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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
431 pages (large print) : map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spenser is waiting out the latest Boston snowstorm when he gets word that Rita Fiore has been shot. Rita's always been a tricky one: flirting with Spenser for years, she's an ever-present figure that transcends friendship in Spenser's circle. But at the end of the day, Rita is family. And family will always be protected. Both a pit bull in the courtroom and provocateur outside it, Rita is no stranger to controversy. But as one of the city's toughest...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
LARGE PRINT ED.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eveen the Eviscerator is skilled, discreet, professional, and available for the most pressing needs in the ancient city of Tal Abisi. Her guild is strong, her blades are sharp, and her rules are simple. Those sworn to the Matron of Assassins -- resurrected, deadly, wiped of their memories -- have only three unbreakable vows. First, the contract must be just. That's above Eveen's pay grade. Second, even the most powerful assassin may only kill the...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Doctor Jack Troy was born and raised in Faha, but his responsibilities for the sick and his care for the dying mean he has always been set apart from the town. His eldest daughter, Ronnie, has grown up in her father's shadow, and remains there, having missed one chance at love -- and passed up another offer of marriage from an unsuitable man. But in the Advent season of 1962, as the town readies itself for Christmas, Ronnie and Doctor Troy's lives...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
383 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Teddy Fay is ready to embark on the European press tour of Peter Barrington's latest film Storm's Eye, when he receives an unexpected visit from Lance Cabot, director of the CIA. Several CIA agents have been turning up dead. The commonality? They were all part of a mission Teddy was involved in -- Golden Hour. Lance wants Teddy to use his trip as a cover to investigate who is behind these killings. From Venice and Budapest to their last stop at a...
5) Lazarus man
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
555 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five-story tenement collapses into a fuming hill of rubble... as the city's rescue services and media outlets respond, the surrounding neighborhood descends into chaos. By day's end, six bodies have been recovered but many of the other tenants are missing."
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Thrown into a desolate land of sickness and unnatural beasts, Kai wakes in the woods with no idea who she is or how she got there. All she knows is that if she cannot reach the Sea of Devour, even this hellscape will get worse. But when she sees the village blacksmith fight invaders with unspeakable skill, she decides to accept his offer of help."
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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For decades, Taiwan has been a thorn in the side of the Chinese government. New Chinese President Li Jian Jun has devised a secret military operation to take the island. Meanwhile, Lt. Commander Katie Ryan is deployed on the USS Jason Dunham to defend Taiwan and under pressure to find a flaw in the invaders' plan for her father to exploit. For his part, President Jack Ryan may have the power of the entire US military at his disposal, but what he really...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-three-year-old Michael 'Mitt' Fuller starts his surgical residency with great anticipation at the nearly three-hundred-year-old, iconic Bellevue Hospital, following in the footsteps of four previous, celebrated Fuller generations. The pressure is on for this newly minted doctor, and to his advantage he's always had a secret sixth sense, a sensitivity to the nonphysical. But quickly one patient after another assigned to his care begin to die...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
490 pages (large print) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Two teens appear out of nowhere, ransacking a small-town grocery and attacking the police officers who come to investigate. Their clothes are torn and filthy, their hands and bare feet callused, they have fangs. They're sister and brother, alone against the world. Where did they come from? Raised by wolves, they say. Kai and Holo are taken in by the police chief and his wife, and begin adjusting to life in a small town, attending school and going...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The long-awaited new novel from Haruki Murakami, his first in six years, revisits a town his readers will remember, a place where a Dream Reader reviews dreams and where our shadows become untethered from our selves. A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for these strange post-pandemic times, The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a singular and towering achievement by one of modern literature's most...
11) Trial by fire
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"... The life of a Parisian woman changes in a heartbeat when she's trapped by wildfires in Napa Valley."
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Supreme Court candidates are being murdered. Alex Cross and John Sampson are handed the case. In Washington, DC, the president-elect is planning her inauguration. The list of Supreme Court candidates is highly confidential-until it becomes evidence in Detective Alex Cross's toughest investigation. One candidate is gunned down. A second is stabbed. A third is murdered near midnight on a city street. Cross is the FBI's top expert in criminal behavior....
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Leigh Beth Stilton has never liked the holidays. After growing up in an unstable home, escaping an abusive marriage, and witnessing daily tragedies as an EMT, Leigh just can't bring herself to care about Christmas cheer. In fact, she's so convinced she's not worth loving that one winter's eve, she decides she can't go on -- until she comes across a book called Bethel and starts to read. Leigh is unfamiliar with the author, J.D. Harper, but his words...
14) Variation
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English
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fourth Wing comes a new contemporary romance about the summer a celebrated dancer returns home and unearths years of family secrets and deep regrets with the Coast Guard rescue swimmer she never forgot"--
"TO HEAL, YOU MUST DIVE DEEP. Elite ballerina Allie Rousseau is no stranger to pressure. With her mother's eyes always watching, perfection was expected, no matter the cost. But when an injury jeopardizes...
15) Now or never
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Stephanie Plum's life is ready to explode: she said yes to Morelli and Ranger. Now she has two fiances and no plan. But she might not live long enough to marry anyone. Stalling for time, Stephanie buries herself in her work as a bounty hunter, tracking down fugitives. There's an online influencer; a wealthy man rumored to be a trafficker; and a self-proclaimed vampire. Stephanie has to use every trick in the book to reel in these men. But she can't...
16) The mirror
Author
Series
Lost Bride Trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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The house Sonya MacTavish inherited from an uncle she never knew cuts an imposing figure perched on its cliff. It's also haunted by a number of spirits. Among them is Hester Dobbs, the witch who cursed the family more than two centuries ago, murdered its brides through the generations, and still wants revenge. Day by day, though, Sonya's fears fade a bit, replaced by defiance. Now that she has Trey, along with the company of her cousin Owen and best...
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
247 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sally Magnusson brings together thirty well-known names together to discuss their most sacred spots, including golfing legend Catriona Matthew, the Duke of Buccleuch, Richard Scott, Chief Social Policy Adviser to the Scottish Government, Linda Bauld and Sue Lawrence, the queen of Scottish baking.
As we discover their pivotal moments in life through in-depth interviews and delve into the minds of each personality, we find deeply personal stories that...
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Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2025.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 210 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Gallup's State of the American Workplace (2023) warns that only 31% of American workers are engaged at work. The other two-thirds are either disengaged (simply not caring) or actively disengaged (emulating behavior that threatens the organization performance). This is a shocking waste of talent. Our research shows that one of the biggest drivers of engagement is discovering your personal Purpose, which leads to higher levels of physical, emotional,...
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Pub. Date
2024
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
ix, 157 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The war is over. Dixie’s "deconstruction" has begun, and way down South, a girl is coming of age. Eunice Mary Elisabeth "Maybeth" Stancil, a ten-year-old child of a planter, might’ve become more girly if it hadn’t been for the late conflict. Confined thusly to her family’s rural plantation, she’d had to make do without her previous comforts. With no new toys, clothes, or books and very little travel, she long ago began to seek most of her...
20) To die for
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English
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Travis Devine has become a pro at adapting to any situation to accomplish the mission set in front of him. Whether it's a high-powered corporate setting or small-town community, Devine will become the man for the job. His time as an Army Ranger and on the financial battlefields of Wall Street have given him the skills needed, and he's put them to good use. But this time it's not his skills that send him to Seattle to aid the FBI in escorting an orphaned,...