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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"One Perfect Lie is an emotional thriller and a suburban crime story that will keep you guessing until you turn the very last page. On the surface, it tells the tale of the struggling single mother of a high-school pitcher, a shy kid so athletically talented that he's being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But the mother fears that she's losing her grip on her son because he's being...
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English
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"It's been a minute--or five years--since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends, and twenty-eight years since their graduation when their adult lives officially began. Now Jordan, Jordy, Naomi, Craig, and Marielle find themselves at the brink of a new decade, with all the responsibilities of adulthood, yet no closer to having their lives figured out. Though not for a lack of trying. Over the years they've reunited in Big Sur to honor a decades-old...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Language
English
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Hollis Shaw's life seems picture-perfect. She's the star of the popular food blog, Hungry with Hollis, and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart surgeon. But after she and Matthew get into a heated argument one snowy morning, Matthew leaves for the airport and is killed in a car accident. The cracks in Hollis's perfect life-her strained marriage and her complicated relationship with her daughter, Caroline-grow deeper. When Hollis hears about something...
4) Locust lane
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Can anyone be trusted? On the surface, Emerson, Massachusetts, is just like any other affluent New England suburb. But when a young woman is found dead in the nicest part of town, the powerful neighbors close ranks to keep their families safe. In this searing novel, Eden Perry's death kicks off an investigation into the three teenagers who were partying with her that night, each a suspect. Hannah, a sweet girl with an unstable history. Jack, the...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
413 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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"Rosalind Newbury is counting down the days until her wedding to the Duke of Marlow, a man she has only met twice. The marriage is more an agreement between two families and less a romantic connection between two hearts, but Rosalind becoming a duchess will elevate her family's status to dizzying heights. And the duke is a kind man who will care for Rosalind, even if he doesn't love her. She only has three weeks before her life changes forever, and...
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Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
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"Harper Anderson has a to-do list longer than the Colorado River and fields of tulips to tend at her family's flower farm in California. What she doesn't have is time for the arrogant tech mogul who makes her an offer to use their farm as his sister's wedding venue. No amount of money could make up for the destruction it would wreak on next season's crop. The sooner Luke Martin is on his way, the better. But Luke will do whatever it takes to make...
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English
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"The first in a bold, new, gun-blazing Western series introducing Carson Stone. He may be reformed, but he's still a wanted man. Unless he can track down the biggest, baddest outlaw on the Dead Man's Trail! Reformed outlaw Carson Stone, in this razor-sharp Western, stakes his claim in the untamed, bloody Idaho Territory, only to find himself trapped in a bullet-riddled nightmare he may not walk away from . . . Former thief and wanted man Carson Stone...
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English
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"After witnessing a wrongful conviction as a young girl, Rebecca Whitman - the first female court reporter in Montana - is now determined to defend the innocent. During a murder trial, something doesn't sit well with her about the case, but no one except the handsome new Carnegie librarian will listen to her. When a patron seeks help with research in hopes of proving a man's innocence, librarian Mark Andrews is immediately drawn to her and her cause....
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
469 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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"Dakota Territory, 1867. The ODriscoll brothers have survived a Sioux massacre, but Michael is gravely wounded. The deserters are fleeing north with Toms lover, Sara, when they come upon a sheltering rock by a river down off the Bozeman trail. If there is game here, they may survive the winter. But their attempts to find food and endure the savage winter are threatened by the arrival in their camp of two trappers, whose presence sets in motion a series...
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
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"A group of women who share solace, friendship, and faith in the close-knit community of Paradise Valley, Missouri, rallies around a local widowed baker to help care for her wheelchair bound son. As she works with her brother-in-law to renovate her house to make it more accessible, they find their mutual strength of faith draws them together in unexpected ways. Perfect for fans of Charlotte Hubbard, Amy Clipston, and Shelley Shepard Gray. At the heart...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
559 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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"Even paradise demands a price for love and happiness . . . Widowed Elizabeth Bennett believes her troubles are over. Her loveless marriage is at an end. The death of her husband leaves her free to raise their daughter, Hadley, alone on her beautiful Hawaiian ranch . . .until Spence Laamea arrives. Her husbands heir and illegitimate son from a liason with a native woman, Spence takes control of the estate and Elizabeth's fate. Despite her distrust...
