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Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
With Prince Albert dying of typhoid, Queen Victoria summons Irish barrister Patrick Fitzgerald to Windsor, a request that results in his beautiful ward narrowly escaping a murder attempt and leads him to believe that dark secrets threaten the queen's troubled court.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
539 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's London, 1857, and everything is at stake for Serafina Trent, a woman of means, but not the typical Victorian lady who feels her place is to be seen and not heard. Wealthy widow of a nobleman and daughter of a famous scientist, she's a skeptic who only trusts what can be proven. When her brother's most recent female dalliance, a beautiful actress, is found murdered, all evidence points to him. Especially since the actress had just rejected him...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Ten thousand feet in the sky, aviatrixes from London to Paris to New York fueled by determination and courage have their eyes on the century s biggest prize. The year is 1927, and Amelia Earhart has not yet made her record-breaking cross-Atlantic flight. Who will follow in Charles Lindbergh s footsteps and make her own history? Three women s names are splashed daily across the front page: Elsie Mackay, daughter of an Earl, is the first Englishwoman...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
581 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Four artistic sisters on the outskirts of Gilded Age New York high society are swept up by the eldest sister's heartbroken efforts to achieve literary success against a backdrop of two suitors from very different walks of life.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir takes on what no fiction writer has done before: creating a dramatic six-book series in which each novel covers one of King Henry VIII's wives. In this captivating opening volume, Weirbrings to life the tumultuous tale of Katherine of Aragon, Henry's first, devoted, and "true" queen. A princess of Spain, Catalina is only sixteen years old when she sets foot on the shores of England. The youngest...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"The best-selling author of Girl Waits with Gun returns with another adventure featuring the fascinating, feisty, and unforgettable Kopp sisters. After besting (and arresting) a ruthless silk factory owner and his gang of thugs in Girl Waits with Gun, Constance Kopp became one of the nation's first deputy sheriffs. She's proven that she can't be deterred, evaded, or outrun. But when the wiles of a German-speaking con man threaten her position and...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
483 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A historical murder mystery adventure that stretches from Classical Athens to Egypt in the footsteps of the first historian, Herodotus Nicolaos, the only private investigator in ancient Athens, discovers that helping an author with his book research can be very dangerous. The would-be author Herodotus has hired Nico and his priestess wife, Diotima, to accompany him to Egypt to research that ancient country's history. Unfortunately, Egypt happens to...
12) The evening road
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
347 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Meet Ottie Lee Henshaw, a startling, challenging beauty in small-town Indiana. Quick of mind, she navigates a stifling marriage, a lecherous boss, and -- on one day in the summer of 1930 -- an odyssey across the countryside to witness a dark and fearful celebration. Meet Calla Destry, a determined young woman desperate to escape the violence of her town and to find the lover who has promised her a new life. On this day, the countryside of Jim Crow-era...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
545 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Set in Kenya in the 1950s against the fading backdrop of the British Empire, a story of self-discovery, betrayal, and an impossible love. After six years in England, Rachel has returned to Kenya and the farm where she spent her childhood, but the beloved home she'd longed for is much changed. Her father's new companion, a strange, intolerant woman, has taken over the household. The political climate in the country grows more unsettled by the day and...