Vance, J. D.
Summary: Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2017
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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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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JILWingate, Lisa
Summary: "Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now-destitute plantation; Juneau Jane, her illegitimate free-born Creole half-sister; and Hannie, Lavinia's former slave. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following dangerous roads rife...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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Summary: "A hot meal, a hard drink, and maybe a friendly hand of poker-that's all Mac Mackenzie wants when he drifts into the small town of Harcourt City, Montana. What he gets is a fistful of trouble. When he defends a saloon girl from the unwanted advances of some local toughs, he earns the wrath of the town's powerful namesake, Oscar Harcourt. Harcourt rules this place with an iron fist-and a steely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2022
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Summary: Paris, 2015. A crowd gathers outside the Chauvet home in the affluent suburban community of Maisons-Larue, watching as the family's American au pair is led away in handcuffs after the sudden death of her young charge. The grieving mother believes the caretaker is to blame, and the neighborhood is thrown into chaos, unsure who is at fault--the enigmatic, young foreigner or the mother herself,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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Summary: "1857. Three women -- once strangers -- come together in unpredictable Utah Territory. Hopeful, desperate, and willful, they'll allow nothing on Earth or in Heaven to stand in their way. Following the call of their newfound Mormon faith, Tamar Loader and her family weather a brutal pilgrimage from England to Utah, where Tamar is united with her destined husband, Thomas Ricks. Clinging to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HAWHenderson, Eleanor
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: A blown mission and a dead team leave Adam Hayes the last loose thread in a tapestry of betrayal in this latest high stakes international thriller from the world of Robert Ludlum. The most pressing issue on Adam Hayes' mind is planning his son's upcoming 5th birthday party. After years of operating in the world's most dangerous spots for Treadstone, he's ready to call it quits, but the feeling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: When Norman Clay, an American journalist, arrives in Mexico it is to cover the decisive duel between two celebrated matadors, and to learn more about his family's past. As he uncovers the story of his Mexican ancestors, the dramatic story of Mexico unfolds. (from back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 1992
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Summary: Years after a party that resulted in a teen's death, Jon Soliday, legal counsel to a politician and close childhood friend who is running for governor, realizes with horror that his fellow partygoers are being killed off.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Summary: "From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand-new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery and suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life--from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC OATPatterson, James
Summary: 22 seconds ... until Lindsay Boxer loses her badge--or her life. SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer has guns on her mind. There's buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing the Mexican border ahead of new restrictive gun laws. Before Lindsay can act, her top informant tips her to a case that hits disturbingly close to home. Former cops. Professional hits. All with the same warning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC PATRaybourn, Deanna
Summary: "London, 1889. Veronica Speedwell and her natural historian beau Stoker are summoned by Sir Hugo Montgomerie, head of Special Branch. He has a personal request on behalf of his goddaughter, Euphemia Hathaway. After years of traveling the world, her eldest brother, Jonathan, heir to Hathaway Hall, was believed to have been killed in the catastrophic eruption of Krakatoa a few years before. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: Letty Davenport, the brilliant and tenacious adopted daughter of Lucas Davenport, takes the investigative reins in the newest thriller from #1 bestselling author John Sandford. By age twenty-four, Letty Davenport has seen more action and uncovered more secrets than many law enforcement professionals. Now a recent Stanford grad with a master's in economics, she's restless and bored in a desk job...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SANLeigh, Melinda
Summary: "New sheriff Bree Taggert is called to a shooting in a campground shuttered for the winter. But she arrives to find a perplexing crime. There is no shooter, no victim, and no blood. No one but Bree believes the sole witness, Alyssa, a homeless teenager who insists she saw her friend shot. Bree calls in former deputy Matt Flynn and his K-9 to track the killer and search for Alyssa's friend. They...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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Summary: After arriving at Ellis Island, two poor children from Southern Italy--Diamante, age twelve, and Vita, age nine--struggle to survive in New York City amid the poverty, opportunity, and crime of Little Italy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: There just isn't enough crime in Mattawooptock, so Gertrude has to convince Calvin to go to the big city--Portland, where she will go undercover as the newest slam poet on the scene. But have any actual crimes been committed, or is this just Gertrude's wild imagination at work?
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Creation Publishing 2017
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Summary: "It begins in Africa... A United Nations relief team in a small village in the Congo makes an alarming discovery. An unknown force is leveling the evolutionary playing field. Men, women, and children have been reduced to a dull, catatonic state. The environment surrounding them--plants and animals--has grown more cunning and predatory, evolving at an exponential pace. The insidious phenomenon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROLTahir, Sabaa
Summary: "Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TAHTallis, Frank
Summary: When the body of a badly mutilated victim is discovered in an abandoned piano factory in 1904 Vienna, psychiatrist Max Lieberman assists Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt in an investigation that draws them into the shadowy and sexually unconventional world of fringe political activism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC TALBaldacci, David
Summary: It is New Year's Eve, 1952 in Los Angeles. Private Investigator, Aloysius Archer, is dining with his friend and rising Hollywood star, Liberty Callahan, when they're approached by Eleanor Lamb, a famous screenwriter, who would like to hire him as she suspects someone is trying to kill her. A visit to Lamb's Malibu residence leaves Archer in no doubt of foul play when he's knocked unconscious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BALO'Reilly, Bill
Summary: "As the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon burned, and a small group of passengers fought desperately to stop a third plane from completing its deadly flight plan, America went on war footing. Killing The Killers narrates America's intense global war against extremists who planned and executed not only the 9/11 attacks, but hundreds of others in America and around the world,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Large Print 363.3250 OREVeletzos, Roxanne
Summary: "This epic World War II tale of star-crossed lovers separated by class, circumstance, and tragedy--from the international bestselling author of the "gripping...filled with passion and hope" (Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author) The Girl They Left Behind--explores the impact of war on civilian life and the indestructible resilience of first love. Hungary, 1943: As war encroaches on the...
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Summary: "Parson and Gold are on a relief mission to Somalia when they are asked to escort a Hollywood actress and activist around Somalia as she makes a documentary. Meanwhile an al-Shabaab leader out to stop all foreign interference has set his sights on them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015