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22) Glitz
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1985
Edition
[Large print].
Physical Desc
376 pages (large print) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Intense…. A higher caliber of entertainment. "-New York TimesElmore Leonard's Glitz is a killer…in the best possible way. "The King Daddy of crime writers" (Seattle Times) electrifies with this unputdownable noir tale of a mama's boy psycho killer with a vendetta against a Miami cop. A cat-and-mouse tale with claws, Glitz is thrilling, frightening, explosive, surprising, everything a great thriller is supposed to be-superior crime fiction the...
25) Stick
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1985
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
353 pages (large print) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
After serving time for armed robbery, Ernest "Stick" Stickley is back on the outside and trying to stay legit. But it's tough staying straight in a crooked town - and Miami is a pirate's paradise, where investment fat cats and lowlife drug dealers hold hands and dance. And when a crazed player chooses Stick at random to die for another man's sins, the struggling ex-con is left with no choice but to dive right back into the game. Besides, Stick knows...
Author
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Flighty but good-hearted Victoria Jones craves love, intrigue, and adventure. She strikes gold in Edward, a handsome and mysterious traveler whom she's vowed to follow to the ends of the earth. Yet no whirlwind affair can prepare Victoria for what unfolds once she lands in Baghdad. Not a day in Edward's shadow, and she hears whispered warnings of danger and witnesses the murder of a secret agent in her hotel room. And when she discovers that a romantic...
Author
Pub. Date
1986
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
501 pages (large print) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Retired police detective chief Edward Delaney is called back to the force to hunt a killer who's crazy like a fox On a rainy November night, Dr. Simon Ellerbee stares out the window of his Upper East Side psychiatry office, miserably wishing he could seek counseling for the problems in his seemingly perfect life. He hears the door buzzer and goes to answer it, but flinches when he sees his unexpected guest. Minutes later, he's dead, his skull...
32) The good mother
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Recent divorcee Anna Dunlap has two passionate attachments : her four-year-old daughter Molly and her lover Leo who has made her feel beautiful and whole for the first time. They were a magical threesome until the shocking charges that would threaten her new family and force her to prove that she is a good mother.
Author
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
"The Handmaids Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely...
Author
Pub. Date
1986
Physical Desc
427 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The fifth installment of Fast's bestselling Immigrantsseries, continuing the story of one of his most beloved characters, Barbara Lavette Howard Fast's immensely popular Immigrants saga spanned six novels and more than a century of the Lavette family history. The series was considered one of the crowning achievements of his long career. This New York Times bestseller is the fifth entry in the series and focuses on one of his most beloved characters,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
There's a body in a trunk, a dead girl's reflection caught in a mirror, one corpse back from the grave, and another envisioned in the recurring nightmare of a terrified eccentric. What's behind such ghastly misdeeds? Try money, revenge, passion, and pleasure. With multiple motives, multiple victims, and multiple suspects, it's going to take a multitude of talent to solve these clever crimes. In this inviting collection, Agatha Christie enlists the...
39) Thinner
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1986
Edition
[Large print].
Physical Desc
396 pages (large print) ; 25 cm.
Language
English