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1141) Backstory
Author
Series
Skirmish Cove mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A small, themed bed & breakfast on the Maine coast sets the scene for murder. A hurricane lashes the Novel Inn, forcing guests to remain beyond their check-out dates. Kate's ex-fiancé from ten years ago has booked a room and she is trying to avoid him. Jillian moves her sick elderly neighbor to the inn so she can take care of him. Then the power goes out and they are faced with providing all meals for their guests, not just breakfast. When the guest...
Author
Series
Mountain resort mystery volume 3
Publisher
Shannon Work
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
415 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Fearing for her life, celebrity author Alice Fremont asks detective Jack Martin for protection. But during the deadliest storm of the winter season, Alice goes missing from her historic estate in the Colorado Rockies. Now Jack is determined to find her. Yet during his search, he's faced with a blizzard of secrets and lies. The stakes are high, and some of the locals--including those closest to Alice--don't like strangers asking questions. And at...
1143) Catch a falling star
Author
Series
A Texas Ranger James C. Blawcyzk novel volume 12
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
255 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jim Blawcyzk gets handed three serious cases within twenty-four hours, and that's a lot for even the most veteran Ranger to handle. First, an apparent murder-suicide at the McDonald Observatory turns out to be a double homicide. By the time he's through with that crime scene, it's mid-morning. He's on his way home to get some much-needed rest before completing his reports and continuing his investigations when another call comes in. A bank robbery...
1144) Now I see you
Author
Series
Mountain Resort mystery volume 1
Publisher
Shannon Work
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
493 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Celebrity TV anchor Georgia Glass wants out of Denver and far away from her obsessed fan. Set to host her own investigative crime show in LA, she's surprised to inherit a Victorian house in Aspen from a mysterious uncle she never knew. But while exploring the gothic property, she discovers the frozen corpse of a missing heiress. Georgia's journalist instincts kick in and she is determined to help police track down the killer. But by investigating...
1145) Mainely fear
Author
Series
A Goff Langdon Mainely mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
416 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"'I want you to find out who is responsible for ruining his life and I want them to pay for it.' This is the desire of Latricia Jones as she hires Goff Langdon to investigate her son's arrest for burglary, vandalism, and possibly hate crimes. Langdon is a laid back, slacker detective, happy with his work, friends, and way of life in the town of Brunswick, Maine. To complement his income in Brunswick's scarce private detective market, Langdon also...
1146) In feast or famine
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
615 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After four-year-old Asenath's mother is murdered by Egypt's foreign rulers, the child is raised to be a priestess by her overprotective father--high priest of Egypt's sun god. For fifteen years, Asenath is sequestered in the upper levels of Ra's temple, convinced it is her destiny to heal the land by becoming queen to the next Egyptian pharaoh. But when Egypt's foreign king instead gives her as a bride to the newly appointed vizier--a Hebrew named...
1147) Small town secrets
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On the surface, Shady Valley looks like the ideal all-American place to live with beautiful flowering trees lining both sides of the street as you enter the picturesque town. Neighbors help neighbors. Doors are often left unlocked. Serious crimes are practically nonexistent--almost but not quite! But like all small towns, everyone knows everyone, which means everyone knows everyone's business, and not everyone in Shady Valley is what they appear...
1148) Buffalo soldier odyssey
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
567 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Freedom following the Civil War destruction of the plantation where Isaac 'Ike' Casey was born and raised plunges the young man into a rapidly evolving world of violence and uncertainty. Directionless, he wanders the South in isolation, hunger, and clothing so badly worn he occasionally approaches nakedness. A chance encounter with a short-handed ship's captain provides Ike with a non-paying job aboard a cargo vessel. At journey's end, he finds himself...
1149) 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...
1150) River guns
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
199 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Johnny Rourke returned from the war to old Benj Tramer's Bandera spread, he found that there was no peace along the Rio Grande. Cattle was being rustled, and men who had been loath to kill for their country's sake were ready enough to kill for profit. Such a man was Tom Cana, who had been made foreman of the Bandera during Johnny's absence. Cana didn't take easily to Johnny's reinstatement. He was open, too, in accusing friendly neighbor Roque...
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,...
1152) 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...
1153) 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...
1154) 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
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
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
347 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Fresh out of the Territorial Prison, Tucker Ashley and his friend Jack stake a claim during the Black Hills gold rush. But it has been jumped by two men. Jack and Tucker are confronted by Rule Enforcers for the Mining District, Zell McGinty and his son, Trait, a gunman known for his ruthlessness. Tucker's gun handling skills have deteriorated in prison, and he and Jack are powerless to resist them and are forced off their claim. Miners all along...
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...
1158) Stone maidens
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
447 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As the chief forensic anthropologist for the FBI's Chicago field office, Christine Prusik has worked her fair share of bizarre cases. Yet this one trumps them all: a serial killer is strangling young women and dumping their bodies in the steep, forested ravines of southern Indiana. With each victim, the killer leaves a calling card: a stone figurine carved like the spirit stones found among the native tribes of Papua New Guinea--the same tribes Prusik...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
775 pages (large print), 40 unnumbered pages of plates ; illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The epic true story of an American hero who flew during WWII, soon to be featured in the upcoming Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks TV Series, Masters of the Air. Beginning on August 17, 1942, American heavy bomber crews of the Eighth Air Force took off for combat in the hostile skies over occupied Europe. The final price was staggering. 4,300 B-17s and B-24s failed to return; nearly 21,000 men were taken prisoner or interned in a neutral country, and...
1160) Bandera pass
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
345 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On Hank Littleton's first assignment as a Texas Ranger, he shows how his crack-shot aim can stop the careful escape plan of a group of prisoners being escorted to Austin. Then his captain again pairs him with war veteran Joe Casebolt on a do-or-die assignment: catch the notorious band of robbers led by former lawman Isom Whitaker that is working the stages and rails near San Antonio. The two Rangers soon conclude that this wouldn't be such a tough...