarkable Friendship |
Coyne, Susan |
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Monsoon Diary: a Memoir with Recipes Stuff of Life: A Daughter's Memoir Two Under the Indian Sun Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood |
Narayan, Shoba Karbo, Karen Godden, John and Godden, Rumer Sacks, Oliver |
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Angela's Ashes The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams Dress Codes; Of Three Girlhoods - My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine |
McCourt, Frank Nasdijj Cohen, Noelle |
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Finding Fish The House on Beartown Road: A Memoir of Learning and Forgetting |
Fisher, Antwone Quenton Cohen, Elizabeth |
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On Gold Mountain: the 100-Year Odyssey of a Chinese-American Family |
See, Lisa |
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Rain of Gold |
Villasenor, Victor |
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Riding the White Horse Home: A Weester Family Album |
Jordan, Teresa |
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Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood |
Gregory, Julie |
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Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family |
Kessler, Lauren |
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What Becomes of the Brokenhearted Wild Swans: Three Daughter of China |
Harris, E Lynne Chang, Jung |
Mysteries with a Historical Setting |
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Davis, Lindsey Doherty, P.C. Knight, Alanna Kruger, Mary Lovesey, Peter Newman, Sharan Sedley, Kate Perry, Anne Peters, Ellis Robb, Candace Robinson, Lynda, S. Saylor, Steven Tremayne, Peter |
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Ancient Rome Medieval England Victorian Scotland Nineteenth-century Rhode Island Victorian England Medieval France Medievel England Victorian England Medieval England Medieval England Ancient Egypt Ancient Rome Seventh-century Ireland |
| Authors Peter Bowen Margaret Coel Jean Hager Tony Hillerman John Miles Louis Owens A. and D. Thurlo William Sanders |
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Non-Fiction that Reads like Fiction (Great True Stories!) Abagnale, Frank Alexander, Caroline Ambrose, Stephen Angelou, Maya Ashworth, William Berendt, John Bowden, Mark Brock, Pope Bryson, Bill Bugliosi, Vincent Capote, Truman Donofrio, Beverly Gantos, Jack Godden, Rumer and Jon Hillendbrand, Laura Jiang, Ji-Li Johnson, Lovanne Junger, Sebastian Kaysen, Susanna Kidder, Tracy Kirkpatrick, Sidney Krakauer, John McCourt, Frank Mowat, Farley Pelzer, David Sacks Oliver Stewart, Elinore Pruitt Theroux, Paul Villasenor, Victor Wiesel, Elie Wolff, Tobias |
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The Quilt Alice's Tulips Irish Chain Buried in Quilts Death on the Drunkard's Path: an Iris House Mystery Stitches in Time How to Make an American Quilt The Pattern Stigmata The Healing Quilt: a novel Twelve Golden Threads: Lessons for Successful Living from Grama's Quilt |
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Bunn, T. Davis Dallas, Sandra Fowler, Earlene Fromme, Sara Hoskinson Hager, Jean Michaels, Barbara Otto, Whitney Peart, Jane Perry, Phyllis Snelling,Lauraine Webb, Aliske |
These authors write good books without scenes containing explicit language, sex, or violence |
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Alcott, Louisa May Christie, Agatha Delderfield, R.F. Hassler, Jon Karon, Jan Lewis, C.S. Montgomery, Lucy Maud Pilcher, Rosamunde Shute, Nevil Wodehouse, P.G. |
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American Historical Fiction Mysteries Family Sagas Small Town Stories Small Town and Light Romance Fantasy Girlhood Adventure and Light Romance Family Sagas Adventure Humor |
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Boldt, Lana Mcgraw Cartland, Barbara Chesney, Marion Cookson, Catherine Dailey, Janet Darcy, Claire Godden, Rumer Goudge, Elizabeth Heyer, Georgette Holt, Victoria Holland, Isabelle Lofts, Nora Plaidy, Jean Siddons, Anne Rivers Stewart, Mary Veryan, Patricia Whitney, Phyllis |
