Lady with a Black Umbrella --- Mary Balogh

Drippy the Runaway Raindrop - Sidney Sheldon

(you couldn't make it up!)

The Runaway Beignet - Connie Morgan

Vee.....looks more like a grape than a raindrop !

Survival of the Fritters - Ginger Bolton

(yoyo have never heard of beignets so had to look them up, this is the nearest I could find)

Still Life With Breadcrumbs.......Anna Quindlen

The Adventures of Arnie the Doughnut - Laurie Keller

Evil Éclairs -- Jessica Beck

Éclair and Present Danger --- Laura Bradford

Decoding Doughnuts - Bobby Flatt

( Vee.....beignets are French doughnuts without the hole ! )

The Hole Story of the Doughnut -- Pat Miller

Doughnuts and Deception, Agatha Frost

Naughty But Nice: Old Fashioned Comfort Food - M Van Rensburs

Brownies & Betrayal - Heather Justesen

A Case of Duplicity in Dorset...........Clara Benson

Deception in the Cotwwolds -- Rebecca Tope

Deceiver ... C.J. Cherryh

Pants On Fire - Clayton Smith

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - Anne Brashares

Sister Light, Sister Dark -- Jane Yolen

The Sisters Brothers -- Patrick deWitt

All In The Family -- Steven Otfinoski

All of a Kind Family ... Sydney Taylor

The Two-family House -- Lynda Cohen Loigman

Crowded Rooms - Michael Nalbach

Too Many Cooks -- Rex Stout

Davy Jones's Yarns & Other Salty Soups - Thomas Ybarra

Home is the Sailor..........Rumer Godden

Home Comforts - The Art and Science of Keeping House - Cheryl Mendelson

A Dancer in the Dust -- Thomas H. Cook

Dust, Martha Grimes

The Book of Household Management - Isabella Beeton

Make Your Bed - William McRaven

Mrs. Jeffries Sweeps the Chimney -- Emily Brightwell

The Waterbabies - Charles Kingsley

(about Tom the sweep's boy who goes to a 'better place' after being suffocated in a flue . . . with some good Victorian moralising)

Something in the Water, Catherine Steadman

Death of a Chimney Sweep......M. C. Beaton

What A Way To Go - Geoffrey Abbott

A Long Way to Heaven - Sheelagh Kelly

( will the person who starts the December thread please put the C at the beginning of the number . . . I foolishly left it off for November! As my late father used to say"There's no fool like an old fool")

Are We There Yet? -- David Levithan

(Being lazy again - not googling - can someone translate CXL for me? I have trouble with big Roman-numeral numbers.)

Where the Lost Aprils Are - Elisabeth Ogilvie

Missing May - Cynthia Rylant

June in her Spring - Colin MacInnes

(Kathy CXL = one hundred and forty.

C = 100 and the X before the L is 10 less than 50

and you know that X = 10 and L = 50)

Knee High by the Fourth of July -- Jess Lourey

(Vee - Thanks. I can't explain it, but Roman numerals seem to be my specific learning disability. That and logistics.)

The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman

See You In September - Debbie Zello

The October Country ... Ray Bradbury

Turkey Day Murder - Leslie Meier

The Twelve Months -- Harriet Beecher Stowe

A Year and a Day............Virginia Henley

Happy New Year Around The World - Sylvia Walker