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A woman of World War II mystery 1 Between earth & sky 2 Between earth and sky 2 Bishop/Special Crimes unit 19 Leaphorn & Chee 27 Leaphorn and Chee 27 Temperance Brennan 20 The daughter of Sherlock Holmes mysteries 4 Thorndike Press large print basic Thorndike Press large print historical fictionFilter By Subjects
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A woman of World War II mystery 1 Between earth & sky 2 Between earth and sky 2 Bishop/Special Crimes unit 19 Leaphorn & Chee 27 Leaphorn and Chee 27 Temperance Brennan 20 The daughter of Sherlock Holmes mysteries 4 Thorndike Press large print basic Thorndike Press large print historical fictionWeir, Alison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WEIByrd, Sandra.
Summary: In 1565, seventeen-year-old Elin von Snakenborg leaves Sweden on a treacherous journey to England. Her fiance has fallen in love with her sister and her dowry money has been gambled away, but ahead of her lies an adventure that will take her to the dizzying heights of Tudor power. Transformed through marriage into Helena, the Marchioness of Northampton, she becomes the highest-ranking woman in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BYRHarper, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: Katherine Ashley, the daughter of a poor country squire, happily secures an education and a place for herself in the Tudor court of Henry VIII. As a dying favor to the doomed Anne Boleyn, Kat becomes governess and surrogate-mother to the young Elizabeth Tudor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HARGregory, Philippa
Summary: United in sisterhood by birth and marriage, Katherine of Aragon, Queen of England; Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots; and Mary Tudor, Queen of France immediately recognize each other as both allies and rivals in the treacherous world of court and national politics. Their bonds extend beyond natural and expeditious loyalties, as romance, scandal, war, and religion inextricably unite these three for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GREGoodwin, Daisy.
Summary: In 1875, Sisi, the Empress of Austria is the woman that every man desires and every woman envies. Beautiful, athletic and intelligent, Sisi has everything -- except happiness. Bored with the stultifying etiquette of the Hapsburg Court and her dutiful but unexciting husband, Franz Joseph, Sisi comes to England to hunt. She comes looking for excitement and she finds it in the dashing form of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GOOFollett, Ken
Summary: "International bestselling author Ken Follett has enthralled millions of readers with The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, two stories of the Middle Ages set in the fictional city of Kingsbridge. The saga now continues with Follett's magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire. In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press Large Print 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FOLFranklin, Ariana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M FRABennett, Alan
Summary: Discovering the joy of reading widely and intelligently and abetted in her newfound obsession by Norman, a young man from the royal kitchens, the Queen comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with the routines of her role as monarch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BENHumphreys, Helen
Summary: A young woman gardner Gwen Davis flees to the Devon countryside where she will be in charge of a Land Army group of young girls who are to plant food crops on a country estate. At the estate along with the girls a regiment of Canadian soldiers live and form friendships, etc. Gwen comes to know herself and others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beeler Large Print 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HUMFranklin, Ariana.
Summary: In 1176, King Henry II sends his daughter Joanna to Palermo to marry his cousin, the king of Sicily. Henry chooses Adelia Aguilar, his Mistress of the Art of Death, to travel with the princess and safeguard her health. But when people in the wedding procession are murdered, Adelia and Rowley must discover the killer's identity ... and whether he is stalking the princess or Adelia herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M FRACornwell, Bernard.
Summary: The rascally Thomas of Hookton, aka Le Batard, and his band of not-so-merry mercenaries are bidden by the Earl of Northhampton to unearth the lost sword of Saint Peter in this recreation of the Battle of the Poitiers in 1356 wherein a severely outnumbered English army defeats the French and captures the Poiters and French King John II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Cornwell 2013Goodwin, Daisy
Summary: "Early one morning, less than a month after her eighteenth birthday, Alexandrina Victoria is roused from bed with the news that her uncle William IV has died and she is now Queen of England. The men who run the country have doubts about whether this sheltered young woman, who stands less than five feet tall, can rule the greatest nation in the world. Surely she must rely on her mother and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GOOMcManus, Karen M.
Summary: "A ton of copycat gossip apps have popped up since Simon died, but in the year since the Bayview four were cleared of his shocking death, no one's been able to fill the gossip void quite like he could. The problem is no one has the facts. Until now. This time it's not an app, though--it's a game. Truth or Dare. Phoebe's the first target. If you choose not to play, it's a truth. And hers is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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Summary: "The great city of Tova is shattered. The sun is held within the smothering grip of the Crow God's eclipse, but a comet that marks the death of a ruler and heralds the rise of a new order is imminent. The Meridian: a land where magic has been codified and the worship of gods suppressed. How do you live when legends come to life, and the faith you had is rewarded? As sea captain Xiala is swept...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction RoanhorseHaeger, Diane.
Summary: Rome, 1520. The Eternal City is in mourning. Raphael Sanzio, beloved painter and national hero, has died suddenly at the height of his fame. His body lies in state at the splendid marble Pantheon. At the nearby convent of Sant'Apollonia, a young woman comes to the Mother Superior, seeking refuge. She is Margherita Luti, a baker's daughter from a humble neighborhood on the Tiber, now an outcast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HAEReichs, Kathy
Summary: "On the way to Isle of Palms off the South Carolina coast, Tempe receives a call about two decomposed bodies wrapped in plastic sheeting and bound with electrical wire. The details are identical to those of an unsolved case Tempe handled in Quebec years earlier. She travels to Montreal to gather evidence, while health authorities in South Carolina become increasingly alarmed as a flesh-eating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC REIDoerr, Anthony
Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DOEGrafton, Sue.
Summary: A collection of stories that reveal Kinsey's origins-- and Grafton's past. The nine stories that open the book show how fully formed Kinsey was from the beginning. The thirteen stories in the second part, written in the decade following her mother's death, feature Kit Blue, a younger version of Grafton herself, and reflect her troubled family life and the author's journey from anger to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRAGoldberg, Leonard S.
Summary: "In the west end of London, an apparently crazed individual is on the loose, breaking into art galleries and private homes to slash valuable paintings of women. Despite Scotland Yard's best efforts, the criminal remains at large and continues on his destructive path. When Joanna and the Watsons are called in to solve the mystery, they soon discover that although the canvases have been slashed,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GOLHooper, Kay
Summary: "A town shrouded in the occult. An evil that lurks in the dark. The SCU returns in a hair-raising novel from New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper. Nellie Cavendish has very good reasons to seek out her roots, and not only because she has no memory of her mother and hardly knew the father who left her upbringing to paid caregivers. In the eight years since her twenty-first birthday, very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HOOChevalier, Tracy.
Summary: Marked for greatness after being struck by lightning in infancy, Mary Anning discovers a fossilized skeleton near her 19th century home that triggers attacks on her character and upheavals throughout the religious, scientific, and academic communities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHEGulland, Sandra.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GULHillerman, Anne
Summary: Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his detective skills are still sharp, honed by his work as a private detective. His experience will be essential to solve a compelling new case: finding the birth parents of a woman who was raised by a bilagáana family but believes she is Diné based on one solid clue, an old photograph with a classic Navajo child's blanket....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Reichs, Kathy.
Summary: John Lowery was declared dead in 1968 - the victim of a Huey crash in Vietnam, his body buried long ago in North Carolina. Four decades later, Temperance Brennan is called to the scene of a drowning in Hemmingford, Quebec. The victim appears to have died while in the midst of a bizarre sexual practice. The corpse is later identified as John Lowery. But how could Lowery have died twice, and how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2010