Pronzini, Bill
Summary: "The latest Carpenter & Quincannon mystery: "Attractive characters, a finely tuned plot, and fascinating snippets of California history. Who could ask for more?"--Publishers Weekly on The Stolen Gold Affair Quincannon's pursuit of two con men who have absconded to Hawaii with a considerable sum of his employer's assets dovetails nicely with Sabina's vision of a second honeymoon. But neither is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Summary: "Seven graduate students are recruited by a microbiology start-up and dispatched to a mysterious lab in Hawaii. There they are promised access to tools that will open a whole new scientific frontier. But once in the Oahu rain forest, the scientists are thrust into a hostile wilderness where they find themselves prey to a technology of radical and unbridled power. To survive, they must harness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CRIAckerman, Sara
Summary: "1927. Olivia "Livy" West is a fearless young pilot with a love of adventure. She yearns to cross oceans and travel the skies. When she learns of the Dole Air Race -- a high-stakes contest to be the first to make the 2,400 mile Pacific crossing from the West Coast to Hawaii -- she sets her sights on qualifying. But it soon becomes clear that only men will make the cut. In a last-ditch effort to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ACKFrancis, Dorothy Brenner.
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Vicki Foster intends to marry her boyfriend, Greg, and help him through law school, but an opportunity to spend the summer working at a Hawaiian resort hotel operated by her aunt and cousins changes her plans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike/Chivers 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FRAShaara, Jeff
Summary: "In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt watches uneasily as the world heads rapidly down a dangerous path. The Japanese have waged an aggressive campaign against China, and they now begin to expand their ambitions to other parts of Asia. As their expansion efforts grow bolder, their enemies know that Japan's ultimate goal is total conquest over the region, especially when the Japanese align...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Shaara 2020Gardner, Lisa
Summary: "No man truly fears a woman. Not even one who is her father's daughter. The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. She had called herself "death," but people called her the devil. Despite the media's chronicling of her tragic circumstances--the childhood spent with a violent father--no one could find sympathy for "the Beautiful Butcher"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GARReichs, 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
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Summary: "Audrey Parker's life changes forever when Pearl Harbor is attacked on December 7, 1941. Her brother, a talented young Navy pilot, had been stationed there, poised to fulfill their late father's distinguished legacy. Fresh out of nursing school with a passion and a born gift for helping others, both Audrey and her friend Lizzie suddenly find their nation on the brink of war. Driven to do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print Publishing 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Summary: In 1941, Irvel Ellis is too focused on her secret to take much notice in the war overseas. She's dating Sam but in love with his brother, Hank, and Irvel has no idea how to break the news when the unthinkable happens--Pearl Harbor is attacked. With their lives turned upside down overnight, Sam is drafted, and Hank wants to enlist. But Sam insists Hank stay home, where he and Irvel take up the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: Carissa doesn't know who she is anymore. She and her husband, Richard, are recent empty-nesters. Richard is spending more time at work counseling his volatile clients, some of whom are starting to show up at their home. And now, Carissa just learned that she's been downsized. Carissa has already stopped trusting her husband--and now she's not so sure she trusts God. As her world is tilting off...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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Summary: When millions of fish start dying off the coast of Hawaii and something is destroying hundreds of ships, the government enlists Max and the flock, a band of genetically modified children who can fly, to help get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too late.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALEFriedman, Daniel
Summary: "Once, Detective Buck Schatz patrolled the city of Memphis, chasing down robbers and killers with a blackjack truncheon and a .357. But he's been retired for decades. Now he's frail and demented, and Rose, his wife of 72 years, is ill and facing a choice about her health care that Buck is terrified to even consider. The future looks short and bleak, and Buck's only escape is into the past. But...
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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 FRIChiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: As the nation grapples with the strictures of Prohibition, Rosa Barclay lives on a Southern California rye farm with her volatile husband, John, who has lately found another source of income far outside the federal purview. Mother to eight children, Rosa mourns the loss of four who succumbed to the mysterious wasting disease that is now afflicting young Ana and Miguel. Two daughters born of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIYonover, Robert
Summary: "While struggling to become a successful scientist and inventor, Dr. Robert Yonover also was primary caregiver for his paralyzed wife for more than twenty years and raised their two children. He offers guidance and hope to caregivers based on his own experiences"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 649.8 YONMcClure, Marcia Lynn
Summary: "Youthful beauty, naive innocence, a romantic imagination thirsting for adventure--an apt description of Vaden Valmont, who would soon find the adventure and mystery she had always longed to experience--in the form of a man--a somber recluse, Ransom Lake"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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Summary: 1992. Eight respectable, upstanding people have been found dead across the United States. These deaths look like accidents and don't appear to be connected until one body--the victim of a fatal fall from a hospital window--generates some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the secretary of defense, who promptly calls for an interagency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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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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Summary: "Something is not right in the North Maine Woods. A small family-run lumber company should not have more than two hundred million unaccountable dollars on their books. Money like that comes from moving something other than wood across the border. The first agent the FBI sent undercover was their best man--sure to get the answers that were needed. He was dead within a month. Now, Danny Barrett...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CORHooper, 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 HOOCorrigan, 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 CORPatterson, James
Summary: "In a Virginia penitentiary, Detective Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson, witness the execution of a killer they helped to convict. Hours later, they are called to the scene of a copycat crime. A note signed 'M' rests on the corpse. 'You messed up big time, Dr. Cross.' Was an innocent man just put to death? Alex soon realizes he may have much to answer for, as 'M' lures the detective out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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Summary: In this follow-up to Traces of Guilt, detective Evie Blackwell returns with some familiar friends, this time working with a new task force dedicated to solving cold missing-persons cases. She and her new partner, David, have been assigned unrelated cases in Chicago, with Evie searching for a missing college student and David hunting a private investigator who disappeared. In the meantime,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2017