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101) A justified murder
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
479 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a longtime resident is found murdered by three possible methods, unlikely friends Sara, Kate, and Jack assist the authorities, only to discover unexpected realities about the victim's true nature.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
489 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Sorrows of an American is a soaring feat of storytelling about the immigrant experience and the ghosts that haunt families from one generation to another
When Erik Davidsen and his sister, Inga, find a disturbing note from an unknown woman among their dead father's papers, they believe he may be implicated in a mysterious death. Siri Hustvedt's The Sorrows of an American tells the story of the Davidsen family as brother and sister uncover its...
103) Murder, she knit
Author
Series
Knit and Nibble mystery volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
377 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pamela is hosting the next Knit and Nibble meeting and can't wait to liven up her otherwise empty home with colorful yarn, baking, and a little harmless gossip. She even recruits Amy Morgan, an old friend who recently moved to town, as the group's newest member. But on the night of the gathering, Amy doesn't show. Not until Pamela finds the woman dead outside--a knitting needle stabbed through the front of her handmade sweater. Someone committed...
Author
Publisher
FaithWords
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 302 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"How are you living your life? Did you get up this morning expecting to do something important, or did you wake up weary, worried, and frustrated? In her latest book, Exceptional You!, Victoria Osteen declares that God doesn't want you to drag through the day and avoid life's challenges. If you arm yourself with the knowledge that God is on your side, He will give you the ideas, the words, and the energy you need to make each day exceptional. Through...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this bold, confident debut, Davidson takes the vampire myth to 1980s West Texas, perfectly capturing the feel of the era and place. Travis Stillwell is hardly a good man; he's strangled multiple women with his belt. But when a vampire named Rue turns him and strands him in a motel parking lot, he resists killing the model's widowed owner, Annabelle, or her young son, Sandy. This frustrates Rue, who has wandered for decades before finding someone...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
A New York Times Bestselling Author Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world.Hetty "Handful" Grimke, an urban slave in early 19th century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls of the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke's daughter, Sarah, who has always known she is meant to do something large...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
427 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Smoke Jensen has journeyed up to the Colorado Rockies to sell a prized bull to a local rancher. Instead, the rancher and his wife have been mercilessly slaughtered by outlaws only moments before Smoke's arrival.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
559 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Years ago, the man who stole Catherine Winthrop's heart rejected her -- and she's never recovered from the grief. Now tragedy has brought him back into her life. This time it isn't her heart he's taking, it's her home and her family's good name. Jonathan Carlew's serious demeanor and connection to trade, not to mention the rumors surrounding his birth, have kept him from being a favorite of the ladies, or their parents. Now, suddenly landed and titled,...
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First large print edition.
Physical Desc
xxix, 530 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Like millions of Americans, Mark Leibovich has spent more of his life tuned into pro football than he'd care to admit. Being a lifelong New England Patriots fan meant growing up on a steady diet of lovable loserdom. That is, until the Tom Brady/Bill Belichick era made the Pats the most ruthlessly efficient and polarizing sports dynasty of the modern NFL, and its fans the most irritating in all of Pigskin America. Leibovich kept his obsession quiet,...
111) 12th of never
Author
Series
Women's murder club volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
A week after giving birth, Lindsay Boxer is investigating two cases: a grisly murder where the main suspect is an NFL player and an eccentric professor who thinks his dreams of a murder are real. Will Detective Lindsay Boxer be pushed to breaking point? An eccentric professor walks into Lindsay's homicide department to report a murder that hasn't yet happened. A convicted serial killer wakes from a two-year coma. He says he's ready to tell where...
112) Killer heat
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
613 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The bodies of seven women have been discovered in Skull Valley, Arizona. Jonah Young, a private security operative from Department 6, has been hired by the Yavapai County sheriff to assist in solving these murders. But Jonah's not prepared for the complications that arise when he's forced to work with a woman from his past, private investigator Francesca Moretti.
Jonah betrayed Francesca ten years ago. She hasn't forgiven him and she's pretty sure...
113) Body heat
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
603 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve people have been shot at point-blank range and left to rot in the desert sun. It's Sophia St. Claire's job to do something about it. But Bordertown, Arizona's new chief of police is out of her depth. Help arrives in the form of Department 6 hired gun Roderick Guerrero. As far as Sophia's concerned, his involvement only makes things worse. Maybe he's managed to turn his life around. But he has a history he can't get past. A history that includes...
114) Salvation in death
Author
Language
English
Description
When a Catholic priest is fatally poisoned during a funeral mass, NYPD Detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas pursues an uneasy investigation involving a hidden religious medal, underlined Bible passages, and clues suggesting that the victim was not who he appeared to be.
115) Golden Girl
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Entering the afterlife due to a hit and run accident, a successful author learns she can observe the earthly lives of her nearly grown children and is also permitted three "nudges" to alter the outcome of events.
116) On the come up
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
613 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Bri hopes to become a great rapper, and after her first song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, must decide whether to sell out or face eviction with her widowed mother.
117) Promise not to tell
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Seattle gallery owner Virginia Troy has spent years battling the demons that stem from her childhood time in a cult and the night a fire burned through the compound, killing her mother. And now one of her artists has taken her own life, but not before sending Virginia a last picture: a painting that makes Virginia doubt everything about the so-called suicide-- and her own past. Like Virginia, private investigator Cabot Sutter was one of the children...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomson/Gale
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
465 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
From Craig Johnson, author of the acclaimed novel The Cold Dish (W1071), comes this enthralling Sheriff Walt Longmire mystery that received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. With a distinctive literary flair, Johnson leads us into the wide open space of Absaroka County, Wyoming. When an elderly local woman is found poisoned, Longmire begins an investigation that soon has him ensnared in a deadly spider's web.
119) Will
Author
Language
English
Description
A product of a profound journey of self-knowledge, and a reckoning with all that your will can get you and all that it can leave behind, in this memoir, one of the most dynamic and globally recognized entertainment forces of our time opens up fully about his life.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
535 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Duke of Preston has ruined more young ladies than can be tolerated by Society, which turns its collective back to him and his family. In order to regain their respectability, his aunt insists he takes a bride. What Preston never imagines is that he will fall in love with the most unlikely of ladies - Miss Tabitha Timmons, a vicar's daughter who is cursed in love and vows never to marry. Now it is up to the notorious duke to change her mind.