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9981) The box
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
283 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
"Dora Ogden's life has been perfectly normal. Two parents. Four brothers. A full-time job in her father' s café . But, when she finds a box three days before Easter, everything changes. With the very foundations of her life ripped from under her feet, Dora heads south, leaving everything behind. Avon Xenon loves his job in a care home. Of the sixty residents, his favourite is Betsy. She often repeats the same story about her kidnapped baby and missing...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
701 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Description
"In this powerful new history, New York Times bestselling author Max Wallace draws on groundbreaking research to reframe Helen Keller's journey after the miracle at the water pump, vividly bringing to light her rarely discussed, lifelong fight for social justice across gender, class, race, and ability. Raised in Alabama, she sent shockwaves through the South when she launched a public broadside against Jim Crow and donated to the NAACP. She used her...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
535 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
"It's finally time for Charles Ignatius Sancho to tell his story, one that begins on a slave ship in the Atlantic and ends at the very center of London life. . . . A lush and immersive tale of adventure, artistry, romance, and freedom set in eighteenth-century England and based on a true story. It's 1746 and Georgian London is not a safe place for a young Black man. Charles Ignatius Sancho must dodge slave catchers and worse, and his main ally--a...
9985) Among heroes: a U.S. Navy SEAL's true story of friendship, heroism, and the ultimate sacrifice
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
353 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of illustrations : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
Description
Brandon Webb rose to the top of the elite sniper corps, leading the SEALs' clandestine sniper training program. During years of punishing training and combat missions, he served beside, trained, and supported men he came to know as fellow warriors, friends and, eventually, as heroes. This is Webb' s personal account of the uncommon courage of eight extraordinary SEALs who gave all for their comrades -- and their country.
9986) The covenant
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
295 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
"It was a time of uncertainty in the infancy of the growing nation. The Wild West was open and beckoning to displaced men and families, and many chose to travel to the unsettled frontier, dreaming of new homes, land, and even riches. But few reckoned on those that had lived in those lands for centuries, the native peoples: Blackfoot, Crow, Sioux, and more. Elijah McCain, fresh from the Union army -- where he had attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel...
9989) Isaiah's legacy
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
584 pages (large print) : map ; 23 cm.
Description
"At eight years old, Shulle has known only life in a small village with her loving but peculiar father. When Uncle Shebna offers shelter in Jerusalem in exchange for Shulle's help tutoring King Manasseh, Judah's five-year-old co-regent who displays the same peculiarities as her father, she's eager to experience the royal court. But Shulle soon realizes the limits of her father's strict adherence to Yahweh's Law when Uncle Shebna teaches her of the...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
617 pages (large print) : genealogical table ; 23 cm.
Description
Tilar J. Mazzeo's comprehensive and riveting biography describes the extraordinary life and times of Eliza Hamilton, the wife of founding father Alexander Hamilton, and a powerful, unsung hero in America's early days. Eliza was a strong pioneer woman, a loving sister, a caring mother, and in her later years, a generous philanthropist. From her upbringing in New York to her married life and beyond, this captivating account reveals the woman behind...
9991) Massacre Canyon
Author
Series
Lone McGantry volume 6
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
327 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
"Wayne Dundee's straight-shootin', hard-ridin' fan favorite is back in the saddle again, hell bent for leather on getting justice. Arriving on horseback at a railroad watering station where he means to briefly rest and hopefully find some refreshment before moving on, Lone McGantry tangles with a pair of rowdy cowboys who are up to no good. No sooner is that resolved than a train arrives after having been just robbed. Aboard is Jeth Howard, an old...
9992) Memory piece
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
390 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different. "Allied in the weirdest parts of themselves," they envision each other as artistic collaborators and embark on a future defined by freedom and creativity."--
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
959 pages (large print) ; 25 cm.
Description
"A lively and essential chronicle of the only consecutive trio of two-term presidencies of the same political party in American history, from the bestselling author of Thomas Jefferson: Revolutionary and James Madison. Before the consecutive two-term administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, there had only been one other trio of its type: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe. Kevin R. C. Gutzman's The...
9995) Where the dead wait
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"William Day should be an acclaimed Arctic explorer. But after a failed expedition, in which his remaining men only survived by eating their dead comrades, he returned in disgrace. Thirteen years later, his second-in-command, Jesse Stevens, has gone missing in the same frozen waters. Perhaps this is Day's chance to restore his tarnished reputation by bringing Stevens -- the man who's haunted his whole life -- back home. But when the rescue mission...
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
453 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
Life at the Barr-McGee ranch has settled into a pleasant lull of work and rest for members of The Outfit. Life should be good ... but big Rafe Barr stews about his wife and son's murderer, and leaves to search for resolution, revenge, reckoning. Meanwhile, Black Jack Smith attends a high-stakes poker tournament in Santa Fe, where he encounters southern gambler Colonel Rufus Turlington the Second, and his powerful covert Brotherhood of the Phoenix....
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
529 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Description
"The Spoilt Quilt and Other Frontier Stories, edited by Hazel Rumney, features sixteen brand-new stories that will delight historical fiction fans. These stories capture the spirit of freedom and individualism in the evolving American frontier through the early 1900s and feature pioneering women of the West who face life-changing challenges in settings that are in stark contrast to civilized society. Ranging from high-action traditional Westerns to...
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Series
WiCKed Sisters volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
342 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
"As a lonely foster kid, Serafina Conte sought refuge in handmaking journals -- and writing her wishes within their pages. Now, in the quirky new age store she shares with her two best friends, Sera's intentions have paid off. Her journals are in the spotlight -- and rumored to manifest great things. Whether it's witchy skills, real magic, or not, Sera's finally ready to be the leading lady of her life story . . . Until her plot hits a twist. After...
9999) Sandcastle Inn
Author
Series
Hope Harbor volume 10
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
445 pages (large print) : maps ; 23 cm.
Description
"Vienna Price never intended to return for more than a passing visit to Oregon and all the bad memories she'd left behind. But when your career tanks, home is where you go to nurse your wounds and chart a new course. Only temporarily, of course -- because as much as she loves her quirky mom, anything more than a short stay would drive them both crazy. A trip to Oregon isn't in Matt Quinn's plans, either, until a perfectly timed appeal for help arrives...
10000) All my secrets
Author
Series
Gilded age volume 1
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Description
"New York, 1898. The only thing more shocking than Arthur Stanhope III's unexpected death is the revelation that his will bestows his company -- and most of the vast fortune that goes with it -- to the nearest male heir, leaving his mother, wife, and daughter nearly impoverished. His widow, Sylvia, quickly realizes she must set aside her grief to ensure their daughter, Adelaide, is launched into society as soon as the appropriate mourning period passes....
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