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Worth Fighting For: Love, Loss, and Moving Forward (Platinum Nonfiction)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Lisa Niemi Swayze
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Center Point Pub; Lrg edition (2012, Mar 1st).
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The wife of the late Patrick Swayze presents an account of grief, loss, caregiving and moving on while sharing stories about their final months together and discussing their teenage romance, dance careers, and thirty-four-year marriage. more
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The Thief (Wheeler Large Print Book Series)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Clive Cussler
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing; Lrg edition (2012, Apr 6th).
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Clive Cussler is the author of many New York Times bestsellers, most recently The Spy and Lost Empire. He lives in Arizona. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition. more
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The Talk Show Murders (Thorndike Press Large Print Mystery Series)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Dick Lochte
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (2012, Mar 7th).
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Publishers Weekly Roker and Lochte delve into the hitherto unknown dark side of their engaging lead, chef and TV personality Billy Blessing, in their third whodunit (after 2010's The Midnight Show Murders). While Blessing's Today-like morning show, Wake Up, America!, is telecasting for two weeks in Chicago, Pat Patton, an ex-cop turned right-wing blogger, corners Blessing. Besides knowing Blessing's real last name, Patton knows of the chef's arrest for fraud 25 years earlier and, possibly, the truth behind the murder of Blessing's partner-in-crime. While Blessing's still adjusting to the implications of Patton's blackmail threats, someone connected to Wake Up, America! is murdered. more
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Sonoma Rose (ELM Creek Quilts Novel)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Jennifer Chiaverini
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (2012, Mar 7th).
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New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini returns with a Prohibition-era novel about one woman’s journey to save her family—and herself With the nation in the throes of Prohibition, Rosa Diaz Barclay unwittingly discovers that her husband, John, has given over the duties of their Southern California rye farm in favor of armed bootlegging. Fearing the safety of her four beloved children, Rosa flees, with little more than a suitcase filled with John’s ill-gotten gains and her heirloom quilts. Accompanying her is Lars, a good but flawed man who is the mother of two of her children. Under assumed names, Lars and Rosa hire on at a Sonoma County vineyard, seeking not only refuge from danger, but convalescence for two of the children, who suffer from a mysterious wasting disease. more
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Shadow in Serenity (Thorndike Press Large Print Christian Fiction)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Terri Blackstock
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (2012, Mar 7th).
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A CBA Bestselling Author -- Shadow in Serenity is a modern-day Music Man, penned by a Christy Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author. Carny Sullivan grew up in the zany world of a traveling carnival. Quaint and peaceful Serenity, Texas, has given her a home, a life, and a child. Logan Brisco is the smoothest, slickest, handsomest man Serenity, Texas has ever seen. But Carny Sullivan knows a con artist when she sees one -- and she's seen plenty, starting with her father. As far as Carny can tell, she's the only one in town who has his number. Because from his Italian shoes to his movie-actor smile, Logan has the rest of the town snowed. Carny is determined to reveal Brisco's selfish intentions before his promise to the townspeople for a cut in a giant amusement park sucks Serenity dry. more
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Rainshadow Road (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Lisa Kleypas
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (2012, Mar 7th).
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“In the latest flawlessly written addition to her contemporary Friday Harbor books and the first in a new trilogy, Kleypas brings together richly nuanced characters, an emotionally riveting plot, and a subtle touch of the paranormal to create an unforgettable romance that is pure reading magic.” –Booklist, Starred Review --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition. more
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Mudwoman LP
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Joyce Carol Oates
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: HarperLuxe; Lgr edition (2012, Mar 27th).
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A riveting novel that explores the high price of success in the life of one woman, and her hold upon her self-identity in the face of personal and professional demons, from Joyce Carol Oates, author of the New York Times bestseller A Widow's Story. Mudgirl is a child abandoned by her mother in the silty flats of the Black Snake River. Cast aside, Mudgirl survives by an accident of fate—or destiny. Meredith "M.R." Neukirchen is the first woman president of an Ivy League university, but she is confronted with challenges to her leadership which test her in ways she could not have anticipated. The fierce idealism and intelligence that delivered her from a more conventional life in her upstate New York hometown now threaten to undo her. more
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I've Got Your Number (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Sophie Kinsella
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (2012, Mar 7th).
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I've lost it. The only thing in the world I wasn't supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It's been in Magnus's family for three generations. And now, the very same day his parents are coming, I've lost it. The very same day. Do not hyperventilate Poppy. Stay positive!!Poppy Wyatt has never felt luckier. She is about to marry the ideal man, Magnus Tavish, but in one afternoon her 'happy ever after' begins to fall apart. Not only has she lost her engagement ring but in the panic that followed, she has now lost her phone. As she paces shakily round the hotel foyer she spots an abandoned phone in a bin. Finders keepers! Now she can leave a number for the hotel to contact her when they find her ring. Perfect!Well, perfect except the phone's owner, businessman Sam Roxton doesn't agree. more
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Gone West (Center Point Premier Mystery (Large Print))
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Carola Dunn
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Center Point Pub; Lrg edition (2012, Mar 1st).
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Daisy's hot on the trail of a murdered writer!September 1926, and Daisy's in Derbyshire, visiting an old school friend who's currently employed by a novelist as his personal secretary. Sylvia Richmond has asked Daisy to investigate discreetly as she suspects something is seriously amiss with him. Upon arrival, Daisy finds a household of relatives and friends all living off the hospitality of Humphrey Birtwhistle who has been supporting them through his pseudonymous Western sales. When he took ill a while back Sylvia carried on penning the books, only to find that her versions led to an increase in sales and advances. And now she fears someone in the house is poisoning Birtwhistle to keep him ill and keep Sylvia writing the better paid versions. more
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A Dublin Student Doctor (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Patrick Taylor
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (2012, Mar 7th).
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In the 1930s, fresh from a stint in the Royal Navy Reserve and against his father's wishes, Fingal O'Reilly goes to Dublin to study medicine. Facing the arduous demands of Trinity College and Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital, Fingal still manages to box and play rugby - and romance a fetching nurse named Kitty O'Hallorhan. But Dublin is a city of slums, tenements, and brutal poverty. Can Fingal harden himself to the suffering all around him? (Bestseller) Read more... more
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