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81) Come sunday
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
547 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Abbe Deighton is a woman who has lost her bearings. Once a child of the African plains, she is now settled in Hawaii, married to a minister, and waging her battles in a hallway of monotony. There are the chafing expectations of her husband's congregation, the constant demands of motherhood, and the leaky roof. But in an instant beginning with the skid of tires, Abbe's battlefield is transformed when her three-year-old daughter is killed, triggering...
83) Deadlock
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
Dedicating her life to save priceless artifacts from being destroyed by war, Emily Hudson is captured and tormented by a sadistic adversary, and the CIA calls on mercenary John Garrett for help in Emily's rescue.
84) Execution dock
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
When a thirteen-year-old boy is found floating in the river Thames with his throat slit, William Monk, superintendent of the Thames River Police, pursues a child pornographer who runs a sex ring using small boys. Monk's wife Hester and several memorable characters from Dark Assassin return in this richly complex story.
85) Fired up
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Series
Language
English
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Jack Winters has been experiencing nightmares and blackouts, manifestations of the Winters family curse. The legend says he must find the Burning Lamp or risk turning into a monster. He needs the help of a woman who can read the lamp's dreamight, and is convinced that private investigator Chloe Harper will save him.
86) Hardball
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
When V.I. Warshawski is asked to find a man who's been missing for four decades, the search becomes lethal. Afraid to learn that her adored father might have been a bent cop working for the Chicago P.D., V.I. takes the investigation all the way to its frightening end.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
417 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The highly sensual, breathtakingly original, and wickedly fun novels of Rita Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Boyle. With How I Met My Countess, Boyle-winner of a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award in Innovative Historical Romance-begins a fabulous new mini-series, The Widows of Standon, featuring three delightfully endearing young widows, each at one point married to the heir of the Hollindrake dukedom, and their unforgettable,...
88) Ice: a novel
Author
Language
English
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Description
Gabriel McQueen reluctantly agrees to a request from his father, the local sheriff, to check up on Lolly Helton, a distant neighbor, as a dangerous ice storm moves into the area, and discovers Lolly being held captive in her home by armed men. .
90) KnockOut
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Traveling with her mother to Georgia in the aftermath of her father's death, seven-year-old telepath Autumn Backman discovers her own family's murderous activities, desperately contacts FBI agent Dillon Savich, and promptly disappears.
91) Little bee
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
449 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
92) The little book
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
697 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
94) Paths of glory
Author
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of the life of teacher George Mallory follows his brilliant education, service in World War I, and his fatal attempt to summit Mount Everest in 1924.
95) The renegades
Author
Language
English
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Description
Patrolling a section of the American West that he finds just as untamed as those depicted in early pulp novels, Charlie Hood is assigned to partner with a popular county veteran whose subsequent murder reveals sinister truths behind the man's stellar reputation.
97) Smash cut
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hired by a woman who believes that the accidental shooting of a friend was actually orchestrated by the victim's depraved nephew, defense lawyer Derek Mitchell comes to realize that the nephew is a psychotic movie buff who enjoys acting out violent film plots.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
567 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a night of drunken revelry, Jasper Finley, Baron Montford, gambles his reputation as London's most notorious lover on his ability to seduce the virtuous Katherine Huxtable. For Katherine, Jasper's offer is irresistible: to make London's most dangerous rake fall in love with her. Then Jasper suddenly ups the ante by asking her to become his wife.