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Loftis, Larry

Summary: "As the U.S. enters the Second World War, the young college graduate is desperate to aid in the war effort, but no one is interested in a bright-eyed young woman whose only career experience is modeling clothes. Aline's life changes when, at a dinner party, she meets a man named Frank Ryan and reveals how desperately she wants to do her part for her country. Within a few weeks, he helps her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP B GRIFFITH LOF

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1988

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5486 ALI

Bohjalian, Chris

Summary: Tanzania, 1964. When Katie Barstow, A-list actress, and her new husband, David Hill, decide to bring their Hollywood friends to the Serengeti for their honeymoon, they envision giraffes gently eating leaves from the tall acacia trees, great swarms of wildebeests crossing the Mara River, and herds of zebra storming the sandy plains. Their glamorous guests--including Katie's best friend, Carmen...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BOH

Gray, Shelley Shepard

Summary: In Woodland Park, a small town nestled in the foothills of Pikes Peak, Anderson Kelly and Chelsea Davis were once the high school 'it' couple - the star quarterback and the valedictorian. They broke up when Anderson joined the army and one poor decision at a fraternity party changed Chelsea's life. Now, she works long shifts in a senior centre to support her nine-year-old son, Jack. After...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023

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

Allende, Isabel

Summary: "In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1985

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 818 HEM

Sepetys, Ruta

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Summary: Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into the country under the welcoming guise of sunshine and wine. Among them is eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson, the son of a Texas oil tycoon, who arrives in Madrid with his parents hoping to connect with the country of his mother's birth...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SEP

Gores, Joe

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009

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

Mbue, Imbolo

Summary: "'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021

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

Maden, Mike

Summary: "While on vacation in Barcelona, Jack Ryan, Jr. is surprised to run into an old friend at a small café. A first, Renee Moore seems surprised to see Jack, but then she just seems irritated and distracted. After making plans to meet later, Jack leaves, only to miss the opportunity to ever speak to Renee again, as the café is destroyed minutes later by a suicide bomber. A desperate Jack plunges...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2020

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

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

Cornwell, Patricia Daniels.

Summary: Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has just returned from working one of the worst mass murders in U.S. history when she's awakened at an early hour by Detective Pete Marino. A body, oddly draped in an unusual cloth, has just been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT and it's suspected the identity is that of missing computer engineer Gail Shipton, last seen the night...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, Penguin Group 2013

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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COR

Trigiani, Adriana.

Summary: "The beloved New York Times bestselling author shares a treasure trove of insight and guidance from her two grandmothers-time-tested common sense advice on the most important aspects of a woman's life, from childhood to old age"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2010

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 813.54 TRI

Newton, Michael

Summary: Orrin Porter Rockwell is more than just a deputy United States marshal and a deadly gunfighter. He's a member of the Mormon Danites, the group of enforcers known as the Avenging Angels, and he's the personal troubleshooter for Governor Brigham Young. And when Young sends Rockwell to the rough-and-tumble mining town of Tartarus, there'll be plenty of trouble for him to shoot. A group of Mormon...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

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

O'Hara, Max

Summary: "The newspapers call them the Devil's Horde. A well-oiled team of cutthroat bandits who terrorize the Northern Pacific Railway en route to the coast through Dakota Territory. They dynamite the tracks, blow open the express car door, murder the crewmen, rob the passengers, and empty the safe of gold and cash. If Wells Fargo & Company can't find a way to stop the Devil's Horde, there'll be hell...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC O'HA

Escobar, Mario

Summary: "Madrid, 1934. Though the Spanish Civil War has not yet begun, the streets of Madrid have become dangerous for thirteen-year-old Marco Alcalde and his younger sisters, Isabel and Ana. When Marco's parents align themselves against General Franco and his fascist regime, they have no inkling that their ideals will endanger them and everyone they love--nor do they predict the violence that is to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ESC

Strasdin, Kate

Summary: "In 1838, a young woman was given a diary on her wedding day. Collecting snippets of fabric from a range of garments -- some her own, others donated by family and friends -- she carefully annotated each one, creating a unique record of their lives. Her name was Mrs. Anne Sykes. Nearly two hundred years later, the diary fell into the hands of Kate Strasdin, a fashion historian and museum...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC STR

Fellowes, Jessica

Summary: "The year is 1928, and after the death of a maid at a glamorous society party, fortune heir Bryan Guinness seizes life and proposes to eighteen-year-old Diana, most beautiful of the six Mitford sisters. The maid's death is ruled an accident, and the newlyweds put it behind them to begin a whirlwind life zipping between London's Mayfair, chic Paris and hedonistic Berlin. Accompanying Diana as...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FEL

Morton, Andrew

Summary: Diana in Pursuit of Love includes previously unpublished details from the Diana-Morton tapes, it is based on wide-ranging research, and new and exclusive interviews. The definitive book on Diana, Pricess of Wales's last years, by the biographer she herself chose. When Andrew Morton's world-famous biography, Diana: Her True Story was first published, it caused a media frenzy, severely jolted the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Large Print Home Library 2004

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 DIANA, PRINCESS MOR

Greeley, Andrew M.

Summary: Sent to Spain to prevent a murder, Archbishop John Blackwood "Blackie" Ryan protects a beautiful widow from avaricious relatives who would seize control of her fortune, an effort that is further complicated by dramatic events back in his Chicago home.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009

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

Grippando, James

Summary: "Aspiring playwright, Kate Gamble, is struggling to launch a script she's been secretly researching her entire life, mostly at the family dinner table. Her father is Christian Gamble, CEO of Buck Technologies, a private data integration company whose clients include the CIA and virtually every counter-terrorism organization in the Western World. Kate's father adores her, and a play about the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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

Williams, Beatriz

Summary: In 1954, Emilia Winthrop, a professor at Wellesley College, is summoned to CIA headquarters, where she is forced to confront the harrowing consequences of the summer she exposed a traitor amongst the New England elite and a choice that could destroy her chance for redemption all over again.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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Guin, Jerry

Summary: "Sam Bass was just a farm boy from Indiana, but he wound up in Texas and became one of the most notorious outlaws in the history of the Old West. Texas history has often referred to Bass as "Texas' Beloved Bandit" or "Robin Hood on a Fast Horse." Jerry Guin's historical novel The Bandit takes an unflinching look at the life and times of Sam Bass, from his almost accidental incursion into a life...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

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

Meyer, Nicholas

Summary: "With the international bestseller The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Nicholas Meyer brought to light a previously unpublished case of Sherlock Holmes, as recorded by Dr. John H. Watson. Now Meyer returns with a shocking discovery--an unknown case drawn from a recently unearthed Watson journal. January 1905: Holmes and Watson are summoned by Holmes' brother Mycroft to undertake a clandestine...

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

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

McCauley, Terrence

Summary: "In the boomtown of Dover Station, Montana, tracks have been laid and everyone's looking to make a fortune, lawfully or not. And the law has something to say about it--one bullet at a time"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019

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

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