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Riggs, Ransom.

Summary: A horrific family tragedy sends sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of an old orphanage that was home to children who were more than just peculiar, but possibly dangerous--and who may still be alive. Illustrated with vintage found photographs.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2012

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

Corrigan, Maya

Summary: Its a cold January in the Chesapeake Bay area, but Cool Down Café manager Val Deniston has plenty to sweat overlike catering a book club event, testing recipes for her Granddads cookbook, and catching the author of a deadly tale of murder. . .The last thing Val needs in her life is an unsolved murder, especially when the victim, an actor famed for impersonating Edgar Allan Poe, happens to be...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2017

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

Gratz, Alan

Summary: Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America. Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and...

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

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

Delany, Vicki

Summary: "As the proprietor and head pastry chef of Tea by the Sea, a tearoom on the picturesque bluffs of Cape Cod, Lily Roberts has her hands are full. But nothing keeps her busier than steering her sassy grandmother, Rose, away from trouble. Rose operates the B & B adjacent to Lily's tea shop ... for now. Real estate developer Jack Ford is pushing hard to rezone nearby land, with an eye toward...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023

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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DEL

Hatcher, Robin Lee

Summary: Brianna Hastings's life seemed dull until she was smitten by Greg, who leads an exciting, independent life-- the kind of life she longs for. For a college history assignment, Brianna has to interview her great-grandmother about life during World War II. During the interview, Daisy presses her with questions about Greg's character. What could her great-grandmother possibly know about love at...

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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 HAT

Rimmer, Kelly

Summary: "Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz. Now fifteen and engaged, Alina is unconcerned by reports of Nazi soldiers at the Polish border, believing her neighbors that they pose no real threat, and dreams instead of the day Tomasz returns from college in Warsaw so they can be married. But little by little, injustice by brutal injustice, the Nazi...

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

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McKinnon, Hannah Roberts

Summary: "At age ninety-two, Tish Darling is the matriarch and protector of what's left of the Darling family fortune, including the decades-old beach house, Riptide. Located on the crook of Cape Cod, it's a place she once loved but has not returned to in decades, since a tragic family accident one perfect summer day. Her daughter-in-law Cora has her own complicated feelings surrounding Tish's return,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MCK

Colgan, Jenny

Summary: Moving to the tidal island of Mount Polbearne, a Cornish seaside village, hoping for peace and solitude, Marisa Rosso, feeling like life is passing her by. She is struggling to get over the death of her beloved grandfather, back home in Italy. Her job as a registrar keeps her dealing with births, weddings, and deaths, but the solitude she craves proves elusive. Dealing with the community...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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

Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)

Summary: With his bestselling blend of nail-biting intensity, daring artistry, and storytelling magic, Dean Koontz returns with an emotional roller coaster of a tale filled with enough twists, turns, shocks, and surprises for ten ordinary novels. Here is the story of five days in the life of an ordinary man born to an extraordinary legacy--a story that will challenge the way you look at good and evil,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2004

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Taylor, Mary Ellen

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Summary: "As a hospice nurse, Zara Mitchell has already seen more death than most people will experience in a lifetime. So when her older sister asks her to help care for their ailing grandmother, Zara agrees - despite strained family relationships. Though pale and tired, Nonna has lost none of her sharp mind. She's fixated on finding something long forgotten, and she immediately puts Zara to work...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022

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Johnson, Craig

Summary: "Sheriff Walt Longmire and Dog are called on a routine search and rescue to Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains, where Walt finds himself remembering when his father told about the first time he saw a man die. In the late forties, Bill Sutherland was shot but the investigation was stymied because no member of the elk camp where he was found was carrying the caliber rifle that killed the state...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024

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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOH

Peterson, Tracie

Summary: When her grandfather's health begins to decline, Havyn is determined to keep her family together. But everyone has secrets--including John, the hired stranger who recently arrived on their farm. To help out Havyn starts singing at a local roadhouse--but dangerous eyes grow jealous as she and John grow closer. Will they realize the peril before it is too late?

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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 PET

Andrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009

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

Dorsey, Tim.

Summary: Serge A. Storms multitasks to battle the Palermo crime family, mystery assassins, local police, the FBI, the CIA, Fidel Castro, and a forty-year-old mystery involving the infamous "Murph the Surf" gem heist.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004

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

Pearson, Robin W.

Summary: "To hear Beatrice Agnew tell it, she entered the world with her mouth tightly shut. Just because she finds out she's dying doesn't mean she can't keep it that way. If any of her children have questions about their daddy and the choices she made after he abandoned them, they'd best take it up with Jesus. There's no room in Granny B's house for regrets or hand-holding. Or so she thinks. Her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC PEA

Mallery, Susan

Summary: Life is meant to be savored, but that's not easy with no family, limited prospects and a past you'd rather not talk about. Still, Callie Smith doesn't know how to feel when she discovers she has a brother and a sister--Malcolm, who grew up with affection, wealth and privilege, and Keira, a streetwise twelve-year-old. Callie doesn't love being alone, but at least it's safe. Despite her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018

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

Schmidt, Gary D.

Summary: With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

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

Brown, Peter

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Summary: Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018

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Acevedo, Elizabeth

Summary: Curvaceous sixteen-year-old Xiomara Batista discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her fiercely religious mother's view of women, as well as her relationship to a world dominated by rape-culture.

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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 ACE

Lockhart, E.

Summary: Each summer the wealthy, seemingly perfect Sinclair family meets on their private island. Cadence, Johnny, Mirren, and Gat are a unit, especially during "summer 15," marking their fifteenth year on Beechwood-- the summer that Cady and Gat fall in love. Cady became involved in a mysterious accident, in which she sustained a blow to the head, and now suffers from debilitating migraines and memory...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

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Carlson, Melody

Summary: "After a time of heartache and loss, Simone Winthrop discovers a tantalizing letter from her French great-grandmother, which seems to suggest that she is heir to a family treasure. Ever practical, Simone assumes the claim is baseless, but her best friend encourages her to find out for sure. Despite her deep-rooted fear of flying, Simone boards a jet to travel to Paris at Christmastime to...

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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 CAR

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Michaels, Fern

Summary: Swindled out of his home by his gold-digging wife, successful accountant Gus Hollister returns to his grandmother Rose's Virginia farmhouse where he helps the residents of Blossom Farm expand their business and finds the courage to love again.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Michaels 2013

Evanovich, Janet

Summary: When Stephanie's beloved Grandma Mazur's new husband died on their wedding night, the only thing he left her was a beat-up old easy chair... and the keys to a life-changing fortune. But as Stephanie and Grandma Mazur search for Jimmy Rosolli's treasure, two dangerous enemies from the past stand in their way--along with a formidable new adversary. Gabriela Rose, a dark-eyed beauty from Little...

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

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

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

Morton, Kate

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009

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