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Bartlett, Stephani Blake, Jennifer Brandewyne, Rebecca Coulter, Catherine Deverauz, Jude Garlock, Dorothy Garwood, Julie Henley, Virginia Lowell, Elizabeth Medeiros, Teresa Micheaels, Fern McNaught, Judith Quick, Amanda Rogers, Rosemary Robards, Karen Small, Bertrice Spencer, LyVyrle Taylor, Janelle Woodiwiss, Kathlenn |
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Archer, Jeffrey Clancy, Tom |
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Honor Among Thieves Without Remorse |
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Conrad, Joseph Coonts, Stephen |
The Secret Agent
The Red Horseman |
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Countess of Romanones |
The Spy Wore Red The Spy Wore Silk |
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Cross, Amanda Cussler, Clive Deighton, Len Egleton, Clive Fleming, Ian Forsyth, Frederick Gardener, John E. Gillman, Dorothy Griffin, W.E.B. |
An Imperfect Spy
Golden Buddha Any Any Any Any Any Any Soldier Spies |
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Ignatius David |
Bank of Fear Firing Offence |
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Le Carre, John |
Tinker, Tailer, Soldier, Spy The Spy Who Came in from the Cold A Perfect Spy |
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Ludlum, Robert Truman, Margaret |
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Murder in the CIA |
| A Heart Full of Lies Last Dance, Last Chance Empty Promises Every Breath You Take The End of the Dream And Never Let Her Go A Rage to a Kill In the Name of Love Bitter Harvest Dead by Sunset |
A Fever in the Heart A Rose for Her Grave You Belong to Me Everything She Ever Wanted If You Really Love Me The Stranger Beside Me Lust Killer Want-Ad Killer Small Sacrifices The I-5 Killer |
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| The Cases that Haunt Us: From Jack the Ripper to JonBenet Ramsey | Douglas, John E. |
| Dead Ends: The Pursuit, Conviction and Execution of Female Serial Killer Aileen Wuornos | Reynolds, Michael |
| Gary Ridgway: the Green River Killer
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Family In Cold Blood Jeffrey Dahmer Story Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders No Kill, No Thrill: The Shocking True Story of Charles Ng |
Staff of the King County Journal Bugliosi, Vincent Capote, Truman Davis, Don Sullivan, Terry Owen, Greg |
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The Onion Field Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenet and the City of Boulder |
Wambaugh, Joseph Schiller, Lawrence |
| Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed | Cornwell, Patricia |
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Coldsmith, Don Compton, Ralph/Cotton, Ralph Estleman, Loren D. Farrell, Cliff Grey, Zane Grove, Fred Haycox, Ernest Jones, Douglas Judd, Cameron Kelton, Elmer L'Amour, Louis Logan, Jake Lutz, Giles A. McCarthy, Gary McMurtry, Larry Nye, Nelson Overholser, Stephen Paine, Lauran Patten, Lewis B. Pronzini, Bill Reese, John Henry Roderus, Frank Short, Luke |
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Albert, Susan Wittig Atherton, Nancy Barr, Nevada Beaton, M.C. Berenson, Laurien Balck, Veronica Christie, Agatha Cornwell, Patricia Cross, Amanda Davidson, Diana Mott Douglas, Carole N. Evanovich, Janet Grafton, Sue Hart, Carolyn G. Hess, Joan Macleod, Charlotte McCrumb, Sharyn McKevett, G. A. Muller, Marcia Myers, Tamar O'Donnell, Lillian O'Marie, Carol Anne Paretsky, Sara Perry, Anne Peters, Elizabeth Reichs, Kathy Roberts, Gillian Staenow, Dana Trocheck, Kathy |
Character China Bayles Aunt Dimity Anna Pigeon Agatha Raisin Melanie Travis Sister Joan Miss Jane Marple Kay Scarpetta Kate Fansler Goldy Bear Temple Barr Stephanie Plum Kinsey Millhone Annie Laurance Darling Claire Malloy Sarah Kelling Elizabeth MacPherson Savannah Reid Sharon McCone Magdalena Yoder Norah Mulcahaney Sister Mary Helen V.I. Warshawski Charlotte Pitt Amelia Peabody Temperance Brennan Amanda Pepper Kate Shugak Callahan Garrity |