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14521) True blue Christmas
Author
Series
True Blue mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"New neighbors, cryptic Christmas cards, and jury duty. What next? Campbell McBride is juggling her new role as a private investigator with her slightly wacky personal life. She's excited to serve on a jury for a case concerning a painting that was stolen twenty years earlier. A young woman settling her grandmother's estate had taken the painting to have it appraised and ended up on trial for possessing stolen property. Her curiosity is piqued and...
14522) Murder with chocolate tea
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
415 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Daisy has a lot to celebrate this summer, but the main event is her upcoming wedding to her fiancé Jonas. Somehow Daisy still finds time to be a guest on local journalist Trevor Lundquist's crime podcast to discuss the last murder she solved. After the podcast, Trevor receives an anonymous tip from a caller who claims a travel chest that's about to be auctioned holds a clue to a twenty-year-old unsolved murder. When a body turns up in Willow Creek,...
14523) 26 below
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
419 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In her new role as Emergency Operations Center director for Fairbanks, Alaska, Darcie Phillips prevents disasters. But none of her training can prepare her for the terror that's coming. As a cybersecurity specialist, Jason Myers is determined to ferret out any threats to the town he now calls home--and that includes his reckless brother and his ecoterrorist friends. When an old woman's wild prediction--widespread destruction as soon as the Fairbanks...
14524) Command and control
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
643 pages (large print) : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Panamanian President Rafael Botero asks for a show of support against the socialist opposition, his old friend President Jack Ryan can't turn down an invitation to visit the country, but what seems like an ordinary opportunity to preach the values of democracy quickly turns into a nightmare when a full-blown coup d'état erupts. One of the main forces behind the coup is the criminal organization known as the Camarilla. All of their hard work...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
408 pages (large print) : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Beatrix Potter buys a farm by herself in 1905 England to recover from her fiancé's death, she expects rest and relaxation, but the untimely death of a villager brings chaos to the town.
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Six western stories--'The Wagon Warrior', 'The Man Who Tamed Tombstone', 'Bullets and Bullwhips', 'Owlhoot Maverick', 'Bullets Bar This Trail', and 'Dead Man's Journey'--with unexpected heroes and a touch of romance"--
"The Wagon Warrior" opens this collection of six Les Savage Jr. stories. In it, David Brooke, a hunter for freight caravans, finds himself shackled in a wagon because he had been raised by the Cheyennes, and they are being blamed...
Author
Series
Countess of Harleigh mystery volume 4
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
391 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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 fianč, 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....
14528) Dead set
Author
Series
Agatha's Amish B&B volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
255 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It was supposed to be a simple remodel. Agatha Lapp is elated when Channel 4 News decides to run a feature story on Amish businesses. The cameras are rolling live when Agatha raises the rubber mallet and punches the first hole in her living room wall. That's when things get complicated... Hidden inside the wall is a diamond-studded belt buckle. With the help of a retired detective and her best friend, Agatha sets out to solve the mystery of the Lost...
14529) Try not to breathe
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
645 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A traumatic experience in the line of duty forces thirty-year-old Avery Rogers to abandon both her relationship and her position as a Kentucky State Police officer. She retreats to a college town where she works an unfulfilling job as a security guard, breaking up fights between drunken frat boys. But a frantic phone call turns Avery's life upside down. Her father--a retired cop who never fails to convey his disappointment in Avery--says her half...
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
11 books (1 large print), 1 audio book, 1 reading guide ; in canvas bag (45 x 36 cm).
Language
English
Description
On a cool June morning, a woman is walking her dog in the idyllic coastal village of Salten along a tidal estuary known as the Reach. Before she can stop him, the dog charges into the water to retrieve what first appears to be a wayward stick, but to her horror, turns out to be something much more sinister. The next morning, three women in and around London -- Fatima, Thea, and Isabel -- receive the text they had always hoped would never come, from...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
589 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her chronically unemployed husband runs off to start a crocodile farm in Kenya with his mistress, Josephine Cortes is left in an unhappy state of affairs. The mother of two -- confident, beautiful teenage Hortense and shy, babyish Zoe -- is forced to maintain a stable family life while making ends meet on her meager salary as a medieval history scholar. Meanwhile, Josephine's charismatic sister Iris seems to have it all -- a wealthy husband,...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
488 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Beatrix Potter returns to her new hometown of Sawrey after some time away, she finds the village threatened by a mysterious outsider who plans to destroy the pristine shoreline of Lake Windermere by constructing a number of villas.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
541 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Peter Driscoll, an underground investigator, has never met anyone like Lily Temple. The silent-film actress plays frivolous roles, but beneath the costumes and makeup is a woman with a murky past. Peter has been tasked with locating the Briarwood Teardrop, an exquisite sapphire, which Lily wears beneath her gown. To hopefully unravel the mystery of her story, Peter employs Lily's help on a case. But as they are investigating together, Peter is also...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
493 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close, Hannah Masury--bound out to service at a waterfront inn since childhood--is ready to take her life into her own hands. When a man is hanged for piracy in the town square and whispers of a treasure in the Caribbean spread, Hannah is forced to flee for her life, disguising herself as a cabin boy in the pitiless crew of the notorious pirate Edward 'Ned' Low. To earn the freedom to choose...
Author
Series
Lincoln Rhyme novel volume 14
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing Large Print
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
658 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the early hours of a quiet, weekend morning in Manhattan's Diamond District, at the scene of a brutal triple murder, the killer left behind a half-million dollars' worth of gems at the scene. As more crimes follow, it becomes clear that the killer's target is not gems, but engaged couples themselves. Then a witness is left alive. Vimal Lahori, a young diamond cutter, can help Rhyme and Sachs blow the lid off the case-- but has gone into hiding....
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
557 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"1867, Richmond, Virginia: Though she wears the same low-cut purple gown that is the uniform of all the girls who work at Worsham's gambling parlor, Arabella stands apart. It's not merely her statuesque beauty and practiced charm. Even at seventeen, Arabella possesses an unyielding grit, and a resolve to escape her background of struggle and poverty. Collis Huntington, railroad baron and self-made multimillionaire, is drawn to Arabella from their...
14538) The fine art of murder
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Doubleday large print home library edition.
Physical Desc
422 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jessica's art-viewing Italian vacation is interrupted by a pair of gunmen who steal a painting and kill a retired police officer in the process. Agreeing to help identify the crooks should they be caught, Jessica returns to Cabot Cove and puts the shocking experience behind her. Months later, Wayne Simsbury, the stepson of an old friend, comes to her for help. Wayne's father has been shot to death. Not only has Wayne's stepmother, Marlise, been charged...
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
601 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shielding the Amish Witness: On the run after discovering her brother-in-law was behind her husband's murder, Faith Cooper can think of only one safe place--her Amish grandmother's home. But when danger follows Faith to the quiet Amish community, her childhood friend Eli Shetler is her only protection. And their survival depends on outlasting a relentless killer...one who has nothing left to lose.
Seeking Amish Shelter: Stumbling upon illegal drug...