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The Impossible Dead (Thorndike Press Large Print Mystery Series)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Ian Rankin
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (2012, Feb 15th).
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Marilyn Stasio Always inspired when he's writing about social outcasts and professional rejects, Rankin does well by these pariah cops—especially Fox, who's looking good for the long haul. —The New York Times Book Review Steve Donoghue Rankin juggles all of these plots with consummate ease and brings the whole thing to a truly exciting conclusion. This is lean, addictive stuff, and it will leave even the most diehard Rebus fan wanting more. —The Washington Post More Reviews (3) Fewer Reviews Publishers Weekly Insp. more
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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 (Thorndike Press Large Print Christian Romance Series)
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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Catch Me (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Lisa Gardner
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (2012, Feb 7th).
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In four days, someone is going to kill me . . . Detective D.D. Warren is hard to surprise. But a lone woman outside D.D.’s latest crime scene shocks her with a remarkable proposition: Twenty-seven-year-old Charlene Rosalind Carter Grant believes she will be murdered in four days. And she wants Boston’s top detective to handle the death investigation. It will be up close and personal. No evidence of forced entry, no sign of struggle. Charlie tells a chilling story: Each year at 8:00 p.m. on February 21, a woman has died. The victims have been childhood best friends from a small town in New Hampshire; the motive remains unknown. Now only the last friend remains to count down her final hours. But as D.D. quickly learns, Charlie Grant has been preparing, and she doesn’t plan on going down without a fight. more
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Beside Still Waters (Thorndike Press Large Print Christian Fiction)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Tricia Goyer
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (2012, Feb 15th).
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Raised among the Amish of Indiana, 18-year-old Marianna Sommer plans to get baptized into the church and marry Aaron Zook. But when her older brother chooses the world's path following his rumschpringe and a younger sibling shows interest in Englisch ways, her parents move the family to Montana. Surprisingly, many Englisch influences awaken within Marianna - and even her father - the desire to pursue a deeper kind of joy and love for God. Read more... more
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All for One (Thorndike Press Large Print Christian Fiction)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Melody Carlson
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (2012, Feb 15th).
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Brimming with heart, humor, and a bit of mystery, this third book in Melody Carlson’s lively new Boomer series packs a poignant punch! Life is heating up for the four Lindas—and it’s not just hot flashes! Abby’s losing sleep over her husband’s health and neglecting her bed-and-breakfast dreams. Caroline may have waited too long to put her Alzheimer’s-afflicted mom in a care facility. Marley’s hard-won independence is threatened by her grown son’s neediness. And Janie’s having a hard time being everyone’s rock as the relationship she counted on falters. Add to that a house fire, a missing set of dishes, a bully brother, plus a half-crazy blonde named Donna, and things get really complicated. more
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Believing the Lie (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Elizabeth George
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (2012, Feb 1st).
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Detective Inspector Lynley is approached by business magnate Bernard Fairclough for a confidential review - not a formal investigation - of the circumstances of his nephew's demise. The coroner's verdict is accidental death. Recovering from the murder of his wife, Lynley has personal reasons for welcoming a spell away from London. He heads to the wild beauty of the Lake District, with Deborah and Simon St James to provide cover for his inquiries. Barbara Havers, back at base, makes her own unique contribution to the case, distracted only by Isabelle's ambitions to improve her Detective Sergeant's appearance. When he comes to know the various members of the extended Fairclough dynasty, Lynley finds many possible motives for murder, and uncovers layers of deceit and betrayal that expose the lies at the heart of the Cumbrian community. more
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Birds of Paradise (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Diana Abu-Jaber
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (2012, Feb 1st).
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“Abu-Jaber makes us wonder about more that what will happen to one girl with a guilty secret. What, after all, does it mean to be a family? Is love really 'exchangeable, malleable'? We can’t help turning pages full of stunning prose to find out.” (Sarah Nelson - O Magazine )“Diana Abu-Jaber’s gorgeous novel explores the ways a modern family can break down and be reborn. She writes with a precise, almost poetic distillation of feeling, heightened in contrast to the ripe, exuberant landscape and the unsettled feelings of a family in limbo.” (Amy Driscoll - Miami Herald )“With Birds of Paradise, Abu-Jaber has made an amazing, gigantic leap into rare air, that hazy stratosphere we jokingly call The Big Time. more
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The Sisters (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Nancy Jensen
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (2012, Feb 1st).
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In the tradition of Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping and Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge comes a dazzling debut novel about the family bonds that remain even when they seem irretrievably torn apart. Gorgeously written, with extraordinary insight and emotional truth, Nancy Jensen's debut novel illuminates the far-reaching power of family and family secrets. Growing up in hardscrabble Kentucky in the 1920s, with their mother dead and their stepfather an ever-present threat, Bertie Fisher and her older sister, Mabel, have no one but each other--with perhaps a sweetheart for Bertie waiting in the wings. But on the day that Bertie receives her eighth-grade diploma, good intentions go terribly wrong, setting off a chain of misunderstandings that will send the sisters on separate paths and reverberate through their daughters' and granddaughters' lives. more
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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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