About: Barb
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- A primer on aging gracefully: The Loved and Envied by Enid Bagnold
- Exotic setting, mundane murders: Death in Cyprus by M.M. Kaye
- Lost fortunes, found friends: The Lark by E. Nesbit
- Looking for spring? Go south!
- Armed only (or mostly only) with a pen knife, secret agent Matt Helm brutally stars in The Removers by Donald Hamilton
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