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15041) Cape Rage
Author
Series
Danny Barrett volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The FBI has a hundred undercover agents who can work in the city, but Danny Barrett is the one they call when they need someone to investigate crimes in the wilderness. This case is a particularly difficult one. For more than a century the Danby family have ruled as kings in their corner of the Pacific Northwest. The Feds were mostly willing to look the other way while the family smuggled everything from liquor to cigarettes across the border, but...
15042) New leash on life
Author
Series
Gone to the dogs volume 6
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Air Force veteran Dr. Lane Bishop and Nora Hernandez's romance has cooled. He is busy working as a researcher at the vet school, and she's busy with her restaurant and opening an antique shop. What Lane hasn't told her is that his PTSD, which manifests mostly with nightmares, makes him believe he's damaged goods. But that is about to change when he meets a stray pup that acts a lot like a military working dog. When a tornado hits Brenham, there is...
15043) God bless the broken road
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Amber Hill never imagined she would be a war widow and single mom. She's angry at God and unable to help her nine-year-old daughter Bree through her grief. Cody Jackson seems to have a death wish, the way he pushes his race car and his luck in every race. When he gets Bree to join in a car race for local youth, she finds a way to channel her grief into something good. Then he invites Amber and Bree to see him race. As they watch him narrowly escape...
15044) My valentine
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
He is the son of a prominent New York family, his future and his wife-to-be secure and glittering. She is the daughter of a Jewish tailor, her future full of the hopes and dreams of any nice Jewish girl living in the teeming Lower East Side of the late 1800's. But ever since that day when the dashing Pierce Blackwell appeared in her father's shop, Darlene Lewy has tried-and failed-to put him out of her mind and heart. And yet she must, for her sake...
Author
Series
Auntie Poldi novels volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Strange dealings are afoot in the Apostolic Palace - a nun leapt to her death after participating in a routine exorcism. But when a priest and a Vatican commissario turn up at her door, Poldi is shocked to hear that she's a suspect in their case. Poldi will need all the help she can get to clear her name, but her nephew has been distracted by a love affair, and her local friends seem to be avoiding her. Even Vito Montana balks when Poldi discovers...
15046) Nightcrawling: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system--a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Royal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison. But while Marcus...
15047) The Indian Ring
Author
Series
Joshua Strongheart novels volume 3
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A spy has infiltrated President Grant's administration. The best man to weed him out: Joshua Strongheart, a half-Lakota warrior/half-white lawman of national repute. But luck isn't on Strongheart's side. As soon as word gets out that he's on the job, a group of well-trained shooters are on his trail. Ronald M. Hartwell once worked for the Secretary of War, but he is now the leader of the Indian Ring -- a deadly syndicate of criminals out to decimate...
15048) The empty nesters
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Dear friends and army wives Diana, Carmen, and Joanie have been through war, rumors of war, marital problems, motherhood, fears, joy, and heartache. But none of the women are prepared when their daughters decide to enlist in the army together. Facing an empty nest won't be easy ... With nothing to lose and no one at home, the girlfriends impulsively accept an unexpected offer from their elderly neighbor. The recently widowed Tootsie has an RV, a...
15049) Isaiah's legacy
Author
Series
Novel of prophets and kings volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"At eight years old, Shulle has known only life in a small village with her loving but peculiar father. When Uncle Shebna offers shelter in Jerusalem in exchange for Shulle's help tutoring King Manasseh, Judah's five-year-old co-regent who displays the same peculiarities as her father, she's eager to experience the royal court. But Shulle soon realizes the limits of her father's strict adherence to Yahweh's Law when Uncle Shebna teaches her of the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Bored after their previous adventure, Tom Sawyer concocts a scheme to bamboozle the villagers of St. Petersburg into believing that Bigfoot-type monsters are migrating up the Mississippi River. He and his friends, Huck, Becky, Jim, and Zane Rasmussen, a teenage time-traveler from the 21st century, fake footprints and blood evidence to claim that they have killed one of the monsters on an island and saved the village. They are heroes once again. But...
15051) Atomic love
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Chicago, 1950. Rosalind Porter has always defied expectations--in her work as a physicist on the Manhattan Project and in her passionate love affair with colleague Thomas Weaver. Five years after the end of both, her guilt over the bomb and her heartbreak over Weaver are intertwined. She desperately misses her work in the lab, yet has almost resigned herself to a more conventional life. Then Weaver gets back in touch--and so does the FBI. Special...
Author
Series
Adventures in time volume 1
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A modern 13-year old boy, Zane Rasmussen, falls into a coma and wakes up on Jackson's Island in the Mississippi River where he is found by Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and freed slave, Jim. It is June, 1849, and Zane gradually accepts that these are living characters from Twain's novels, while they finally conclude he's a traveler from a future time. He agrees to accompany them as they prepare -- for howling adventures -- into Indian Territory. Their...
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