Painting and Decorating Furniture by Sheila McGraw, ISBN 1552091376
Burn Marks by Sara Paretsky, ISBN 0440208459
Someone knocking on the door at 3 A.M. is never good news. For V.I. Warshawski, the bad news arrives in the form of her wacky, unwelcome aunt Elena. The fire that has just burned down a sleazy SRO hotel has brought Elena to V.I.'s doorstep. Uncovering an arsonist -- and the secrets hidden behind Elena's boozy smile -- will send V.I. into the seedy world of Chicago's homeless... into the Windy City's backroom deals and bedroom politics, where new schemers and old cronies team up to get V.I. off the case -- by hook, by crook, or by homocide.
Burn Marks by Sara Paretsky, ISBN 0440208459 
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Murder in the Lincoln Bedroom by Elliott Roosevelt, ISBN 0312979193
In 1943, FDR, Winston Churchill, and Dwight Eisenhower attend a highly classified meeting on the eve of the Trident Conference. When a body is discovered in the Lincoln Bedroom, Eleanor Roosevelt knows to keep the murder a secret from the press and foreign agents she must solve it herself. The First Lady learns the victim was part of a plot to assassinate the President, so she embarks on a daring plan to trap the assassin--using FDR as bait. Martin's Press.
Murder in the Lincoln Bedroom by Elliott Roosevelt, ISBN 0312979193
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Plainsong by Kent Karuf, ISBN 0694522880
"With Plainsong, [Kent Haruf] has conjured up an entire community, and ineluctably immersed the reader in its dramas. He has written a compelling and compassionate novel." - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Haruf's unforgettable tale is both emotionally complex and elemental, following, as it so gracefully does, the cycle of life, death, and rebirth." -BooklistNominated for the National Book Award, Kent Haruf's Plainsong, Unabridged on audio
A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver.
In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl - her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house - is pregnant with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known.
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Plainsong by Kent Karuf, ISBN 0694522880
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