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25441) Things left unsaid
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Lyndie St. James is thrilled that her best friend, Elle, is getting married. But she is unprepared for the emotional storm of the wedding week and of returning to her childhood summer home of Sweethaven, Michigan. It's not only the tragic death of her childhood friend Cassie that has haunted her for ten years, it's the other secrets she's buried that have kept her from moving on. Cassie's family, still struggling with the loss, have been drifting...
25442) Never trifle with murder
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It's early summer in Weatherford, Texas, and retired teacher/amateur sleuth Phyllis Newsom and fellow retiree Carolyn Wilbarger are taking British cooking classes at the local senior center in this suspenseful Fresh-Baked mystery. In the latest from Livia J. Washburn, the nationally bestselling author of the Fresh Baked Mystery Series, Phyllis Newsom learns to make a trifle that's to die for... While Sam Fletcher is playing dominoes with the guys,...
25443) Derailed
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After he marries the love of his life, Harry Bentley's apartment feels cramped, especially since his teenage grandson lives with him. God seems to provide the perfect solution in a new home on Beecham Street with room for his family. But to pay the mortgage, Harry has to go back to work as a detective, receiving a bizarre undercover assignment that causes him to suspect his own son in a major crime. Each time Harry thinks he's following God's leading,...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"What could be cooler, thinks teen Elizabeth Garber in 1965, than to live in a glass house designed by her architect dad? When Elizabeth Garber, her visionary architect father, and the rest of their family move into Woodie Garber's modern masterpiece, a glass house, in 1966, they have no idea that over the next few years their family's life will be shattered-both by Woodie's madness and the turbulent 1970s. This haunting memoir follows Elizabeth's...
25446) Playing possum
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When animals start mysteriously disappearing from the Pendwell Wildlife Refuge, former English-teacher-turned-magazine-reporter Kristy Farrell is on the case. Days later, the body of the refuge's director is found in a grassy clearing. Kristy, assisted by her veterinarian daughter, investigates and discovers strong motives among the suspects, including greed, infidelity, revenge, and blackmail. As Kristy delves further, she finds herself up against...
25447) Mr. Efrén divided
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
""We need books to break open our hearts, so that we might feel more deeply, so that we might be more human in these unkind times. This is a book doing work of the spirit in a time of darkness." --Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street Efrén Nava's Amá is his Superwoman--or Soperwoman, named after the delicious Mexican sopes his mother often prepares. Both Amá and Apá work hard all day to provide for the family, making sure Efrén...
25449) Buckskin County War
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Brodie Pike knew he shouldn't get involved. It would somehow turn out bad, as seemed to happen too often to him, but he couldn't watch four gunmen bully a small-time rancher. The next day, the man he had helped is found beaten to death. Though he knows he is responsible for Dunn's death, he refuses to help the group of small ranchers who know that the Buckskin County Cattlemen's Association will be coming for their land soon. Months later, he reads...
25450) Misleading Miss Verity
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Verity Hatherleigh has a mind of her own -- but her actions do not impress her viscount papa, who sends her off to the wilds of Scotland to rethink her headstrong ways. Anthony Jardine has relished his role as curate, but his new duties as laird of Dungally aren't to his liking. He's finding nothing but trouble on these estates, and the intelligent, feisty lass who was sent to rusticate in his territory is one of the biggest problems. He's falling...
25451) Pennroyal Academy
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A girl from the forest enlists at Pennyroyal Academy, where princesses and knights are trained to battle the two great menaces of the day: witches and dragons"--
25453) The battle of D-Day, 1944
Author
Series
I survived ; 18
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When Paul, a French boy living in a Nazi controlled village, finds an American paratrooper in a tree near his home, he has a chance to play a role in the Allies plan to crush the Nazis." --
25454) Maggie's war
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Winnipeg, 1942. War widow Maggie Marshall finds it hard to grieve for her abusive husband. But when Charlotte, the unwed pregnant teen in her care runs away, Maggie's childhood friend Reverend Reuben Fennel is happy join Maggie in her pursuit to Fort William to find Charlotte though it may cost him his job and his reputation"--
25455) Dog days of summer
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Grab a lap dog to cuddle and relax into a fun small-town mystery as a new dog rescue project turns into a three-ring circus of calamities. Trina Potter, Nashville country music star, buys a ranch near her hometown in Brenham, Texas, to help her niece open a rescue facility for dogs. Her presence in town stirs up some old high school rivalries -- and romance. Finding property to buy is a challenge, convincing her mother to move there with her is daunting,...
25458) The peasant king
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When her mother, the Persian king's famous senior scribe, is kidnapped, Jemmah and her sister must sneak undetected into enemy territory to rescue her. But infiltrating their adversary's lands proves easier than escaping them. Fleeing through dangerous mountain passes, their survival depends on the skills of a stranger they free from prison: a mysterious prince named Asher. Asher is not who the world believes he is. Despite his royal blood, he has...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"For Frances Wynn, widow to the late Earl of Harleigh, life has a cosmopolitan flavor of late. No sooner has she sent her mother and daughter off on a shopping trip to Paris than she and her fiance, George Hazelton, are socializing with visiting members of the Russian royal family. Yet amid this whirlwind, scandal also comes calling when Inspector Delaney turns up outside Frances's house with a young French woman with a shocking claim: she is Mrs....
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Looking forward to a quiet life and a full stomach, mail-order bride Rebecca Rice is pleased to marry her shopkeeper intended, Mr. Fordham, until the justice of the peace calls him Thaddeus, not Theodore--proceeded by the title Deputy. When the newlyweds realize they've married the wrong partners with similar names, an annulment seems in order--and fast, since Rebecca's true intended is impatient to claim her as his own, not to mention Rebecca would...
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