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The Mother's Promise

Sally Hepworth · Thorndike Press Large Print

Sally Hepworth novels are Sure to appeal to fans of Jojo Moyes, Jodi Picoult, and Lisa Genova; book clubs will be lining up. Library Journal (starred review) All their lives, Alice Stanhope and her daughter Zoe have been a family of two, living quietly in northern California. Zoe has always...
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Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet

Jenifer Ringer · Center Point; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

A behind-the-curtains look at the rarefied world of classical ballet from a principal dancer at the New York City BalletIn her charming and self-effacing voice, Jenifer Ringer covers the highs and lows of what it's like to make it to the top in the exclusive, competitive ballet world....
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The Lodger

Louisa Treger · Thorndike Press Large Print; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

Dorothy Richardson is barely above poverty when she?s invited for a weekend with a childhood friend who has recently married a writer on the brink of fame. His name is H.G. Wells. They call him Bertie. Dorothy notices his grey-blue eyes taking her in, signaling approval. He tells her he and Jane...
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In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox

Carol Burnett · Random House Large Print
Pages: 460
Format: Large print book

Comedy legend Carol Burnett tells the hilarious behind-the-scenes story of her iconic weekly variety series, The Carol Burnett Show. Who but Carol Burnett herself has the timing, talent, and wit to pull back the curtain on the Emmy-Award winning show that made television history for eleven...
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That Night

Chevy Stevens · Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

Toni Murphy was eighteen when she and her boyfriend, Ryan, were wrongly convicted of murdering her younger sister. Now she is thirty-four and back home, working every day to forge and adjust to a new life on the outside. But that?s not easy ? not with Ryan convinced he can find the truth,...
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Wife 22

Melanie Gideon · Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

Married to William for twenty years, Alice remembers the first time they met like it was yesterday. But these days she posts things on Facebook that she once confided to him. Invited to participate in an anonymous online survey on marriage and love, Alice?s longings come pouring out in the answers...
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Those Girls

Chevy Stevens · Thorndike Press Large Print
Pages: 543
Format: Large Print Hardcover

How far would you go to protect the ones you love? Life has never been easy for the three Campbell sisters. Jess, Courtney, and Dani live on a remote ranch where they work hard and try to stay out of the way of their father's temper. One night, a fight gets out of hand and the sisters...
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The Heart

Maylis de Kerangal · Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Large Print Hardcover

Just before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing. Returning home, exhausted, the driver lets the car drift off the road into a tree. Two of the boys are wearing seat belts; one is sent through the windshield. He is declared brain-dead shortly after arriving at the hospital....
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The Last Days of Magic

Mark L. Tompkins · Platinum Spotlight Series
Pages: 500
Format: Large Print Library Binding

"Simultaneously sweeping and intricate . . . Tompkins's amazing debut novel conjures an epic battle for the soul of Ireland. Filled with papal machination and royal intrigue, magic and mayhem, faeries, Vikings, legates, kings and queens, angels and goddesses, this is one wild and breathless...
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The Forsaken

Ace Atkins · Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestselling Author Thirty-six years ago, a nameless black man wandered into Jericho, Mississippi, with nothing but the clothes on his back. Less than two days later, he was accused of rape and murder, hunted down, and lynched. Now evidence has surfaced of his innocence,...
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Honeymoon Hotel

Hester Browne · Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestselling Author London?s Bonneville Hotel was the home-away-from-home for royalty and movie stars during the golden age. And thanks to detail-oriented events manager Rosie, it?s reclaiming some of its old cachet as a wedding venue. But when the hotel owner appoints his son to help...
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Nora Webster

Colm Tibín · Thorndike Press; Lrg Rep edition
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller Widowed at forty with four children and not enough money, Nora Webster has lost the love of her life. Wounded, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny Irish community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in sorrow and blind to the suffering...
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The Death Trade

Jack Higgins · Gale, Cengage Learning
Pages: 409
Format: Large Print Hardcover

A New York Times Bestselling Author An eminent Iranian scientist has made a startling breakthrough in nuclear weapons research, but he can't stand the thought of his regime owning the bomb. If he runs, his family dies. It is up to Sean Dillon and the small band known as the Prime Minister's...
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The Trophy Child

Paula Daly · Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Large print book

There's nothing quite like a mother's love . . . but how much is too much before maternal ambition for a perfect child jeopardizes the delicate balance of family life and threatens its very existence? Paula Daly is acclaimed for her distinctive voice, masterful plotting and terrifying...
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Leaving Berlin

Joseph Kanon · Thorndike Press
Pages: 563
Format: Large print book

A sweeping novel of postwar East Berlin, a city caught betwen political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation
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