12) Our house
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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When Fiona Lawson comes home to find strangers moving into her house, she's sure there's been a mistake. She and her estranged husband, Bram, have a modern co-parenting arrangement: bird's nest custody, where each parent spends a few nights a week with their two sons at the prized family home to maintain stability for their children. But the system built to protect their family ends up putting them in terrible jeopardy. Now Bram has disappeared and...
13) The rodeo queen
Author
Series
A closed circuit novel volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
519 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bell brings the diverse world of competitive rodeo to life with vivid details and enhances the slow burn, opposites attract romance with chemistry and banter. Readers will be captivated." Publishers Weekly, starred review. The rules of being a rodeo queen: no creases, no boyfriends, no mistakes. With more crowns to her name than hairs on her head, Sierra Quintanilla knows the rulebook inside out. And with Closed Circuit, the reality-TV-meets-rodeo-tour...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
500 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Almost everywhere there are humans on planet Earth, there are dogs. But what do dogs know and understand of the world? Do their emotions feel like our own? Do they love like we do? What do they think of us? Since our alliance first began on the hunt and on the farm, our relationship with dogs has evolved considerably. In order to gauge where our relationship with dogs goes from here, author and zoologist Jules Howard takes a look at the historical...
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Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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"An Amish seamstress and a single father have a chance to make a fresh start in this heartwarming novel about finding love when you need it the most. Spirited, forthright, impulsive -- everyone told Greta Eicher she'd have to change her ways if she ever hoped to marry. Then her best friend Calvin, the man she thought she would wed, chooses another woman. Now Greta's wondering if the others were right all along. Her dreams dashed, she pours her energy...
16) Go as a river
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English
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"A riveting and deeply moving debut--a love story in the spirit of Where the Crawdads Sing--that is both a stunning exploration of the natural world and an unforgettable coming-of-age novel. Victoria Nash is just a teenager in the 1940s, but she runs the household on her family's peach farm in the ranch town of Iola, Colorado--the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from...
17) Sweet pea summer
Author
Series
Full bloom farm volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
365 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Can first love truly have a second chance when two high school sweethearts find themselves working together to save their respective businesses in this charming, laugh-out-loud retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion? Eight years ago, May Anderson made the biggest mistake of her life and watched her high school sweetheart Tom Riley leave Hillsboro, California--and her--in his rearview mirror. Now, after traveling the world, he's come back home. While...
18) Blue Moon haven
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Series
New Americana volume 7
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Kelly Jenkins heads to bucolic Blue Moon, Alabama, believing a new life will heal the two orphaned children in her care. Signing on to revive the drive-in theater seems like a worthy venture, until she discovers the property is in deep disrepair. Still, Kelly takes on the renovation, beginning with an ancient tree that needs to come down. Seth Morgan reluctantly steps in to help Kelly, even offering her and her kids shelter in his home. Soon everyone...
19) Downriver South
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English
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"The bloody Civil War has ended at last, and Marshal Ridge Parkman is looking forward to visiting his family at last in exhausted, war-torn western Missouri. But no sooner has he settled in to relax and catch up on things, than whimsical fate drops a mission in front of him that he can hardly ignore. The next thing he knows, he's on a steamboat heading down the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. His assignment is to track a father-son team who are fleeing...
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Series
A Cyrus Haven Novel volume 2
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English
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"Criminal psychologist Cyrus Haven and Evie Cormac return in this "powerhouse of a novel" (Booklist, starred review) from internationally bestselling author Michael Robotham, a writer Stephen King calls "an absolute master...with heart and soul." Who is Evie, the girl with no past, running from? She was discovered hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a terrible crime. Her ability to tell when someone is lying helped Cyrus crack an impenetrable...