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162) A novel way to die
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
383 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
163) Raymie nightingale
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant her father will come home, Raymie practices twirling a baton and performing good deeds as she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a drama queen and a saboteur.
164) Nervous water
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boston attorney Brady Coyne comes face to face with his past when he agrees to assist an aged relative with a sensitive family matter, embarking on a quest to find the man's missing daughter.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Leaving fans "practically [begging] for a sequel" (Bookpage), critically acclaimed author Kristy Woodson Harvey returns with the second novel in her beloved Peachtree Bluff series, featuring a trio of sisters and their mother who discover a truth that will change not only the way they see themselves, but also how they fit together as a family. After finding out her military husband is missing in action, middle sister Sloane's world crumbles as her...
166) Ruler of the night
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Opium addict Thomas De Quincey and his irrepressible daughter Emily investigate the strangling of a lawyer in what is the first murder on an English train, and they uncover a dangerous secret that reaches the highest levels of British society.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
517 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Written by Deborah Ziegler, the mother of Brittany Maynard?a twenty-nine-year-old woman with a terminal brain tumor?this touching and beautiful memoir captures and celebrates her daughter?s spirit and the mostly untold story of Brittany's last year of life as she chose her right to die with dignity, a journey that inspired millions."--Amazon.com
168) Glory Road
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A decade after her husband's affair drove her home to Perry, Alabama, Jessie McBride has the life she wants: operating her garden shop, Twig, next door to her house on Glory Road, and keeping up with her daughter and mother. When businessman Sumner Tate asks her to arrange flowers for his daughter's wedding, Jessie finds herself drawn to him. Then Ben Bradley, her what-could-have-been from high school, moves back to the red dirt road. Meanwhile her...
169) The empty nesters
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dear friends and army wives Diana, Carmen, and Joanie have been through war, rumors of war, marital problems, motherhood, fears, joy, and heartache. But none of the women are prepared when their daughters decide to enlist in the army together. Facing an empty nest won't be easy ... With nothing to lose and no one at home, the girlfriends impulsively accept an unexpected offer from their elderly neighbor. The recently widowed Tootsie has an RV, a...
170) That summer
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition, Large print edition.
Physical Desc
575 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Daisy Shoemaker can't sleep. With a thriving cooking business, full schedule of volunteer work, and a beautiful home in the Philadelphia suburbs, she should be content ... While [she] tries to identify the root of her dissatisfaction, she's also receiving misdirected emails meant for a woman named Diana Starling, whose email address is just one punctuation mark away from her own ... Diana's glamorous, sophisticated, single-lady life is miles away...
171) Villa incognito
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Harper Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
433 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters' ambitions for their own lives-set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San Francisco. At home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The Salvations. Ruth, Esther, and Chloe have been singing and dancing in harmony since they could speak. Thanks to the rigorous direction of their mother, Vivian, they've become a bona fide...
173) The sunflower girl
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
533 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
For Signora Maria Ferraro, the sunflowers in the fields around Tuscany in summer carry bitter memories. Not even her cherished daughter, Anabella, knows what happened to her during World War II, when the Germans overran Florence. In the aftermath of loss and grief she found salvation through cultivating roses on her farm. Now the blossoms symbolize everything that is good and safe, and she nurtures them with as much care as she guards her past. Yet...
174) The color of fear
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
A knock on the door in the middle of the night. It can only be bad news, and it is: Sharon's father Elwood has been the victim of a vicious, racially-motivated attack. A nationally recognized Shoshone Indian artist, he'd been visiting Sharon for the holidays, browsing for gifts in San Francisco's exclusive Marina district when he was set upon by a mob of angry young men. Now, Elwood lies in a coma, hovering between life and death. With little progress...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
419 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Full of lighthearted humor, sumptuous food, the wisdom of an Italian mother-in-law, and all the atmosphere of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, this warm and witty memoir follows American-born Katherine Wilson on a three-month rite of passage in the boisterous Mediterranean city of Naples.
176) Ice
Author
Series
Shooting stars volume 2
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
187 pages (large print) ; 25 cm.
Language
English