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Book of Dreams (Center Point Christian Fiction)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: T. Davis Bunn
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Center Point Pub; Lrg edition (2012, Feb 1st).
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For Dr. Elena Burroughs, life is divided into two chapters—before and after the death of her husband. Today marks the point that her span of being a wife is equal to her span of being a widow. Even her success as a psychologist and her worldwide acclaim for a book on the interpretation of dreams is dimmed by an unspoken If only. Then a new patient arrives, one so private only her first name is given. Impeccably dressed and escorted by two bodyguards, Sandra recounts a frightening series of recurrent nightmares. Elena agrees to consider her case more carefully, convinced that something ominous may be at work here. Elena's interpretation of her dreams confirms that, indeed, the new patient and her family confront a powerful global network of dangerous forces. more
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Breakdown (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Sara Paretsky
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Thorndike Press (2012, Jan 4th).
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Carmilla, Queen of the Night, is a shape-shifting raven whose fictional exploits thrill girls all over the world. When tweens in Chicago’s Carmilla Club hold an initiation ritual in an abandoned cemetery, they stumble on an actual corpse, a man stabbed through the heart in a vampire-style slaying. The girls include daughters of some of Chicago’s most powerful families: the grandfather of one, Chaim Salanter, is among the world’s wealthiest men; the mother of another, Sophy Durango, is running for the United States Senate. For V. I. Warshawski, the questions multiply faster than the answers. Is the killing linked to a hostile media campaign against Sophy Durango? Or to Chaim Salanter’s childhood in Nazi-occupied Lithuania? As V. more
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Cat In a Vegas Gold Vendetta (Thorndike Press Large Print Mystery Series)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Carole Nelson Douglas
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (2012, Jan 4th).
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Carole Nelson Douglas's Temple Barr is an ace P.R. wizard when it comes to promoting Las Vegas’ hottest clients. She’s also an amateur sleuth who has caught her share of bad guys. In Cat in a Vegas Gold Vendetta, B-movie actress Savannah Ashleigh begs Temple to investigate the suspicious death of her rich aunt’s handyman. Temple happily takes the case, if for no other reason than to take her mind off her chaotic private life. Her ex-fiancé, the Mystifying Max, is back—minus his memory. And current fiancé Matt Devine has shown up from a stint in Chicago with the promise of a surprising future. Which may or may not include Temple.As Temple digs into the man’s untimely demise she finds plenty of suspect and greedy humans swarming around the ailing Aunt Violet, who means to leave her estate to her resident cats. more
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Changes (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Mercedes Lackey
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (2012, Jan 4th).
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Elizabeth the Queen: Inside the Life of a Modern Monarch (Thorndike Press Large Print Biography Series)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Sally Bedell Smith
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (2012, Feb 1st).
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Liesl Schillinger …an excellent, all-embracing new biography…Ms. Bedell Smith pulls fascinating details into her portrait of Elizabeth, shining a beam onto underlighted corners of the monarch's experience. —The New York Times Publishers Weekly In her 60-year-reign, Elizabeth II has evolved "from beautiful ingénue to businesslike working mother to wise grandmother," whose grave public persona conceals her spirit, intelligence, humor, and joie de vivre. In a respectful, engrossing, and perceptive portrayal, Smith (Diana in Search of Herself: Portrait of a Troubled Princess) relates that Elizabeth defied her mother in marrying her cheeky third-cousin Prince Philip of Greece, but she bowed to Churchill in not adopting Philip's surname, which strained their marriage; while her laissez-faire attitude toward child-rearing allowed a flinty, critical Philip to dominate the sensitive Charles. more
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Christmas in Sugarcreek: A Christmas Seasons in Sugarcreek Novel (Seasons of Sugarcreek)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Shelley Shepard Gray
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (2012, Feb 15th).
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Always the obedient daughter, Judith Graber watches her younger siblings, helps around the house, and works in her family's store. Judith feels overworked, overlooked, and underappreciated this holiday season. Then her father hires Ben Knox. The "bad boy" of Sugarcreek, Ben left two years ago under a cloud of shame. Now he's back and working side by side with Judith, who steels herself to ignore the sparks that fly between them. Read more... more
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When Love Gets in the Way (Thorndike Press Large Print Christian Romance Series)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Janelle Mowery
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (2012, Feb 1st).
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Grace Bradley wishes all she touches would turn to gold. Instead, it tends to tarnish…that is, until she finds freedom on the Double K Ranch. Grace is fleeing from the man her father chose to be her husband. But once her heart is captured by her new employer’s best friend, and she finally understands the meaning of God’s sacrificial love, she relinquishes her independence to save her loved ones.Cade Ramsey contemplates running for dear life from the accident-prone nuisance he brought to his hometown. The trouble that trails her seems to latch on to him at every turn. But when Grace manages to win his calloused heart, he chases her down, praying he can keep her from following through on a decision that could ruin their lives. more
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Cloudburst (Thorndike Core)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: V. C. Andrews
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (2012, Jan 4th).
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Sasha, a popular senior in high school, with excellent grades finds herself increasingly attracted to Duane Banks, a boy who stands out not because he flaunts his good looks and his achievements at the school like so many, but because he is shy and somewhat withdrawn. He's one of the few good-looking boys who pays little attention to her, and that makes him more interesting. When auditions for the new school play begin, she and Duane both get parts and Duane slowly seems to be coming out of his shell, permitting himself to hope and succeed at something. But when neither of his parents show up to see the play, Duane goes into depression. When one morning Duane doesn't show up for school, Sasha is distraught to learn that he has taken his own life. more
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Covert Warriors (Presidential Agent Novels)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: W. E. B. Griffin
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Thorndike Press (2012, Jan 4th).
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Charley Castillo and the former members of Presidential Agent’s Office of Organizational Analysis are officially “retired.” But that doesn’t mean they’re out of action… At a Mexican roadblock, a US Embassy SUV is stopped at gunpoint, three of its passengers murdered, and a fourth kidnapped. Everything points to the drug cartels, especially when the kidnappers say they will return the hostage if a cartel kingpin is released from US federal prison. But when word gets to Castillo and his group of retired spies and special operators, they have their doubts. They believe that it's a diversion—that the murders and kidnapping were ordered by someone to lure Castillo & Company to their deaths. But even knowing that may not save them. more
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D. C. Dead (Stone Barrington Novels)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Stuart Woods
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Thorndike Press (2012, Jan 4th).
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After a shocking loss, Stone Barrington is at loose ends, unsure if he wants to stay in New York and continue his work as a partner at Woodman & Weld. It comes as a welcome relief when he's summoned to Washington, D.C., by President Will Lee. The president has a special operation that calls for Stone's unique skill set, and it's a mission that will reunite him with his former partner in crime and in bed, Holly Barker. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition. more
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