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Series
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
322 p. (large print) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It s a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers....
202) Split image
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
What initially appears to be a low-level mob hit takes on new meaning when a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise Beach. Jesse Stone and private investigator Sunny Randall team up to solve two cases involving the gunshot murder of Petrov Ognowski and a religious cult holding an 18-year-old girl against her will.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
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It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who resents the foreign powers clamoring for a slice of his country, nothing is more upsetting than the decision of his son, Omar, to work as a digger in the excavation zone. But for Omar, whose upbringing was quiet and lonely, this job offers a chance to finally find connection. Ada Bunting is a bold sixteen-year-old...
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
385 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mary Beth Latham is first and foremost a mother, whose three teenaged children come first, before her career as a landscape gardener, or even her life as the wife of a doctor. Caring for her family and preserving their everyday life is paramount. And so, when one of her sons, Max, becomes depressed, Mary Beth becomes focused on him, and is blindsided by a shocking act of violence.
Author
Language
English
Description
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.
206) The magic kingdom
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1971, a property speculator named Harley Mann begins recording his life story onto a reel-to-reel machine. Reflecting on his childhood in the early twentieth century, Harley recounts that after his father's sudden death, his family migrated down to Florida's swamplands--mere miles away from what would become Disney World--to join a community of Shakers. Led by Elder John, a generous man with a mysterious past, the colony devoted itself to labor,...
207) Sizzle: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
After she unwittingly captures a shocking crime on camera, a rash of mysterious, treacherous incidents convince Lyra Prescott that she's trapped in a sinister scenario headed for a violent ending. As the noose of deadly intrigue tightens around her, she turns to her best friend, Sidney Buchanan, whose connections bring dauntless and devilishly handsome FBI agent Sam Kincaid into Lyra's running scared life.
208) The brethren
Author
Series
Annie's people volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
349 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Annie Zook, the Amish preacher's daughter, is caught between two worlds. Living with shunned friend Esther, Annie longs to return to her forbidden art and the idyllic days spent with Englisher Ben Martin, before her father ordered her never to see him again. Stunned when family secrets come to light, Ben determines to solve the mystery of his past. Will his future include Annie--or will the Brethren always stand between them?
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ah Boon is born into a fishing village amid the heat and beauty of twentieth-century coastal Singapore in the waning years of British rule. He is a gentle boy who is not much interested in fishing, preferring to spend his days playing with the neighbor girl, Siok Mei. But when he discovers he has the unique ability to locate bountiful, movable islands that no one else can find, he feels a new sense of obligation and possibility--something to offer...
210) Near miss
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 64
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Following a string of adventures, Stone Barrington is enjoying some downtime in New York City when a chance encounter introduces him to a charming new companion. Too bad she also comes with the baggage of a persistent ex-boyfriend intent on retribution. As Stone skillfully dodges each disturbance, it soon becomes clear that there is potentially an even more treacherous game being played behind the scenes. And when long-standing grudges resurface,...
211) New leash on life
Author
Series
Gone to the dogs volume 6
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
376 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
How Is a Missing Military Working Dog Related to Two Local Fires? Snuggle with your trusty hound and settle into a small-town mystery in book 6 of the Gone to the Dogs series. Air Force veteran Dr. Lane Bishop and Nora Hernandez's romance has cooled. He is busy working as a researcher at the vet school, and she's busy with her restaurant and opening an antique shop. What Lane hasn't told her is his PTSD, which manifests mostly with nightmares,...
212) The last remains
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
When the body of an archeology student, who went missing in 2002, is found during the renovation of a café, Dr. Ruth Galloway and DCI Nelson uncover a tangled web of relationships between the archeology group and the café.
214) Mrs. Nash's ashes
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Millicent Watts-Cohen is on a mission. When she promised her elderly best friend that she'd reunite her with the woman she fell in love with nearly eighty years ago, she never imagined that would mean traveling from D.C. to Key West with three tablespoons of Mrs. Nash's remains in her backpack. But Millie's determined to give her friend a symbolic happily-ever-after, before it's (really) too late--and hopefully reassure herself of love's lasting...
215) The house of Eve
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright. Eleanor Quarles arrives in Washington, DC, with ambition and secrets. When she meets the handsome William Pride...
216) Marked man
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Archer Mayor's Marked Man, the death of a local millionaire becomes suspicious when Joe Gunther learns that he was not who he claimed. A year ago, local philanthropist and millionaire Nathan Lyon died a natural death in his sprawling mansion, a 150,000 square foot converted mill, surrounded by his loving, attentive family. Or so it seemed at the time. Now Joe Gunther and his Vermont Bureau of Investigation team has discovered that almost nothing...
217) One last kill
Author
Series
Tracy Crosswhite novels volume 10
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
493 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Tracy Crosswhite is reopening the investigation into Seattle's Route 99 serial killer. After thirteen victims, he stopped hunting and the trail went cold, stirring public outrage. Now, nearly three decades after his first kill, Tracy is expected to finally bring closure to the victims' families and redeem the Seattle PD's reputation. Even if it means working with her nemesis, Captain Johnny Nolasco. Lead detective of the original task force, Nolasco...
218) Jewels of the sun
Author
Series
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Jove ed.
Physical Desc
368 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
An American woman named Jude Murray runs away to Ireland to examine her life, throwing herself into Irish folklore in the meantime--but she finds more than she was looking for when she catches the eye of Aidan Gallagher, a world traveler just returned to his Irish home, who sees in her the potential for a love like he has never known before.
219) Queen bee: a novel
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Series
Language
English
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Description
A Sullivan's Island beekeeper navigates her demanding hypochondriac mother and flamboyant rival sister while immersing herself in the lives of two young neighbor boys and their widowed father.
"Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank's Carolina Lowcountry in this evocative tale that returns at long last to her beloved Sullivan's Island. Beekeeper Holly McNee Kensen quietly lives in a world...
220) "O" is for outlaw
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone embarks upon a dangerous and revealing excursion into her past when she is contacted by a storage unit scavenger who has found a box of her personal effects, including a letter that forces her to reexamine the breakup of her first marriage.
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