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141) The wedding dress
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
339 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
142) Web of destiny
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
457 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
143) A crimson frost
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
479 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Beloved of her father, King Dacian, and adored by her people, the Scarlet Princess Monet endeavored to serve her kingdom well - for the people of the Kingdom of Karvana were good and worthy of service. Long Monet had known that even her marriage would serve her people. Her husband would be chosen for her, for this was the way of royal existence. Still, as any woman does - peasant or princess - Monet dreamt of owning true love - of owning choice in...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"The author of the New York Times bestseller Garden of Lies returns to Victorian London in an all-new novel of deadly obsession. Calista Langley operates an exclusive "introduction" agency in Victorian London, catering to respectable ladies and gentlemen who find themselves alone in the world. But now, a dangerously obsessed individual has begun sending her trinkets and gifts suitable only for those in deepest mourning--a black mirror, a funeral...
145) Eagle & crane
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English
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"Louis Thorn and Haruto 'Harry' Yamada--the Eagle and the Crane--are the star attractions of Earl Shaw's Flying Circus, a daredevil (and not exactly legal) flying act that traverses Depression-era California. The young men have a complicated relationship, thanks to the Thorn family's belief that the Yamadas--Japanese immigrants--stole land that should have stayed in the Thorn family. When Louis and Harry become aerial stuntmen, performing death-defying...
146) Triple jeopardy
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Series
Language
English
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"Young lawyer Daniel Pitt must defend a British diplomat who's accused of a theft that may hide a deadly crime in this compelling novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Twenty-one Days. Daniel Pitt, along with his parents, Charlotte and Thomas, is delighted that his sister Jemima has returned to London from the States for a visit. But it's not on the happiest of terms, since a violent theft just before her departure has left Jemima's...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
415 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A widow, a poet, and a doctor seek redemption and a new start through friendship and literature in post-World War II seaside Australia, only to confront misunderstandings that compromise their healing.
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Language
English
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Description
"The grand saga of an American ranching family continues in The Last Ranch, the final, mesmerizing book of New York Times bestseller Michael McGarrity's gripping and richly authentic Kerney family trilogy. When Matthew Kerney returns to his ranch in the beautiful San Andres Mountains after serving in Sicily during World War II, he must not only fight to recover physically and emotionally from a devastating war injury, but he must also battle attempts...
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Series
[Found things] volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"The second novel in a bewitching series "brimming with charm and charisma" that will make "fans of Outlander rejoice!" (Woman's World Magazine) New York Times bestselling author Paula Brackston's The Little Shop of Found Things was called "a page-turner that will no doubt leave readers eager for future series installments" (Publishers Weekly). Now, Brackston returns to the Found Things series with its sequel, Secrets of the Chocolate House. After...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
In November 1382, the month of the dead, Abbess Hildegard rides out for York from the Abbey of Meaux. This is no ordinary journey--it is a time of rival popes, a boy king, and a shaky peace in the savage aftermath of Wat Tyler's murder--and Hildegard has embarked on a perilous mission to try to secure the future of her priory.
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Series
Molly Murphy volume 6
Language
English
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Description
Searching for the long-lost sister of an Irish-American impresario, P.I. Molly Murphy leaves turn-of-the-century New York to head back to her native Ireland, only to be confronted by the murder of her maid and the disappearance of a famed Irish actress.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"For fans of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir, bestselling author C. W. Gortner effortlessly weaves history and drama in this captivating novel about one of the world's most notorious families. Glamorous and predatory, the Borgias fascinated and terrorized fifteenth-century Renaissance Italy, and Lucrezia Borgia, beloved daughter of the pope, was at the center of the dynasty's ambitions. Slandered as a heartless seductress who lured men to their doom,...
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Series
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English
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"United in sisterhood by birth and marriage, Katherine of Aragon, Queen of England; Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots; and Mary Tudor, Queen of France immediately recognize each other as both allies and rivals in the treacherous world of court and national politics. Their bonds extend beyond natural and expeditious loyalties, as romance, scandal, war, and religion inextricably unite these three for better or for worse"-- Adapted from Booklist.
157) The family orchard
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
499 p. (large print) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Six generations of love affairs, legends and family secrets in a magical tale of Jewish life that sweeps exuberantly through the years from 1838 to the present.
158) Better dead
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
553 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's the early 1950's. Chicago detective Nate Heller is doing legwork for Joe McCarthy, though he's disheartened by the senator's witch-hunting anti-communist tactics. When Dashiell Hammett comes to him representing a group of showbiz and literary leftists trying to save Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Heller decides to take on the case.
159) Notorious
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
597 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
160) The arrangement
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Language
English
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A story inspired by the real-world love triangle between M.F.K. Fisher, her husband, and her lover depicts food writer Mary Frances in 1934 Los Angeles, whose articles become metaphorical for her hunger for passionate fulfillment in a marriage that is no longer intimate or creative.