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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
455 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Paen Scott is a Dark One: a vampire without a soul. And his mother is about to lose hers too if Paen can't repay a debt to a demon by finding a relic known as the Jilin God in five days. Half-elf Samantha Cosse may have gotten kicked out of the Order of Diviners, but she's still good at finding things, which is why she just opened her own private investigation agency. Paen is one of Sam's first clients and the only one to set her elf senses tingling,...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
347 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A neurotic young graduate student looking for distraction from her doomed thesis is inexplicably swept off her feet by a narcissistic philosophy professor. Former Saturday Night Live writer Patricia Marx brings us this addictively readable novel about one woman's comic obsession with her first boyfriend.
23) The hunters
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Acting on orders from the president, Charley Castillo and his team travel to Uruguay in pursuit of answers pertaining to missing oil-for-food scandal funds, only to witness the murder of the man they seek.
25) The jury master
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a courtroom, David Sloane can grab a jury and make it dance. He can read jurors' expressions, feel their emotions, know their thoughts. With this remarkable ability, Sloane gets juries to believe the unbelievable, excuse the inexcusable, and return the most astonishing verdicts.
The only barrier to Sloane's professional success is his conscience -- until he gets a call from a man later found dead, and his life rockets out of control.
26) Love walked in
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirty-one-year-old Philadelphia cafe manager Cornelia Brown, who harbors romantic notions about golden-age Hollywood film stars, embarks on a too-good-to-be-true relationship with the debonair Martin Grace.
28) Morrigan's cross
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the powerful vampire Lilith prepares to quench her thirst for destruction by unleashing her fury in battle, a medieval sorcerer, one of the circle of six charged by the goddess Morrigan, must travel through time to stop her.
29) The power broker
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
559 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
30) The saboteurs
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finds the Office of Strategic Services agents of "Wild Bill" Donovan fighting World War II's Battle of the Atlantic on two fronts, a situation that is compromised by possible sabotage.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
439 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Quirky and fun-loving American heiress Daisy Bowman is the last unmarried Wallflower. Her exasperated father has informed her that if she can't find a husband by the end of her third London season, she will be forced to marry a man she hates-the ruthless entrepreneur Matthew Swift. Daisy is horrified. A Bowman never admits defeat, so she decides to do whatever it takes to marry someone . . . anyone . . . other than Matthew. What she doesn't count...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
529 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brandon Vale is a career thief, the best there is. Of course, he is serving out a prison term for a robbery gone bad-albeit one that he didn't commit. But then he is broken out of prison against his will by Richard Scanlon, the former FBI agent who framed him in the first place. Scanlon, who still has ties to the U.S. intelligence community, has discovered that a Ukrainian crime organization is auctioning twelve nuclear warheads to the highest bidder,...
33) Snow blind
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the murdered bodies of two Minneapolis police officers are discovered in the aftermath of a snowman-building contest, detectives Magozzi and Rolseth become embroiled in an investigation that is complicated by an inexperienced sheriff.
34) Summer crossing
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
36) Triangle
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
381 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Esther Gottesfeld is the last living survivor of the notorious 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire and has told her story countless times in the span of her lifetime. Even so, her death at the age of 106 leaves unanswered many questions about what happened that fateful day. How did she manage to survive the fire when at least 146 workers, most of them women, her sister and fiancé among them, burned or jumped to their deaths from the sweatshop inferno?...
37) The betrayers
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
375 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
38) Causing havoc
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
541 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
39) The chrysalis
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
405 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
40) Dead heat
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
511 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English