McBride, James
Summary: "In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 1995
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Summary: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel -- a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: April Asbury, a lovely young nurse, has just arrived in town when her car breaks down and she meets Joe Jones, a "natural-born flirt" who offers to help her. April is plucky, pretty and smart, and Joe soon finds himself falling for her, though he struggles to shed his playboy image. Meanwhile, the town doctor, Todd Forbes, wades into troublesome romantic territory when he falls for a woman of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Summary: "If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe...and the impossible is exactly what the formidable Captain Sharpe is asked to do when he's sent on an undercover mission to a small village in the Spanish countryside, far behind enemy lines. For the quiet, remote village, sitting high above the Almaraz bridge, is about to become the centre of a battle for the future of Europe. Two French...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Summary: In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016
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Summary: "In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Summary: In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps build a world-class...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021
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Summary: In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: "Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: In a house full of secrets, two babies - one light-skinned, the other dark - are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper's daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down the road to the nearby town. In the aftermath, the farm's inhabitants are forced to contend with their complicity in a series of events that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, a trademark of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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Summary: "'Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes . . . ' Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling an unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It's 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Summary: "Captured in the last year of the Civil War, Lucas Cain becomes a POW in the infamous Andersonville prison. There he learns how to survive the cruelty of the Confederate guards, and the perfidy of a few who are prisoners themselves. When the war ends, Lucas and over 2,000 others crowd aboard the riverboat Sultana, which was built to carry cargo, not men. After an unforeseen event occurs, Lucas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Summary: New York City, 1956: Marion Brooks's college sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has always expected they'd have together: a quiet house in the suburbs-- and she's feeling trapped. When she comes across an opportunity to audition for the famous Radio City Rockettes-- the glamorous precision-dancing troupe-- she jumps at the chance to exchange her predictable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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Summary: "2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer on Makeover Mansion, a popular reality show about restoring America's most lavish historical houses. Andie's latest project features the once glorious but now crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport ... But the mansion's reclusive owner, Lucia 'Lucky' Sprague, will only allow the show to go forward on two conditions: One, nobody speaks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: "In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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Summary: James Rich has a strange request for Detroit Free Press reporter Elizabeth Balsam: that she look up a relative she didn't know she had in order to deliver an old camera and a box of photos. Having lost her job after a botched investigation, she has nothing but time. At her great-aunt's 150-year-old farmhouse Elizabeth uncovers a series of mysterious items, locked doors-- and hidden graves. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eagle Large Print 1993
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Summary: In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a "seigneur," for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters -- barkskins. René suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a Mi'kmaw woman and their descendants live trapped...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PROChabon, Michael.
Summary: Author Michael Chabon summons the rollicking spirit of legendary adventures--from "The Arabian Nights" to Alexandre Dumas--in a new novel with a cast of characters worthy of Scheherazade's most tantalizing tales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall & Co. 1995
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Summary: "Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good. Picking up her mother's old packhorse library...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022