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Ryan, Jennifer

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Summary: As England enters World War II's dark early days, spirited music professor Primrose Trent, recently arrived to the village of Chilbury, emboldens the women of the town to defy the Vicar's stuffy edict to shutter the church's choir in the absence of men and instead carry on singing.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017

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Griffin, Anne

Summary: "Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from her father, this gift has enabled the family undertakers to flourish in their small Irish town. Yet she has always been uneasy about censoring some of the dead's last messages to the living. Unsure, too, about the choice she made when she left school seventeen years...

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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 Griffin 2022

Rowling, J. K.

Summary: Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1999

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Rowling, J. K.

Summary: During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ROW

George, Elizabeth

Summary: Lynley is sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Creswell at the request of the man's wealthy uncle. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning, and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise, but when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio's digging finds that the clan is awash in secrets, lies and motives.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2012

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GEO

Finch, Charles (Charles B.)

Summary: Returning from a continental honeymoon with his wife, Lady Jane Grey, newly elected MP Charles Lenox is asked by his colleague, Ludovic Starling, to investigate the murder of his footman who was bludgeoned to death with a brick. Lenox gradually realizes that what seem to be the facts of the case may have been manipulated, and that an old friend may be implicated in the footman's death. Though a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FIN

Colfer, Eoin.

Summary: When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2001

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COL

Toyne, Simon

Summary: "Forensics expert Laughton Rees hunts an unusually clever killer who appears to be staging murder scenes just for her in this twisty new psychological thriller by the bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy. How do you catch a killer if the victim doesn't exist? A glamorous woman is murdered in her ultra-luxurious London mansion and her husband goes missing. But according to public records,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TOY

Chevalier, Tracy

Summary: 1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2019

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Colfer, Eoin

Summary: When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020

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Louis, Lia

Summary: "Sparkly and charming Natalie Fincher has it all - a handsome new husband, a fixer-upper cottage of her dreams, and the opportunity to tour with the musical she's spent years writing. But when her husband suddenly dies, all her hopes and dreams instantly disappear. Two and a half years later, Natalie is still lost. She works, sleeps (well, as much as the sexually frustrated village foxes will...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023

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Rowling, J. K.

Summary: When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ROW

Balogh, Mary.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2005

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Truss, Lynne

Summary: It's September in Brighton and the city is playing host to weeks of endless rain and lashings of villainy. A trusted member of a local gang has disappeared part way through planning a huge heist; a violent criminal obsessed with boiling the heads of policemen has escaped Broadmoor and is rumoured to be headed towards the city, while at Gosling's department store an American researcher has been...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022

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Maxwell, Alyssa

Summary: "Following the devastation of the Great War, England's noble class takes comfort in honoring tradition. To celebrate their grandparents' wedding anniversary, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her siblings travel to Staffordshire to commission a china service bearing the Wroxly coat of arms from the venerated Crown Lily Potteries, a favorite of Queen Mary. The two leading designers at the illustrious...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

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McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: Literary agent Barbara Ragg has agreed to represent a man writing a book about his experiences hanging out with the Abominable Snowman. Terence Moongrove's residence has become the target of New Age cosmologists. And pint-sized terrier Freddie de la Hay is being recruited by MI6 to infiltrate a Russian spy ring.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCC

Newbold, Ashtyn

Summary: "In Regency England with her family's finances in peril, Charlotte Lyons is sent away with her sister to a bleak coastal town where she is expected to pursue a wealthy Earl. But when her heart is captured by someone entirely unexpected, Charlotte finds herself caught up in a web of lies and intrigue"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NEW

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Newbold 2018

Humphreys, 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 HUM

Dunn, Carola.

Summary: Daisy Dalrymple and her Scotland Yard detective husband, Alec Fletcher, are delighted to move into a home on the outskirts of London they have inherited from Alec's late uncle, until a corpse turns up in their garden bushes amid rumors of a liquor smuggling ring.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M DUN

George, Elizabeth

Summary: Inspector Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard and his pugnacious and deeply loyal Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers find themselves up against one of the most sinister murder cases they have ever encountered. Fans of the longtime series will love the many characters from past books who join Lynley and Havers, but readers new to the series will quickly see why Elizabeth George is one of the most...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GEO

Goldberg, 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 GOL

Lauren, Christina

Summary: "Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam "West" Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she'd signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed, and they both went on their merry ways. Three years later, Anna is a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck while West is a Stanford professor. He may be one of four heirs to the Weston Foods...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024

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Byrd, Sandra

Summary: "Answering a woman's desperate call for help, young Navy widow Helen Devries opens her Whidbey Island home as a refuge to Choi Eunhee. As they bond over common losses and a delicate, potentially devastating secret, their friendship spans the remainder of their lives. After losing her mother, Cassidy Quinn spent her childhood summers with her gran, Helen, at her farmhouse. Nourished by her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BYR

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Harris, C. S.

Summary: "It's October 1814. The war with France is finally over, Europe's diplomats are convening in Vienna for a conference that will put their world back together, and London finds itself in the grip of a series of terrifying murders eerily similar to the shocking Ratcliffe Highway murders of three years before. In 1811, two entire families were brutally murdered in their homes. A suspect--a young...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

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