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"As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck,...
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Thorndike Press
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2016.
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Large print edition.
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563 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
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English
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"They said it was a tragic accident. She knows better ... The brilliant young painter Marianne Glass is found dead in her snow-covered garden. Rowan Winter, once her closest friend, knows it wasn't an accident. Marianne had vertigo, paralysing vertigo. She never would have gone that close to the edge ..."--Amazon.com.
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In 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes from her family's vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. Her disappearance destroys the family--her father commits suicide, and her mother and two older sisters spend the rest of their lives at the lake house, keeping a decades-long vigil for the lost child. Sixty years later, Lucy, the quiet and watchful middle sister, lives in the lake house alone. Before her death, she writes the story of that devastating...
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Distancing herself from her brutally unhealthy family to the point that she lies about her identity to her partner, Josie is forced to confront the past and her own choices when an investigative reporter's mega-hit podcast reopens Josie's father's murder case.
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[2017]
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"Was the world's wealthiest woman--Liliane Bettencourt--heir to an estimated thirty-six-billion-dollar L'Oreal fortune, the victim of a con man? Or were her own family the real villains? This riveting narrative tells the real-life, shocking story behind the cause celebre that has captivated both France and the world. Liliane Bettencourt is the world's richest woman and the eleventh wealthiest person on the planet, as of 2016. But at ninety-four, she's...
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In Dear Fahrenheit 451 , librarian Annie Spence has crafted love letters and breakup notes to the iconic and eclectic books she has encountered over the years. From breaking up with The Giving Tree (a dysfunctional relationship book if ever there was one), to her love letter to The Time Traveler's Wife (a novel less about time travel and more about the life of a marriage, with all of its ups and downs), Spence will make you think of old favorites...
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Pet sitter Daphne Templeton has a soft spot for every stray and misfit who wanders into the quaint, lakeside village of Sylvan Creek. But even Daphne doesn't like arrogant, womanizing Steve Beamus, the controversial owner of Blue Ribbon K-9 Academy. When Steve turns up dead during a dog agility trial, Daphne can think of a long list of people with motives for homicide, and so can the police. Unfortunately, at the top of the list is Daphne's sister,...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
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Large Print edition.
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585 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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Mia Haas has built a life far from the North Dakota town where she grew up. Then she receives word that her twin brother is missing, and is forced to return home. Once the golden boy of their town, now a popular high school teacher, Lucas Haas disappeared the day the body of one of his students was pulled from the river. Trying to wrap her head around the rumors of his affair with the teen and the media's portrayal of him as a murderer, Mia is desperate...
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"The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingale continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to choose between marriage or life in a convent and instead flees her home--but soon finds herself called upon to help defend the city of Moscow when it comes under siege"--
Vasilisa's gift for seeing what others do not won her the attention of Morozko-- Frost, the winter demon. But Frost's aid comes at a cost, and her people have condemned...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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Large Print edition.
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591 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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First we live. Then we die. And then ... we get another try? Ten thousand tries, to be exact. Ten thousand lives to (3zsget it right.(3y sAnswer all the Big Questions. Achieve Wisdom. And Become One with Everything. Milo has had 9,995 chances so far and has just five more lives to earn a place in the cosmic soul. If he doesn't make the cut, oblivion awaits. But all Milo really wants is to fall forever into the arms of Death. Or Suzie, as he calls...
11) Swiss vendetta
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
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Large print edition.
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487 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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Inspector Agnes Luthi, a recently widowed Swiss-American police officer in Lausanne, Switzerland, investigates her very first homicide case in Tracee de Hahn's mesmerizing debut. Swiss Vendetta is an emotionally complex, brilliantly plotted mystery set against the beautiful but harsh backdrop of a Swiss winter.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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Large print edition.
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331 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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This depicts the men of Alpha Company. They battle the enemy (or maybe more the idea of the enemy), and occasionally each other. In their relationships we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear. They miss their families, their girlfriends and buddies; they miss the lives they left back home. Yet they find sympathy and kindness for strangers (the old man who leads them unscathed through the mine field, the girl who grieves while she...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
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Large print edition.
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609 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around the world...
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2017.
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A riveting and unexpected novel that questions whether a peaceful and nonviolent community can survive when civilization falls apart. When a catastrophic solar storm brings about the collapse of modern civilization, an Amish community in Pennsylvania is caught up in the devastating aftermath. Once-bright skies are now dark. Planes have plummeted to the ground. The systems of modern life have crumbled. With their stocked larders and stores of supplies,...
15) White fur
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
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Large print edition.
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513 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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When Elise Perez meets Jamey Hyde on a desolate winter afternoon, fate implodes, and neither of their lives will ever be the same. Although they are next-door neighbors in New Haven, they come from different worlds. White Fur follows them as they wander through Newport mansions and East Village dives, WASP yacht clubs and lower Manhattan, fighting the forces determined to keep them apart.
16) The balcony
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
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291 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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"Set in a small village near Paris, The Balcony follows the inhabitants of an estate over the course of several generations from the Belle Epoque to the present day. We are introduced to a fascinating cast of characters. Rich and poor, young and old, powerful and persecuted, they all seek something: meaning, love, a new beginning, or merely survival. Throughout, cross-generational connections and troubled legacies haunt the same spaces, so that...
17) Beyond the pale
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
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501 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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"It's an easy, twenty-minute job. At least, that's the pitch from Interpol to professors Hollis and Finn Larsson. Going undercover to procure a priceless rare book manuscript means an all-expenses paid trip abroad. A little danger thrown into the mix may even spice up their marriage. Soon after landing in the Emerald Isle, they realize the job is anything but easy. Their contact is a no-show and they're left with fifty thousand euros, a death threat,...
18) Brass
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
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Large print edition.
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443 pages ; 23 cm
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A waitress at the Betsy Ross Diner in Waterbury, Connecticut, Elsie hopes her nickel-and-dime tips will add up to a new life. Then she meets Bashkim, who is at once both worldly and naive, a married man who left Albania to chase his dreams-- and wound up working as a line cook in Waterbury, Connecticut. When Elsie she learns that she's pregnant, she wonders what he'll do about the wife he left behind. Seventeen years later, headstrong and independent...
19) The broken girls
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"Vermont, 1950. There's a place for the girls whom no one wants--the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the too smart for their own good. It's called Idlewild Hall. And in the small town where it's located, there are rumors that the boarding school is haunted. Four roommates bond over their whispered fears, their budding friendship blossoming--until one of them mysteriously disappears... Vermont, 2014. As much as she's tried, journalist Fiona Sheridan...
20) Carousel Beach
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
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Large print edition.
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439 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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"A cryptic letter on her grandmother's grave and a mysterious inscription on a carousel horse leads artist Maya Brice to Hank Hauser, the ninety-year-old carver of the beloved carousel she has been hired to restore in time for its Fourth of July reopening in her Delaware beach town. Hank suffers from Alzheimer's, but on his 'better' days, Maya is enthralled by the stories of his career. On his 'off' days, he mistakes her for her grandmother--his secret...