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Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When climate activist Greta Thunberg was eleven, her parents, Malena and Svante, and her little sister, Beata, were facing a crisis in their own home. Greta had stopped eating and speaking, and her mother and father had reconfigured their lives to care for her. Desperate and searching for answers, her parents discovered what was at the heart of Greta's distress: her imperiled future on a rapidly heating planet. Steered by Greta's determination to...
24982) Harbor secrets
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1916 when newspaper woman Anna McDowell learns her estranged father has suffered a stroke. Deciding it's time to repair bridges, Anna packs up her precocious adolescent daughter and heads for her hometown in Sunset Cove, Oregon. Although much has changed since the turn of the century, some things haven t. Anna finds the staff of her father s paper not exactly eager to welcome a woman into the editor-in-chief role, but her father insists he wants...
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Maria is young and innocent and has never known love -- until Tony. And Tony, searching for life beyond the savagery of the streets, has discovered love for the first time with her, too. But Maria's brother is the leader of the Sharks and Tony had once led the rival Jets. Now, both gangs are claiming the same turf and with tensions rising to the point of explosion, it seems there is no way to stop a rumble. Tony promised Maria that he would stay...
Author
Series
Desiree Shapiro mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
24986) Dust
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam/Doubleday Large Print
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
24987) Murder your darlings
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2012,c2011
Language
English
24989) The blue mustang
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Young Button Starbuck and his brothers had a mighty shock when their father had been killed in his own home, but Button vowed to wreak his revenge - to trace Buchannan and kill him. Button was a boy who had never aimed a gun in anger nor been more than a day's ride from his home in his life. That was about to change. On his travels, Button has to learn to think for himself and he finds a friend - a blue mustang with the cunning and heart of a fighter."--Back...
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes love finds you where you are, and other times it meets you across distant shores as four women discover in these four historical stories linked by a shared gold pendant. More Than Gold (New South Wales, 1851) by Carolyn Miller: Josephine Wilkins is headstrong and heartbroken--why else would she have left all she knew to follow her brother's dreams of finding gold across the seas? Daniel Jardine is simply seeking adventure, in a land far...
24992) Attic of dreams: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A lyrical memoir that begins in a quiet Vermont village with memories of Marilyn's parents, who own a popular restaurant and lively night spot that sits next to their home. While her mother disappears into addiction, Marilyn grapples with feelings of abandonment, though she recalls being uplifted by the village, by her dreams, and by the kindness of others. In young adulthood, she lands on a beautiful estate known as Shelburne Farms, where she helps...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After struggling for years to work a raw-patch ranch in the arid flatlands of Texas, young Mitchell Newland learns that his herd of scrubby range cattle will fetch ten times their local price if they're driven to Montana. He strikes a one-sided deal with the devil, neighboring rancher Corliss Bilks, to back his play with cattle, men, and horses. The trail brims with hellish hardship: prairie fire, stampede, flooded rivers, hailstorms, rattlers, sickness,...
24996) The color of grace: how one woman's brokenness brought healing and hope to child survivors of war
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Author and psychologist Bethany Haley Williams shares how her own emotional healing led her into treacherous war zones, where she provides care to former child soldiers and young girls used as sex slaves.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"The epic true crime story of bootlegger George Remus and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy In the early days of Prohibition, long before Al Capone became a household name, a German immigrant named George Remus quits practicing law and starts trafficking whiskey. Within two years he's a multi-millionaire. The press calls him "King of the Bootleggers,"...
25000) Agent Sonya
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seemed to be living a simple, unassuming life. Her neighbors in the village knew little about her. They didn't know that she was a high-ranking Soviet intelligence...