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Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"What could be cooler, thinks teen Elizabeth Garber in 1965, than to live in a glass house designed by her architect dad? When Elizabeth Garber, her visionary architect father, and the rest of their family move into Woodie Garber's modern masterpiece, a glass house, in 1966, they have no idea that over the next few years their family's life will be shattered-both by Woodie's madness and the turbulent 1970s. This haunting memoir follows Elizabeth's...
25423) Playing possum
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When animals start mysteriously disappearing from the Pendwell Wildlife Refuge, former English-teacher-turned-magazine-reporter Kristy Farrell is on the case. Days later, the body of the refuge's director is found in a grassy clearing. Kristy, assisted by her veterinarian daughter, investigates and discovers strong motives among the suspects, including greed, infidelity, revenge, and blackmail. As Kristy delves further, she finds herself up against...
25424) Buckskin County War
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Brodie Pike knew he shouldn't get involved. It would somehow turn out bad, as seemed to happen too often to him, but he couldn't watch four gunmen bully a small-time rancher. The next day, the man he had helped is found beaten to death. Though he knows he is responsible for Dunn's death, he refuses to help the group of small ranchers who know that the Buckskin County Cattlemen's Association will be coming for their land soon. Months later, he reads...
25426) Misleading Miss Verity
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Verity Hatherleigh has a mind of her own -- but her actions do not impress her viscount papa, who sends her off to the wilds of Scotland to rethink her headstrong ways. Anthony Jardine has relished his role as curate, but his new duties as laird of Dungally aren't to his liking. He's finding nothing but trouble on these estates, and the intelligent, feisty lass who was sent to rusticate in his territory is one of the biggest problems. He's falling...
25427) Pennroyal Academy
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A girl from the forest enlists at Pennyroyal Academy, where princesses and knights are trained to battle the two great menaces of the day: witches and dragons"--
25431) Dog days of summer
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Grab a lap dog to cuddle and relax into a fun small-town mystery as a new dog rescue project turns into a three-ring circus of calamities. Trina Potter, Nashville country music star, buys a ranch near her hometown in Brenham, Texas, to help her niece open a rescue facility for dogs. Her presence in town stirs up some old high school rivalries -- and romance. Finding property to buy is a challenge, convincing her mother to move there with her is daunting,...
25432) The peasant king
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When her mother, the Persian king's famous senior scribe, is kidnapped, Jemmah and her sister must sneak undetected into enemy territory to rescue her. But infiltrating their adversary's lands proves easier than escaping them. Fleeing through dangerous mountain passes, their survival depends on the skills of a stranger they free from prison: a mysterious prince named Asher. Asher is not who the world believes he is. Despite his royal blood, he has...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"For Frances Wynn, widow to the late Earl of Harleigh, life has a cosmopolitan flavor of late. No sooner has she sent her mother and daughter off on a shopping trip to Paris than she and her fiance, George Hazelton, are socializing with visiting members of the Russian royal family. Yet amid this whirlwind, scandal also comes calling when Inspector Delaney turns up outside Frances's house with a young French woman with a shocking claim: she is Mrs....
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Looking forward to a quiet life and a full stomach, mail-order bride Rebecca Rice is pleased to marry her shopkeeper intended, Mr. Fordham, until the justice of the peace calls him Thaddeus, not Theodore--proceeded by the title Deputy. When the newlyweds realize they've married the wrong partners with similar names, an annulment seems in order--and fast, since Rebecca's true intended is impatient to claim her as his own, not to mention Rebecca would...
25436) The sister's search
Author
Series
Homeward Trails ; 3
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A young woman searches for her missing brother and finds much more awaits her - if she can escape war-torn Texas. Molly Weaver and her widowed mother embark on an arduous journey at the end of the Civil War. They hope to join Molly's brother Andrew on his ranch in Texas. When they arrive, Andrew is missing and squatters threaten the ranch. Can they trust Joe, the stranger who claims to be Andrew's friend? Joe's offer to help may be a godsend - or...
25438) The flower quilter
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Full of faith, hope, and romance, this new series takes you into the Heart of Amish country. Barbara Schwartz was born into a family of quilters, but she would rather eat dirt than partake in another quilting frolic or sew on another binding. When her parents send her to Indiana to help her grandmother in her quilting shop, she finds herself amongst a very different community. It's only one summer and then she will be back in Kentucky where she belongs....
25439) Buried secrets
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Three years after the accident that almost claimed her life, Emma Esh has recovered physically. But she has no memory of the year before the accident. When Emma moves to a new community to help her sister Lydia and brother-in-law, Caleb, prepare for the birth of twins, she falls for their neighbor Samuel. But the twins' premature birth, a visit from the Englischer Emma once dated, and the sudden return of her memory threaten Emma's romance. After...
25440) The sons of Philo Gains
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Philo Gaines is a legend-mountain man, Indian fighter, Texas Ranger and army scout. Philo is one other thing-a father with three sons; a scholar, a gambler, and a gunman. Each one is trying to leave his own mark on a hard land that requires the best out of hard men. In September 1873, Matthew Gaines arrives in the west Texas town of Mustang Flats. A quiet scholar, Matthew leaves Princeton to become the town's new school teacher. Haunted by a past...
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