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The Japanese lover
Isabel Allende · Thorndike Press, 2015.
Pages: 461
Format: Large print book
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In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of the world goes to war, she encounters Ichimei Fukuda, the quiet and gentle son of the family's... |
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Hope: Entertainer of the Century
Richard Zoglin · Thorndike Press Large Print; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover
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In his lifetime, Bob Hope was the only entertainer to achieve top-rated success in every major mass-entertainment medium. A household name, he virtually invented stand-up comedy. Hope is a celebration of an entertainer whose vast contribution has never been properly appreciated, and a complex... |
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Brief Candle in the Dark LP: My Life in Science
Richard Dawkins · HarperLuxe
Pages: 639
Format: Large print book
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In this hugely entertaining sequel to the New York Times bestselling memoir An Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins delves deeply into his intellectual life spent kick-starting new conversations about science, culture, and religion and writing yet another of the most audacious and widely... |
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A Murder Is Announced
Agatha Christie · Center Point; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover
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The townspeople expect a fun game of whodunnit after they receive strange invitations that clearly spell out the time and place of a murder, but when a real corpse is introduced into the game it becomes time to bring in the best player of all--Miss Jane Marple. Reissue., |
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Golden Prey
John Sandford · Thorndike Press Large Print
Pages: 509
Format: Hardcover
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Lucas Davenport s first case as a U.S. marshal takes him into unexplored territory, in the thrilling new novel in the #1 "New York Times" bestselling Prey series. Thanks to some very influential people whose lives he s saved, Lucas Davenport has a new job. He is a U.S. marshal,... |
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Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
ALAN LIGHTMAN · Center Point Pub
Pages: 500
Format: Hardcover
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As a physicist, Alan Lightman has always held a purely scientific view of the world. Even as a teenager, experimenting in his own laboratory, he was impressed by the logic and materiality of the universe, which is governed by a small number of disembodied forces and laws. Those laws decree... |
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The Order of Time
CARLO ROVELLI · Center Point Pub
Pages: 500
Format: Large Print
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Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to ?flow?? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike. |
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Look Behind You
IRIS JOHANSEN · Center Point Pub
Pages: 500
Format: Library Binding
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A serial killer is on the loose in San Diego with a most unusual M.O. With each kill, the perpetrator leaves behind mystifying random objects. In this confusing array of unrelated evidence, the one thing that is clear is that the murders all have one characteristic in common: they all require... |
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Surprise Me
Sophie Kinsella · Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Hardcover(Library Binding - Large Print)
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A witty and emotionally charged novel that delves into the heart of a marriage, and how those we love and think we know best can sometimes surprise us the most - from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sophie Kinsella  After ten years together, Sylvie and Dan have a comfortable home,... |
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The Atomic Weight of Love
Elizabeth J Church · Center Point Pub
Pages: 500
Format: Large Print Library Binding
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For Meridian Wallace and many other smart, driven women of the 1940s being ambitious meant being an outlier. Ever since she was a young girl, Meridian has been obsessed with birds, and she s determined to get her PhD, become an ornithologist, and make her mother s sacrifices to send her to college... |
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In the Country of the Blind
EDWARD HOAGLAND · CENTER POINT PUB
Pages: 500
Format: Print book
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Press is going blind. He has lost his job and his wife and is trying to figure out his next move, holed up in his Vermont cabin surrounded by a hippie commune, drug runners, farmers-gone-bust, bloodthirsty auctioneers, and general ne er-do-wells. Solace and purpose come from the unlikeliest... |
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They Came to Baghdad
Agatha Christie · Center Point Pub; Lrg edition
Format: Book
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A lovesick young girl becomes embroiled in a plot to destroy world peace...Baghdad is the chosen location for a secret summit of superpowers, concerned but not convinced, about the development of an, as yet, unidentified and undescribed secret weapon. Only one man has the proof that can confirm... |
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In the Unlikely Event
Judy Blume · Random House Large Print
Pages: 591
Format: Large print book
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In her highly anticipated new novel, Judy Blume, the New York Times # 1 best-selling author of Summer Sisters and of young adult classics such as Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, creates a richly textured and moving story of three generations of families, friends and strangers, whose... |
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